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Conference: Rethinking Nationalism, Sectarianism and Ethno-Religious Mobilisation in the Middle East
26 January 2018 - 9:00am to 28 January 2018 - 3:30pm
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*Please note, spaces for this event are strictly limited and only ticket holders will be able to attend. Please contact mideastconf@pmb.ox.ac.uk if you have any further questions. ** Tickets are not... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Folashadé Soulé
25 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
This paper is a cross-disciplinary study of the bureaucratic politics of negotiation by small states engaged in asymmetrical relations with larger states. It studies the negotiating tactics and... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Martín Castro, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, and Conicet, Argentina
25 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Martín Castro (DPhil. in Modern History, University of Oxford, 2004) is a researcher at CONICET (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) and professor at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Dr Junko Yamashita, University of Bristol
25 January 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Elisa Botella-Rodríguez, Lecturer in Economic History, Economics and Economic History Department and Instituto de Iberoamérica, University of Salamanca, Spain.
25 January 2018 - 12:45pm to 2:00pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Whereas the majority of Latin American countries promoted non-traditional exports and ‘Agriculture of Change’ (based on large scale monocrops) in the early 1990s, Cuba was forced to implement an... Read more
MEC Seminar
Hannah Elsisi (Merton College), Hugh Sandeman (Amnesty International), Federico Varese (Nuffield College)
24 January 2018 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Followed by discussion The 25 of January is the anniversary of Giulio Regeni disappearance in the streets of Cairo. Already two years have passed without Giulio and still no significant progress was... Read more
SEESOX
Jasmin Mujanović (EastWest Institute)
24 January 2018 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Seminar Series: Key issues and developments in South East Europe Our Hilary 2018 SEESOX seminar series on South East Europe looks at regional developments from a thematic, interdisciplinary and cross... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
William Beinart
23 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Music Room
Visiting Parliamentary Fellows Programme
Nick Varley (Ground manager of the 'Leave' campaign), Will Straw (former executive director of Britain Stronger in Europe), Tim Shipman (Sunday Times political editor and author of 'All Out War' and 'Fall Out')
23 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
TALES FROM THE WAR ROOMS: THE BREXIT REFERENDUM OF 2016 We will have Nick Varley (Ground manager for the 'Leave' campaign); Will Straw, former executive director of Britain Stronger in Europe; and... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Shapan Adnan
23 January 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
The Rohingyas violently expelled by Myanmar are not recognized as international refugees by Bangladesh. Despite lacking citizenship and the right to work, they have sought to survive through covert... Read more
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
David Harrison (DAC Beachcroft)
22 January 2018 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract David Harrison will talk about his book Price and Financial Stability: Rethinking Financial Markets , to be published by Routledge Economics in 2018. David's book focuses on the difference... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Sarah Whitmore (Oxford Brookes)
22 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Latin American Main Seminar
Sergio Jaramillo, Former High Commissioner for Peace in Colombia and currently Colombian Ambassador in Belgium
19 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Sergio Jaramillo is currently the Colombian Ambassador in Belgium and head of the Colombian Mission to the European Union. He studied Philosophy and Greek at the University of Toronto and at Corpus... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Madawi al-Rasheed (LSE) , Courtney Freer (LSE)
19 January 2018 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
About the speakers: Dr Courtney Freer is a Research Officer at the Kuwait Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Her work focuses on the domestic politics of the... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
Florence Faucher (Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes, Paris), Laurie Boussaguet (European University Institute, Florence)
19 January 2018 - 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Room 172, The Boardroom - DPIR
Identity and citizenship: a response to terrorism? Analysing how the French government responded to the 2015 attacks in Paris About the speakers: Florence Faucher ’s research focuses on the ways... Read more