Events archive
North American Studies Seminar Series
Professor Pamela Starr (University of Southern California)
18 May 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
NAFTA helped foster a North American manufacturing platform despite Mexico’s demand that energy be excluded from the treaty. While the US and Canadian energy markets integrated considerably, Mexico... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Professor Susan Pozo (Western Michigan University)
11 May 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Susan Pozo is Professor of Economics at Western Michigan University. Her research interests include remittances, undocumented migration, and underground economic activity. In light of the... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dr Iván Farías (Oxford Brookes University)
4 May 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's college
This seminar will discuss how the creation of dispute settlement mechanisms in NAFTA mainly responded to the interests of the North American national governments, not foreign investors (as it is... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dr Benjamin Smith (Warwick)
9 March 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Benjamin Smith is Associate Professor of History at the University of Warwick and is the author of The Roots of Conservatism in Mexico: Catholicism, Society, and Politics in the Mixteca Baja, 1750-... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dr Kate Quinn (UCL)
23 February 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Kate Quinn is Lecturer in Caribbean History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. Her publications include Black Power in the Caribbean (2014) and Politics and Power in Haiti (... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dr David Howard (Oxford)
9 February 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
David Howard is a Fellow of Kellogg College and a University Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development. In this seminar, Dr Howard will consider the interconnections between urbanism and socially... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dr Paul Ashby (Kent)
26 January 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
In this seminar, Paul Ashby of the University of Kent will discuss the process through which the United States has sought in recent years to extend its security perimeter to NAFTA’s borders. This... Read more
North American Studies Programme Conference
28 November 2014 - 10:00am to 4:00pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
This conference examines the impact of NAFTA on the North American region two decades after the agreement came into force, assessing what the pact has meant for business, the depth of its economic... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dr Iain Johnston (Sciences Po)
17 November 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room,St Antony's College
North American Studies Programme Conference
Mr Kenneth Smith Ramos (Secretariat of the Economy, Mexico), Mr Carlos Uruchurtu (Cemex), Mr Lance Hastings (SABMiller), Ms Sophie Nappert (Three Verulam Buildings, Gray’s Inn, London), Ambassador Diego Gómez Pickering (Mexico), Minister Counsellor Whitney Baird (United States), Minister Mark Richardson (Canada)
10 November 2014 - 2:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony’s College
A conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the North American Free Trade Agreement was held, in two parts, on 10 and 28 November 2014. This conference examined the impact of NAFTA on the North... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dr Tony McCulloch (UCL Institute of the Americas)
3 November 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
North American Studies Seminar Series
Prof Rey Koslowski (University at Albany, State University of New York)
27 October 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Prof Rey Koslowski (University at Albany, State University of New York)
North American Studies Programme Special Event
Dr Halbert Jones (Oxford) with a comment by Professor Alan Knight
20 October 2014 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Book presentation, with a comment by Professor Alan Knight Joint session with the Latin American History Seminar
North American Studies Seminar Series
Asa McKercher (Queen’s University)
19 May 2014 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Asa McKercher is the Social Science and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at Queen’s University (Canada) and is also currently the Royal Bank of Canada... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Charles Taylor
13 May 2014 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
This event is co-sponsored by Asian Studies Centre, the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom, and the Middle East Centre