Events archive
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Christopher Davidson (Durham)
16 October 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Middle East Centre Lecture Theatre, Investcorp Building
By HE. Mr Ron Proser Israeli Ambassador to the UK
2 October 2015 - 6:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Photographs of the lecture by Naysan Rafati
Dr Robin Ostle (Emeritus Research Fellow in Modern Arabic, St John’s College)
19 June 2015 - 6:00pm
The Buttery, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony's College
Followed by Drinks Reception in the Lobby of the Investcorp Building Prior to the 1960s the study of Arabic literature, both Classical and Modern, had barely been emancipated from the academic... Read more
Prof Scott Redford (Nasser D Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London)
18 June 2015 - 6:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College,62 Woodstock Rd, OX2 6JF
See images from the event here
Dr. Michael Peyron (Grenoble University, Retired)
16 June 2015 - 6:00pm
Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Dr Michael Pyron is a specialist in the field of Berber language, literature and culture. He is also well known as a writer on tourism in Morocco. His doctoral thesis was on an Amazigh area in the... Read more
Dr. Abouali Vedadhir (Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tehran & Visiting Fellow, Fertility and Reproduction Study Group (FRSG), ISCA, University of Oxford)
10 June 2015 - 1:45pm
Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
[A light lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis] Abstract: While in the last two decades, the participation of women in higher education has significantly increased, particularly... Read more
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti (General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative)
8 June 2015 - 6:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College,62 Woodstock Rd, OX2 6JF
Part of the Palestine Unlocked Festival : http://palestineunlocked.com/about/
MEC Seminar
Dr Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli (Ben Gurion University and Academic Visitor at St Antony’s)
5 June 2015 - 6:00pm
Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli is a post-doctoral researcher from Sapir College, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her research is focused on modern Morocco. Her MA thesis dealt with "The... Read more
5 June 2015 - 12:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Christopher Ward (University of Exeter)
4 June 2015 - 6:00pm
Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
The Water Crisis in Yemen provides the first comprehensive study of the water management crisis in one of the most water-short countries in the world where groundwater is being extracted at such a... Read more
1 June 2015 - 10:00am to 2 June 2015 - 4:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College
30 May 2015 - 10:00am
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College
Introduced by Tariq Ramadan (Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, St Antony’s College)
20 May 2015 - 6:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Join us for an evening of insightful discussion and audience participation as we examine together religious and ethical perspectives on the nature, role and responsibilities of men and women and... Read more
European Studies Seminar
Tariq Ramadan ( Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, St Antony's College)
19 May 2015 - 6:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theater, St Antony's College
A conversation around the publication of "Muslim Democrats of the World, Unite!” by Ghaleb Bencheikh, President of the World Conference for Religions for Peace, Anwar Ibrahim, former vice Prime... Read more
MEC Seminar
Guy Laron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
15 May 2015 - 6:00pm
MEC Library Reading Room, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Guy Laron is a Lecturer in the International Relations Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and visiting fellow at St. Antony’s College (2014-2015). Previously he had been a visiting scholar at... Read more