Events archive
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Ece Temelkuran, author of How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship (2019)
4 December 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
ZOOM
A certain political and moral insanity seems to be taking over the world. Both the political and the moral consensuses are under the consistent attack of rightwing populist leaders using... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Ilan Stavans, Armhest College, Jorge Cañizares, University of Texas
3 December 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
online
ESC Core Seminar Series
Simon Kuper (FT), Brigid Laffan (EUI), Chris Bickerton (Cambridge University)
1 December 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Online Event
For our last session of this very momentous year 2020, we revisit the issue that used to be number one before COVID pandemic intervened, namely Brexit. With three prominent commentators we reflect on... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Jonathan Oldfield (University of Birmingham)
30 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Online
The Dialogue of Humanities and Sciences in the Soviet Union
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Lina Khatib, Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham, Jeremy Bowen (Middle East Editor, BBC News)
27 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
ZOOM
After nine years of civil war, the prospects for regime change in Syria seem more remote than ever. Its society dispersed and its economy shattered, Syria remains a central state in the Middle East.... Read more
SEESOX
Mihail Chiru (Oxford School of Global and Area Studies), Miloš Damnjanović (BIRN Consultancy), Eli Gateva (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
25 November 2020 - 4:00pm
Zoom webinar
Over the thirty years since the fall of communism in the region, democratisation saw the development, in most countries of the region, of political parties whose roots sprang directly from the... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, USA, Felipe Roa-Clavijo, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, USA
24 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
online
Latin American Main Seminar
Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, USA, Felipe Roa-Clavijo, Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, USA
24 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
online
ESC Core Seminar Series
Dieter Helm (Professor of Economic Policy, Oxford and Author of Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change), Wolfgang Münchau (Eurointelligence), Riccardo Mastini (Autonomous University of Barcelona and Green New Deal for Europe)
24 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
A webinar by the Dahrendorf Programme’s Europe’s Stories project with a report on the results of a new eupinions opinion poll on European attitudes to climate change , done specially for the Europes’... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Peter Bergamin (Oxford)
24 November 2020 - 2:15pm
Virtual Seminar
Teams virtual meeting link: URL: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZGNlMTgwYTgtMzE1Z... Abstract: In this seminar I will present some findings and conclusions from my recent... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway)
24 November 2020 - 2:00pm to 2:45pm
Online via Teams Live Events
This talk explores connections between ‘development’ and the politics of agrarian reform in Sindh (Pakistan) during the period of transition straddling Independence. On the one hand, it highlights... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Gergely Hudecz (European Stability Mechanism)
23 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
This event is convened by the European Political Economy Project (EUPEP). The economic impact of the coronavirus is likely to differ from region to region, depending on their sectoral specialisation... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Hannah Proctor (University of Strathclyde)
23 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Online
The Dialogue of Humanities and Sciences in the Soviet Union
Professor Archie Brown (St Antony's)
20 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Online
Professor Archie Brown, CMG, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College. After a brief summary by Professor Brown of the arguments of his... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College, Oxford), author of Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution (2019)
20 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
ZOOM
Bio: Professor Walter Armbrust is a Hourani Fellow and Professor in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. He is a cultural anthropologist, and author of Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt (1996); Martyrs... Read more