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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
Paul Irwin Crookes speaks on EU-China economic relations at a policy roundtable in Zurich organised by Chatham House and Credit Suisse Research Institute
Paul Irwin Crookes presented the latest research thinking on EU-China trade relations at a research seminar jointly organised by The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and Credit Suisse Research Institute and hel
Part-time Departmental Lecturership in Contemporary Chinese Studies
The School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford
Grade 7: £31,076 - £38,183 p.a. (pro rata)
The School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies seek applications for part-time (50% FTE), fixed-term Departmental Lectureship in Contemporary Chinese Studies.
The role will involve teaching and teaching-related administration in the Contemporary China Studies programme. This includes giving lectures and classes as part the core course Study of Contemporary China; classes in research methods and an option course as well as supervise some masters’ dissertations.
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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.
Prof Robert Service's new book on BBC's Today Programme and reviewed in the Guardian
Robert Service discusses his new book and its relevance to the present day on the BBC's Today Programme, Wednesday 13th October:
The clip starts at 2 hours 45.48 minutes of the thread.
India Social Development Report 2014
The Council for Social Development will be releasing their publication India Social Development Report 2014: Challenges of Public Health on Thursday October 15th, 2015, at the India International Centre, New Delhi.
Dr Kate Sullivan at Boston University
Kate Sullivan featured in a workshop and panel discussion on the theme of Modi's foreign policy at Boston University's Pardee School of Global Studies on 7 October.
Second Year MPhil in REES Student writes an article for the Moscow Times.
Second year MPhil in REES student, Sam Ramani, provides a counter-argument to Russia's current policy of conducting airstrikes to bolster Assad against ISIS in Syria, by arguing that ISIS can only be durably undermined through trilateral diplomacy involving Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia.