Events archive
30 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Followed by Q&A with the Director - Mary Jirmanus Saba [Co-sponsored by the Centre for Lebanese Studies] SYNOPSIS A car with a loudspeaker on its roof is driving through southern Lebanon. The old... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Matteo Rizzo (SOAS)
30 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Book launch: Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Matteo Rizzo, SOAS, Department of... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Angel Smith, University of Leeds and St. Antony’s College
30 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Angel Smith is Reader in Modern Spanish history at the University of Leeds. His major monographs are Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction: Catalan Labour and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898-1923... Read more
Dahrendorf Programme
Sasha Havlicek (CEO of Institute for Strategic Dialogue)
30 November 2017 - 5:00pm
European Studies Centre
Free Speech Debate
30 November 2017 - 12:45pm to 2:15pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Guisell Morales is the Ambassador of Nicaragua in the United Kingdom (since 2015) and Ireland (since 2016). He arrived to the UK in 2012 as Chargée d’Affaires. Previously to that, she had developed... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
Robert Leonardi (Director, Esoc-Lab Ltd, London, LUISS University, Rome)
30 November 2017 - 12:30pm
European Studies Centre
Light lunch provided Co-sponsored with the Italian Embassy
30 November 2017 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Board Room, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
[Co-sponsored by the Centre for Lebanese Studies] Interest in social movements in the Arab World piqued following the so-called Arab Spring and heralded a series of publications, some of which... Read more
Julio Guzman
29 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Why Peru does not graduate: the elusive transition from growth to development Julio Guzman was a presidential candidate in 2016 whose candidacy was finally blocked owing to a technical deficiency... Read more
Anand Menon (King's College, London & Director UK in a changing Europe), Chris Morris (BBC Europe correspondent), Ian Dunt (Editor of politics.co.uk), Geoff Evans (Nuffield College)
29 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Book debate and discussion
Tornike Koplatadze (UCL)
29 November 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Syndicate Room
This film, Nine Years of Displacement, deals with the aftermath of the Georgian-Russian War of 2008. It takes a close look at the Tserovani Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Settlement, and how... Read more
Dr Sarah El-Richani (Centre for Lebanese Studies, St. Antony’s)
28 November 2017 - 5:00pm
The Board Room, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
About the author: Dr. Phil. Sarah El-Richani is visiting fellow at the Centre for Lebanese Studies, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford and from January 2018, Assistant Professor at the... Read more
Idil Osman (SOAS)
28 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
Discussion & book launch for Media, Diaspora and the Somali Conflict .
Nissan Seminar
28 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
His Excellency Koji Tsuruoka, Japanese Ambassador to the UK will give a talk entitled Japan and Brexit. Discussant: Sir Ivan Rogers, formerly Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
Nomfundo Ramalekana (University of Oxford) , Jason Brickhill (University of Oxford)
28 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Latin American Main Seminar
Luisa Feline Freier, Universidad del Pacífico (Peru)
28 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
In recent years the UNHCR has hailed Latin America as the new avant-garde of generous refugee protection. Is there evidence for significant liberalization of refugee legislation in the region and how... Read more