Events archive
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Christopher Marsh (Former IMF)
5 February 2018 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract: What would Friedman and Schwartz have made of the euro area crisis? The challenges that Europe faced over the past decade—as well as challenges yet to come—can best be understood and... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Jessica Rich, Marquette University
2 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Jessica Rich is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, specializing in civil society, social movements, and state-building in Latin America. She received her doctorate from... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
François Burgat (Aix Marseille University)
2 February 2018 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
François Burgat is a senior researcher (DR1) in political science at the CNRS based at the IREMAM in Aix-en-Provence. He was between May 2008 and April 2013 director of the Institut français du... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Portia Roelofs (London School of Economics)
1 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
St Antony's College, Pavilion Room
This talk argues for the need for a new approach to the study of African Politics that takes seriously the role of ideas, values and ideology, before offering an example of what this might look like... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Andres Estefane Jaramillo, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
1 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Andres Estefane Jaramillo PhD in History (State University of New York at Stony Brook) and researcher at the Center for the Study of Political History of the School of Government at the Universidad... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Dr Saeko Kimura
1 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series
P.K. Dutta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
31 January 2018 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Sybil Dodds Room, St Cross College
In our first session of the Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series join us in a discussion with P.K. Dutta from Jawaharlal Nehru University, to speak on the life and international... Read more
SEESOX
Constantinos Filis (Panteion University), Bill Kappis (University of Buckingham)
31 January 2018 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract: For the first time since the onset of the Cold War, the entire Eastern Mediterranean appears to be unstable and geopolitically contested. Russia casts a deep shadow, as the Syrian conflict... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Tamsin Barber (Oxford Brookes)
31 January 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder’s Building, St Antony's College
In this paper, Tamsin Barber interrogates the role of recent debates around Modern Slavery and trafficking in framing and understanding the experience of new Vietnamese migrants working in the... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
30 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Music Room
Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh is a Dphil student in International Relations at Oxford, and he is currently living in South Africa where he is also an author, political analyst and musician
Visiting Parliamentary Fellows Programme
Lord Francis Maude (Minister for the Cabinet Office, 2010-2015), Peter Riddell (Times journalist and Commissioner for Public Appointments), Prof. Gillian Peele (Emeritus Professor in Politics and Tutorial Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall)
30 January 2018 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, St Antony's
TALES FROM THE WAR ROOMS: THE BREXIT REFERENDUM OF 2016 We will have Nick Varley (Ground manager for the 'Leave' campaign); Will Straw, former executive director of Britain Stronger in Europe; and... Read more
Haim Yacobi (UCL)
30 January 2018 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
Ground Floor Seminar Room, SIAS, 11 Bevington Road
South Asia Seminar
Adnan Naseemullah (King's College London)
30 January 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Why have growth rates have dramatically diverged between India and Pakistan since the 1990s, when their economic and political institutions have increasingly converged? This paper argues that... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
Teymouraz Gorjestani (Embassy of France to the United Kingdom)
30 January 2018 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm
ESC Seminar Room
The Franco-British relationship after Brexit The Franco-British Summit was held on the 18th of January with President Macron coming to London. Teymouraz Gorjestani, Counsellor for Strategic and... Read more
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Jeffrey Franks (IMF Europe)
29 January 2018 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract: When the founding fathers of the euro embarked on the project of Economic and Monetary Union, they expected that sharing a common currency would reduce differences in income levels across... Read more