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'Ashura as Submission and Rebellion' examines Shiʿa rituals in contemporary Iran through ethnographic studies of urban religious gatherings, pilgrimage, and self-flagellation.

Stéphane Corcuff gives a talk on political imaginaries in Taiwan, examining how changing forms of identification reshape ideas of nationhood, belonging, and geopolitical position in contemporary Taiwan.

Professors Rachel Harrison and Dina Matar will be presenting their inaugural lectures.

Drawing on his experience and engagement in a range of United Nations roles in and on Afghanistan from 2001 to the present day, Mark Bowden will examine how the UN’s role has been shaped—and constrained—by the political settlement forged at the Bonn Conference.

Professor Hong-zen Wang gives a talk on Paiwan Indigenous social life, Sinicisation, and the Vusam system as a site of cultural resilience in Taiwan.

This talk explores how Burmese avant-garde artists navigated and resisted authoritarianism, isolationism, and relentless censorship.

Professor Hong-zen Wang gives a talk on queer entrepreneurship, intimacy, and relational work among Taiwanese lesbian couples.

One of two public roundtables presenting the findings of FCRJ's 2025/26 Activists-in-Residence, centring the communities most affected by racism, racialised exclusion, and structural inequality.