College events - St Antony's

College events

Nissan Lecture Theatre

Imperial traces in post-socialist spaces: a conjunctural exploration of inter-imperiality in the Silesian borderland

Speaker: Dr Johana Wyss

Date & Time: May 27, 2024, 5:00 pm

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Pavilion Room

Deconstructing State and Identity in Pakistan

Date & Time: May 28, 2024, 2:00 pm

Ali Osman Qasmi, Sara Malkani, Ahmed Waqas Waheed (Rangoonwalla Visiting Fellows) Sara Malkani is an advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan with over 12 years experience practi...
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MEC Board Room

Economic Diversification and Climate Change in the Middle East

Speaker: Dr Sarah Bush

Date & Time: May 28, 2024, 5:00 pm

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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre

Dreaming of Europe: Work refugees and the migration crisis

Speaker: Randall Hansen, Catherine Briddick

Date & Time: May 28, 2024, 5:00 pm

The talk will explore the current ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe. Drawing on in-depth interviews with refugees and NGOs in Europe and Africa, it will examine the drivers of forced ...
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MEC Boardroom

Economic Diversification and Climate Change in the Middle East

Speaker: Associate Professor Dr Sarah Bush

Date & Time: May 28, 2024, 5:00 pm

Exact venue location: Kirdar Building of the Middle East Centre, entrance at 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF – access to this building is at the north side, next to the bike r...
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Seminar room, African Studies Centre

Oromo & Somali social & political movements in Ethiopia’s post-Meles era

Speaker: Hallelujah Lulie, Juweria Ali

Date & Time: May 29, 2024, 4:00 pm

Between 2012 and 2018, the intensity of insurgency groups in Oromia and the Somali Regions declined, yet grievances and mobilization persisted in both regions as well as against th...
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Seminar Room, European Studies Centre

Welfare chauvinism in Europe: The opposition towards social benefits and services for migrants

Speaker: Gianna Eick

Date & Time: May 31, 2024, 5:00 pm

The redistribution of welfare resources to migrants continues to polarise societies, including the UK. Not only politicians from the radical right but also from more mainstream par...
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MEC Boardroom

The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa

Speaker: Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life

Date & Time: May 31, 2024, 5:00 pm

Join us for this book launch: 'An innovative analysis that traces the continuity of the state’s custodianship of Islam as the preferred religion in the Middle East and North Afr...
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Pavilion Room

Comparative Perspectives on the Calling

Date & Time: June 3, 2024, 2:00 pm

Sincerely or not, many people claim to have heard or felt a strong call to act in a certain way and have changed their ethical attitude towards the world, often becoming charismati...
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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Screening the documentary film “Antoine the Fortunate” at Oxford

Date & Time: June 3, 2024, 5:00 pm

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Syndicate Room

Book Launch: The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization

Speaker: Mohamed Amer Meziane

Date & Time: June 3, 2024, 5:30 pm

While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus st...
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Nissan Lecture Theatre

UK industry in a green future: domestic and international priorities

Speaker: Dr Thomas Hale, Mr Chris Skidmore (MP 2010-2024), Mr Alex Sobel (MP)

Date & Time: June 4, 2024, 5:30 pm

How can the UK secure its place in the new green economy while ensuring a just transition for those whose work or communities depend on fossil fuels? As many economies turn to new ...
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Seminar room, African Studies Centre

The road (not) taken: infrastructure & sovereignty in the Horn of Africa

Speaker: Biruk Terrefe, Harry Verhoeven

Date & Time: June 5, 2024, 4:00 pm

This article offers a longitudinal study of the complex entanglements between infrastructure and sovereignty in the Horn of Africa. By analysing Ethiopia's imperial transport corri...
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Main Seminar Room, Latin American Centre

Malcolm Deas Annual Seminar - title tba

Speaker: Marco Palacios

Date & Time: June 6, 2024, 5:00 pm

*_To join online, please register in advance here:_* https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUocuyvrz4vGtTThizdrAaKNZsmRk61NTKm ...
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Online - Zoom

OPTS: Ideology

Speaker: Professor Raihan Ismail, Andrew March

Date & Time: June 11, 2024, 4:00 pm

Andrew March (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Muslim Democracy: A Post-Sovereigntist Turn Raihan Ismail (University of Oxford) Salati Islamism: negotiated Identity and ...
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Investcorp Auditorium

Concertos to community-led research: the art of profound change

Speaker: Dr Jaideep Gupte

Date & Time: June 11, 2024, 5:00 pm

Curiosity is the bedrock of learning, imagination, and innovation. In the arts and humanities, we study what it is to be human. Knowledge of the human condition offers us a fuller ...
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Seminar room, African Studies Centre

Book launch & discussion: The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia

Speaker: Tom Gardner, Terje Østebø

Date & Time: June 12, 2024, 4:00 pm

In 2018, Ethiopia and the world were in the throes of ‘Abiymania’, a fervour of popular support for the divided country’s young, charismatic new prime minister. Arriving as i...
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Investcorp Lecture Theatre

Antonius Lecture

Speaker: Professor Amaney Jamal

Date & Time: June 13, 2024, 5:00 pm

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Syndicate Room

Tamil Literature: From the Madurai Sangam to the Halls of Oxford

Date & Time: June 14, 2024, 9:00 am

This two-day conference will bring together a range of scholars working on Tamil language and literature from the earliest records of the Sangam era to modern lexicography and peda...
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MEC Boardroom

Book launch - Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911

Speaker: Professor Janet Afary

Date & Time: June 14, 2024, 5:00 pm

Venue directions: The MEC Boardroom is on the ground floor of the Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF....
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Lecture Theatre

Global Gender: Pasts Presents Futures - Day 1

Date & Time: June 24, 2024, 9:00 am

Full Programme Day 1, Mon 24 June GENDER PASTS (All Day: Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum) 9 am: Registration 9.30am: Welcome and Introduction (Maria Misra) 9.45am-12...
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