Events archive

Image: series of stamps issued by the Swiss government to commemorate the work of UNCTAD, copyright Getty Images
ESC Core Seminar Series

Cold War, Trade War: The Soviet Union, the EEC, and UNCTAD’s battle for free trade

Alessandro Iandolo (Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
9 March 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
In 1964, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was born with an ambitious objective: convincing UN member states to lower or remove all barriers to the free circulation of... Read more
Image: Saint-Jean-de-Luz, in the French Basque country
ESC Core Seminar Series

Between Region and Nation: Reimagining Basque Identity Within the French Nation-State, 1780-1870

Talita Ilacqua (Deakin Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
2 March 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
The paper will explore the birth and development of an idea of region in the French Basque country in the aftermath of the French Revolution, thus countering the frequent view that regionalism, as a... Read more