Events archive
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Seyla Benhabib (Cambridge and Yale), Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, Oxford), Ezgi Basaran (St Antony's College, Oxford), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College, Oxford)
21 February 2017 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and was Director of the Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics (2002-2008). Professor Benhabib... Read more
South Asia Seminar
William Gould (Leeds)
21 February 2017 - 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room
There are two broad trends in historical scholarship on partition: On the one hand, older work traced high politics, and the ‘end-game’ of Empire. On the other, more recent and extensive histories... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
Gijs de Vries (Visiting Academic 2013-16, St Antony’s College)
21 February 2017 - 12:30pm
European Studies Centre
Visiting Academics’ Seminar Series Light lunch provided
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Katja Yafimava (Oxford Institute of Energy Studies)
20 February 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Ezgi Başaran (St Antony’s College, Oxford University)
20 February 2017 - 2:00pm
Fellows Dining Room, St Antony's College
Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Sharif Hasan al-Banna (Islamic Institute for Development & Research, IIDR)
18 February 2017 - 2:45pm to 19 February 2017 - 2:00pm
Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA
Overview This weekend residential course will explore the traditional basis of Islamic ethics and how we might apply some of the key elements of this understanding when considering how to approach... Read more
Sudanese Seminar Series
Professor Munzoul Assal (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Khartoum), Mr. Bona Malwal (Co-Founder of the Sudanese Programme), Professor Bukhari Al-Ja’ali (Professor of International Law, Al-Nilein University, Khartoum, Republic of Sudan), Dr Richard King (Chief Executive, Concordis International, International Dispute Resolution Centre, London), Mr. Wek Mamer Kuol (M.P., National Legislative Assembly and Deputy Chairman of the Joint Border Commission, Republic of South Sudan)
18 February 2017 - 9:00am to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College
Nilüfer Göle (Professor of Sociology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris) , Tariq Modood (Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy, University of Bristol and founding Director, Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship)
17 February 2017 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
About the speakers: Nilüfer Göle (born 1953) is a prominent Turkish sociologist and a leading authority on the political movement of today's educated, urbanized, religious Muslim women. From 1986 to... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Antonio Sergio Alfredo Guimaraes (University of Sao Paolo)
17 February 2017 - 5:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães is Senior Professor, Department of Sociology, University of São Paulo and Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies at Cambridge University (2016/2017). He... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Adriaan Van Klinken, University of Leeds
16 February 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
In February 2016, a group of Nairobi-based artists under the name Art Attack released a music video titled Same Love . They described it as ‘a Kenyan song about same sex rights’, while at the same... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Matías Braun, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile, and the Latin American Centre
16 February 2017 - 5:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Matias Braun Professor of Economics and Finance at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile and Visiting Fellow at the Latin American Centre in Oxford. He received his B.A. in Business and Economics in... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Konrad Lawson (St Andrew’s University)
16 February 2017 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Uniting the World after Defeat: World Federalism in Early Post-war Japan
SEESOX
Manolis Pratsinakis (University of Macedonia)
16 February 2017 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
In a 1981 article Kubat and Hoffmann-Nowotny inverted an underlying assumption in most migration theories, namely the belief that people are essentially sedentary. Claiming that people are mobile by... Read more
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Merih Angin (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Saliha Metinsoy (Wadham College, Oxford), Alex Kentikelenis (Trinity College, Oxford)
15 February 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
SEESOX Seminar Series The rise of illiberalism in South East Europe The current European crises appear to have facilitated the (re-)emergence of illiberalism as a viable alternative for political... Read more
Marek Belka (former Prime Minister of Poland), Jerzy Osiatynski (former Finance Minister of Poland), Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College)
14 February 2017 - 5:00pm
European Studies Centre
Poland’s model of economic transformation has been a subject of controversy since the launch of the first free market reforms in 1988 and 1989. Especially harsh criticism was levied on the author of... Read more