Events archive
Visiting Parliamentary Fellows Programme
The Rt. Hon Lord Howell of Guildford
16 May 2023 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Lord David Howell, Baron Howell of Guilford, Member of House of Lords of the United Kingdom. The only Minister to have served in Heath, Thatcher and Cameron administrations, Lord Howell of Guildford... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Aparna Kumar (UCL)
16 May 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
This presentation presents a new history of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan, an institution whose collections of art and archaeological were dramatically divided between India and Pakistan in response... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Darya Tsymbalyuk (St Antony's)
15 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
In this talk, I present the thinking process behind the manuscript-in-progress, which is focused on testimonies, stories, and memories from the east of Ukraine. In my research about Donetsk and... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Ghazal Asif Farrukhi (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
15 May 2023 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
For the past decade, the press in Pakistan has remained rife with stories of the kidnapping, forcible conversion to Islam, and marriages of young Hindu women at the hands of Muslim men. Women’s... Read more
15 May 2023 - 2:30pm
Start date: 15 May 14:30 End date: 15 May 14:30 Location: Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk https://lac.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3036436
15 May 2023 - 10:30am to 19 May 2023 - 4:30pm
St Antony's College
Mental Health Awareness Week has been run in collaboration with St Antony’s Academic Office and GCR for a number of years. This year we hope you can take a break from your day and do something... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Haytham Alhamwi (Chairman, Syrian British Consortium; Manager, Rebuild Rethink Society)
12 May 2023 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Dr Haytham Alhamwi is the Chairman of the Syrian British Consortium, a London-based advocacy body for British Syrians. He is also a co-founder and the manager of Rethink Rebuild Society, a charity... Read more
Miftah Ismail (Pakistan’s former Minister of Finance)
12 May 2023 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Many Pakistani colonial institutions such has the bureaucracy, the judiciary and especially the army have evolved into self-perpetuating elite institutions that resist change and seek to maintain the... Read more
12 May 2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Start date: 12 May 12:00 End date: 12 May 13:00 Location: Online https://nissan.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3019261
11 May 2023 - 5:00pm
Start date: 11 May 17:00 End date: 11 May 17:00 Location: Latin American Centre (1 Church Walk) and Zoom https://lac.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3032801
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Sultan Doughan (Lecturer in Museum Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
9 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Boardroom, Middle East Centre (Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road), St Antony's College
Join us for the next Women's Rights Research Seminar where our guest speaker, Dr Sultan Doughan (Lecturer in Museum Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London) will speak on Palestinian Women on... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Ayyaz Mallick (Liverpool)
9 May 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
This paper draws upon Henri Lefebvre and Fredric Jameson to trace the shifting coordinates of social and spatial experience through novels set in Karachi (Pakistan). I bring Lefebvre's understanding... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Leyla Sayfutdinova (Marie Curie Fellow, Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews)
8 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Baku’s spectacular urban transformations attracted considerable scholarly attention in the last two decades. Discussed in terms of petro-urbanism, these debates often neglect Baku’s long industrial... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Ruth Harris (Oxford)
8 May 2023 - 4:00pm
Syndicate Room & Zoom
In this paper, I will explore why Vivekananda’s words challenged and enticed so many audiences around the world. Why did publics as diverse as respectable New Englanders and Swadeshi “terrorist”... Read more
5 May 2023 - 5:15pm to 6:30pm
Start date: 5 May 17:15 End date: 5 May 18:30 Location: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College https://nissan.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3019246