Events archive
South Asia Seminar
Vijay Joshi (Merton)
17 October 2017 - 2:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Vijay Joshi is Emeritus Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. His main areas of interest are Macroeconomics, International Economics and Development Economics, and he has published widely in these fields... Read more
Romila Thapar (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Faisal Devji (St Antony's), Gautham Shiralagi (St Antony’s) , Adam Roberts (Balliol)
16 October 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
An event held under the auspices of St Antony’s College and the Oxford University Research Project on Civil Resistance and Power Politics, to mark 70 years of Indian independence.
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Professor Vladislav Zubok (LSE)
16 October 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Nissan Seminar
Sir Howard Stringer, Former Chairman, President, and CEO of Sony Corporation
13 October 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Raffaella Del Sarto (Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) – SAIS Europe The Johns Hopkins University)
13 October 2017 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
[Jointly organised with the Centre for International Studies, DPIR] About the speaker: Raffaella A. Del Sarto is Associate Professor of Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, School of... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Iván Jaksić, Stanford University
13 October 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Taylorian Institute
Joint Seminar with the Sub-Faculty of Spanish – Please note that this seminar will take place at the Taylorian Institute. Iván Jaksić is Director of the Santiago Program of the Bing Overseas Studies... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz (Stanford/Oxford)
12 October 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
The seminar will focus on agency in Kongo society, exploring a complex state of social development in which legal, political, religious and visual systems motivate responses to and interpretations of... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Ivan Jaksić, Stanford University
12 October 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Inaugural Lecture to mark the 5th anniversary of the Oxford Latin American History Seminar, jointly organized with the History Faculty, the Rothermere American Institute, the Centre for Global... Read more
Lord Chris Patten (Chancellor, Oxford, Patron of ESC) , Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College)
12 October 2017 - 3:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Olivier Frecaut (IMF)
11 October 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
One of the key lessons of the GFC is the criticality of macro-financial linkages. However, these are still not well understood, while an integrated analytical framework has remained elusive to this... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
John Buchanan (Washington)
11 October 2017 - 2:00pm
Deakin Room
The predominance of the state is overstated. In Burma and other countries, pockets of territory remain under the control of non-state actors. The processes through which these counter state orders... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Ken Shadlen, London School of Economics
10 October 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
International changes can reconfigure domestic politics. Since the late 1980s, developing countries have been subject to intense pressures regarding intellectual property rights. These pressures have... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Sir Ivan Rogers (St Antony’s College)
10 October 2017 - 5:00pm
European Studies Centre
South Asia Seminar
Yasser Arafath (Delhi)
10 October 2017 - 2:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
As the Portuguese’s entry opened up a turbulent time in the Indian Ocean, Muslim scribal elites across the region presented them within the image of idolatrous infidels. Writing in Arabic, the... Read more
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
John Duca (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
9 October 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room 23, Balliol College, Oxford
Abstract Credit conditions have caused real estate booms and busts, owing to an under-pricing of credit risk aided by regulatory arbitrage and shadow financing. Across countries, real estate price... Read more