Events archive

Image: series of stamps issued by the Swiss government to commemorate the work of UNCTAD, copyright Getty Images
ESC Core Seminar Series

Cold War, Trade War: The Soviet Union, the EEC, and UNCTAD’s battle for free trade

Alessandro Iandolo (Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
9 March 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Online Event
In 1964, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was born with an ambitious objective: convincing UN member states to lower or remove all barriers to the free circulation of... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar

Berta Zuckerkandl and Her Circle: Austrian Nationalism and Zionism in Viennese Modernism

Dr Elana Shapira (University of the Applied Arts, Vienna)
9 March 2021 - 2:15pm to 3:30pm
Via Teams Live Events (no password or software installation required)
Abstract: Berta Zuckerkandl grew up witnessing her father, publisher of the newspaper Neues Wiener Tagblatt , Moritz Szeps’s stormy career and political engagements. Moritz Szeps was a close advisor... Read more