College events

Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre

A Conversation with Asako Yuzuki

Speaker: Asako Yuzuki

Date & Time: October 11, 2024, 5:30 pm

Join us for a conversation with author Asako Yuzuki, who will visit Oxford to talk about her writing, and her sensational novel, BUTTER. Translated by Polly Barton, this Japanese b...
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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood

Speaker: Dr Ezgi Başaran

Date & Time: October 15, 2024, 5:00 pm

Since the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Tunisian President Ben Ali, delegations from Turkey’s Justice and Development Party – the AKP, including parliamentarians...
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HB Allen Centre Lecture Theatre, Keble College, Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3PG

Oxford Centre for Global History 3rd Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture - Mapping Civilizations: The World from the West

Speaker: Professor Josephine Quinn

Date & Time: October 18, 2024, 4:00 pm

_How the World Made the West: A 4,000-year History_ (2024) debunks the myth of the modern West as a self-made miracle with local roots, an idea that erases a much bigger story of t...
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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Colonial subjects and the right to have rights: Algeria, 1834

Speaker: Professor Charles Kurzman

Date & Time: October 18, 2024, 5:00 pm

This presentation, a chapter from Professor Charles Kurzman's current book project, examines the public debate over what rights, if any, Algerians would have under French occupatio...
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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

The challenges of writing Middle East history after 7 October: from Gaza to the climate crisis

Speaker: Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi

Date & Time: October 21, 2024, 5:00 pm

This book talk on 'A Concise History of the Middle East' will discuss history-in-the-making. Close to a year after 7 October 2023, the reverberations of these events will be felt f...
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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

From the cradle to the street: Family and the 1979 Revolution in Iran

Speaker: Professor Naghmeh Sohrabi

Date & Time: October 25, 2024, 5:00 pm

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

The Conspiracy: Assassination in Beirut

Speaker: Michael Taylor

Date & Time: October 28, 2024, 5:00 pm

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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution

Speaker: Rusha Latif

Date & Time: October 29, 2024, 5:00 pm

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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

Conflict and citizenship: the challenges of Palestinian-Arabs in Israel

Speaker: Professor Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder

Date & Time: November 5, 2024, 5:00 pm

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Regional dimensions of the Gaza crisis, and the Arab role in the UN Security Council

Speaker: Mouin Rabbani, Hasmik Egian

Date & Time: November 8, 2024, 5:00 pm

Ms Egian’s presentation will explore the role played by Arab States on the UN Security Council during their terms as non-permanent Council members, and what impact they may have ...
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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo

Speaker: Professor Yoram Meital

Date & Time: November 12, 2024, 5:00 pm

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization

Speaker: Dr Elham Fakhro

Date & Time: November 15, 2024, 5:00 pm

Book Launch: In August 2020, Donald Trump announced that his administration had brokered a ground-breaking treaty between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, the first normalizat...
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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

God's Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani

Speaker: Sajad Jiyad

Date & Time: November 21, 2024, 5:00 pm

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Writing Middle Eastern lives: biography in modern Arab history

Speaker: Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, Professor Marilyn Booth, Dr Peter Hill

Date & Time: November 22, 2024, 5:00 pm

This panel event, with Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, author of 'An Impossible Friendship', Marilyn Booth, author of 'The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz', and Peter Hill, author of...
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MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road

Saving Soviet Muslims: the politics of protection at Jerusalem's General Islamic Congress of 1931

Speaker: Dr Roy Bar Sadeh

Date & Time: November 26, 2024, 5:00 pm

Historians of the Middle East have extensively explored how imperial powers and international institutions during the interwar period used the idea of “minority rights and protec...
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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

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Speaker: Professor Nick Maynard, Dr Debbie Harrington, Dr Rebecca Ingliss

Date & Time: November 29, 2024, 5:00 pm

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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Defining antisemitism: what is the point?

Speaker: Professor Shai Lavi, Dr Brian Klug

Date & Time: December 5, 2024, 5:00 pm

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