Events archive

“A people, united in struggle… is reborn”: Anya-Nya propaganda and Israel’s involvement in Sudan’s first civil war, 1969-1971

Yotam Gidron (Oxford)
25 April 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
The Horn of Africa Seminar brings together students and scholars interested in examining the region from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. This term, the seminar will look at a variety... Read more
Law and Politics Seminars

‘Enemies of the people: defending the independence of the Judges. A little too late and a lot too little? Does their independence matter? Is it being adequately defended? If not, what should be done?’

25 April 2017 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theater, St Antony's College
‘Enemies of the People: Defending the independence of the Judges. A little too late and a lot too little?'
Speakers: Lord Falconer, former Lord Chancellor under Tony Blair and former member of Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet , Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Principal of Mansfield College,Oxford and human... Read more
MEC Seminar

Lecture: Tribes, elections and social mobility: legacies from two Arab liberation movements

Dr Alice Wilson (University of Sussex)
25 April 2017 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium
Alice Wilso n is a lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research interests span political and economic anthropology, with a particular interest in radical experiences... Read more
Latin American History Seminar

‘Sembradores incansables de todo germen de progreso’: Biblical Metaphors of Post-Revolutionary Educational Reform in the Illustrations of Diego Rivera and Fiction of Juan Rulfo (Mexico, 1926-1953)

25 April 2017 - 5:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Lucy O’Sullivan is a third year DPhil Candidate in Modern and Medieval Languages at Trinity College, Oxford. Her doctoral dissertation entitled Diego Rivera and Juan Rulfo: Post-revolutionary Body... Read more
SEESOX

Online dynamics of the far-right and the far-left in Greece

Lamprini Rori (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
25 April 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract According to the «echo chamber» hypothesis, political networks on the internet are fragmented and limiting. Online political communication basically preaches to the converted with little or... Read more
Gandhi, Hind Swaraj
South Asia Seminar

An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the 19th Century

Dilip M. Menon (Witwatersrand)
25 April 2017 - 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room
Audio Podcast
Gandhi’s lauded text Hind Swaraj is born of and located within the 19th century crisis of liberal democracy and its resolutions of an intimate animosity towards the masses. Gandhi shares considerable... Read more

Deterrence or backlash? Testing the effect of repression on the violence in the North Caucasus

Elena Zhirukhina (St Andrews)
25 April 2017 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Syndicate Room
Elena Zhirukhina has been a PhD candidate and Marie Curie Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Her doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Professor Rick Fawn, is entitled 'The state... Read more