Kabuki music and compositions

Denjiro Tanaka VII and his associates will perform a selection of Kabuki music and his compositions. Denjiro plays the kotsuzumi (small hand drum) and Tatsuichiro Imafuji plays the shamisen (three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument) and other musical instruments. He will explain the various features of instruments and invite the audience onto the stage to try the musical instruments. The event will conclude with Q&A session.

Lily Green

Lily is a DPhil student at the Department of Politics and International Relations, specialising in authoritarian politics, environmental governance, and state-society relations, with a regional focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. Her research explores how autocratic regimes maintain control and legitimacy among populations facing material, environmental, and political pressures, and how citizens experience and respond to these dynamics both within and beyond national borders.

From ‘closedness’ to ‘closeness’: how changing community values sustains a traditional craft industry

Japan’s craft industries have frequently been cited as one of the main cultural domains affected by the ageing and shrinking population. Adopting new technologies or marketing strategies has shown attempts to maintain them. However, the transformation of community values has gotten less attention. This presentation examines the resilience of the Tamba pottery industry in Hyogo Prefecture by looking at the potters’ collective re-evaluation of their internal social dynamics.

University of Oxford Annual Black History Month Lecture: Ann Pratt, Mary Seacole, and Questioning British History

This year’s Black History Month Lecture, ‘Ann Pratt, Mary Seacole, and Questioning British History’, will be delivered by Dr Christienna Fryar, writer and independent historian of Britain and the Caribbean. This lecture tells the story of two mixed-race Jamaican women, one of whom is widely considered an important figure within Black British history while the other is barely known, and questions the fraught relationship between British history and Black British history.

Rising Powers and the Politics of Status: China and India in the Liberal International Order

Why do rising powers sometimes challenge an international order that enables their growth, and at other times support an order that constrains them? Based on a recently published book, Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions (Cambridge University Press), this talk will offer the first comprehensive study of conflict and cooperation as new powers join the global arena. International institutions shape the choices of rising states as they pursue equal status with established powers.
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