Middle East Centre: Past Seminars, Lectures and Conferences

Programme for Trinity Term and Summer Vacation 2011

Seminar: ‘Yemen and the Arab Spring’ 13 May 2011

Seminar: 'Whatever Happened to Tunisia’s Revolution? Updates and Prospects' 16 May 2011

Day Long Workshop: Social and Political Change in the Aftermath of the 2005 Hariri Assassination: Implications for Everyday Life in Lebanon 20 May 2011

Sudan Programme Conference: “Will the Final Outcome of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) sustain a Permanent Peace in Sudan?” 21 May 2011

Seminar: ‘The Wondrous World of Sadeq Hedayat’ 7 Jun 2011

Book Launch: Critical Turning Points in the Middle East: 1915-2015 and The Politics of Emerging Strategic Technologies: Implications for Geopolitics, Human Enhancement and Human Destiny 7 Jun 2011

Pears Lecture: ‘Israel and the Revolutions in the Middle East’ 8 Jun 2011

Sudan Programme Workshop ‘Postgraduate Sudanese Students’ Presentations’ (Humanities and Social Sciences) 11 Jun 2011

The 35th Annual George Antonius Lecture. “The Arab Awakening of 2011” 23 Jun 2011 CANCELLED

Three Views of Oman Photograph Exhibition 30 Sept 2011

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Seminar: ‘Yemen and the Arab Spring’

Jon Wilks
H.M. Ambassador to the Yemen Arab Republic

On Friday 13 May at 5 p.m.

Location: The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

All welcome

Seminar: ‘Whatever Happened to Tunisia’s Revolution? Updates and Prospects’

Mohamed-Salah Omri (St John’s College)
Michael Willis (MEC, St Antony’s College)

On Monday 16 May at 5.15 p.m.

Location: The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford

All welcome

Day-long Workshop

Social and Political Change in the Aftermath of the 2005 Hariri Assassination: Implications for Everyday Life in Lebanon

20th May 2011
10.45am – 6.30pm
St. Antony’s College, Oxford University

Panels (Location – St. Antony’s College):

1) 11.00am – 1.00pm: Lebanese Political Parties and the Politics of Sectarianism

2) 2.30pm – 4.45pm: Critiques of Violence and the Political System in Everyday life

Keynote (Location – Middle East Centre Library): 5.00 – 6.30pm: Dr. Theodor Hanf, American University Of Beirut
Title: TBA

Sponsors: Centre for Lebanese Studies; Middle East Centre; St. Antony’s College; Maison Francaise d’Oxford, Oxford-Sciences Po Research Group

For more information contact Sami Hermez at: sami.hermez@sant.ox.ac.uk

Seminar: ‘The Wondrous World of Sadeq Hedayat’

Dr Homa Katouzian

Followed by the screening of ‘From No. 37’, a recent documentary on Hedayat’s life by Sam Kadantari and Mohsen Shahrnazdar (film makers based in Tehran)

On Tuesday 7 June at 6 p.m. in the Nissan Lecture Theatre followed by a reception in the Middle East Centre 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford

All welcome

Pears Lecture: ‘Israel and the Revolutions in the Middle East’

Professor Avishai Margalit
George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, and
Professor Emeritus at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The following recording of the lecture is 57 minutes long has been posted online with the permission of Professor Margalit.

Professor Margalit Lecture 8 Jun 2011 (mp3 file)

On Wednesday 8 June at 5 p.m.

Location: The Nissan Lecture Theatre
St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

All welcome

Book Launch. Critical Turning Points in the Middle East: 1915-2015

and

The Politics of Emerging Strategic Technologies: Implications for Geopolitics, Human Enhancement and Human Destiny

Published by Palgrave Macmillan

by Dr Nayef Al-Rodhan Middle East Centre

On Tuesday 7 June at at 5.00p.m.

Location: The Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford