Events archive
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
Cesar Colino (Santander Fellow, St Antony’s College)
7 March 2017 - 12:15pm
European Studies Centre
Visiting Academics’ Seminar Series Light lunch provided
European Studies Seminar
Lord Jay of Ewelme (House of Lords), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College)
6 March 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
This seminar will examine the consequences of Britain’s leaving the EU both for the Republic of Ireland and for Northern Ireland. It follows a seminar on Scotland and the EU held at the European... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Alexey Gromyko (Institute of Europe, Moscow)
6 March 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Dr Andrew Monaghan (Senior Research Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, Chatham House)
6 March 2017 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
This talk will explore the persistent sense of surprise in Euro-Atlantic discussions of Russia, reflecting on some specific examples and on some of the practical and conceptual reasons for it before... Read more
Researching Africa Day
4 March 2017 - 9:00am to 5:30pm
St Antony's College
Researching Africa Day is an annual one-day conference held by the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. At Researching Africa Day, the best graduate students from all over the United... Read more
Christopher Lord (ARENA Centre for European Studies, Oslo), Michael Freeden (University of Oxford and SOAS, University of London), Jacques Rupnik (College of Europe, Paris), Zdzisław Krasnodębski (University of Bremen, MEP), Marta Bucholc (Käthe Hamburger Kolleg “Recht als Kultur”, Bonn), Joanna Tyrowicz (University of Warsaw)
4 March 2017 - 9:00am
European Studies Centre
Knowledge Bridges between Poland, Britain, and Europe. Hilary Term 2017 International Conference “Illiberal Democracy”? Poland in a Comparative European Perspective . St Antony’s College, University... Read more
Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
3 March 2017 - 7:30pm to 9:30pm
The Chase School, Geraldine Road, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3NZ
Tariq Ramadan has been invited to give a lecture as part of the Malvern Science and Faith Weekend 2017. This is a multidisciplinary festival of ideas taking place in Malvern, Worcestershire and... Read more
Wolfgang Merkel (WZB Berlin Social Science Centre), Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College)
3 March 2017 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Annual Leszek Kolakowski Lecture. Knowledge Bridges Between Poland, Britain and Europe
Rory McCarthy (Magdalen College, Oxford) , Fabio Merone (Ghent University)
3 March 2017 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
South Asia Seminar
Sanjay Kak (Independent Film-Maker and Photographer)
3 March 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room
Photography in Kashmir has emerged as a powerful witness to its troubled present. Rooted in the everyday of photojournalism, and stretching away from those limits when they can, a remarkable new... Read more
Christopher Hughes (LSE)
3 March 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford China Centre, St Hugh’s College
This presentation will discuss how militarism was used to subordinate the modern idea of citizenship to social and political hierarchy in the transition from late Qing to early Republican China. The... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Mo Hume (University of Glasgow)
3 March 2017 - 5:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Mo Hume is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow. Her research focuses on how multiple and overlapping forms of violence are perceived by those who live in post-conflict contexts... Read more
SEESOX
Various speakers
3 March 2017 - 9:30am to 4:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Closed workshop - by invitation only. The aim of the workshop is to discuss how diasporas engage with home-countries in socioeconomic crisis with a special emphasis on the case of Greece. The working... Read more
Shabbir Akhtar, philosopher and writer on Islam and Islamic politics, Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, St Antony's College, University of Oxford; Executive Director, Research Centre for Islamic Legislation and Ethics; and President of European Muslim Network, Professor Frits Bolkestein, former leader of the People's Party of Freedom and Democracy; one of the leading political parties in The Netherlands, Douglas Murray, founder of the Centre for Social Cohesion and associate editor of The Spectator, Shamil Shams, Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcaster
2 March 2017 - 8:00pm to 9:30pm
Cambridge Union Society, 9A Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB
Tariq Ramadan joins The Cambridge Union Society debate for the motion 'This House Believes that Islam is Compatible with Western Liberalism'. A difficult and perhaps unpopular question, the... Read more
MEC Seminar
Jessica Maya Marglin (University of Southern California)
2 March 2017 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Abstract: Through the experiences of a single Jewish family, this lecture charts how the law helped Jews to integrate into Muslim society. Drawing on previously untapped documents in Hebrew, Arabic,... Read more