Events archive
North American Studies Seminar Series
Pekka Hämäläinen (University of Oxford)
24 May 2013 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Pavilion Combined Room, Gateway Buildings, St Antony’s College
Pekka Hämäläinen, Rhodes Professor of American History, specialises in early and nineteenth century American history and has particular interest in Native American, environmental, and borderlands... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Professor Ryan Hendrickson (Eastern Illinois University)
16 May 2013 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
This presentation will examine how the War Powers Act has affected the foreign policies pursued by eight US presidents since its passage in 1973. The law, passed in the wake of the Vietnam War, was... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Ellen Quigley (University of Cambridge)
7 May 2013 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Pavilion North Room, Gateway Buildings, St Antony’s College
As it is told in the media today, the story of Canada's resilience in the face of the 2007-2009 financial crisis and its aftermath is one of smart regulation in the context of a liberalised financial... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Jatinder Mann (King's College London)
29 April 2013 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Fellows’ Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony’s College
Jatinder Mann is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at Kings’ College London. He is also an Associate Fellow in Canadian Studies at University College London’... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Gonzalo Saraví (Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropolgía Social, Mexico and Visiting Research Associate, Latin American Centre, University of Oxford)
25 February 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
Mexico has made sustained progress in terms of education over the last decades: basic education coverage is almost universal today and years of schooling among the youngest generations have increased... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Hector Mackenzie (Senior Departmental Historian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada)
21 February 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Fellows’ Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony’s College
Hector Mackenzie is the Senior Departmental Historian of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. He edited two volumes in the series "Documents on Canadian External Relations" and... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Dr Cristina Bayón (Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
18 February 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
North American Studies Seminar Series
Jay Sexton (University of Oxford)
4 February 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Fellows’ Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony’s College
Dr Jay Sexton is University Lecturer in American History and Tutorial Fellow in History at Corpus Christi College. In this presentation, he will speak on the international travels of William H.... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Ambassador Alejandro Estivill (Mexican Secretariat of Foreign Relations)
21 January 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Fellow’s Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony’s College
Alejandro Ives Estivill Castro is a Mexican Diplomat and novelist. He specializes in Mexican literature of the 20th Century. He holds a BA in Hispanic Literature from the National Autonomous... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Stephen Meili (University of Minnesota)
19 November 2012 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Fellows’ Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony’s College
Professor Stephen Meili is the Supervising Attorney in the Minnesota University Law School's Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, where students represent asylum-seekers and detained individuals in U... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Catherine Krull (Queen’s University, Canada), Jean Stubbs (University of London)
22 October 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
People have long created their own cross-national systems, linked to commodity production and consumption flows, political and social upheavals, and migration. Stubbs and Krull interrogate the Cuban... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Covadonga Meseguer (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico)
15 October 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
Walk The Mexican 3x1 Program for Migrants is a grant scheme through which the municipal, state, and federal governments match by 3 to 1 the funds that migrant clubs send to their hometowns to finance... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
José Luis Valdés Ugalde (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
8 October 2012 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Fellows’ Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building, St Antony's College
In the relationship between the United States and Mexico, a paradigm for bilateral governance to address critical common issues such as trade, migration, and organized crime has historically been... Read more
North American Studies Programme Special Event
Robert Pastor (Director, Center for North American Studies, American University)
22 May 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Building on the ideas presented in his recent book of the same title (Oxford University Press, 2011), Professor Pastor will examine the forces that bind the continent together and the benefits to be... Read more
North American Studies Seminar Series
Mónica Tapia Álvarez (Director of Alternativas y Capacidades, A. C. México)
21 May 2012 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Latin American Centre Seminar Room, 1 Church Walk
The speaker will reflect on the role of Mexican civil society on a range of current challenges such as those of violence, human rights and education reform. Mónica studied at El Colegio de México,... Read more