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Interview with Professor Nayanika Mathur about her prize-winning book, Paper Tiger
Please click here to read the interiew conducted by the University of Cambridge's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).
Dan Healey speaks at Dotyk International Queer History Festival, Minsk, Belarus
In the face of administrative harassment, the Dotyk festival of queer history took place in Minsk, Belarus, from 6 to 8 April 2018.
Anna Lora-Wainwright discusses new book at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Environmental Humanities Workshop
Anna Lora-Wainwright took part in the Environmental Humanities workshop at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, discussing her new book Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Ru
Dr Pleshakova publishes new article
Dr Anna Pleshakova has published the article "Toward an infrastructure for data-driven multimodal communication research" in Linguistics Vanguard (De Gruyter); co-authored
The Governor of Kaduna State was at the African Studies Centre to declare that 'Nigeria requires a new elite consensus'
The Governor of Kaduna State visited the African Studies Centre, on Friday, 9th March 2018.
Applications sought for Japanese Fellow within Sasakawa Peace Foundation Project at Middle East Studies, SIAS
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) and Waseda University are currently recruiting for a Japanese fellow to take part in the third stage of an SPF-funded Oxford University research project (September 2018-September 2020).
The objectives of the project are:
Miriam Driessen interviewed by the BBC Chinese
Miriam Driessen was interviewed by the BBC Chinese about her research on Chinese labour migration to Ethiopia.
Prize winners of the 28th Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese
We are pleased to announce that two former students of the MSc/MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies were prize winners at the 28th Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese this year.
Dr Mateja Kovacic
The Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies would like to welcome Dr Mateja Kovacic to the Institute. She is our first British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Call for Applications: CSASP, Oxford/Lahore School of Economics Exchange 2018
The Contemporary South Asia Programme in The School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS) are looking for four students from Oxford University who would like to visit Lahore for one week in late March 2018.
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Call for Papers: Researching Africa Day 2018
African Studies Beyond the Binary: Critical Encounters at the Intersection
Researching Africa Day is a conference for graduate students, and abstract submissions are welcome from graduate students only.
Saturday 3 March 2018. St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
Abstract submissions are due by midnight of Friday 19 January 2018. Abstracts may vary between 150 and 350 words, and be attached as a PDF or Microsoft Word document. The document should specify the applicant’s university, full name, email address and the topic or topics to which they think the paper would best belong. They should be submitted to RADOxford2018@gmail.com.
The Social Dimensions of Land Rights Reform in Liberia, David Brown
On Thursday, 16th November 2017 we were joined by David Brown (Oxford), who gave a seminar entitled 'African Studies Seminar: The Social Dimensions of Land Rights Reform in Liberia'.
ESRC GCRF Post-doctoral Fellowships
SIAS can only submit a maximum of three applications to this call so we are introducing an SIAS internal selection process, any interested candidates need to meet the deadlines below:
SIAS intention to apply by: Monday 1st August at the very latest
New podcasts available
We are pleased to announce that seven new recordings have been added to the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies podcast series and can be found on the university podcast service.
CAF Fellowship 2016: Apply now
The Latin American Centre is now seeking applications for the CAF Visiting Fellowship in Latin American Economics for 2016.
CAF Scholarships 2016-17: Apply now
The Latin American Centre is now seeking applications for the two CAF Scholarships for 2016-17. These scholarships are awarded to students from one of the CAF shareholder countries who take up a place to study on the MSc in Latin American Studies at the University of Oxford.
Dr Makovicky receives Fell Fund Award
Congratulations to Dr Makovicky on receiving a John Fell Fund Award for her project ‘Ecologies of Citizenship: Reviving Pastoralism in the Polish Carpathians’.
Current MSc student Sheriden Gunderson publishes in the Daily Nation: Chewing over change
Chewing over change: Miraa farmers move on to passion fruit and dairy cows
Former Director of the Latin American Centre, Sir Raymond Carr, has passed away
From the Warden of St Antony's College, Prof Margaret Macmillan:
It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Sir Raymond Carr, our much respected and admired second Warden (1968 – 1987), and an Honorary Fellow of this College.
The IIR and CSASP exchange 2015
CSASP students are currently gearing up for a visit to to the Institute of International Relations, University of Warsaw, from May 12th to 15th. This is the return portion of an exchange plan between the two departments which saw IIR students and staff visit Area Studies in March this year.