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• Louise Rayne (Newcastle University) | ‘Detecting Irrigation and Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa Since the Me
• Dan Reynolds (University of Birmingham) | ‘Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Rhetoric, Exegesis and the Ninth-Century “Holy Land”’
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• Professor Jieun Kiaer's Evidence Published in International Development Committee Inquiry
• K-Pop from the Godfather of K-Pop and BTS
• A Conversation with Cha Inpyo 
• Demotic
• Alumni
• Egyptologist Rachel Drapper
• Towards a New Asian Community: Its Necessity and Meaning
• Ziwei Ye
• Early Career Opportunities
• Professor Richard Bruce Parkinson Awarded Senior Research Fellowship by the British Academy 5 July 2024
• Nancy Highcock
• Professor Alain George elected as Fellow of British Academy
• Elizabeth Tucker
• Otared Haidar (1964-2024)
• Felicity Crowe
• New ERC Starting Grant Awarded to Dr Federica Gigante for UNSEEN project
• Finn Moore Gerety
• Nandini Chatterjee
• Young Chan Choi
• Pascal Menoret
• Venerable Khammai Dhammasami - Challenges of Buddhist Studies in Southeast Asia
• Bogdan Diaconescu (University of Oxford) - Udayana's refutation of apoha
• Alumni Reflections: BA Chinese Studies Class 2017-2021
• Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies 2024-2025
• Documentary Screening | Amu Darya: River to a Missing Sea 
• Aoife Cantrill
• The Genesis of the Turkish Cypriot Novel: An Investigation into the Literature of a Mediterranean Muslim Minority
• Introducing Kazakh to Oxford: An Interview with Minister Sayasat Nurbek
• Arghavan Moharrami
• Simon Maghakyan
• Hark-Joon Lee
• Marathi Language Course Michaelmas Term 2024
• Kate Kwok
• Seth M. Stadel
• Simon Barnes-Sadler
• Marathi
• Hyung-Suk Kim
• Seung-Hee Nah | Resettlement Challenges of North Korean Women through the Lens of an Immigrant  
• Professional Services
• Yuliya Cassar Delia
• Academic Postholders
• Associate Members
• Doctoral Students
• Retired Academic Staff
• Visiting Academics
• Professional Services
• Ella Gray
• Funmi Ogunmola
• Shamisa Chasebi
• Luka Milkovic
• Matt Bowerman
• Rob Barlow
• Caitlin Jensen
• Ruth MacDonald
• Diana Rodriguez-Perez
• Heungboga: Exploring Korean Traditional Pansori and Folk Songs
• Locating Silences: The Status and Agency of Women in the Delhi Sultanate
• The Politics of Memory: The Reimagination of Medieval India
• Professor Dominic Parviz Brookshaw Features on In Our Time Podcast
• Erik Reissmann
• Luka (Luhai) Liu
• Abid Zaidi
• Sumeyye Kocaman
• Caleb Klein
• Leonard Gethin
• Mykola Tarasenko
• Martin Dixon
• Yeliz Teber
• Duanran Feng
• Paul Napier
• Margaret Hillenbrand Wins MLA’s Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies
• Riccardo Paccagnella
• Alfred W. T. Lo
• Xia-Kang Ziyi
• Sonia Merli
• Learning Through Visual Materials Phase II
• James White
• Professor Tahera Qutbuddin Wins Sheikh Hamad Translation Award
• Vacancies
• Clara Pitocchi
• Introduction to Uzbek Language Course
• Dr Finn Moore Gerety Awarded Landmark ERC Synergy Grant for Global Study of Mantras
• Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures Establishes New Partnership in China
• MANTRAMS - Mantras in Religion, Media, and Society in Global Southern Asia
• Emel Aras
• Kelly Shea
• Stephen Ithel Duran
• Dr Seth M. Stadel Publishes New Translation of the Earliest Syriac Literary Catalogue
• A Visit from Hitotsubashi University
• Chang Yui Cheong Richards
• John Screnock
• Queen’s College Japanologist Theodore Nze Wins at National Japanese Speech Contest
• Hao Chengwen
• Glorisun Graduate Scholarship in Buddhist Studies
• Pan Tomé Valencia
• TORCH NETWORK: The Impact of Islam on Christian Political Theology (622 -1453)
• New TORCH Network to Explore the Impact of Islam on Christian Political Theology
• Anupam Suman
• Annual call for applications to the Sheikh Zayed Endowment Fund for Islamic Studies
• New Grant Support for Final-Year DPhil Students Working on Japan
• Lunchtime Reading Group ʿAmmār al-Baṣrī’s Kitāb al-burhān (The Book of Proof)
• Sanskritist Yizhou/Yijo Liu (刘毅舟)
• The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia | Seminar Series Trinity Term 2025
• After Rome and Further East Seminar
• Call for Participants: TORCH Network on the Impact of Islam on Christian Political Theology (622-1453)
• Frere Exhibition for Indian Studies 2025
• Kazune Sato
• Ikram Ghabriel
• Departmental Lecturers and Researchers
• Jaskiran Bhogal
• Shuchita Grover
• Olivia Ramble
• China, Law and Development Project Celebrates New Publications on Chinese Global Investment and Inter-Asian Legal Exchange
• DPhil Studentship Open for Applications: Unveiling Networks: Slavery and the European Encounter with Islamic Material Culture (1580–1700)
• Early Iranian Studies at Oxford
• Alessia Cofone
• Cheuk Yee Wai
• A Talk on Japanese Atomic Bomb Literature (原爆文学, Genbaku Bungaku)
• Bronze Age Arabian Pottery Reveals Long-Lost Culinary Practices and Exchange Connections
• Rekha Pachauri
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025-26
• Michele Bianconi
• Clément Salah
• Youngtag Cho
• Professors Alison Salvesen and Margaret Hillenbrand elected Fellows of the British Academy
• Ezgi Basaran
• Young-Joo Jeon
• Xiaosu Sun
• Hana Navratilova
• MARGOLIOUTH SYMPOSIUM
• Nicolas Elias will be talking about his novel on the life and times of Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet at the Maison Française on 31 October.
• Lecture Series on the Literatures of Turkey and the Eastern Mediterranean Michaelmas Term 2025