Events archive
MEC Seminar
Professor Avner Offer
5 March 2019 - 2:15pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Abstract : Israel scores very high internationally in the reported happiness of its Jewish inhabitants, and government politicians make much of that survey result. On the face of it there is a... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Sneha Krishnan (Oxford)
5 March 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Abstract: Historical scholarship increasingly shows that anti-colonial mobilisation in the early 20thcentury was both transimperial and transnational (Alavi 2015, Aydin 2007, Manjapra 2014). This... Read more
Visiting Fellows Series
Professor Alev Ozkazanc Kozakli (Visiting Fellow, ESC and SEESOX, St Antony's, Oxford)
5 March 2019 - 12:30pm to 2:15pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Photo credit: Susan Taylor Photography ESC Visiting Academics Lunchtime Seminar Series The presentation aims to evaluate the Turkish case in terms of the newly emerging literature on anti-gender... Read more
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Gillan Edgeworth (Wellington Management)
4 March 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abtract: The newer EU states have managed an impressive pace of real convergence, significantly outpacing the EM average. Integration into European manufacturing chains have been central to this.... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Charlie Walker (University of Southampton)
4 March 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Dahrendorf Programme
Professor Marci Shore (Yale University)
1 March 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
The 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture Marci Shore is associate professor of history at Yale University. Her research focuses on European intellectual history, in particularly twentieth and twenty-first... Read more
David R. Ambaras
1 March 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony’s College
Abstract In this presentation, I examine the histories of people who moved, the relationships they created, and the anxieties they provoked, in the spatial and social borderlands between Japan and... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge)
1 March 2019 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Abstract: Much ink has been spilled in recent years on the phenomena of populism and neoliberalism - increasingly, it seems to many, the defining traits of our late modern world. Scholars and... Read more
Lord NICK MCPHERSON (former Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury), Ambassador TORBJORN SOHLSTROM (Sweden), PETER FOSTER (Europe Editor, London Daily Telegraph)
28 February 2019 - 5:00pm
INVESTCORP LECTURE THEATRE
Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship Series COUNTDOWN TO BREXIT Please note that Damian GREEN M.P. has had to withdraw from this session as political circumstances developed this week.
Touraj Atabaki (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford) , Siavush Randjbar Daemi (University of St Andrews)
28 February 2019 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Paper titles: Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford) - The Global 1970s and the Iranian Revolution. The Iranian revolution of 1977-79 has usually been analysed within the confines of national... Read more
Sara Konoe, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kansai University
28 February 2019 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony’s College
SEESOX
Laura Morosanu (University of Sussex)
27 February 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
SEESOX Seminar Series Identification processes amongst migrants and their descendants have long constituted an important topic of research. In particular, scholars have debated the extent of choice,... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Professor Paul Taggart (University of Sussex)
27 February 2019 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Populism, Politics and Unpolitics in Contemporary Europe This talk focuses on how populism conceives of politics. It will examine the way in which populism in contemporary Europe is underpinned by a... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
David Everatt
26 February 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room
David Everatt (Director, University of the Witwatersrand School of Governance, Oppenheimer Visiting Fellow) South African Cities in comparative perspective: David Everatt will lead a discussion on... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr. Ibrahim Khatib (Oxford)
26 February 2019 - 2:15pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Abstract : In the context of protracted conflict, is there a relation between identity and willingness for reconciliation, and in what way does this relation exist? The current study checks the... Read more