Events archive

10 June 2023 - 10:00am to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Please join The Sudanese Programme for this 1-day conference, organised in collaboration with The Middle East Centre, to consider the recent events in Sudan. Registration is essential. (1) to attend... Read more
MEC Seminar
Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College), Professor Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College), Professor Roger Goodman (St Antony's College)
7 June 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
The Director and Fellows of the Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College are convening a memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies (1933-2020) and Celia... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Roel Meijer (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands)
30 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Boardroom, Middle East Centre (Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road), St Antony's College
Join us for our Women's Rights Research Seminar where our guest speaker, Dr Roel Meijer (Guest Lecturer in Islam Studies, Radboud Universiteit) will be presenting on Women’s movements and citizenship... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Toby Matthiesen (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice)
19 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Based on a synthesis of decades of scholarship in numerous languages, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism , is the first truly global and longue durée history of Sunni-Shii... Read more
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
Professor Roxanne Euben (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
17 May 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
ZOOM Webinars
Join us for our latest webinar in the Oxford Political Thought Series. Register here to receive your personal ZOOM link. Guest speakers Professor Roxanne Euben (University of Pennsylvania), '... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Haytham Alhamwi (Chairman, Syrian British Consortium; Manager, Rebuild Rethink Society)
12 May 2023 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Dr Haytham Alhamwi is the Chairman of the Syrian British Consortium, a London-based advocacy body for British Syrians. He is also a co-founder and the manager of Rethink Rebuild Society, a charity... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Sultan Doughan (Lecturer in Museum Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
9 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Boardroom, Middle East Centre (Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road), St Antony's College
Join us for the next Women's Rights Research Seminar where our guest speaker, Dr Sultan Doughan (Lecturer in Museum Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London) will speak on Palestinian Women on... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Elvire Corboz, University of Edinburgh
5 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
In contrast to the ever-growing scholarship dedicated to sectarianism in the Middle East, relations between Sunni and Shi‘a Muslims in European contexts remain understudied. In Britain, the past... Read more
MEC Seminar
Professor Elie Podeh (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
2 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
In order to survive in a hostile environment in the Middle East, Israeli decision makers developed a pragmatic regional foreign policy, designed to find ways to approach states, leaders and... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr. Diana Galeeva (Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and a Non-Resident Fellow with the Gulf International Forum)
28 April 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
In recent decades Russia has played an increasingly active role in the Middle East as states within the region continue to diversify their relations with major external powers. Yet the role of... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Ibrahim al-Marashi, Associate Professor at California State University, San Marcos
10 March 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biography Ibrahim Al-Marashi is Associate Professor of Middle East history at California State University San Marcos and visiting professor at the IE University School of Global and Public Affairs in... Read more
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
Hussein Omar (University College Dublin) , Susanna Ferguson (Smith College)
8 March 2023 - 4:00pm
ZOOM
Register here Guest speakers Hussein Omar (University College Dublin), “The political unconscious of the politically unconscious” and Susanna Ferguson (Smith College), “Political reproduction: gender... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Dr Moshe Behar (Manchester)
7 March 2023 - 2:15pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Recent years have witnessed the framework of Setter Colonialism gaining hegemonic explanatory dominance among attempts to elucidate the Palestine/Israel trajectory. Scrutiny of many texts in this (... Read more
The Rt Hon Sir Peter Gross (Formerly, Lead Judge for International Relations)
3 March 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biograph: Practised in commercial chambers at 3 Essex Court (now Twenty Essex). Queen’s Counsel 1992. Appointed Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division 2001, Presiding Judge of the South-Eastern Circuit... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Ayala Panievsky (Cambridge)
28 February 2023 - 2:15pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
The Israeli news media has transformed significantly in recent years, due to an unprecedented wave of anti-media populism and online harassment. In this talk, I examine how and why Israeli... Read more

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