Events archive
South Asia Seminar
Radha Kapuria (Durham University)
31 January 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
This presentation will examine the role of music festival organisers as “postcolonial custodians” fostering communal amity through classical music in newly created India and Pakistan. Focused on... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Diana Kudaibergenova (Cambridge)
30 January 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
In this talk, I argue that unconventional ways of political contention successfully shape the regime, its elites, and its forms of oppression even under the most authoritarian contexts and... Read more
30 January 2023 - 12:00pm
Start date: 30 January 12:00 End date: 30 January 12:00 Location: Deakin Room, St Antony's College Ambassador Muhammadou Kah, Gambian Ambassador to the UN in Geneva https://africanstudies.web.ox.ac.... Read more
Knut Rio (Bergen)
27 January 2023 - 5:00pm
Syndicate Room
Dr. Rio is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Bergen and the University Museum of Bergen. He has conducted extensive ethnographic research in Vanuatu, as well as in France. He has... Read more
27 January 2023 - 5:00pm
Start date: 27 January 17:00 End date: 27 January 17:00 Location: Latin American Centre (1 Church Walk) and Zoom https://lac.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2943356
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Clerics in the time of Tishreen: The evolution of religion-civil society relations in post-2003 Iraq
Marsin Alshamary, Research Fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School
27 January 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biography Marsin Alshamary is a research fellow at the Middle East Initiative at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs with the Harvard Kennedy School. She is also a non-resident... Read more
The lives and afterlives of a Ukrainian songwriter: Volodymyr Ivasiuk and the crisis of Soviet order
Dr Zbig Wojnowski (St Antony's)
27 January 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room
This talk explores the life and posthumous commemoration of the pop musician Volodymyr Ivasiuk. Although Ivasiuk promoted his Ukrainian-language music on Soviet radio and television in the 1970s, he... Read more
26 January 2023 - 5:00pm
Start date: 26 January 17:00 End date: 26 January 17:00 Location: Latin American Centre and Zoom https://lac.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2934761
26 January 2023 - 3:30pm
Start date: 26 January 15:30 End date: 26 January 15:30 Location: African Studies Centre Book Launch: Who Counts? Ghanaian Academic Publishing and Global Science (African Minds, 2022) https://... Read more
Sudanese Seminar Series
His Excellency Honourable Minister Puot Kang Chol, Minister of Petroleum for the Republic of South Sudan
26 January 2023 - 2:30pm to 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Full details available at Upcoming Events | The Sudanese Programme To attend in person at Oxford please email Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi at namlas159@gmail.com To attend on ZOOM please register here to... Read more
26 January 2023 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Start date: 26 January 14:00 End date: 26 January 15:30 Location: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College https://nissan.web.ox.ac.uk/node/2936161
TWCF Visiting Fellow, Dr Garene Kaloustian, World Learning
24 January 2023 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
This seminar is part of the Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times research programme. Theme 3: History and Politics This series explores how we might better understand the ‘idea... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Prof. Menachem Hofnung (Hebrew University)
24 January 2023 - 2:15pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
What are the social and economic costs of using cohorts of local informers to ensure military control of a hostile territory? In 1994, an Israeli NGO (B’Tselem) published a study that analysed the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Saif Mahmood (Oxford)
24 January 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
Freedom of speech and expression is a critical indicator of the health of any society and guarantee of such freedom is integral to democracy. Yet, does a legal or constitutional guarantee necessarily... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Eleanor Knott (LSE)
23 January 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
In Moldova, the number of dual citizens has risen exponentially in the last decades. Before annexation, many saw Russia as granting citizenship to – or passportizing – large numbers in Crimea. In... Read more