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Professor Barbara Harriss-White at SOAS
Barbara Harriss-White’s Globalisation lecture, given at SOAS, argues first that climate change – with the complications we observe in Paris – is actually reductionist. Gaseous pollution is but one of many natural cycles and processes that are now dangerously disturbed by human activity.
CAF European Academic Network: Book Launch on “Desafección Política"
On 27th November, Timothy Power was a discussant at the book launch for Ludolfo Paramio (editor), Desafección política y gobernabilidad: el reto político (Madrid: Marcial Pons, 2015).
Associate Professorship in the Political Economy of China
SCHOOL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY AREA STUDIES in association with Lady Margaret Hall
Grade 10a (36S): from £44,620 per annum
We are seeking to appoint to a permanent Associate Professorship in the Political Economy of China, to be held in the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS), in association with a Non-Tutorial Fellowship at Lady Margaret Hall under arrangements described in the further particulars. The position is tenable from early in the 2016/17 academic year.
Alumni Publications - Shriya Misra
Read MSc CI alumna Shriya Misra's article on Chinese investment in India in the Indian foreign policy journal Global Dialogue Review. Shriya graduated from the MSc in Contempo
Carnegie Europe Blog: Five Regional Assessments of the Refugee Crisis
The EU summit will will focus specifically on the question of migration from Africa. In October 2015 alone, a record 218,000 refugees and migrants crossed the Mediterranean.
SIAS Student Party 2015 - Victorious LAC
The first cross-unit SIAS student party took place in May 2014, in a very small seminar room, thanks to the unpredictable (or should that be predictable?) English weather.
CSASP Students at the Ashmolean
The Ashmolean's University Engagement Programme is entering its fourth year and 2015 sees the third year of subscription by CSASP and the MSc in Contemporary India.
Jenny Chan speaks at British Academy-funded symposium on forced labor and is cited by DanWatch
The shadow economy is believed to be growing globally.
Rajiv Gandhi University playing host to the Annual NEEA Conference
The 17th Annual Conference of North Eastern Economic Association (NEEA) is being held at Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills on October 30 and 31.
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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.
Dr George Kunnath shortlisted for the OUSU Teaching Awards
The Oxford University Student Union Teaching Awards shortlist for 2015 has been published this week and we are excited to see that Dr George Kunnath has been shortlisted in the Outstanding Supervisor category.
University of Oxford is best in the world for Geography and Area Studies
QS has released its annual subject ranking with Oxford University being ranked as number one for Area Studies and Geography. The rankings are based on academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact.
Dr Makovicky receives Fell Fund Award
Congratulations to Dr Makovicky on receiving a John Fell Fund Award for her project ‘Ecologies of Citizenship: Reviving Pastoralism in the Polish Carpathians’.
Current MSc student Sheriden Gunderson publishes in the Daily Nation: Chewing over change
Chewing over change: Miraa farmers move on to passion fruit and dairy cows