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Paul Irwin Crookes speaks at BIICL conference on the political factors driving China’s international trade engagement with the UK and EU after the Brexit decision
Paul Irwin Crookes contributed to a conference entitled ‘Brexit, China and Other New Challenges to International Trade Law’, hosted by SOAS and co-organised by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London and t
A Level students visit the African Studies Centre
On 9th May, A level History students from Wexham School in Slough visited the African Studies Centre. The students are studying South African history and met Professor William Beinart, w
A chapter by Jennifer Holdaway in the 'Routledge Handbook of Environmental Policy in China'
Holdaway's chapter is titled 'Balancing Environment, Health and Development: Evolving Policy Interactions'.
REES Alumni Event
On the 25th of April, the first REES Alumni Event took place. Both MSc and MPhil students gathered in the Dahrendorf Room at St Antony’s College to hear from REES alumni about the career paths they undertook after leaving REES.
Kate Sullivan de Estrada to appear on Radio 4's 'Start the Week'
Dr Kate Sullivan de Estrada will be appearing on Radio 4's 'Start the Week' programme next Monday (22 May).
Judith Pallot discussing her book on BBC Radio 4
On Wednesday 17th May at 4pm Judith Pallot will be discussing her and Elena Katz's book 'Waiting at the Prison Gate: Women, Identity and the Russian Prison System’ with Laurie Taylor, on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Thinking Allowed'.
(POST)SOCIALISMS IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT: a new WIP group, starting MT 2017
Starting in Michaelmas Term 2017, (Post)Socialisms in the Global Context is a new work-in-progress group for faculty and students working on themes related to socialism and postsocialism, broadly defined.
Prof Dan Healey on the persecution of gay men in Chechnya
Prof Dan Healey has published on Huffington Post about the persecution of gay men in Chechnya.
Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF-2017 - SIAS Internal Selection process
The EC has now opened the 2017 Call for Proposals for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships.
New Publication by Christopher Davis: The Ukraine Crisis and Russia’s Changing Economic and Military Relationships with Europe and Asia
A new publication in April 2017 by Christopher Mark Davis, Reader in Command and Transition Economies at REES, analyses Russia’s Changing Economic and Military Relations with Europe and Asia from Cold War to the Ukraine Conflict: The Impacts of Power
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Professor Payne will present her research findings on transitional justice at World Bank HQ
Professor Payne from the Transitional Justice Research Collaborative will discuss the impact of transitional justice mechanisms in strengthening democracy, human rights, and peace at the World Bank headquarters on Thursday 5 March.
Comment on Ukraine: Gwendolyn Sasse
Article in The Conversation available here
New publication: Dr Gwendolyn Sasse and Amar K. Ahmadov
'Migrants' regional allegiances in homeland elections: evidence on voting by Poles and Ukrainians'
Routledge, December 2014
Full text available here
How to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan
MSc in Modern Japanese Studies student Miss Natalia Doan has recently published a book called How to Work, Travel, and Study in Japan.
Minoritarian Rule: An Article by Geoffrey Macdonald and Babak Moussavi
Read the article Minoritarian Rule: How India's Electoral System Created the Illusion of a BJP Landslide in Economic and Political Weekly.This article was co-authored by Babak Moussavi who graduated from the MSc in Contemporary Ind
Watch The Rising Inequality in the Global South Event!
Rising Inequality in the Global South: Practice and Solutions Symposium. Watch here!
New grant awarded to researchers at the Latin American Centre
Diego Sánchez-Ancochea and Francesca Lessa were successfully awarded a grant from the University of Oxford’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account in February 2015 for their pr
Scholarship for Oxford Students to visit Lahore, Pakistan
February 2015 sees the end of a very successful one month visiting scholarship for four PhD students from Pakistan hosted by Wolfson College and the Contemporary South Asia Programme in SIAS.
2013-2014 MSc student Ryan Brown publishes her essay in Slate Magazine based on Ponte, South Africa's Tower of Dreams
2013-14 MSc student Ryan Brown has just published a long essay in Slate Magazine based on her Masters dissertation on Ponte, a huge residential building in downtown Johannesburg's.
Dr Neil Carrier & Emma Lochery's article on Diaspora has been chosen by Taylor and Francis
'Missing States: Somali trade networks and the Eastleigh transformation' co-written with African Studies MSc alumna and DPhil candidate Emma Lochery has been chosen by Taylor and Francis as a key article on Diaspora as part of their support for the United Nations International Decade for People o