Events archive
MEC Seminar
Maria Malmström, Lund University, Usaama al-Azami, University of Oxford
25 May 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Virtual: Zoom Webinar
A fortnightly seminar on political thought hosted by the Middle East Centre at St. Antony's College, Oxford. Convened by Faisal Devji (St Antony's College) and Usaama al-Azami (St.Antony's College).... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan
24 May 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St.Antony's College
The notion that the trajectory of Kurdish political activism inevitably leads to separatism is widely held amongst political elites in Ankara, Tehran, Baghdad, and Damascus. Indeed, in certain ways,... Read more
MEC Seminar
Roger Hardy (Former Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service)
3 May 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre
‘A History of Palestine in Twelve Photographs’ Roger Hardy Photography is an underused resource in the study of modern Palestine. Photographers, both Western and local, suffered from religious,... Read more
MEC Seminar
29 April 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Middle East Centre Board Room, St Antony's College
With the author Sylvie Thénault (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Book launch: Les ratonnades d’Alger, 1956. Une histoire sociale du racisme colonial (Seuil, 2022) (Algiers’ lynching, 1956. A social... Read more
MEC Seminar
24 February 2022 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St.Antony's College
Director: Krzysztof Dzięciołowski, DOP: Andrew Carter, Producers: Łukasz Bluszcz & Justyna Rutkowska, Editor: Marcin Szulc, Local Producer: Patricia Bou Nassif, Music: Zeid Hamdan, Additional... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Christopher M. Davidson (Associate fellow, RUSI), Dr Guy Burton (Adjunct Professor, Brussels School of Governance), Dr Diana Galeeva (Academic Visitor to St. Antony’s College, Oxford University)
16 February 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre/ ZOOM Online Webinar
The collapse of the Soviet Union marked the end of the Cold War, ushering in a more unipolar global order, including US hegemony in the MENA region. Over the subsequent twenty years, the unchallenged... Read more
MEC Seminar
Faika Çelik, Aliye Gamze Sarıtunalı, Amy Kallander, Hannah Elsisi Ashmawi
29 November 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Part of the The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series (Supported by Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute) Talk details: Decentering Second Wave Feminism: The... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi , Kate Clark
25 November 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Abstracts: Ibrahim Al-Marashi - Contesting the "Graveyard of Empires" Trope: Situating Afghanistan within Middle East History" First, this talk will examine the relevance of history, particularly... Read more
MEC Seminar
Touraj Atabaki, Max Ajl, Philip Marfleet
22 November 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Part of the The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series (Supported by Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute) Talk details: The Global Cold War and Developmentalism... Read more
MEC Seminar
Nathaniel George, Yvonne Albers, Zeina Maasri
15 November 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Part of the The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series (Supported by Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute) Talk detials: Revolution, Counterrevolution, Empire, and... Read more
MEC Seminar
Youssef Cherif (Director, Columbia Global Centers|Tunis), Dr Anne Wolf (Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)
10 November 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Youssef Cherif runs the Columbia Global Centers | Tunis, the North and West African research centre of Columbia University. He is a Tunis-based political analyst, member of Carnegie’s Civic Activism... Read more
MEC Seminar
The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Late Pahlavi Iran
Ali Mirsepassi, Arash Azizi, Siavush Ranjbar Daemi
8 November 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Part of the The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series (Supported by Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute) Talk details: Being in Iran in the long 1970s:... Read more
MEC Seminar
Jiayi Zhu, William Figueroa, Leonard Michael, Idriss Jebari
1 November 2021 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Part of the The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series (Supported by Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute) Talk details: From Beijing to Ankara: Global Maoism in... Read more
MEC Seminar
Sune Haugbolle, Pelle Valentin Olsen, Sorcha Thomson
25 October 2021 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Part of the The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series (Supported by Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute) Talk details: Reconstructing Entangled Relations between... Read more
MEC Seminar
Marral Shamshiri-Fard, Golnar Nikpour, Jeremy Randall, Fadi Kafeety
18 October 2021 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Part of the The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series ( (Supported by Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute) Talk details: Challenging empire in the Persian Gulf:... Read more