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Recognition of Distinction for two members of SIAS
SIAS is delighted to announce that Timothy Power and Philip Robins have successfully completed the Recognition of Distinction exercise and are now full professors.
Dr Paul Chaisty awarded British Academy/Leverhulme grant to study 2018 Russian presidential elections
Paul Chaisty has been awarded funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme to support research on How Russians Make Sense of Politics: A 2018 Russian Presidential Election Study.
Barbara Harriss-White's latest article published in the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
Barbara Harriss-White’s fieldwork on the social relations of a small-town waste economy in South India is finally seeing the light of day: “Formality and informality in an Indian urban waste economy", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 37 Issue: 7/8, pp.417-434,2017
Paul Irwin Crookes publishes an online article in Europe’s World analysing a growing crisis of trust in EU-China economic relations despite prospects for accord over climate change policy
Paul Irwin Crookes has just written an online article with the policy journal Europe’s World, published by the Friends of Europe think tank based in Brussels.
Call for papers: Re-thinking Nationalism, Sectarianism, and Ethno-Religious Mobilisation in the Middle East (with a Focus Session on Religion and Sectarianism)
Conference: 26-28 January 2018, University of Oxford
Deadline for the submission of proposals: 15 September 2017
Part-time Research and Administrative Assistant
Grade 6: £27,629 - £32,958 p.a. (pro rata)
Viola Rothschild awarded Ko Prize for best MSc dissertation
Viola Rothschild (MSc Contemporary Chinese Studies, 2016-17) has been awarded the Ko Prize for best MSc dissertation for "Chuang Shijie 闯世界” (Taking the World by Storm): African Student-Entrepreneurs in Greater Zhejiang Province" (abstract below).
Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: Japanese Studies and the Environmental Humanities
A day and a half workshop and roundtable for UK Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers in the Humanities, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 27th and 28th October 2017
Forum on Health, Environment and Development (FORHEAD) holds Summer Writing Workshop at Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Forum on Health, Environment and Development held a Summer Writing Workshop from July 16-20 at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Campus in Huairou, in the mountains north of Beijing.
Issue 9 of the Japanese Studies at Oxford Newsletter is now available
Our newsletter, published annually since 2009 provides an overview of activities relating to the study of Japan that have taken place or are taking place across the entire university.
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Congratulations to Dissertation Prize Winners
Each year, CSASP awards the Barbara Harriss-White Dissertation Award to the writer of the most outstanding dissertation from the MSc in Contemporary India.
This year, the Examinations Board had an extremely hard job to select just one piece and therefore two awards have been made.
Rebels from the Mud Houses - A Review
Dr George Kunnath's publication Rebels from the Mud Houses: Dalits and the Making fo the Maoist Revolution in Bihar has received an excellent review in the July 2013 edition of the Journal of Agrarian Change.
William Beinart publishes "Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination"
William Beinart, together with Karen Middleton and Simon Pooley is publishing a new edited collection entitled: Wild Things: Nature and the Social Imagination
St Cross Scholarship for an MPhil in 2014-15
St Cross College will be inviting Scholarship applications for MPhil in Social Sciences for entry in 2014-2015.
Dr Nicolette Makovicky's research features on the BBC website
Dr Nicolette Makovicky's work based on the CEELBAS Languages of Infomality project has recently featured on the BBC website.
MSc and MPhil application deadlines for entry in October 2014
The University has three main application deadlines for 2014-2015: 22 November 2013; 24 January 2014 and 14 March 2014.
Tope Folarin wins Caine Prize for African Writing
African Studies Graduate Tope Folarin (MSc 2005-6) has won the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing.
India Day @ Oxford
Footage from the Network 18 and Contemporary South Asia Studies event India Day @ Oxford.
Sam Geall article in the New Statesman
Sam Geall writes a post called 'Would you swim in China's rivers?' on the rise in awareness of pollution and ecological problems among Chinese citizens.
Media Coverage of "India Day at Oxford"
Information on media coverage of the "India Day at Oxford" which took place at the Randolph Hotel, Oxford on Friday June 14th.