Events
MEC Seminar
Professor Maria Malmström (Middle Eastern Studies Lund University)
8 October 2019 - 5:00pm
MEC Board Room, St Antony's College.
This sophisticated book presents new theoretical and analytical light on the momentous events in the Arab world that began in 2011 and, more importantly, life and politics in the Arab world in the... Read more
SEESOX
10 October 2019 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
The Hellenic Centre, 16–18 Paddington Street, Marylebone, London W1U 5AS
The Greek Diaspora Project team at SEESOX is pleased and honoured to present its rich research output on the nature and impact of the contemporary Greek Diasporas in the UK and elsewhere, in the... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Sarah Badcock (University of Nottingham)
14 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
This paper will explore the ways in which studies of ordinary people living in areas outside the metropole can add to our broader understandings of the Russian state, in both late Imperial and... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Various
15 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
The ESC hosts its first seminar of Michaelmas Term 2019 entitled Europe: State of Play . Speakers include: Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College, Oxford) and Brooks Newmark (Visiting Academic, St... Read more
Various
17 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
What did 50 years of foreign policy cooperation, 25 years of Common Foreign and Security Policy, and 10 years of Lisbon Treaty reforms deliver for the international identity of the EU and its member... Read more
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Professor Walter Armbrust (St. Antony's College, Oxford)
18 October 2019 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
About the speaker: Dr Walter Armbrust is Hourani Fellow and Associate Professor in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. He is a cultural anthropologist, and author of Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt (... Read more
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (University of Roehampton)
21 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
This paper examines the history of the pop music industry in the Soviet bloc, focusing in particular on international Polish-Soviet concert tours organised between the late 1970s and the late 1980s.... Read more
Dr Andre Singer (SOAS, CEO Spring Films), Professor Archie Brown (St Antony's)
22 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
Screening of Meeting Gorbachev , followed by Q&A with the film's co-director, Dr Andre Singer, and Professor Archie Brown. Meeting Gorbachev is a 2018 biographical documentary film directed by... Read more
ESC Core Seminar Series
Mr Ralf Fuecks (Director, Center for Liberal Modernity, Berlin)
22 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 6:45pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HR
Mr Ralf Fuecks, Director, Center for Liberal Modernity, launches his latest book, called Defending Freedom: How We Can Win the Fight for an Open Society. The Chair for this event will be: Professor... Read more
SEESOX
Richard Caplan (Linacre College, Oxford)
23 October 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Book discussion How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace? More than half of all countries that experienced civil war since World War II have... Read more
SEESOX
George Pagoulatos (Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB))
24 October 2019 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
The Greek crisis has left behind far-reaching economic adjustment and reforms coexisting with debilitating socioeconomic legacies. Greece’s equivalent of a Great Depression unleashed extreme... Read more
Prof Adeel Malik (University of Oxford)
25 October 2019 - 5:00pm
Investcorp Auditorium, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Sudanese Seminar Series
Professor Munzoul Abdalla Assal, Director, Peace Research Institute,, Nima Elbagir, Senior International Correspondent, CNN, Othaylat Suliman, Broadcast Journalist and Media Consultant, Dr Marwa Gibril, Sudan Doctors' Union, UK Branch, Mohanad Hashim, Journalist, BBC, Focus on Africa
26 October 2019 - 9:00am to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
No conference fees Hospitality provided during conference Registration essential – please e-mail Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi ( ahmed.al-shahi@sant.ox.ac.uk ) to secure your place
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Dr Rachel Lin (University of Exeter)
28 October 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre
At the outbreak of revolution in 1917, more than 250,000 Chinese merchants, workers and students were scattered throughout the Russian empire. Some 100,000 had been recruited as wartime labourers and... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Dr Moriel Ram (Institute of Advanced Studies)
29 October 2019 - 2:15pm
Board Room, Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College
Abstract: My paper examines how sand and snow produce potent imageries and physical realities which both solidify and undermine social hierarchies, cultural imagination and power relations. Focusing... Read more
