Events archive
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Jonathan Rugman (Foreign Affairs Correspondent at Channel 4 News)
6 December 2019 - 5:00pm
Jonathan Rugman has been Foreign Affairs Correspondent at Channel 4 News since 2006. He covered the 'Arab Spring' uprisings from 2011 onwards and won a BAFTA for his coverage of the terrorist attacks... Read more
Andrea Purdekova, University of Bath
5 December 2019 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
St Antony's College, Pavillion Room
Event co-hosted with the Northeast Africa Forum
ESC Core Seminar Series
Professor Elena Korosteleva (University of Kent, Professor of International Politics, Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics and Director of Global Europe Centre)
3 December 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Resilience seems to have become ‘the everyday’ covering almost all aspects of our daily lives, and pervading the policy agenda of major international institutions. However, despite the upsurge in its... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Dr. Tamar Calahorra (Hebrew University in Jerusalem)
3 December 2019 - 2:15pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Abstract: Politicians, whether they be ordinary MPs and or government ministers (GMs), compete on the ability to influence policy outcomes. After elections and the formation of government, they do... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Laurence Broers (SOAS, Conciliation Resources)
2 December 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Laurence Broers is the Caucasus Programme Director at London-based peacebuilding organization Conciliation Resources. He is also a research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies,... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Ceren Lord (St Antony’s College)
29 November 2019 - 5:00pm
Dr Ceren Lord is currently British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, with Middle East Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA), where she was previously a Sasakawa Peace... Read more
SEESOX
Jessie Barton Hronešová (Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford), Adis Merdzanovic (SEESOX Research Associate)
27 November 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
The historic Prespa Agreement about the name issues between (now) North Macedonia and Greece marked an important turning point for North Macedonian aspirations for NATO membership and the European... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Professor Petra Terhoeven (Weizsaecker Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
26 November 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
The Richard von Weizsaecker Lecture 2019 - The other side of terrorism: Victimhood and acknowledgment in the context of terrorist violence The history of terrorism has been largely a history of... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Dr Nancy Hawker (The Aga Khan University)
26 November 2019 - 2:15pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Abstract: In the governing institutions of Israel, Arabic is suppressed. This practice crystallised in the early years of the state: there were points in history where it might not have gone in the... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Sanjay Suri (Europe Correspondent for CNN News 18 Media Group)
26 November 2019 - 2:00pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's College
Gandhi cast an inescapable spell on the story path of the Bollywood hero from the days of Indian independence through to the seventies. Heroism is shown to lie in rejection of wealth and sexual... Read more
Professor Timothy Garton Ash, Professor Mary Kaldor, Professor George Lawson
25 November 2019 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
The Sheikh Zayad theatre, New Academic Building, LSE, London
In a new edition of his book The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Prague and Berlin , Timothy Garton Ash reflects on witnessing these events and explores the long... Read more
MEC Seminar
Haydar Ergülen, Caroline Stockford , Mel Kenne
25 November 2019 - 5:00pm
MEC Board Room, St Antony's College.
A selection of poems by one of Turkey’s leading poets, Haydar Ergülen will be published in English translation in October. Haydar Ergülen will be in the Oxford to promote his book ' Pomegranate... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Kevork Oskanian (formerly CREES, University of Birmingham)
25 November 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Peripheral Histories and International Relations of the Eurasian Borderlands This talk will widen existing analyses of Russian imperial narratives through the introduction of the concept of ‘hybrid... Read more
Sudanese Seminar Series
23 November 2019 - 9:00am
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
1-day conference | No conference fees | Hospitality provided during the conference | Details of speakers to follow Registration essential - please email Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi to secure your place | All... Read more
Sudanese Seminar Series
23 November 2019 - 9:00am to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
No conference fees Hospitality provided during conference Registration essential – please e-mail Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi ahmed.al-shahi@sant.ox.ac.uk to secure your plac