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Interview with Professor Nayanika Mathur about her prize-winning book, Paper Tiger
Please click here to read the interiew conducted by the University of Cambridge's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).
Dan Healey speaks at Dotyk International Queer History Festival, Minsk, Belarus
In the face of administrative harassment, the Dotyk festival of queer history took place in Minsk, Belarus, from 6 to 8 April 2018.
Anna Lora-Wainwright discusses new book at the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Environmental Humanities Workshop
Anna Lora-Wainwright took part in the Environmental Humanities workshop at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, discussing her new book Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Ru
Dr Pleshakova publishes new article
Dr Anna Pleshakova has published the article "Toward an infrastructure for data-driven multimodal communication research" in Linguistics Vanguard (De Gruyter); co-authored
The Governor of Kaduna State was at the African Studies Centre to declare that 'Nigeria requires a new elite consensus'
The Governor of Kaduna State visited the African Studies Centre, on Friday, 9th March 2018.
Applications sought for Japanese Fellow within Sasakawa Peace Foundation Project at Middle East Studies, SIAS
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) and Waseda University are currently recruiting for a Japanese fellow to take part in the third stage of an SPF-funded Oxford University research project (September 2018-September 2020).
The objectives of the project are:
Miriam Driessen interviewed by the BBC Chinese
Miriam Driessen was interviewed by the BBC Chinese about her research on Chinese labour migration to Ethiopia.
Prize winners of the 28th Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese
We are pleased to announce that two former students of the MSc/MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies were prize winners at the 28th Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese this year.
Dr Mateja Kovacic
The Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies would like to welcome Dr Mateja Kovacic to the Institute. She is our first British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow.
Call for Applications: CSASP, Oxford/Lahore School of Economics Exchange 2018
The Contemporary South Asia Programme in The School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies (SIAS) are looking for four students from Oxford University who would like to visit Lahore for one week in late March 2018.
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Jenny Chan and Mark Selden publish a chapter in Handbook on Class and Social Stratification in China (2016)
Jenny Chan and Mark Selden in Handbook on Class and Social Stratification in China (2016)
Prof Dan Healey discusses Russian studies in the UK with journalists from Russia
On 25 January Professor Dan Healey, Dr Julie Newton, and REES students discussed the state of Russian studies in the UK with a group of visiting Russian journalists.
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.