Carina Uchida

Carina Uchida is a DPhil candidate in International Relations based at Pembroke College, University of Oxford. Her doctorate project explores the role of social reproduction and gendered divisions of labour in armed rebel organisations, with a particular focus on Latin America's left-leaning rebellions. They examine the limitations of traditional philosophies of labour, the relationship between care and freedom, and what it means to care for each other under conditions of political instability and violence.

Guest talk from the UK Information Commissioner

We would like to invite you to attend a lecture delivered by John Edwards, the UK Information Commissioner, hosted by the Oxford Internet Institute. The Commissioner will talk about the important role of maintaining high standards of data protection and public trust in the use of personal data for research purposes. He will also share his vision for data protection regulation in the UK. His lecture will be followed by an audience Q&A moderated by Prof Vicki Nash.

Geo-technology: an analysis of global decoupling pressures in technology and geopolitics today

Eurasia Group is a leading global political risk research and consulting firm. Its geo-technology practice, founded in 2016, helps the firm’s clients navigate the complicated intersection of technology and geopolitics globally – from the political risks associated with emerging technologies like 5G/6G, semiconductors, and artificial intelligence, to global regulatory and technology policy developments, including investment restrictions, export controls, and industrial policy.

Ivan Svit and Ukrainian - Japanese collaboration in Manchuria,1922-1945

This talk tells the story of the unknown 100 000 people Ukrainian diaspora in Manchuria and its leader, Ivan Svit (1897–1989), a forgotten Ukrainian journalist, editor, historian, and social activist, and their active communication and collaboration with Japanese authorities under the occupation (1932-1945). During this time, Ukrainians tried to negotiate about creating a Ukrainian national state in the Far East and broader North-East Asia.

Co-convenors Juliana Buriticá Alzate, Jenny Guest, Hugh Whittaker

What "Japan's Black Studies" Teaches Us about Race and Solidarity

The concept of "Japan's Black Studies" is not at all an oddity. Much like various Black intellectual and disciplinary formations forged in the struggle for liberation across the African diaspora, Black studies in Japan possesses a dynamism of its own. My presentation will introduce this curious history, including seemingly idiosyncratic ways in which Japanese scholars of Black studies and ordinary people connected to the Black intellectual tradition contributed to critical knowledge and engaged in the practice of transpacific antiracism throughout the Civil Rights and Black Power eras.
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