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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.
Kyle Jaros publishes article in The China Quarterly
Professor Kyle Jaros has published a co-authored article with Jennifer Pan (Stanford University) in The China Quarterly: 'China's Newsmakers: Official Media Coverage and Political Shifts in the Xi Jinping Era' The full article c
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Forward to democracy or back to authoritarianism? The attitudinal bases of mass support for the Russian election protests of 2011–2012
Paul Chaisty & Stephen Whitefield. Department of Politics and International Relations , University of Oxford
Hindi language classes are now available
Hindi "in situ" is an introduction to the Hindi language for fieldworkers and researchers which offers to provide a basic ability to read, write and speak the language as it is used in everyday life in India.
Wolfson South Asia Research Cluster
The Wolfson South Asia Research Cluster will be holding its monthly informal lunch meeting on Wednesday, 9th October, (week 0) at Wolfson. Please join us in hall at 12:45pm. Lunch will be on a pay-yourself basis and anyone with an interest in research on South Asia is very welcome.
Timothy Power Visits Institute of Latin America, Moscow
On 4th October 2013, Dr Timothy Power (Director, Brazilian Studies Programme) visited the Institute of Latin America (ILA) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Dr Power gave a lecture on Brazil’s street protests of 2013 to an audience of about 30 ILA faculty and students.
CPP team visit to HSE in Moscow, Russia
On October 4th 2013, the CPP team visited the National University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, Russia, where it debated the early results of the project along with faculty and students of the Department of Comparative Politics.
CPP workshop in Ukraine
On 2nd October, 2013 the CPP held its second regional workshop at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) in Ukraine.
The CEELBAS Language Repository
The CEELBAS Language Repository is an open access resource for teachers and students of the languages of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.
The Nissan Institute Brochure
This brochure provides a brief history of Japanese studies at Oxford University, an explanation of the origins of the Nissan Institute and an introduction to the current fellows working here and their research interests.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Visits the Latin American Centre
On 6th June, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos visited the Latin American Centre, where he gave an informal presentation on the current situation in Colombia to a selected group of students and the staff of the Centre.
CPP present at Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo (USP)
On 23rd September 2013, the Oxford team presented the CPP project to the Department of Political Science, University of São Paulo (USP).