In celebration of International Women’s Day (8 March 2026) and its theme “Give to Gain,” Kellogg College and the Skoll Centre invite you to an inspiring conversation exploring how social impact organisations are advancing gender equity while generating broader positive social change.

For more than a millennium, Islam has been a Chinese religion, and native-born Chinese Muslims have played important roles in their homeland, from royal astronomers to butchers, merchants to diplomats, and scholar-officials to farmers. Yet the Muslims of China are often depicted as inherently foreign, their religion as incompatible with Chinese culture.

When China embarked on modernization in 1979, many hoped that the country’s turn toward capitalism would put its totalitarian past to rest and moved it toward a more democratic future. Instead, China has reverted to a neo-totalitarian regime after more than four decades of economic reform and globalization. The fundamental cause is Deng Xiaoping’s strategy of saving one-party rule with capitalism. He steadfastly kept intact the institutional foundations of totalitarianism even as he unleashed private entrepreneurship and courted foreign investment.

The 2026 Reuters Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Carlos Dada under the title 'Journalism as Resistance'. Dada is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Salvadoran digital news outlet El Faro, the first digital-only news site launched in Latin America. The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion on the challenges facing journalists worldwide.

The Oxford Computational Political Science Group (OCPSG) is pleased to announce its speaker event w/ Prof Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, FBA and Amara Otero-Salgado. They will be presenting their paper 'Measuring Empirically the Legal Conflicts over U.S. Public Lands from 1960 to 2024'. It seeks to better understand how conflicting views over public lands have evolved over time, namely by examining empirically a newly developed dataset to assess competing narratives that have driven legal battles in the U.S. in the modern era of environmental policy.