Events archive
Russian and Eurasian Foreign Policies and Politics
Edmund Burke III (University of California, Santa Cruz)
5 November 2018 - 2:00pm
Maison Francaise d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road OX2 6SE
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Harith Hasan (Central European University), Hayder al-Khoei (University of Exeter), Renad Mansour (Chatham House)
2 November 2018 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Image credit: REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani About the speakers: Harith Hasan is a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on Iraq, sectarianism, identity... Read more
Yusuf Serunkuma Kajura (Makerere Institute of Social Research)
1 November 2018 - 5:00pm
Pavilion
African Studies Seminar Making Somaliland: Popular Culture, Identity and National Consciousness
South Asia Seminar
Gyan Prakash (Princeton University)
31 October 2018 - 4:00pm
Nissan Theatre, St Antony's College
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
Mr Elmar Brok (Member of European Parliament)
31 October 2018 - 12:45pm to 2:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Negotiating Brexit: A view from the European Parliament Elmar Brok is one of the most experienced and influential Members of the European Parliament, the European People's Party Coordinator for... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
30 October 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
The Agora Europe Series: Brexit and Populism Conceived in this moment of appalling political instability, Agora Europe creates opportunities for a public debate on how to reorganize the European... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Christian C. Sahner (Associate Professor of Islamic History, Faculty of Oriental Studies)
30 October 2018 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
About the book : How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play in this process? Christian Martyrs under Islam... Read more
MEC Seminar
David Tal (Sussex)
30 October 2018 - 2:15pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Jointly organised by The Middle East Centre & The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) Abour the seminar: In December 1962 President John F. Kennedy told Israel’s foreign minister,... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
Professor Dr Didier Georgakakis (J. Monnet Chair, University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne - European Centre for Sociology and Political Science)
30 October 2018 - 12:30pm to 2:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis: A Political Sociology of the Changing Power of Eurocrats. Much emphasis has been put on European crises, the difficulties that the EU’s largest and most... Read more
SEESOX
Anna Irene Baka (Scientific Associate, Greek National Commission for Human Rights (GNCHR)), Kostas Bakoyannis (Regional Governor of Central Greece), Dimitris Christopoulos (Professor of Comparative Politics, Panteion University), Pavlos Eleftheriadis (Professor of Public Law, University of Oxford), Alexander Kitroeff (Associate Professor of History, Haverford College), Kyriakos Pierrakakis (Head of Research DiaNEOsis), Kostas Poulakis (Secretary General, Ministry of Interior), Stavros Theodorakis (Leader of the political party To Potami)
29 October 2018 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Main stage, Onassis Cultural Centre, Syngrou Avenue 107, Athens 117 45
Please register here 18:00-19:15: Diaspora and political participation 19:15-20:30: The vote of Greeks abroad The economic crisis that Greece is faced with since 2010 together with its multifaceted... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Professor Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)
29 October 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Seth Anziska (Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London)
26 October 2018 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
About the book: Based on newly declassified international sources, Preventing Palestine charts the emergence of the Middle East peace process, including the establishment of a separate track to deal... Read more
Florence Bernault (SciencesPo)
25 October 2018 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room
Transactions: Revisiting How Domination Worked in Colonial Africa
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Naysan Adlparvar (Yale University)
24 October 2018 - 2:00pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
About the speaker: Dr Naysan Adlparvar is an Academic Visitor and Senior Member at St. Antony’s College. He holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University’s Department of Anthropology. Naysan has... Read more
SEESOX
Ino Afentouli (NATO Public Diplomacy Division), Richard Caplan (Linacre College, Oxford), Lucas Kello (DPIR), Marilenna Koppa (Panteion University, Athens)
23 October 2018 - 7:00pm
Megaron Plus, Vass. Sophias & Kokkali, Athens 115 21
The international community is facing major security challenges: among others, the return of geopolitics; unprecedently high migration flows; climate change-induced security threats; and renewed... Read more