Events archive
North American Studies Seminar Series
Hector Mackenzie (Senior Departmental Historian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada)
21 February 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Fellows’ Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony’s College
Hector Mackenzie is the Senior Departmental Historian of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He edited two volumes in the series "Documents on Canadian External Relations" and... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dr Cristina Bayón (Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
18 February 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
North American Studies Seminar Series
Jay Sexton (University of Oxford)
4 February 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Fellows’ Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony’s College
Dr Jay Sexton is University Lecturer in American History and Tutorial Fellow in History at Corpus Christi College. In this presentation, he will speak on the international travels of William H.... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Ambassador Alejandro Estivill (Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Relations)
21 January 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Fellow’s Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony’s College
Alejandro Ives Estivill Castro is a Mexican Diplomat and novelist. He specializes in Mexican literature of the 20th Century. He holds a BA in Hispanic Literature from the National Autonomous... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Stephen Meili (University of Minnesota)
19 November 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Fellows’ Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony’s College
Professor Stephen Meili is the Supervising Attorney in the Minnesota University Law School's Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, where students represent asylum-seekers and detained individuals in U... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Catherine Krull (Queen’s University, Canada), Jean Stubbs (University of London)
22 October 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
People have long created their own cross-national systems, linked to commodity production and consumption flows, political and social upheavals, and migration. Stubbs and Krull interrogate the Cuban... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Covadonga Meseguer (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico)
15 October 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
Walk The Mexican 3x1 Program for Migrants is a grant scheme through which the municipal, state, and federal governments match by 3 to 1 the funds that migrant clubs send to their hometowns to finance... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
José Luis Valdés Ugalde (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
8 October 2012 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Fellows’ Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony's College
In the relationship between the United States and Mexico, a paradigm for bilateral governance to address critical common issues such as trade, migration, and organized crime has historically been... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Mónica Tapia Álvarez (Director of Alternativas y Capacidades, A. C. México)
21 May 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
The speaker will reflect on the role of Mexican civil society on a range of current challenges such as those of violence, human rights and education reform. Mónica studied at El Colegio de México,... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Amy Hinterberger (University of Oxford)
14 May 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony's College
Since the sequencing of the human genome in 2003, biomedical genetics has been heralded as the key to eradicating diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Yet genetic science brings with it a host of... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Alan Taylor (University of California - Davis)
8 May 2012 - 5:00pm to 16 February 2015 - 5:30pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
In works such as American Colonies: The Settling of North America and his recent The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies. Professor Taylor looks... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Mark Aspinwall (University of Edinburgh)
30 April 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
This talk will discuss how the NAFTA side agreements helped kick-start a process of governance change in Mexican environmental and labour politics. Rule of law, public participation, and transparency... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Laurence Whitehead (Official Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College)
5 March 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
North American Studies Seminar Series
Hal Klepak (Emeritus Professor of History, Royal Military College of Canada)
23 February 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
Cuba and Canada, uniquely in the hemisphere, have had a closer relationship since 1959 than the one they enjoyed before the Revolution. Why has a loyal NATO member, closely aligned on so many matters... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Doug Saunders (Europe Correspondent, The Globe and Mail (Toronto); Author, Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World)
6 February 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony’s College
In Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World, Doug Saunders examines the impact of the massive flow of rural people to urban areas, both within the nations of the... Read more