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Call for papers: Re-configuring power: looking back at the decades around independence
South Asia Day, Trinity Term, 2017
South Asia Research Cluster (SARC), Wolfson College, University of Oxford with the Contemporary South Asia Seminar.
Yaacov Yadgar joins SIAS and the Department of Politics and International Relations as the Stanley Lewis Chair of Israel Studies
The School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies and the Department of Politics and International Relations are delighted to welcome Yaacov Yadgar as the Stanley Lewis Chair of Israel Studies. Professor Yadgar, who is currently teaching politics at Bar-Ilan University, will be joining the university
Miriam Driessen chairs panel at American Ethnological Society meeting
On 1 April 2017, Miriam Driessen chaired a panel on "Exposure and Encroachment: Migration in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Beyond" at the American Ethnological Society meeting at Stanford University.
New publication in Political Studies by Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield
There is a new publication in Political Studies by Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield on public attitudes towards decentralisation in Ukraine.
Statement in support of Central European University
The Russian and East European Studies unit in the University of Oxford’s School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies views the Hungarian government’s proposed legislation, apparently designed solely to curtail the operation of the Central European University, with regret and dismay.
Kyle Jaros lectures on book project at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
On 21 March 2017, Professor Kyle Jaros gave a lecture based on his book project entitled "China's Urban Champions and the Politics of Spatial Development" at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies' Noon Lecture Series at the Uni
Anna Lora-Wainwright's second monograph forthcoming from MIT Press
Professor Lora-Wainwright's second monograph “Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China”, drawing on multisited fieldwork and interdisciplinary collaborations over the past decade, will be published by
Jennifer Holdaway publishes article in Xuehai
Senior Research Fellow Dr. Jennifer Holdaway has published an article in Xuehai (in Chinese): 贺珍怡。将环境与健康纳入到中国发展策略：新常态与新挑战。学海 2017/1：64-72。[Jennifer Holdaway.
Kyle Jaros - presenter at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference
On 17 March 2017, Professor Kyle Jaros presented a paper entitled "China's Provincial-Administration-of-Counties Reforms: Redistributing Economic Opportunity or 'Rescaling' Urban Bias?" at the Association for Asian Studies annual confere
Jennifer Holdaway speaks about environment and health in China on podcast for the Council on Foreign Relations
Dr Holdaway, senior research fellow at Oxford and assistant professor of health policy at the Yale School of Public Health, is the co-director of the Forum on Health, Environment, and Development, which promotes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the impacts of environmental factors o
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Publications on Transitional Justice and Memory now in paperback
Two publications by LAC’s postdoctoral researcher Dr Francesca Lessa are now available in paperback. The first, ¿Justicia o impunidad?
The EU, Russia and Ukraine: Lessons Learned
LSE experts debated what the EU got right and what it got wrong in the political crisis that followed Ukraine’s refusal to sign the Association Agreement in November 2013.
Russian Economy and Economic Sanctions – The Hague
On 22 November Prof.
The LAC does quite well in the winter issue of LAPS
We are very pleased to inform you that the winter issue of LAPS is now available (volume 56, no. 4) at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/laps.2014.56.issue-4/issuetoc
LAC DPhil network students present their research
On 20 November 2014 several of the LAC-DPhil network students made very professional and interesting presentations, the discussants had good questions and comments that pushed the speakers to think in new ways, and the audience pushed them further. It was an excellent first session of the year t
Successful Conference on Accountability for Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations in Dictatorships and Civil Conflicts
Practitioners and academics from different regions of the world discussed corporate complicity, the most innovative approach in transitional justice practices.
Professor Sasse - Troubles on the EU's Borders: The Ukraine Crisis
Troubles on the EU's Borders: The Ukraine Crisis
EU-Russia Relations: Now in Permanent Crisis?
Professor Gwen Sasse will be part of a debate in Brussels November 27th
Click here for info.
Oxford-Ko Graduate Scholarships
The Oxford Graduate Scholarships have been established through a groundbreaking new matched funding initiative to enable the creation of fully-funded scholarships for graduate students of the highest calibre from across the world.
We are pleased to announce the publication of Ghosts from a Biscuit Tin Exhibition Catalogue.
The Exhibition Opening Reception, 11 Novemver 6-8pm in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College.