Events archive
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Oya Celasun (IMF)
15 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
After hitting a post global-financial-crisis low of 3.2 percent in 2016, world output growth is projected to reach 3.6 percent in 2017 and pick up further over the next few years. The upswing is the... Read more
Dr Ziad Majed (The American University of Paris)
15 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
About the speaker: Ziad Majed, a Lebanese/French political scientist, is an associate professor of Middle East studies and International Affairs at the American University of Paris. His research... Read more
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Dr Joanna De Groot (University of York)
15 November 2017 - 2:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
About the speaker: Joanna de Groot has interests in three main areas. Her initial research into the social history of Iran in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has led to work on various aspects... Read more
SEESOX
Adam Fagan (Queen Mary University of London)
15 November 2017 - 12:30pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE The EU has placed considerable emphasis on supporting civil society organisations (CSOs) as domestic drivers of change and to trigger new modes of... Read more
15 November 2017 - 9:00am to 16 November 2017 - 2:00pm
Wednesday venue: Board Room, Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College Thursday venue: Maison Françoise d’Oxford Panels are open to the public and students but places are limited and prior registration... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Jan Zielonka (St Antony’s College)
14 November 2017 - 5:00pm
European Studies Centre
Dawit Mesfin (Independent)
14 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
Discussion & book launch for Woldeab Woldemariam: A Visionary Eritrean Patriot, A Biography .
Latin American Main Seminar
Mahrukh Doctor, University of Hull
14 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
The main argument presented is that institutional modernisation is a slow and incremental process in Brazil. It draws on research recently published in Business-State Relations in Brazil: Challenges... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Louise Richardson (Vice Chancellor, University of Oxford), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College), Desmond King (Nuffield College)
14 November 2017 - 5:00pm
European Studies Centre
South Asia Seminar
Johnathan Spencer (Edinburgh)
14 November 2017 - 2:00pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Jonathan Spencer is Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society at the University of Edinburgh. He has carried out research in Sri Lanka since the early 1980s. His most recent book... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Max Hodgson (University of Reading)
13 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
10 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
As part of the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, Friday Seminar Series Professor Hatsuki Aishima from the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka will give a talk about Martial Arts in the Middle... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Dr Penny Francks, University of Leeds
10 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Dr Hatsuki Aishima (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka)
10 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
About the speaker: Hatsuki Aishima is a social anthropologist specialising in Islam and public culture in the contemporary Middle East. She received her MA from Kyoto University (Area Studies, 2002)... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Daisy Onyige (Oxford)
9 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
This paper seeks to give an exposé on the association between economic globalisation poverty, and human trafficking in Nigeria. It asks the questions; do global economic inequalities facilitate... Read more