03 November 2026
Prof Christine van Ruymbeke appointed Francesco De Dombrowski Visiting Professor at I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Nov-Dec 2025)
07 November 2025
Dr Amira K. Bennison has won the Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean Prize for the best article published in the journal in 2023 and 2024 for her article, ‘Sainthood and Social Boundary Crossing in medieval North Africa’, Al-Masāq 36:2 (2024): 176-93.
05 November 2025
On October 16, Dr Noga Ganany gave a lecture in the University of Oxford's China Studies Seminar Series on her recent project on a Ming-dynasty illustrated hagiography of the Buddha and its impact on Chinese book culture.
04 November 2025
Dr Paul Anderson was interviewed on his research on China-Middle East trade networks by Dr Safa Joudeh at the University of Exeter. A podcast of the full interview is available.
03 November 2025
The Documentary is available as a podcast as part of the BBC's 'Heart and Soul' series.
28 October 2025
The Japanese Studies Subject Group are delighted to announce that we have launched a new book series in collaboration with the University of Hawai’i Press.
28 October 2025
The book is titled [Nationalism or Cost-Benefit Analysis in Perception: The Logic of China’s Foreign Policy Choices in Bilateral Disputes in Post-Cold War Period], published by Palgrave Macmillan
16 October 2025
The roundtable event, titled "Alliances in Alignment:The Past, Present and Future of Trilateral Cooperation between the ROK, US and Japan" took place on 10 October, in the Bradfield Room at Darwin College.
16 October 2025
The University of Cambridge has published a feature on Jonathan Duquette’s AHRC Project.
10 October 2025
East Asian Popular Culture is a vibrant and fast-moving field. Study with us to pioneer a new academic approach and join the dots between past, present and future in the first programme of its kind.
09 October 2025
Professor John Nilsson-Wright talks to Professor Chungin Moon of Yonsei University about the foreign policy of South Korea’s President Lee Jae-myung, and how Seoul is handling its ties with both Tokyo and Washington in the latest episode of the 'Currents' podcast.
08 October 2025
Professor Tina Phillips will chair the judging panel of the twentieth Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
02 October 2025
Professor Nilsson-Wright's recent essay on Japan at a political crossroads has been published by online platform, Engelsberg Ideas
29 September 2025
On 18-20 September Prof Laura Moretti hosted the International Symposium of The Association for Early Modern Japanese Literature (Nihon kinsei bungaku kai 日本近世文学会).
11 September 2025
On Tuesday, September 8, Professor Nilsson-Wright, at the invitation of the Japanese Embassy in London, met a political delegation from the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (立憲民主党) for an extended discussion about populism, foreign policy and alliance relations with the United States.