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Podcast- African Studies Annual Lecture- Is Africa Rising? A personal reflection with Winnie Byanyima
Listen to the African Studies Annual Lecture podcast- Is Africa Rising? A personal reflection with Winnie Byanyima
African Studies Annual Lecture Is Africa Rising? A personal reflection with Winnie Byanyima
Watch the African Studies Annual Lecture Is Africa Rising? A personal reflection with Winnie Byanyima here
New article published on Parents' Migration and Children's Subjective Well-being and Health: Evidence from Rural China by Rachel Murphy, Minhui Zhou and Ran Tao
Rachel Murphy and her colleagues from Renmin University, Minhui Zhou and Ran Tao have just published an article on the implications of parents' rural-urban labour migration for the subjective wellbeing and health of the children 'left behind'.
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.
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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.
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The EU, Russia and Ukraine: Lessons Learned
LSE experts debated what the EU got right and what it got wrong in the political crisis that followed Ukraine’s refusal to sign the Association Agreement in November 2013.
Russian Economy and Economic Sanctions – The Hague
On 22 November Prof.
The LAC does quite well in the winter issue of LAPS
We are very pleased to inform you that the winter issue of LAPS is now available (volume 56, no. 4) at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/laps.2014.56.issue-4/issuetoc
LAC DPhil network students present their research
On 20 November 2014 several of the LAC-DPhil network students made very professional and interesting presentations, the discussants had good questions and comments that pushed the speakers to think in new ways, and the audience pushed them further. It was an excellent first session of the year t
Successful Conference on Accountability for Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations in Dictatorships and Civil Conflicts
Practitioners and academics from different regions of the world discussed corporate complicity, the most innovative approach in transitional justice practices.
Professor Sasse - Troubles on the EU's Borders: The Ukraine Crisis
Troubles on the EU's Borders: The Ukraine Crisis
EU-Russia Relations: Now in Permanent Crisis?
Professor Gwen Sasse will be part of a debate in Brussels November 27th
Click here for info.
Oxford-Ko Graduate Scholarships
The Oxford Graduate Scholarships have been established through a groundbreaking new matched funding initiative to enable the creation of fully-funded scholarships for graduate students of the highest calibre from across the world.
We are pleased to announce the publication of Ghosts from a Biscuit Tin Exhibition Catalogue.
The Exhibition Opening Reception, 11 Novemver 6-8pm in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College.
Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa
We are pleased to announce the publication of Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa co-edited by Elizabeth Cooper and David Pratten.