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Middle East Centre Booktalk

East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars

In this joint seminar with the Asian Studies Centre, Dr Erin MB O’Halloran, University of Cambridge, presents her new book 'East of Empire' (2025 Stanford University Press). Chaired by Professor Faisal Devji (St Antony’s College).
Middle East Centre

The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria

On Friday 21 February 2025, Professor Johannes Waardenburg gave the Middle East Centre’s Friday seminar
Asian Studies Centre

The Trial that Shook Britain: How a Court Martial Hastened Acceptance of Indian Independence

Book talk with Ashis Ray
Middle East Centre Booktalk
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Writing Middle Eastern Lives: Biography in Modern Arab History

Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, author of ‘An Impossible Friendship’, Marilyn Booth, author of ‘The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz’, and Peter Hill, author of ‘Prophet of Reason’, discuss the writing of biography in modern Middle Eastern history.
Middle East Centre Booktalk
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Tahrir, Gaza, and beyond: revolution, liberation, and praxis

Researcher and writer, Rusha Latif, gives a talk based on her new book ‘Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution’
Middle East Centre
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From the Cradle to the Street: Family and the 1979 Revolution in Iran

Professor Naghmeh Sohrabi, Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, describes the role of the family in the 1979 Revolution in Iran.
Middle East Centre Booktalk
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The challenges of writing Middle East history after 7 October: from Gaza to the climate crisis

Dr Ibrahim Al-Marashi reflects on the process of researching and writing the latest edition of his book, ‘A Concise History of the Middle East’.
Asian Studies Centre

Interview with Robert Bracey on South Asian Coin Collections in the British Museum by Shreya Gupta

This interview discusses the afterlives of coin collections from South Asia held in UK museums today.
Anthropology

Stepping in, helping out, competing with…? State and civic actors in Ukraine’s wartime heritage work

Dr. Vonnak reflects on how socio historical events impact the definition, preservation, and sometimes neglect of cultural heritage. She draws from her extensive field work in Ukraine over the past eight years.
Voltaire Foundation
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Hegel's Enlightenment

Professor Richard Bourke delivers the 2023 Annual Besterman Lecture.
Asian Studies Centre
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Pakistan & India: Common Origins, Divergent Trajectories

Pervez Hoodbhoy seminar given as part of the Modern South Asian Seminar series in October 2023
History of Art: Slade Lecture Series
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Slade Lecture Series 2023: Drawing the Line: Obiora Udechukwu and Nigeria’s Smiling General 1980s-1990s

In the 1980’s, the painter and poet Obiora Udechukwu (b. 1946), a leading figure of the Nsukka School, was at the height of his powers, with drawings and paintings celebrated for their lyrical power and trenchant social commentary.
History of Art: Slade Lecture Series
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Slade Lecture Series 2023: To speak in Parables: Dumile Feni in Hendrik Verwoerd’s South Africa, 1960s

Chika Okeke-Agulu examines art & politics in 1960s South Africa paying particular attention to Hendrik Verwoerd, the self-styled “Great Induna,” & architect of Apartheid, whose assassination in 1966 slowed the triumphant march of Afrikaner racist ideology
History of Art: Slade Lecture Series
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Slade Lecture Series 2023: Gazbia Sirry and Egyptian artists in the Nasserite State, 1950s-1960s

Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu follows the formal and tonal shifts in Gazbia Sirry’s work as it responded to, and was shaped by Nasser’s and post-revolutionary Egypt’s political fortunes.
OxPeace Conference 2023: Learning from Ukraine
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The early medieval history of Ukraine: mythology and historical logics

The history of early Slavs as a point for debunking historical misconceptions that benefit one state at the expense of another.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Making wood type then and now

Thomas Gravemaker explores the history of wood type printing as well as his own recent manufacture using digital design and a CNC router.
Their Finest Hour

The Women behind "the Few" - Interview with Dr Sarah-Louise Miller

Interview with Dr Sarah-Louise Miller about the role of the WAAF in British air intelligence.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt
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Modern Times: Photography in Britain 1800–1850

Geoffrey Batchen explores the first fifty years of photography in Britain.
Their Finest Hour

Building the digital archive

A short interview with the project's technical lead, Catherine Conisbee, on building the digital archive.
Their Finest Hour

A Postcard from Hitler

The Project Lead, Dr Stuart Lee, discusses his most memorable finds on previous crowdsourcing projects

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