Events archive
Southeast Asia Events in Oxford
Shashi Jayakumar (Oliver Smithies Visiting Lecturer, Balliol College)
30 May 2023 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room
Singapore is apt to be thought of as the proverbial “poisoned shrimp” – a seemingly tempting morsel, but with defences formidable enough to deter those nearby with predatory instincts. The... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Roel Meijer (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands)
30 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Boardroom, Middle East Centre (Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road), St Antony's College
Join us for our Women's Rights Research Seminar where our guest speaker, Dr Roel Meijer (Guest Lecturer in Islam Studies, Radboud Universiteit) will be presenting on Women’s movements and citizenship... Read more
ESC Annual Lecture
Charles S. Maier (Harvard University)
30 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
If you would like to attend online please register with Zoom . The apparent triumph of democracy attributed to the revival of civil society in Eastern Europe and neo-liberal energies at the end of... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Asma Faiz, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Arifa Noor
30 May 2023 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
Panel discussion with Rangoonwalla Visiting Fellows: Title - Resistance and Change in Pakistan’s Political Order Speakers - Asma Faiz, Hidayat Ullah Khan, Arifa Noor
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Beril Ocakli (ZOiS, Berlin)
29 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Infrastructures are reasons for and results of (geo)political dynamics, social orders, financial flows, technical networks, and tampering with nature. Mines, roads or wind power plants are mobilised... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Sunil Purushotham (Fairfield University)
29 May 2023 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
Dr. Sunil Purushotham, Associate Professor of History at Fairfield University, is an historian of modern South Asia whose research focuses on the history of sovereignty and democracy in India, Indian... Read more
29 May 2023 - 3:00pm
Start date: 29 May 15:00 End date: 29 May 15:00 Location: Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk https://lac.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3038801
SEESOX
Denisa Kostovicova (European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science)
24 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
BOOK PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION If you would like to attend online please register with Zoom. Sustainable peace after conflict requires the reconciliation of former adversaries. But, people in post-... Read more
23 May 2023 - 5:00pm
Start date: 23 May 17:00 End date: 23 May 17:00 Location: Latin American Centre (1 Church Walk) and Zoom https://lac.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3019051
South Asia Seminar
Emma Mawdsley (Cambridge), Kate Sullivan de Estrada (Oxford), Sebastian Haug (Cambridge), Jayati Sristava, Esra Elif Nartok, Shibashis Chatterjee, Udayan Das
23 May 2023 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room
In recent years, Indian foreign policy has seen a sharp surge in projections of the 'civilisational'. Under the Modi administration, civilisational tropes are used to promote certain identities and... Read more
22 May 2023 - 5:00pm
Start date: 22 May 17:00 End date: 22 May 17:00 Location: Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk https://lac.web.ox.ac.uk/node/3036426
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Fabienne Rachmadiev (University of Amsterdam)
22 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
In this talk I will focus on contemporary art and ecology in the context of Central Asia – a geography that has seen devastating ecological disasters, such as the desiccation of the Aral Sea,... Read more
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
Robert Travers (Cornell University)
22 May 2023 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
My recently published book, Empires of Complaints. Mughal Law and the Making of British India, 1765-93 (Cambridge, 2022) explores how British conquerors built a new colonial state in eighteenth-... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Ignacio Garcia-Bercero (European Commission)
19 May 2023 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
The global trading system is increasingly being affected by geopolitical tensions. This raises important challenges for the development of European trade policy. The talk will look at the... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Toby Matthiesen (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)
19 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Based on a synthesis of decades of scholarship in numerous languages, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism , is the first truly global and longue durée history of Sunni-Shii... Read more