Events archive
Nissan Seminar
Jason Danely, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Japan at Oxford Brookes University
3 March 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Dr Inge Daniels is unable to give her seminar as previously advertised for this week so she will be replaced by Jason Danely, S enior Lecturer in Anthropology of Japan at Oxford Brookes University.... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
Jaroslaw Kuisz (POMP Visiting Academic, St Antony’s College)
3 March 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre
Jarosław Kuisz, Ph.D. is assistant professor at Faculty of Law and Administration, Warsaw University, chercheur étranger associé w Institut d’histoire du temps present, at CNRS in Paris, and editor-... Read more
2 March 2016 - 7:30pm
Investcorp Auditorium
Week theme: Memory and the Lebanese Civil War Shelter (2015, 20 minutes) – Tamara Qiblawi "Shelter" recreates an underground history of Lebanon, by focusing on an epicenter of communal activity... Read more
SEESOX
Dimitris Christopoulos (Panteion University of Athens)
2 March 2016 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
SEESOX Seminar Series: South East European realities amid Europe’s multiple crises South East Europe currently finds itself confronted with numerous external crises, including the Eurozone, the... Read more
James Chamberlain (PhD student in Politics, University of Sheffield)
2 March 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Development, Neoliberalism, and the Zambian State: A Strategic-Relational Approach Abstract From the 1980s onwards, the development agenda of the Zambian State was driven by a neoliberal paradigm... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Arshad Mohamed Ismail (SC-OCIS Visiting Fellow in Islamic Finance)
2 March 2016 - 2:00pm
Deakin Room
Islamic finance is often seen as a segment that is experiencing exponential growth within the global financial arena. The industry is founded upon Islamic principles that prohibit charging of... Read more
Professor Miles Larmer, University of Oxford; Dr Christabelle Peters, University of Warwick
1 March 2016 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Calvert 22, 22 Calvert Avenue, London, E2 7JP
**Part of the Red Africa season** Following the success of the Utopian visions and the art of the Red Africa event,Calvert 22 is delighted to join forces again with the Royal African Society to... Read more
Visiting Parliamentary Fellows Programme
Shami Chakrabarti CBE (Director, Liberty) , Ben Shimshon (Director, BritainThinks), Sharon Witherspoon MBE (Former Director, Nuffield Foundation)
1 March 2016 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
Adis Merdzanovic (SEESOX Visiting Academic, St Antony’s College)
1 March 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract In the Western Balkans, the last two centuries have witnessed the emergence of genuine nationalist and communist movements as well as the establishment of political regimes corresponding to... Read more
1 March 2016 - 9:00am to 5:45pm
Dahrendorf Room
Is the Taj Mahal Pakistani? Teaching Pakistani History / Teaching Pakistanis History, Intizar Husain: Literature and a Sense of Historical Difference, Identity Formation through National Calendar: The Politics of Commemoration in Pakistan, On the Concept of Heritage in Contemporary Pakistan, Maulana Bhashani, Marxists and Murids, c. 1957-60s, Pakistan and the Late Colonial Crisis of Sovereignty
Please note this is a closed workshop for invited guests only Intellectual history is a growing field of research worldwide, as well as in the South Asian region, though the scholarship on Pakistan... Read more
Naomi Chazan and Yossi Melman
29 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Lecture Theatre, DPIR, Manor Road Building
This event will be co-sponsored with DPIR.
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
David Wright (Secretary General of IOSCO)
29 February 2016 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract It is now nearly 9 years since the onset of the global financial crisis in the summer of 2007 and the economic and political effects of it are still being felt. Global economic growth has... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Ben Noble (New College)
29 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
ESC Annual Lecture
Mark Mazower (Columbia University)
26 February 2016 - 5:00pm
Maplethorpe Hall, St Hugh's College (entrance via Canterbury Road)
No registration is required but attendees are encouraged to arrive early as seating will be limited.
Latin American Main Seminar
Dr Ignacio Silva
26 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Ignacio Silva is Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College and at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, University of Oxford. He is Director of the IRC’s project “Science, Philosophy and... Read more