Events archive
South Africa Discussion Group
Crispian Olver (Author of 'How to steal a city')
22 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
CRISPIAN OLVER’S career as liberation activist, government bureaucrat and academic has been intimately involved in South Africa’s transition to democracy and state formation process. While practising... Read more
Hussain Abdullahi Mahmoud (Technical University of Mombasa)
22 May 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
African Studies Centre Seminar Room
The pastoral livestock trade in the Horn of Africa is highly dynamic. Animals are traded and moved within countries, across national borders and beyond the region for export – principally to the... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University
21 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Matthew Restall is a Colonial Latin American Historian with areas of specialization in Yucatan and Mexico, Guatemala and Belize, Maya history, the Spanish Conquest, and Africans in Spanish America.... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Tamar Koplatadze (University College)
21 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Mojmir Hampl (Vice Governor, Czech National Bank)
21 May 2018 - 5:00pm
Pavilion, St Antony's College, Oxford
Abstract: The Czech Republic is closely integrated with other EU countries, especially Germany. These trade, investment and other economic links are very strong and strengthen over time. Despite this... Read more
21 May 2018 - 10:00am to 22 May 2018 - 12:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Image © Juan Genovés The European Studies Centre Santander Conference 2018 This conference aims to examine the historical, legal and socio-political implications of the idea and implementation of a ‘... Read more
MEC Seminar
Umran Safter (Director)
18 May 2018 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
It was the most complex of times… assassinations … insurrections... paranoia … and a sultan who had to rule amidst it all. Why would a sultan confine himself to a palace for 33 years? Could an empire... Read more
Nissan Seminar
18 May 2018 - 9:00am to 6:00pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
This one-day conference features three co-authors of the book manuscript Compressed Development (nearing completion, to be published by Oxford University Press), as well as a diverse set of... Read more
Nissan Seminar
18 May 2018 - 9:00am to 6:00pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
This one-day conference features three co-authors of the book manuscript Compressed Development (nearing completion, to be published by Oxford University Press), as well as a diverse set of... Read more
Visiting Parliamentary Fellows Programme
Michael Gove MP (Conservative Party, Secretary of State for Environment), Chris Bryant MP (Labour Party, Former Shadow Leader of the House of Commons), Ian Birrell (Contributing Editor, 'Mail on Sunday')
17 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Final Session: Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship Seminar Series 2018 "BRACE FOR IMPACT: THE MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF BREXIT" Convenors: Baroness Simone Finn and Lord Jon Mendelsohn St Antony's... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Mai Hassan (University of Michigan)
17 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
The government faces a principal–agent problem with lower-level state officers. Officers are often expected to use the state coercive capacity endowed to them to politically benefit the government.... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Alvaro Caso Bello, Johns Hopkins University
17 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Álvaro Caso Bello is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Johns Hopkins University, having previously completed an M.A. in History at Hopkins. He recently co-edited, with Gabriel Paquette, a new edition... Read more
Monika Bickert (Vice President of Global Policy Management, Facebook), Yvette Cooper (Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee) , Louise Richardson (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford)
16 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
India on the World Stage: International Relations of India Seminar Series
Martin Bayly (LSE)
16 May 2018 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Syndicate Room
The seminar is organised by the Indian National Student Association (INSA), with support from the South Asian Studies Programme at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, and from the Asian... Read more
Dan Mains (University of Oklahoma)
15 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
African Studies Centre Seminar Room