Events archive
Jonathan Aves (Conciliation Resources)
10 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Syndicate Room
This one hour film is the first in a three part series about the Nagorny Karabakh conflict which traces its roots from the late Soviet period to the outbreak of serious fighting in 1992. It is a... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Sebabatso Manoeli (University of Oxford)
10 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Sebabatso Manoeli, Departmental Lecturer in African History at the African Studies Centre, discusses the topic 'The Gambela Years: SPLA soldiers' memories of exile, 1983-1991’. In this lecture,... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Douglas Alexander (Former Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary)
10 November 2016 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, ESC
Latin American History Seminar
James Robinson, University of Chicago
10 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
James Robinson i s a University Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He was formerly the Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government at Harvard University. He... Read more
SEESOX
Peter Sanfey (European Bank of Reconstruction and Development)
9 November 2016 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract The decision of the UK to leave the European Union is likely to have important ramifications for the Western Balkans (WB). Although direct economic linkages between the UK and the WB... Read more
Southeast Asia Seminar
Myat The Thitsar (Enlightened Myanmar Research Foundation; Oxford)
9 November 2016 - 2:00pm
Deakin Room
Local legislative bodies, the Myanmar State and Regional parliaments were formed in 2011 and are constitutive sub-national governmental institutions. These are new institutions for a historically... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Irena Powell
9 November 2016 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College
A seminar to consider and celebrate the publication of ‘The Daughter who sold her Mother” a memoir of family and survival in the Holocaust by Irena Powell. There will be an introductory presentation... Read more
Edward Denison (University College London)
8 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
African Studies Seminar Room, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
Edward Denison (University College London) discusses modernist architecture and heritage in this week's Horn of Africa seminar.
South Africa Discussion Group
Melissa Armstrong (Carleton University)
8 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Melissa Armstrong (Carleton University) discusses the African National Congress in this week's South Africa Discussion Group.
Yongjin Zhang (Bristol)
8 November 2016 - 5:00pm
Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford China Centre, St Hugh’s
Yongjin Zhang will investigate the entanglement of the rising Chinese power with the liberal global order in negotiating for normative change. As an emerging power with an authoritarian regime, China... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College)
8 November 2016 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, ESC
Latin American Main Seminar
Lisa Baldez - Dartmouth College
8 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Lisa Baldez is Professor of Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies and Cheheyl Professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning at Dartmouth College... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Harshan Kumarasingham (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt; Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
8 November 2016 - 2:00pm
Fellows' Dining Room
All of the Asian States that emerged from British control in varying degrees took key substantial elements of the British Westminster system. This system was more commonly associated with the British... Read more