Events archive
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Lika Tsuladze (Tbilisi State University)
17 May 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Online
Lia (Lika) Tsuladze is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Tbilisi State University and Executive Director of the Center for Social Sciences. She is the author of more than 25 publications and 3... Read more
Amar Sohal (University of Cambridge)
17 May 2021 - 4:00pm
Online - Zoom
Bringing political thought to bear upon one of the world’s most pressing geopolitical problems, this paper explores Kashmiri engagements with nature and how these served late colonial attempts to... Read more
SEESOX
Thomas Countryman (Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs), Valerie Hopkins (South East Europe Correspondent, Financial Times), Ivan Vejvoda (Head of Europe's Futures Progam, Institute for Human Sciences)
13 May 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Zoom webinar
Please register here Join a special discussion, co-hosted by Oxford and Harvard, as we explore this timely topic with expert perspectives informed by years of diplomatic, research and journalistic... Read more
Various speakers
12 May 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Zoom webinar
As Oxford’s most international college and home to seven regional area studies centres, St Antony’s College is well-placed for a cross-centre discussion on the issue of vaccine diplomacy as an... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Professor Marie Ladier-Fouladi (CNRS)/ CETOBaC)
12 May 2021 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Marie Ladier-Fouladi is a senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)/ CETOBaC (Centre d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques) and professor of... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Michal Shaul, Herzog College
11 May 2021 - 2:15pm to 3:15pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Abstract: The talk will discuss the shaping of Holocaust memory in the Ultraorthodox (Haredi) society in Israel and the survivors’ role in this process. The reappearance of Ultraorthodox society on... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Dipti Khera (NYU)
11 May 2021 - 2:00pm
Teams Online - Registration needed
As Mughal imperial authority weakened by the late 1600s and the British colonial economy became paramount by the 1830s, new patrons and mobile professionals reshaped urban cultures and artistic... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Ghiath Shabsigh (IMF)
10 May 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Online Event
This online event features as one of several this term which focusses on 'European Institutional Architecture', and is hosted by the European Political Economy Project (EUPEP) at the European Studies... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Margarita Zavadskaya (Helsinki)
10 May 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Online
Margarita Zavadskaya is a research fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki and Department of Political Science at the European University at St. Petersburg working on political... Read more
Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science)
10 May 2021 - 3:00pm
Online - Zoom
This talk will be about making sense of people's history and their understanding of what "our history" means. I will argue that history as shared by a group, community or society in a place arises as... Read more
SEESOX
Dace Dzenovska (School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford), Elena Genova (University of Nottingham)
6 May 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Zoom webinar
Please register here Abstracts: In her talk, Dace Dzenovska will elaborate the phenomenon of existential sovereignty on the basis of an analysis of how government and non-government actors handle the... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Prof Aron Shai (Tel Aviv University)
4 May 2021 - 2:15pm to 3:15pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
Abstract: A close examination of one unique Jewish group that was active at the turn of the century, between the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of Great Britain in the Middle East, a... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Noaman G Ali (LUMS)
4 May 2021 - 2:00pm
Teams Online - Registration needed
This paper examines how the encounter of radical activism and peasant militancy reshaped economic and political relations—indeed, the forms and functions of informal and state institutions—in... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Mark Plant (Centre for Global Development), Mark Henstridge and Stevan Lee (Oxford Policy Management)
3 May 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Online Event
This online event features as one of several this term which focusses on 'Political economy of European climate action', and is hosted by the European Political Economy Project (EUPEP) at the... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Andrej Krickovic (HSE, Moscow)
3 May 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Online
Over the last few decades, China and Russia have developed a fruitful “status partnership” which has helped them overcome their disadvantages as outsiders to the dominant Western status hierarchy (... Read more