Events archive
Visiting Parliamentary Fellows Programme
6 March 2018 - 5:00pm
POSTPONEMENT FINAL SESSION: THIS WILL BE HELD IN TRINITY TERM ON 17 MAY 2018 ‘Britain in 2030: ‘You'll Be Back?’ Rt Hon. Michael Gove M.P. Other speakers to be announced when we have confirmation.... Read more
6 March 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
On Wednesday 20 September 2017 the lives of Puerto Ricans on the island and abroad changed forever. Hurricane María hit Puerto Rico as a category four storm (sustained winds of 150mph), leaving the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Sejuti Das Gupta (James Madison)
6 March 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
With cultural nationalism and symbolic politics holding the media attention, the significant transformation of India’s political economy and its contribution to victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Richard Youngs (Senior Fellow, Democracy and Rule of Law Programme Carnegie Europe)
6 March 2018 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
ESC Seminar room
In the last decade, the EU has been hit by a series of crises, most recently the UK's decision to leave the union following the Brexit referendum. In light of this, questions have been raised about... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Joanna Szostek (Royal Holloway)
5 March 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Researching Africa Day
3 March 2018 - 9:00am to 6:30pm
Investcorp Building, St Antony's College, Oxford
Researching Africa Day 2018 18th Annual Researching Africa Day Workshop African Studies Beyond the Binary: Critical Encounters at the Intersection Saturday 3 March 2018, 09:00 – 18:30 St Antony’s... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Maria A. Gwynn, Blavatnik School of Government and University College
2 March 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Maria A. Gwynn is a Global Leaders Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at University College, Oxford. She was formerly a postdoctoral research... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Alexandre Toumarkine (INALCO, Paris), Ceren Lord (Sasakawa Fellow, Oxford), Katja Triplett (University of Göttingen and Visiting Scholar at the Oriental Institute)
2 March 2018 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
About the speakers: Ceren Lord is a Post-Doctoral Research Officer in Middle East Studies at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies at the University of Oxford. She completed her PhD in May... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Wendy Willems (London School of Economics)
1 March 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
‘The politics of things’ refers to the way in which objects and physical spaces remain crucial to political communication in a digital age as well as to the manner in which objects such as clothing... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Giuseppe Marcocci, Exeter College
1 March 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Giuseppe Marcocci is Associate Professor in Iberian History (European and Extra-European, 1450-1800), Exeter College. His main research interests lie at the intersection of politics, culture and... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Eric C. Rath, Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan and Professor of the History Department, University of Kansas
1 March 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Professor Mark Katz
28 February 2018 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has established good relations with most of the major actors in the Middle East--including many that are at odds with one another. In addition to cooperating closely with... Read more
Salman Khurshid (Former Minister of External Affairs, Former Minister of Law and Justice, Republic of India)
28 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Salman Khurshid Former Minister of External Affairs, Former Minister of Law and Justice, Republic of India Respondent: Shruti Kapila Fellow and Director of Studies in History, Corpus Christi... Read more
SEESOX
Kemal Göktaş (Cumhuriyet; Reuters Institute), Rıza Türmen (Former ECHR judge and former MP), Funda Ustek-Spilda (Goldsmiths University of London)
28 February 2018 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Each speaker will focus on the failure of different key institutions to check/ balance the authoritarian slide in Turkey. Riza Türmen will focus on the judiciary and parliament; Kemal Goktas on the... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
R. Michael Feener (Centre for Islamic Studies; History)
28 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony's College
Religion has been profoundly reconfigured in the age of development. The past half-century has witnessed broad transformations in the understandings and experiences of ‘religion’ across traditions in... Read more