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5 April 2019 - 11:30am to 6 April 2019 - 6:00pm
Deree – The American College of Greece, Athens
SEESOX is co-sponoring a conference in Athens on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 April, 2019 at Deree – The American College of Greece The two-day conference is co-organized by University of Sheffield,... Read more
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Neophytos Loizides (University of Kent)
6 March 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
SEESOX Seminar Series Abstract: This presentation will examine the role of diaspora groups in peace mediations in Cyprus. It will first present the history of the island’s diaspora and how it relates... Read more
Visiting Fellows Series
Professor Alev Ozkazanc Kozakli (Visiting Fellow, ESC and SEESOX, St Antony's, Oxford)
5 March 2019 - 12:30pm to 2:15pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Photo credit: Susan Taylor Photography ESC Visiting Academics Lunchtime Seminar Series The presentation aims to evaluate the Turkish case in terms of the newly emerging literature on anti-gender... Read more
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Laura Morosanu (University of Sussex)
27 February 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
SEESOX Seminar Series Identification processes amongst migrants and their descendants have long constituted an important topic of research. In particular, scholars have debated the extent of choice,... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
Dr. Foteini Kalantzi (A.G. Leventis Research Officer, SEESOX, St Antony's, Oxford)
26 February 2019 - 12:30pm to 2:15pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
ESC Visiting Academics Lunchtime Seminar Series Migration has caused concern particularly in the last two decades and it has been treated as a new security challenge by the Western world. The... Read more
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Julie Vullnetari (University of Southampton)
20 February 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
SEESOX Seminar Series Remittances are arguably the most researched dimension of the Migration-Development relationship. With over US$460 billion remitted to low and middle-income countries in 2017,... Read more
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Ece Temelkuran (Journalist and Author)
14 February 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Book presentation An urgent call to action from one of Europe’s most well-regarded political thinkers. How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship is a field guide to spotting... Read more
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Zana Vathi (Edge Hill University)
13 February 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
SEESOX Seminar Series Based on qualitative research with migrants, their children and key informants in Albania, this presentation will investigate the experiences of return migrants with social... Read more
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Mustafa Cakmak (Keele University)
6 February 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
SEESOX Seminar Series In the context of an increasingly transnational world highlighted by proliferating population movements, diasporas have been reconsidered and reconceptualised as agents of... Read more
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Elena Genova (University of Nottingham)
30 January 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
The Other Bulgaria is a term deeply embedded in the Bulgarian socio-political discourse in relation to outward migratory flows, which have seen a 10% decrease of the country’s population between 1992... Read more
Visiting Fellows Series
Dr Konstantinos Kornetis (Santander Fellow, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s, Oxford)
29 January 2019 - 12:30pm to 2:15pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Photo credit: Susan Taylor Photography ESC Visiting Academics Lunchtime Seminar Series Battles over how we remember the past are not just battles about the past. They also structure the political... Read more
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Tena Prelec (University of Sussex)
23 January 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
SEESOX Seminar Series Members of the Serbian diaspora, especially those vocal in representing their home country’s views, have previously been regarded as leaning towards nationalistic stances. The... Read more
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Maria Koinova (University of Warwick)
16 January 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
SEESOX Seminar Series This presentation introduces findings from the European Research Council Starting Grant “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty” directed by Dr. Maria Koinova at Warwick University... Read more
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Yaprak Gürsoy (Aston University), Simon Waldman (King's College London; Istanbul Policy Center)
28 November 2018 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract As Britain prepares to leave the European Union, London is looking to develop bilateral relations with non-EU countries. Turkey was one of the countries identified as an important trade and... Read more
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Behlül Özkan (Marmara University, Istanbul)
23 November 2018 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Light lunch provided Relations between Turkey and Germany is one the most understudied subjects of Turkey’s foreign policy, despite the fact that there are close to three million Turks living in... Read more