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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.
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.
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Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations in an Era of Technological Change: Security, Economic and Cultural Dimensions
A new book edited by Paul Irwin Crookes and Jan Knoerich has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan’s St Antony’s Series.
NEW BOOK BY MIGUEL CARTER ON BRAZIL’S MST
Miguel Carter, a former Research Fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies and St Antony’s alum, has recently published Challenging Social Inequality: The Landless Rural Workers Movement and Agrarian Reform in Brazil with Duke University Press.
GlobalPost journalist Robert Foyle Hunwick interviewed Dr. Jenny Chan on 19 May 2015 for an article entitled “Desperate Chinese are turning to mass suicide to get their government’s attention."
…“When the pre-existing grievance mechanisms fail to work, some aggrieved laborers may take direct actions to protest against injustice,” said Dr. Jenny Chan, an expert on Chinese labor studies at the University of Oxford.
NEW BOOK FROM TRACY FENWICK
Tracy Beck Fenwick (Australian National University), a former St Antony’s student and LAC affiliate, has just published Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina with the University of Notre Dame Press.
Great Results at Wolfson College's WIN Pitch Event
Bhumi Purohit, a M.Sc. student in the Contemporary India Studies program (2014-15), recently co-presented a business plan for H2Ox at Wolfson College's WIN Pitch event.
India under Narendra Modi: Reconsidering Indian foreign policy
On Monday, 4 May, Dr Kate Sullivan’s workshop, India under Narendra Modi: Reconsidering Indian foreign policy (co-convened with Professor Manjari Chatterjee Miller of Boston University), united leading scholars in St Antony’s College to debate and discuss the antecedents, possible direct
OUSU Teaching Awards
Congratulations to Professor Sho Konishi and Dr George Kunnath for their nominations in the Outstanding Supervisor category.