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SIAS Winter Newsletter
SIAS is delighted to announce that the Winter 2017-18 Newsletter is now available to download.
Nicolette Makovicky has published the entries "Economies of Favours" and "Vernaculars of Informality" in the new open-access volume The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality.
Nicolette Makovicky has published the entries "Economies of Favours" and "Vernaculars of Informality" in the new open-access volume The Global Encyclopaedia of Informality (Vol 1 and 2, UCL PRESS) together with David Henig (School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent).
A wonderful collection of food and toiletries from SIAS staff and students for the Oxford Food Bank.
The SIAS Green Impact Team distributed Christmas boxes for SIAS staff and students to contribute to the Oxford Community Emergency Foodbank collection.
Read the first review of Rising India: Status and Power by Rajesh Basrur and Kate Sullivan de Estrada
Commonwealth & Comparative Politics has published the first review of Rising India: Status and Power, published in 2017 and co-authored by the School’s Kate Sullivan de Estrada and Rajesh Basrur.
FORHEAD holds conferences on current research on China's air pollution
FORHEAD (the Forum on Health, Environment and Development) and the UCI Long US-China Institute have joined in a collective effort to introduce a more nuanced account of current research on the contemporary state of air pollution in China and highlight gaps an
Departmental Lecturer in Latin American Studies
SCHOOL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY AREA STUDIES
Grade 8: £39,992 - £47,722 p.a.
The School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies is seeking to appoint a full-time Departmental Lecturer in Latin American Studies. Based at The Latin American Centre, Church Walk, Oxford, this is a fixed-term appointment for 4 years.
Jérôme Doyon gives presentation at University of London workshop
Dr. Jérôme Doyon gave a presentation at a workshop hosted by the University of London, 5th January 2018. The workshop was titled ‘State and Society under Xi Jinping: The First Five Years'.
Miriam Driessen publishes article on "Rural Voids" in Public Culture
Miriam Driessen has published an article on "Rural Voids" in Public Culture.
Oxford University prospective students - Get Involved
As an African, what does it mean to be an Oxford student?
What defines the Oxford University Africa Society's experience of being at Oxford? What advice would they give to aspiring applicants?
Applications are now open. Apply by the January deadline!
Professor Roy Allison visited Uzbekistan during 8-12 November.
He had discussions in Tashkent in the Uzbek Foreign Ministry’s Centre for International Relations Studies and the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
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Rio Branco Professor Marcelo Medeiros Speaks on Brazil and the Regional Integration of South America
On 27th February 2015, the Brazilian Studies Programme organized a roundtable on “Brazil and the Regional Integration of South America”.
Evans-Pritchard Lectureship 2015-2016
EVANS-PRITCHARD LECTURESHIP 2015-2016
Further Particulars: http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/appointments/evans-pritchard
New ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Grant awarded to Professor Payne and Gabriel Pereira
The collaborative project between the University of Oxford and two human rights organizations, Andhes and Cels aims, first, to advance corporate accountability for human rights violations committed during authoritarian regimes, thereby raising the cost of such violations to reduce them in the fut
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