Events archive
MEC Seminar
Adam Mestyan (Associate Professor of History, Duke University)
28 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Adam Mestyan is Associate Professor of History at Duke University. His works include Modern Arab Kingship – Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (Princeton University... Read more
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Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
7 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
I am afraid this event has been cancelled due to speaker’s travel restrictions because of the war. Biography: Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and... Read more
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Reem Bassiouney (The American University of Cairo)
31 October 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Reem Bassiouney is an award-winning and Sheikh Zayed Book Award shortlisted author, lecturer and Head of the Department of Linguistics at the American University of Cairo. After graduating from... Read more
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Dr.Jillian Schwedler (Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
23 October 2023 - 5:00pm
St. Antony’s College, Middle East Centre, Board Room
Abstract Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have... Read more
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Ghassan Salamé (Professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po)
17 October 2023 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College & ZOOM
Please note that registration is only required for online participants, using the registration link here Join Professor Ghassan Salamé for his Lecture on 'Lessons from 2003 Iraq: Twenty Years Later'... Read more
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Nathan Thrall (Author and Journalist)
10 October 2023 - 5:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a... Read more
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Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim, FBA (University of Oxford)
15 June 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Join us for the Middle East Centre's Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture. Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim, FBA will speak on 'Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective'. This annual... Read more
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Professor Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
14 June 2023 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford
Professor Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin will be talking about his book Toda’at Mishna, Toda’at Mikra. All welcome, registration not needed, just come along to the Boardroom at the Kirdar Building, Middle East... Read more
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Dr Yair Wallach (SOAS)
13 June 2023 - 2:00pm to 4:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
It is commonplace that modern Jewish presence in the Middle East was composed of two kinds of populations: On the one hand, well integrated local communities of Arab, Sephardic or Mizrahi Jews, with... Read more
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Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College), Professor Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College), Professor Roger Goodman (St Antony's College)
7 June 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
The Director and Fellows of the Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College are convening a memorial in honour of Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies (1933-2020) and Celia... Read more
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Professor Elie Podeh (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
2 May 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
In order to survive in a hostile environment in the Middle East, Israeli decision makers developed a pragmatic regional foreign policy, designed to find ways to approach states, leaders and... Read more
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Steffen Hertog, Associate professor of comparative politics, Department of Government, LSE
21 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biography Steffen Hertog is an associate professor of comparative politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests include Gulf politics, Middle East political... Read more
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Dr Michael Willis, St,Antony's College
31 January 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College
Biography Dr Michael Willis is a Fellow of the Middle East Centre and St Antony’s College at the University of Oxford where he has taught modern Maghreb politics since 2004. Algeria: Politics and... Read more
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Rasmus Christian Elling (University of Copenhagen)
29 November 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Abstract: What can historians working on Iran gain from new insights generated in sprawling fields associated with global history such as global urban history and global intellectual history; and... Read more
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Hicham Alaoui
22 November 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Abstract: This talk focuses on the speaker's recently published book, Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave, 2022) . It provides a new... Read more