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
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
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
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
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
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
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago)
13 October 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
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
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
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
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
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Malfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo.
24 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Why did the Iraqi regime fail to demonstrate it no longer had WMD prior to the 2003 invasion? For the past twenty years, there has been surprisingly little debate about this key question. In this... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr. Inna Rudolf, Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at the War Studies Department of King’s College London and Partner at the Candid Foundation.
17 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biography: Dr. Inna Rudolf is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) and a postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Divided... Read more