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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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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