Events archive
North American Studies Seminar Series
Andrew Porwancher (University of Oklahoma; Alistair Horne Fellow, St Antony's College)
24 February 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Seminar Room, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Andrew Porwancher is the Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College and an Assistant Professor of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma. He will tell the blood-soaked tale of Nicholas... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Jesús Velasco (Tarleton State University)
10 February 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Seminar Room, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Jesus Velasco holds the Joe and Teresa Long Endowed Chair in Social Sciences at Tarleton State University (Texas, USA). Prof Velasco received his PhD in political science from the University of Texas... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dr Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
27 January 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Dr Diego Sánchez-Ancochea is a Fellow of St Antony’s College and a University Lecturer in the Political Economy of Latin America, with appointments in the Department of International Development and... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Presentation of a project report by Timothy Garton Ash, Edward Mortimer, Kerem Oktem, Paola Mattei, and Halbert Jones
3 December 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
European Studies Centre
One of the major challenges of our time is how to combine freedom and diversity in multi-ethnic societies in which a wide variety of religious, linguistic, and cultural backgrounds are represented.... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Between Attacks: Canadian Counter-Terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s and Its Relevance to the 9/11 Era
Steve Hewitt (University of Birmingham)
2 December 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Seminar Room, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Dr Steve Hewitt is a senior lecturer in American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham and the president of the British Association for Canadian Studies. His research interests include... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Duncan Wood (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
27 November 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Buttery, Hilde Besse Building, St Antony's College
Duncan Wood is the Director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. For 17 years, Dr Wood was a professor and the director of the... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Juan Carlos Barrón Pastor (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
18 November 2013 - 5:00pm to 5:30pm
Pavilion Seminar Room, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Dr Juan Carlos Barrón Pastor is a Professor-Researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte (CISAN) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. This... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dawn Alexandrea Berry (University of Oxford)
11 November 2013 - 5:00pm to 5:30pm
Pavilion Seminar Room, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Dawn Alexandrea Berry is a Visiting Academic at St Antony's College, Oxford. Her research interests include the United States and the World, Arctic History and Geopolitics, British Empire and... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dr Andrew Smith (Coventry)
4 November 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Andrew Smith is a senior lecturer in history at Coventry University. In this presentation, Dr Smith will draw on research in Colonial Office files, Canadian archival materials, and newspaper sources... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Professor Brian DeLay (UC Berkeley)
21 October 2013 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Fellows' Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony's College
Brian DeLay is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include the United States and the world, the Americas in the 19th century,... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Pekka Hämäläinen (University of Oxford)
24 May 2013 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Pavilion Combined Room, Gateway Buildings, St Antony’s College
Pekka Hämäläinen, Rhodes Professor of American History, specialises in early and nineteenth century American history and has particular interest in Native American, environmental, and borderlands... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Professor Ryan Hendrickson (Eastern Illinois University)
16 May 2013 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
This presentation will examine how the War Powers Act has affected the foreign policies pursued by eight US presidents since its passage in 1973. The law, passed in the wake of the Vietnam War, was... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Ellen Quigley (University of Cambridge)
7 May 2013 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Pavilion North Room, Gateway Buildings, St Antony’s College
As it is told in the media today, the story of Canada's resilience in the face of the 2007-2009 financial crisis and its aftermath is one of smart regulation in the context of a liberalised financial... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Jatinder Mann (King's College London)
29 April 2013 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Fellows’ Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony’s College
Jatinder Mann is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at Kings’ College London. He is also an Associate Fellow in Canadian Studies at University College London’... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Gonzalo Saraví (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolgía Social, Mexico and Visiting Research Associate, Latin American Centre, University of Oxford)
25 February 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
Mexico has made sustained progress in terms of education over the last decades: basic education coverage is almost universal today and years of schooling among the youngest generations have increased... Read more