Events archive
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Yoav di Capua (The University of Texas at Austin)
1 December 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Abstract: A common understanding of the 1960s is that of an integrated global era marked by a revolutionary quest for self-liberation, transnational solidarity, sexual revolution, radical self-... Read more
MEC Seminar
Adam Mestyan (Associate Professor of History, Duke University)
28 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Adam Mestyan is Associate Professor of History at Duke University. His works include Modern Arab Kingship – Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (Princeton University... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar)
24 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biography Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab is the author of Contemporary Arab Thought. Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective (2010) and Enlightenment on the Eve of Revolution. The Egyptian and Syrian... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Hanan Hammad (Professor of History and Chair of Women & Gender Studies at Texas Christian University)
17 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biography : “I am a social and cultural historian of the modern Middle East. My work focuses on gender, sexuality, working classes, and popular culture. I have authored many academic publications,... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Rosa Rahimi (University of Oxford, Magdalene College)
14 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Middle East Centre Board Room, St.Antony's College)
Biography : Rosa Rahimi recently completed her MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Before Oxford, she earned a BA in Politics... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Pascal Menoret (Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation (Cairo); Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
10 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Short biography: Pascal Menoret is the director of the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation in Cairo (CEDEJ) and the Renée and Lester Crown Professor of Modern Middle East... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
7 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
I am afraid this event has been cancelled due to speaker’s travel restrictions because of the war. Biography: Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Amal Ghazal (Doha Institute, Qatar)
3 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Cuba Sì, Yankees No Zanzibar and Political Liberation between “the Global 60s”and Local Politics This study sheds light on the “Global 60s” in Zanzibar by focusing on Zanzibar Nationalist Party (ZNP... Read more
MEC Seminar
Reem Bassiouney (The American University of Cairo)
31 October 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Reem Bassiouney is an award-winning and Sheikh Zayed Book Award shortlisted author, lecturer and Head of the Department of Linguistics at the American University of Cairo. After graduating from... Read more
Dr Yaniv Voller (School of Politics and International Relations, Keynes College, University of Kent)
28 October 2023 - 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Saturday 28th October 2023, 2pm – 5pm Hybrid Format: In-person and ZOOM Dr Yaniv Voller (Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, Keynes College,... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Noah Saloman (Irfan and Noreen Galaria Research Chair and Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia)
27 October 2023 - 5:00pm
The World is not a Place of Dwelling: Spiritual Creativity in the Arts of Contemporary Islam An eminent art historian has recently commented that the vast majority of academic surveys of Islamic art... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Mona Tajali, Associate Professor (Agnes Scott College)
24 October 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Abstract: Advocates of women's rights have long demanded women’s greater access to political office, especially the national parliament, with hopes to influence policy making with feminist agendas.... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr.Jillian Schwedler (Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
23 October 2023 - 5:00pm
St. Antony’s College, Middle East Centre, Board Room
Abstract Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Teresa Pepe (University of Oslo, Norway)
20 October 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biography Teresa Pepe is Associate Professor in Arabic Studies and Chair of the Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (CIMS) at the University of Oslo. Her research interests span across... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Professor Daniel Boyarin (University of California, Berkeley)
19 October 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
St Anne’s College, Oxford — Seminar Room 8, Syndicate Room
Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious... Read more