Events archive
Nissan Seminar
Irena Powell
9 November 2016 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College
A seminar to consider and celebrate the publication of ‘The Daughter who sold her Mother” a memoir of family and survival in the Holocaust by Irena Powell. There will be an introductory presentation... Read more
Edward Denison (University College London)
8 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
African Studies Seminar Room, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
Edward Denison (University College London) discusses modernist architecture and heritage in this week's Horn of Africa seminar.
South Africa Discussion Group
Melissa Armstrong (Carleton University)
8 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Melissa Armstrong (Carleton University) discusses the African National Congress in this week's South Africa Discussion Group.
Yongjin Zhang (Bristol)
8 November 2016 - 5:00pm
Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford China Centre, St Hugh’s
Yongjin Zhang will investigate the entanglement of the rising Chinese power with the liberal global order in negotiating for normative change. As an emerging power with an authoritarian regime, China... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College)
8 November 2016 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, ESC
Latin American Main Seminar
Lisa Baldez - Dartmouth College
8 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Lisa Baldez is Professor of Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies and Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning at Dartmouth College... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Harshan Kumarasingham (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt; Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
8 November 2016 - 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room
All of the Asian States that emerged from British control in varying degrees took key substantial elements of the British Westminster system. This system was more commonly associated with the British... Read more
Dr Huseyn Aliyev (University of Bremen)
8 November 2016 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
What happens to informal institutions and practices when political actors decide to implement democratic institutional reforms aimed at relieving formal institutions of informal constraints? Does... Read more
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Christos Gortsos (Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
7 November 2016 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract The presentation focuses on the establishment of the European Banking Union (‘EBU’), its incorporation into the system of EU monetary and financial institutions and law, its unfinished... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Professor Kate Brown (University of Maryland)
7 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
MEC Seminar
4 November 2016 - 5:00pm
Auditorium, Investcorp Building
Professor James V. Wertsch (Washington University in St Louis)
4 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Syndicate Room
Rising frustration over Russia’s actions in Ukraine and elsewhere have led some Western leaders to conclude that Russian leaders are living in a “different world.” My presentation will examine the... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Dr Seung-young Kim, University of Sheffield
4 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Enrique García, Executive President, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, Director of the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford, Roger Goodman, Head of Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford, José Antonio Ocampo, Professor, Columbia University & Former Minister of Finance, Colombia, Germán Ríos, Director of Strategic Affairs, CAF -Development Bank of Latin America, Timothy Power, Director of the Brazilian Studies Programme, University of Oxford, David Doyle, Associate Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, Eduardo Posada-Carbó, Professor of the History and Politics of Latin America, University of Oxford, Sonia Gontero, Economic Affairs Officer, ECLAC, Angel Melguizo, Head of the Latin American and Caribbean Unit at, OECD, Cecilia López, President, CiSoe, Daniel Ortega, Director of Impact Evaluation and Policy Learning, CAF-Development Bank of Latin America, Carlota Pérez, Professor of Technology and Development, London School of Economics, Fabiana Machado, Research Economist, IDB, Carlos Ominami, Former Minister of Economy and Former Senator, Chile
4 November 2016 - 8:30am to 6:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
The Conference will launch a third joint programme between CAF and the Latin American Centre at the University of Oxford. It builds on an exciting collaboration between the Centre and CAF-Development... Read more