Events archive
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Sergei Guriev (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development)
6 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
NB This seminar will take place on the Tuesday of Week 4 of the current series (6 February), not the Monday. Sergei M. Guriev is a Russian economist, the chief economist at the European Bank for... Read more
South Asia Seminar
Zoltán Biedermann (University College London) and Alan Strathern (Brasenose)
6 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
The presenters will reflect on their proposal to draw Sri Lanka into the paradigm of global history through the recently published edited collection Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History (UCL, 2017... Read more
ESC Lunchtime Seminar
João Espada (Catholic University of Lisbon)
6 February 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:45pm
ESC Seminar room
João Carlos Espada's provocative survey of a group of key Anglo-American and European political thinkers argues that there is a distinctive, Anglo-American tradition of liberty that is one of the... Read more
Professor Philip Bullock (Wadham College, Director of TORCH), Professor Dan Healey (St Antony's College), Dr Polly Jones (University College), Dr Richard Mole (UCL-SSEES), Professor Steve Smith (All Souls College)
5 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Examining nine 'case histories' that reveal the origins and evolution of homophobic attitudes in modern Russia, Dan Healey asserts that the nation's contemporary homophobia can be traced back to the... Read more
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Christopher Marsh (Former IMF)
5 February 2018 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Abstract: What would Friedman and Schwartz have made of the euro area crisis? The challenges that Europe faced over the past decade—as well as challenges yet to come—can best be understood and... Read more
Latin American Main Seminar
Jessica Rich, Marquette University
2 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Jessica Rich is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, specializing in civil society, social movements, and state-building in Latin America. She received her doctorate from... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
François Burgat (Aix Marseille University)
2 February 2018 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
François Burgat is a senior researcher (DR1) in political science at the CNRS based at the IREMAM in Aix-en-Provence. He was between May 2008 and April 2013 director of the Institut français du... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Portia Roelofs (London School of Economics)
1 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
St Antony's College, Pavilion Room
This talk argues for the need for a new approach to the study of African Politics that takes seriously the role of ideas, values and ideology, before offering an example of what this might look like... Read more
Latin American History Seminar
Andres Estefane Jaramillo, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile
1 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
LAC Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk, Oxford
Andres Estefane Jaramillo PhD in History (State University of New York at Stony Brook) and researcher at the Center for the Study of Political History of the School of Government at the Universidad... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Dr Saeko Kimura
1 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford