Events archive
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Social Dictatorships: The Political Economy of the Welfare State in the Middle East and North Africa
Dr Ferdinand Eibl, Kings College London
28 February 2020 - 5:30pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Ferdinand is Lecturer in Political Economy at King’s College London. He completed his DPhil in Politics and MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Michael Reid, Senior Editor (Latin America and Spain) at The Economist.
28 February 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Latin American Centre, Main Seminar Room
European Studies Seminar
Dr Lieve Van Woensel (Head of the Scientific Foresight Service at the European Parliamentary Research Service)
28 February 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Book launch: ‘A Bias Radar for Responsible Policy-making. Foresight-Based Scientific Advice’ ‘A Bias Radar for Responsible Policy-making. Foresight-Based Scientific Advice’ is a Palgrave book within... Read more
28 February 2020 - 2:00pm
Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School
The India-Oxford Initiative (IndOx) is a cross-divisional platform at the University of Oxford aiming to promote multidisciplinary research and academic collaboration between the Indian subcontinent... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Sophie Chamas (SOAS, University of London), Dr Hicham Safieddine (King’s College London) , Joumana Talhouk (University of Oxford)
27 February 2020 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
October 17, 2019 marked the beginning of the Lebanese uprising, the largest decentralised protests in the post-war Lebanon. Thousands of people overcame sectarian and political divides and gathered... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Consuelo Saizar (Cambridge University)
27 February 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Latin American Centre, Main Seminar Room
Leonardo Diaz-Martinez
26 February 2020 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Co-organized by St Antony’s College and the Blavatnik School of Government Climate change impacts-more heat, drought, extreme rainfall, and stronger storms-have already harmed communities around the... Read more
SEESOX
Lucas Kello (Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, Oxford), Cvete Koneska (S-RM Intelligence and Risk Consulting, London)
26 February 2020 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Cybersecurity is a worldwide issue of concern. South East Europe is a microcosm of the phenomenon, bringing sharply to the fore the interplay between cyber threats and geopolitics. What are the main... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Nadia Aghtai (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Violence, University of Bristol)
26 February 2020 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, UWE and Cardiff in the UK conducted a 30 month Economic and Social Research Council-funded project to explore how 'justice' (in its wider sense) is... Read more
Baroness Joyce Anelay of St Johns (Chair, International Relations Committee and former Minister of State, Dept of State for Exiting the EU), Prof. Anne Deighton (Wolfson College and Emeritus Professor of European International Politics), Prof. Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College and Professor of International Relations)
25 February 2020 - 5:00pm
25 February "FOREIGN POLICY AND GLOBAL BRITAIN " Baroness Joyce Anelay of St Johns (Chair, International Relations Committee and former Minister of State, Dept of State for Exiting the EU) Prof Anne... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Hizky Shoham (Bar-Ilan)
25 February 2020 - 2:15pm
MEC Board Room, St Antony's College.
Abstract: Are boycotts emotional outbursts or practical political tools? The proposed paper looks at the emotional aspects of the public debate that raged in Jewish Palestine in the 1930s about the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Edward Simpson (SOAS, University of London)
25 February 2020 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
This talk suggests that road building in South Asia was naturalised in the twentieth century to the point of common sense. Consequently, road building is now part of a system of climate change denial... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Allan Sikk (UCL-SSEES)
24 February 2020 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Latin American Main Seminar
Arturo Santa-Cruz 9Universidad de Guadalajara)
21 February 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Latin American Centre, Main Seminar Room
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
James Kleinfield (investigative journalist at Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit)
21 February 2020 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
James Kleinfeld is an investigative journalist at Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit. In 2016, he spent five months undercover as a pro-Israel advocate for the ‘Lobby USA’ series. His latest work has... Read more