Events archive
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Walter Armbrust (Middle East Centre Albert Hourani Fellow)
5 February 2016 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
Antonio Estella (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)
5 February 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Light lunch provided
5 February 2016 - 8:30am to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
On 5th February, the Brazilian Studies Programme will hold a day-long workshop on the current political and economic crisis in Brazil. Speakers from Brazil, the US, the UK and continental Europe will... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Denis Regnier (Université Libre de Bruxelles & LSE)
4 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Dr Denis Regnier has a background in philosophy, a subject he has taught for several years in French secondary schools before returning to university to undertake anthropological research. He came to... Read more
POMP Seminar Series
Kim Christiaens (KU Leuven)
4 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
This seminar is jointly organised with the Latin American Centre. The Anti-totalitarian Utopia? Solidarność and the Global South during the 1980s "From the moment the independent Polish trade union... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Kim Christiaens (University of Leuven), Paul Betts (discussant)
4 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
The European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road
"From the moment the independent Polish trade union Solidarność developed into the first mass opposition movement in Eastern Europe, supporters inside and outside Poland have been keen to... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Professor Jun Saito, Keio University
4 February 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Abenomics: Past, Present, and Future
3 February 2016 - 7:30pm
Investcorp Auditorium
Week theme: The Absurd and the Israel-Palestine Conflict The Time That Remains (2011; 1:49 minutes) – Elia Suleiman Like most of Elia Suleiman’s films, The Time That Remains plays with humour and... Read more
SEESOX
Julianne Funk (University of Zurich)
3 February 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
Southeast Asia Seminar
Kevin Fogg
3 February 2016 - 2:00pm
Deakin Room
Under Dutch colonialism, religious education and secular education were entirely separate enterprises in the Netherlands East Indies. Since that time, nationalism (both anti-colonial and post-... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Sophie Chamas (DPhil candidate in Oriental Studies)
3 February 2016 - 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building
Sabine Planel (IRD), Nemara Mamo (Sussex), Etana Habte (SOAS)
2 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
The Horn of Africa Seminar brings together students and scholars interested in examining the region from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. This term, the seminar will look at a variety... Read more
Visiting Parliamentary Fellows Programme
Lewis Baston (Senior Research Fellow, Democratic Audit), Gerry Gunster (President & CEO, Goddard Gunster, Washington DC), Prof Matt Qvortrup (Coventry University)
2 February 2016 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
South Asia Seminar
Daniel Hunt, Ria Kapoor (Lady Margaret Hall), Amar Sohal (Merton)
2 February 2016 - 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room
Indian Activism in the Metropole 1880-1900 Daniel Hunt, St Antony's College An examination of Indian parliamentary activism during the emergence of popular democracy, looking in particular at the... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
Kostis Karpozilos (SEESOX/A.G. Leventis Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
2 February 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
In 2015 Syriza, a party of the European left, rose to power in Greece amidst an unprecedented social and financial crisis that exemplified the structural constrains of the common European project.... Read more