Inaugural Rhodes Forum on Humanities

Confirmed speakers include

• Dr Jess Auerbach (South Africa-at-Large & St Antony's 2009)

  Visiting Researcher, Open University of Mauritius

• Shaista Aziz

  Journalist, Writer, Campaigner & Oxford City Councillor

• Prof Gurminder Bhambra

  Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, University of Sussex

• Dhruva Bhat (India & St John’s 2017)

  DPhil candidate in International Development, University of Oxford

• Dr Rebecca Boggs (Kentucky & Trinity 1995)

  Senior Program Officer, Division of Education Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

• Penelope Brook (New Zealand & Nuffield 1984)

  Executive Director, Atlantic Institute

• Dr Maria Sachiko Cecire (Virginia & Keble 2006)

  Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the Center for Experimental Humanities, Bard College

• Dr Jung Chang

  Author

• Yan Chen (China & St John's 2019)

  Masters student in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation, University of Oxford

• Prof Danny Dorling

  Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford

• Olivia Durand

  Co-Director of Uncomfortable Oxford

• Sagarika Ghose (India & St Antony's 1987)

  Consulting Editor, The Times Of India

• Dame Helen Ghosh

  Master of Balliol College, Oxford

• Hazim Hardeman (Pennsylvania & St John's 2018)

  MPhil candidate in US History, University of Oxford

• Prof Dan Hicks

  Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University & Curator of World Archaeology, Pitt Rivers Museum

• Levi Hord (Ontario & Wadham 2018)

  Masters student in Women's Studies, University of Oxford

• Prof Marnie Hughes-Warrington (Tasmania & Merton 1992)

  Professor of History, Australian National University

• Prof David Jones

  Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Harvard University

• Morategi Kale (South Africa-at-Large & Linacre 2018)

  DPhil candidate in Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford

• Maya Krishnan (Maryland/DC & Balliol 2015)

  DPhil candidate in Philosophy, University of Oxford

• Prof Adeel Malik (Pakistan & St Peter's 1999)

  Globe Fellow in the Economies of Muslim Societies and Associate Professor, University of Oxford

• Prof Maureen McLane (Massachusetts & Hertford 1989)

  Professor of English, New York University

• Edward Mortimer

  Distinguished Fellow, All Souls College

• Mayanka Mukherji (India & St Cross 2015)

  DPhil Candidate in Anthropology, University of Oxford

• Zehra Naqvi (British Columbia & Green Templeton 2018)

  Masters student in Migration Studies, University of Oxford

• Dr Amy Ng (Hong Kong & Balliol 1997)

  Playwright

• Nanjala Nyabola (Kenya & Harris Manchester 2009)

  Writer, Researcher, Political Analyst

• Prof Evelyn O'Callaghan (Jamaica & Wolfson 1978)

  Professor of West Indian Literature, Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, University of the West Indies

• Chris Oechsli

  President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies

• Nana Oforiatta Ayim

  Founder, ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge

• Sasha Polakow-Suransky (Rhode Island & St Antony's 2003)

  Deputy Editor, Foreign Policy

• Prof Geoffrey Robertson (New South Wales & University 1970)

  Barrister and co-head, Doughty Street Chambers

• Jay Ruckelshaus (Indiana & St John's 2016)

  DPhil candidate in Political Philosophy, University of Oxford

• Alan Rusbridger

  Principal, Lady Margaret Hall

• Prof Lyndsey Stonebridge

  Professor of Humanities and Human Rights, University of Birmingham

• Dr Ananya Vajpeyi (India & Exeter 1994)

  Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi

• Michele Warman (New York & Magdalen 1982)

  Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel and Secretary, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

• Naomi Wolf (Connecticut & New College 1985)

  CEO, DailyClout.io and author of 'Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love' & 'The End of America'.

• Beatrice Yeung (Hong Kong & Keble 2017)

  Researcher, Medical Sciences Division & MPhil in Medical Anthropology, University of Oxford (Hong Kong & Keble 2017)

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