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Professor Gwendolyn Sasse co-edits a special issue of the journal 'Post-Soviet-Affairs'
The whole journal issue is open access until the end of May. The link to Professor Sasse's own co-authored article in that issue can be accessed here.
Chief Aare Babalola discussing sustainable education in Post-colonial African States at the African Studies Centre
Chief Aare Babalola and his guests visited the African Studies Centre, on Tuesday, 1st May 2018.
Professor Roy Allison speaks at NATO Parliamentary Assembly in cooperation with the Parliament of Georgia
Roy Allison gave the keynote presentation in Batumi, Georgia, at a regional conference of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in cooperation with the Parliament of Georgia, 23-25 April 2018.
Paul Irwin Crookes speaks on UK-China economic relations at a conference organised by the UK Department for International Trade in London
Paul Irwin Crookes presented his research on current opportunities and ongoing challenges in the UK’s economic relationship with China at a recent conference organised by the UK’s Department for International Trade (DIT), held in London.
Hamsa Rajan recently published an article in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Dr Hamsa Ragan recently had her artictle The Ethics of Transnational Feminist Research and Activism: An Argument for a More Comprehensive View published in the Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
Anna Lora-Wainwright's 'Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China' book wins BBC Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography
Congratulations to Anna Lora-Wainwright who has won this year's prestigious BBC Thinking Allowed/British Sociological Association Ethnography award for her book Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China in recog
Paul Irwin Crookes speaks at a workshop hosted by the Shanghai Institute of International Studies about Europe's maritime strategic engagement with China in East Asia
Paul Irwin Crookes was a panel speaker at a recent workshop in Shanghai analysing the EU's maritime strategic engagement with China in the East Asia region. The workshop hosted in China by the Shanghai Institute of International Studies (SIIS), was co-organised by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (F
Prof Paul Chaisty publishes a new article.
Paul Chaisty publishes a new article (with Timothy J. Power) in the European Journal of Political Research
Postdoctoral Research Officer in Middle East Studies
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, 11 Bevington Road, Oxford
Grade 7: £31,604 - £38,833 p.a.
The Middle East Studies Programme in the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies seeks applications from candidates in a social science discipline or modern history, with special reference to the Middle East, for a fixed term Postdoctoral Research Officer position, funded by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation for 24 months. The School is looking for the best possible candidate working within the study of the Middle East with particular reference to Turkey, Iran or Egypt.
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Research Project Awards
The School is pleased to announce the following Research Projects.
Dr Miles Larmer from African Studies and History has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the ERC - Comparing the Copperbelt: Political Culture and Knowledge Production in Central Africa
Wolfson College Junior Research Fellowship
Wolfson College, Oxford University are advertising a three-year stipendiary (paid) Junior Research Fellowship (three years of paid research time) in the social sciences of contemporary South Asia.
The closing date for applications is 14th March 2016.
STAIR Call for Papers
St Antony's International Review are seeking submissions of papers from diverse disciplines in Anthropology, Area Studies, Development Studies, Economics, Geography, International Relations, Migration and Refugee Studies, Political Science, Religious Studies and others on the topic "Home, Displac
The International Seminar on Agriculture and Rural India after Economic Reforms
Professor Barbara Harriss-White is speaking today (January 29th 2016) at the International Seminar on Agriculture and Rural India after Economic Reforms in Chennai.
Her lecture is entitled Provisioning Chennai: Labour in the Supply Chain.
Barbara Harriss-White at Madras University
Professor Barbara Harriss-White has given the keynote speech at the centenary celebrations of the Department of Economics at Madras University.
Scholarship opportunity for Pakistan visit
This week, CSASP and Wolfson College have welcomed two PhD students form the Lahore School of Economics as part of a one month scholarship visit.
40 Years since Operation Condor: "Justice without Borders" Conference in Santiago de Chile, December 17-18, 2015
The Latin American Centre of the University of Oxford and the Ministry of Justice of Chile, together with the Senate (Centro de Extension) and the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, held a two-day event in Santiago (Chile) on December 17-18, 2015 within the framework of the project “Justice w
Japanese Studies at Oxford Newsletter
The seventh issue of the Japanese Studies at Oxford newsletter was published just before Christmas 2015 and is now available for download.
New report on social policy in Central America for ECLAC
Juliana Martínez Franzoni, Diego Sánchez Ancochea and Salvador Martí have just concluded a report on universalism and social policy in Latin America that can be found on the CEPAL webpage. Here is the abstract:
Jenny Chan interviewed in French media article: 'Les poèmes de la misère'
Jenny Chan was interviewed on Le Devoir on Chinese migrants' workers lives. The article was written by Jean-Frédéric Légaré-Tremblay and published on the 30th of December, 2015.