Events archive
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Sultan Doughan (Lecturer in Museum Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London)
9 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Boardroom, Middle East Centre (Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road), St Antony's College
Join us for the next Women's Rights Research Seminar where our guest speaker, Dr Sultan Doughan (Lecturer in Museum Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London) will speak on Palestinian Women on... 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
MEC Seminar
Professor Elie Podeh (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
2 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
In order to survive in a hostile environment in the Middle East, Israeli decision makers developed a pragmatic regional foreign policy, designed to find ways to approach states, leaders and... 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
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
Hussein Omar (University College Dublin) , Susanna Ferguson (Smith College)
8 March 2023 - 4:00pm
ZOOM
Register here Guest speakers Hussein Omar (University College Dublin), “The political unconscious of the politically unconscious” and Susanna Ferguson (Smith College), “Political reproduction: gender... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Dr Moshe Behar (Manchester)
7 March 2023 - 2:15pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Recent years have witnessed the framework of Setter Colonialism gaining hegemonic explanatory dominance among attempts to elucidate the Palestine/Israel trajectory. Scrutiny of many texts in this (... Read more
The Rt Hon Sir Peter Gross (Formerly, Lead Judge for International Relations)
3 March 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biograph: Practised in commercial chambers at 3 Essex Court (now Twenty Essex). Queen’s Counsel 1992. Appointed Judge of the Queen’s Bench Division 2001, Presiding Judge of the South-Eastern Circuit... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Ayala Panievsky (Cambridge)
28 February 2023 - 2:15pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
The Israeli news media has transformed significantly in recent years, due to an unprecedented wave of anti-media populism and online harassment. In this talk, I examine how and why Israeli... 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
Dr David Roberts (King’s College London, UK), Dr Kristin Smith Diwan (The Arab Gulf States Institute, Washington, USA), Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (Rice University, USA), Dr Ali Bakir (Qatar University, Qatar)
23 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre & ZOOM
The event aims to explore the role of the Gulf states in the international arena within the context of the impact of the Ukraine war (24 February 2023 marks one year of the conflict). The economic... Read more
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
Gianluca Parolin (Aga Khan University), Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard)
22 February 2023 - 4:00pm
ZOOM
Dear all, I am afraid that this week's Oxford Political Thought Seminar has been postponed till MT next academic year due to unforeseen circumstances. Apologies for any inconvenience caused. *****... Read more
MEC Seminar
Steffen Hertog, Associate professor of comparative politics, Department of Government, LSE
21 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biography Steffen Hertog is an associate professor of comparative politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include Gulf politics, Middle East political... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Professor Anat Scolnicov (Winchester)
21 February 2023 - 2:15pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Israel was originally to have a Constitution, but it never did as the issue proved divisive on religious grounds, among others. An unwritten constitution developed in its place. This is the legal... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr. Sahar Maranlou. Lecturer in Law and Socio- Legal Studies. Essex School of Law , Dr. Naghmeh Sohrabi. Charles (Corky) Goodman professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, Dr. Pardis Asadi Zeidabadi. Researcher and Visiting Lecturer at City, University of London
20 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Sahar Maranlou is a lecturer at School of Law, University of Essex, UK. She is a socio- legal academic, specialising in access to justice, legal empowerment, gender, Islamic Law and Iranian legal... Read more