Events archive

Shabbir Akhtar, philosopher and writer on Islam and Islamic politics, Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, St Antony's College, University of Oxford; Executive Director, Research Centre for Islamic Legislation and Ethics; and President of European Muslim Network, Professor Frits Bolkestein, former leader of the People's Party of Freedom and Democracy; one of the leading political parties in The Netherlands, Douglas Murray, founder of the Centre for Social Cohesion and associate editor of The Spectator, Shamil Shams, Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcaster
2 March 2017 - 8:00pm to 9:30pm
Cambridge Union Society, 9A Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB
Tariq Ramadan joins The Cambridge Union Society debate for the motion 'This House Believes that Islam is Compatible with Western Liberalism'. A difficult and perhaps unpopular question, the... Read more
MEC Seminar
Jessica Maya Marglin (University of Southern California)
2 March 2017 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Abstract: Through the experiences of a single Jewish family, this lecture charts how the law helped Jews to integrate into Muslim society. Drawing on previously untapped documents in Hebrew, Arabic,... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Stephen Smith (All Souls),
2 March 2017 - 5:00pm
European Studies Centre
Book Launch
African Studies Seminar
Filip De Boeck, University of Leuven (Belgium)
2 March 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
The Belgian anthropologist Filip De Boeck (University of Leuven) will speak about some of the ideas underlying Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds (2016), a book he made in... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Laura Putnam, University of Pittsburgh
2 March 2017 - 5:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Please note the following changes in the Latin American History Seminar Programme : Lara Putnam's joint LAC/RAI seminar, originally announced for next week, has now been postponed for 2 March, and... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Lara Putnam, UCIS Research Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh
2 March 2017 - 5:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Lara Putnam is UCIS Research Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She writes on Latin American and Caribbean history, theories and methods of... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Arthur Stockwin (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies) and Kweku Ampiah (Leeds University)
2 March 2017 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Rethinking how Japan does politics