Events archive

African Studies Seminar
Simidele Dosekun, University of Sussex
23 February 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
This paper draws from a research project on class-privileged young women in Lagos who dress in a ‘spectacularly feminine style’ characterised by the extravagant use of normatively feminine elements... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Alan Knight, St. Antony’s College
23 February 2017 - 5:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Alan Knight, former Professor of Latin American History at Oxford University, is an Emeritus Fellow of the Latin American Centre. His chief interest is twentieth-century Latin American history, with... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Andrew Levidis (Cambridge University)
23 February 2017 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Kishi Nobusuke and the Mobilization Empire: War and Conservatism 1918-1945
Latin American Main Seminar
Ana Lourdes Suárez, Jimena Maccio (Catholic University of Argentina) and Séverine Deneulin (University of Bath)
23 February 2017 - 12:45pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
The presence of religion is widespread in Latin America’s informal settlements, from statutes of saints in the public space, to religious processions, to individual devotions. Informal settlements... Read more