Events archive

MEC Seminar

Last Chance The Middle East in the Balance

David Gardner, The Financial Times

3 November 2009 - 5:00pm

Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road

Talks about the new book Last Chance The Middle East in the Balance (London: I.B. Tauris)

Economic Factors in the Collapse of Communism

Alan Smith (UCL-SSEES)

2 November 2009 - 5:00pm

Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford

Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Egypt and Syria in the Crisis: A Comparative Reflection

Dr Leïla Vignal, MEC/Department of Oriental Studies, Oxford University

30 October 2009 - 5:00pm

Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road

Temporality, Cyprus Problem and Turkey-EU Relationship

Atila Eralp (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)

28 October 2009 - 12:30pm

Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road

ESC Core Seminar Series

How to remember socialism: Teaching a disputed contemporary history in European classrooms

Simone Lässig (Braunschweig, Stifterverband Visiting Fellow)

27 October 2009 - 5:00pm

Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road

MEC Seminar

Is there an Iraqi refugee crisis?

Jarvis Doctorow, Junior Research Fellow in International Relations and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East, St Edmund Hall and the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, Dr Shahira Samy

27 October 2009 - 5:00pm

Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road

Did Civil Resistance Bring an End to the Soviet Empire? The Polish Case

Janusz Onyszkiewicz (Spokesman for ‘Solidarity’ in the 1980s)

26 October 2009 - 5:00pm

Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford

Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

The Global Banking Crisis of 2008 and the Subsequent Recession of 2009: Implications for Islamic Finance in the GCC and Beyond

Professor Rodney Wilson, Durham University, School of Government and International Affairs

23 October 2009 - 6:00pm

Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road

Visiting Fellows' Round Table

20 October 2009 - 6:00pm

Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road

MEC Seminar

The Israeli Democracy: Human Rights and Minority Rights in Times of Peace and War

Justice Dalia Dorner, Justice (retired) of Israel’s Supreme Court President of the Israeli Press Council

20 October 2009 - 6:00pm

Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road

Remembering 1989

Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s)

19 October 2009 - 6:00pm

Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony’s College, Oxford

After the Irish Referendum: What next for Europe?

James Elles (Conservative MEP for the UK South-East Region), Quentin Peel (international affairs editor of the Financial Times), Chris Bickerton (DPIR, Oxford)

13 October 2009 - 6:00pm

Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road

MEC Seminar