Events archive
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr. Jamie Furniss, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis)/Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
29 October 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
St Antony's College, Investcorp Lecture Theatre & ZOOM
Bio statement: Jamie Furniss is currently a researcher at the Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain in Tunis, on leave from a position as a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the... Read more
SEESOX
Franck Duvell (Universitat Osnabrück), Başak Kale (METU), Kemal Kirişci (Brookings Institution)
27 October 2021 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room/Hybrid webinar
Organised as part of the research programme ‘Migration Diplomacy and Turkey-EU Relations’ funded by the Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership To attend this event in person, please register with... Read more
Christophe Jaffrelot, (Research at CERI Sciences Po/CNRS in Paris and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at King's College London)
27 October 2021 - 5:00pm
St Antony's College, Nissan Lecture Theatre
Pre booking essential - limited capacity - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/modis-india-hindu-nationalism-and-the-rise-of-ethnic-democracy-tickets-183344577567 Over the past two decades, thanks to... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Lina Tori Jan (St. Antony’s College | Master of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government)
27 October 2021 - 2:00pm to 4:30pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Biography: Lina Tori Jan is a social entrepreneur, public speaker, and advocate for equality and human rights, with a focus on the rights of women, girls, and refugees. Shaped by her experiences as a... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Jacques Rupnik (Sciences Po, Paris), Michal Šimečka (Renew Europe; European Parliament), Jessie Barton Hronešová (UNC Chapel Hill)
26 October 2021 - 5:00pm
Zoom webinar
Václav Havel was a towering figure of Central Europe's transition from dictatorship to democracy. As we approach the 10th anniversary of his death in December 2011, this panel considers his contested... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Kathrin Bachleitner (Oxford)
26 October 2021 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
The MEC Board Room, The Kirdar Building, St. Antony's College
The duty to remember the Holocaust, the profession of responsibility for the atrocities committed, the admission of guilt and shame on the part of all Germans with the ensuing effort to atone for the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Rohan Deb Roy (Reading)
26 October 2021 - 2:00pm
Online - Zoom
Please register to join this seminar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_L83-GaM4Q5ioYONBp93I2A The decolonial turn in the academy is recent but pervasive. Scholarly manifestoes in many... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Agnieszka Kościańska (REEES, OSGA; Leverhulme Lecture)
25 October 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Online
MEC Seminar
Sune Haugbolle, Pelle Valentin Olsen, Sorcha Thomson
25 October 2021 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Part of the The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series (Supported by Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute) Talk details: Reconstructing Entangled Relations between... Read more
Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan)
25 October 2021 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
The churning that was happening in Indian historiography in the 1980s-90s came from multiple directions, including a new and reinvigorated feminist historiography. The latter’s ambition was never... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr. Hussam Hussein, Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College
22 October 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Biography: Dr. Hussam Hussein’s research focuses on the role of discourses in shaping water policies in the Middle East, on transboundary water governance, and on issues related to the political... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Klaus Regling (European Stability Mechanism)
21 October 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Investcorp Auditorium/Zoom webinar
Mr Regling will give his lecture virtually via Zoom. Klaus Regling is the current and first Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism. The Managing Director of the ESM is appointed by the... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Tom O’Grady (University College London)
19 October 2021 - 5:00pm
ESC Seminar Room/Hybrid webinar
Abtract Since 2010 the UK has embarked on a series of radical welfare reforms that have led to greater poverty, homelessness, indebtedness, and foodbank use. It has diverged from other European... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Atalia Omer (Notre Dame)
19 October 2021 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
The MEC Board Room, The Kirdar Building, St. Antony's College
In the same way that it is no longer possible to talk about antisemitism without also thinking about Israel/Palestine, it is no longer possible to imagine Jewish ethics outside the realities of... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Maria Rashid (UCL)
19 October 2021 - 2:00pm
Zoom online
To regiseter and join this seminar please follow this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_m5WyuVBzRM-XI_NUvGsKjg Saturated with tropes of honour, nation and gender, military deaths are... Read more