Events archive
South Asia Seminar
Sanghamitra Choudhury (Agatha Harrison Fellow, St Antony's College)
16 June 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Fellow's Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony's College
Nissan Seminar
Dr Hiroaki Watanabe (University of Sheffield), Dr Ayumi Takenaka (University of Oxford), Professor Yuji Genda (University of Tokyo), Professor Richard Freeman (Harvard University)
16 June 2015 - 2:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building and the Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Memorial Event to Commemorate the Work and Influence of Dr Mark Rebick (Nissan Lecturer in the Japanese Economy and Fellow of St Antony’s College, 1994-2012) PLACES ARE STILL AVAILABLE. The event is... Read more
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Jenny Corbett (Australian National University)
15 June 2015 - 6:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
ABTRACT In addition to expected efficiency gains, an increasingly important policy concern about deepening financial integration is whether it brings greater vulnerability to shocks. Conventional... Read more
Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Shuh-mei Shih (University of California, Los Angleles)
15 June 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Syndicate Room, Old Main Building, St Antony's College
Abstract : “As the site of crossings of colonizers, settlers, merchants, and goods, island nations such as Taiwan have seen a rich confluence of cultures, where peoples and languages were either... Read more
Michael Walls (UCL), Anna Rader (SOAS), Ridwan Osman (Cambridge), Chair: Giulia Liberatore (COMPAS, Oxford), Mohammed Yusef (Invicta Capital)
15 June 2015 - 5:00pm
Kirk-Greene seminar room, African Studies Centre
* Note: Co-hosted with Somaliland Focus
Sumanta K Bhowmick (Independent Scholar)
15 June 2015 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
Sumanta K Bhowmick is an independent scholar based in New Delhi and has a doctorate in English Literature. Fascinated by the city and its making as India’s capital, he has researched the history of... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
11 June 2015 - 5:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Latin American History Seminar
Moisés Prieto, University of Zurich and St. Antony’s College, Oxford
11 June 2015 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
East Asia Seminar
Professor Thomas J. Christensen (William P Bosworth Professor of World Politics of Peace and War, Director of China and the World Programme, Princeton University)
11 June 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College **Please note the change in venue**
“Thomas Christensen has decoded the U.S.-China relationship with the analytical power of a leading scholar and the real-world lessons of a policymaker. The China Challenge is lucid, learned, and... Read more
Kateřina Lišková (Gender Studies Program, Department of Sociology Office for Population Studies, Czech Republic)
11 June 2015 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Pavilion Room
Centre for Gender, Identity, and Subjectivity (History): Graduate Research Group This is the latest in a series of graduate student seminars in the CGIS. All are welcome. Participants are urged to... Read more
POMP Core Events
Seventeen doctoral candidates and early career researchers from European and American universities
11 June 2015 - 11:00am to 12 June 2015 - 4:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
For two days, eighteen doctoral candidates and early career researchers from European and American universities will present their original research in Polish studies. Crafted around the notions of... Read more
SEESOX Annual Lecture
Nikos Kotzias (Greek Foreign Minister)
10 June 2015 - 6:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
A lecture by Greece's new Foreign Minister, Nikos Kotzias. Read transcript of speech here . Nikos Kotzias studied Economics, Political Science and Philosophy, Law and European Integration in Greece... Read more
Paul Irwin Crookes (University of Oxford), Jan Knoerich (King's Collge, London)
10 June 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Syndicate Room, Old Main Building, St Antony's College
Abstract : This presentation will explore three key questions connected to the role of high-technology in cross-Strait relations which intersect with each of the themes of security, economics and... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Lorraine Paterson (Visiting Scholar, Oxford Centre for Life Writing, Wolfson College)
10 June 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
Under French colonialism in Indochina, approximately ten thousand prisoners from Vietnam and Cambodia were deported to penal or exile sites within the wider French colonial world. From Gabon in... Read more
Dr. Abouali Vedadhir (Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tehran & Visiting Fellow, Fertility and Reproduction Study Group (FRSG), ISCA, University of Oxford)
10 June 2015 - 1:45pm
Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
[A light lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis] Abstract: While in the last two decades, the participation of women in higher education has significantly increased, particularly... Read more