Events archive
East Asia Seminar
Dr Nicola Horsburgh (St Antony's College, and DPIR British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow)
8 May 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
The global management of nuclear weapons and the ascendancy of China in international affairs pose two of the greatest challenges for international security today. Yet we know relatively little about... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Professor Florian Coulmas, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany and former director of the German Institute of Japanese Studies
8 May 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Time and Culture
Southeast Asia Seminar
Penny Edwards (Associate Professor, Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley)
8 May 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Deakin Room, Founder's Building, St Antony's College
Prof. Josep María Castellà (University of Barcelona)
7 May 2015 - 6:30pm
Massey Room, Balliol College
About the speaker: Josep Maria Castellà Andreu, associate professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Barcelona and habilitation for full professor. PhD in Constitutional Law by the... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Rory O’Bryen, Cambridge University
7 May 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Seminar Room, Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
African Studies Seminar
Sarah O’Neill, Institute of Tropical Medicine (Antwerp).
7 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College
Burma/Myanmar Events in Oxford
Kirsten McConnachie (Joyce Pearce Research Fellow, Refugee Studies Centre Oxford)
7 May 2015 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Seminar Room D, Manor Road Building
Abstract: This talk considers two intersecting trends in forced migration – urbanisation of refugee populations, and a policy approach of securitization - as they relate to refugees from Myanmar in... Read more
SEESOX
Veselin Vackov (Director / Managing Editor at Lidove noviny, Prague)
7 May 2015 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Light lunch provided Co-organised by SEESOX and POMP, in association with the Oxford Bulgarian, Czech and Slovak Societies. Veselin Vačkov is a Bulgarian-born media executive and journalist. Since... Read more
POMP Seminar Series
Veselin Vačkov (Journalist with Lidové noviny, Prague)
7 May 2015 - 1:30pm to 4:00pm
European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, 70 Woodstock Road
Veselin Vačkov, Ph.D. is a Bulgarian-born Czech journalist, currently the director of the oldest Czech daily newspaper Lidové noviny. Between 2000 and 2009, he was the paper’s editor-in-chief.... Read more
SEESOX
Danijela Dolenec (University of Zagreb)
6 May 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Danijela Dolenec is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb. She holds an MSc from the LSE and a doctorate from the ETH Zurich. Her... Read more
SEESOX
Jazbec Boštjan (Governor of Central Bank of Slovenia)
5 May 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Co-organised by SEESOX and PEFM Boštjan Jazbec graduated from the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, and continued his studies at the Central European University in Budapest and Prague.... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
Margie Orford
5 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College
South Asia Seminar
Mary King (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the UN-affiliated University for Peace, Costa Rica, and Distinguished Rothermere American Institute Fellow, University of Oxford)
5 May 2015 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Fellow's Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony's College
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dr Iván Farías (Oxford Brookes University)
4 May 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Syndicate Room, St Antony's college
This seminar will discuss how the creation of dispute settlement mechanisms in NAFTA mainly responded to the interests of the North American national governments, not foreign investors (as it is... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
John Garrard & Carol Garrard (Arizona)
4 May 2015 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
There is nothing surprising about the rise of religiosity in a nation that for eight decades had been subjected to militant state-enforced atheism. But when Putin cast Russia's takeover of the Crimea... Read more