Adele Carrai
Maria Adele Carrai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai and taught as an adjunct at NYU School of Law. She has been an Associate at the Harvard University Asia Center since 2021 and an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute since 2019.
Geopolitical Risk | DPIR Executive Education Programme
Geopolitical Risk is an executive education programme designed to equip senior leaders with the knowledge and strategic insight needed to navigate an increasingly volatile global environment. In today’s interconnected world, political, economic, and societal forces shape organisational risk, resilience, and opportunity across all sectors.
Anne-Charlotte Gimenez
Introduction
Anne-Charlotte Gimenez is Centre Manager for the Centre for Advanced Social Sciences Methods (CASSM) in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and supports the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) at Nuffield College. She has over ten years’ experience managing interdisciplinary, grant-funded programmes across academia and the international development sector.
Reimagining Humanism | McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026
From Diogenes the Cynic onwards, talk of shared humanity and articulations of humanism challenge the boundaries of citizenship and unsettle established patterns of meaning and identity. But from the early modern period, humanism as a term became associated with secular and anti-religious philosophies. And recent critical treatments of modern western humanism identify how it was aligned with and contributed to colonial and racist projects of domination.