Events archive
South Asia Seminar
A Panel Discussion with Aditya Das, Huw Bowen and Faisal Devji
25 October 2016 - 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room
The book launched at this event outlines the diplomatic and external policies of Gilbert Elliot, the first Earl of Minto, who held the office of Governor-General of Bengal from July 1807 to October... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Sarah Young (UCL-SSEES)
24 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Cyrus Ardalan (OakNorth Bank)
24 October 2016 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract In the past few years there has been rapid growth in new banks, often referred to as challenger banks, in the UK. At the same time technology and regulatory changes in recent years have had... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Marcia C. Inhorn (Yale)
24 October 2016 - 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
21 October 2016 - 5:00pm
Auditorium, Investcorp Building
Nissan Seminar
Dr Pia Jolliffe, University of Oxford
21 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Prisons and Forced Labour on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido
21 October 2016 - 10:00am to 22 October 2016 - 2:00pm
European Studies Centre
Concerns for national sovereignty have been a mainstay of European integration. These concerns were at the margins for much of the history of European integration ("permissive consensus"), until... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Robtel Pailey (University of Oxford)
20 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Robtel Pailey (University of Oxford) discusses how sedentarist and nomadic metaphyiscs affects citizenship claims for Liberia.
Latin American History Seminar
Claudia Agostoni, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
20 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Claudia Agostoni is a full-time researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her principal fields of interest are the social history of... Read more
SEESOX
Kenneth Morrison (De Montfort University)
19 October 2016 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Sarajevo’s Holiday Inn on the Frontline of Politics and War charts the rich history of the city’s famous Holiday Inn hotel. Describing in detail the tumultuous events that took place within its walls... Read more
Will Smith (African Studies alumnus)
19 October 2016 - 12:45pm to 2:00pm
African Studies Seminar Room, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
Upon graduating last year, African Studies alumnus Will Smith went out and single-handedly raised money to found a unique initiative, an academy in Monrovia, Liberia that drew young people into... Read more
SEESOX
Gerald Knaus (European Stability Initiative)
19 October 2016 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Gerald Knaus (Austria) is ESI's founding chairman. After having studied in Oxford, Brussels and Bologna, he taught economics at university in Ukraine in 1993/94 and spent five years working for NGOs... Read more
18 October 2016 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Pembroke College (Pichette Auditorium), University of Oxford, St Aldates, Oxford, OX1 1DW
By kind invitation of the University of Oxford Islamic Society, Tariq Ramadan will present the first of a series of events on Islam and Liberation: In an era of imperialism, patriarchy, climate... Read more