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The Forum on Health, Environment and Development holds its 9th Annual Meeting in Beijing
The Forum on Health, Environment and Development, of which SIAS research fellow Jennifer Holdaway is Co-Director, held its 9th Annual Meeting in Beijing on November 10-11.
SIAS/FCO East Asia Dialogue
On Wednesday, 15th November, the School and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office co-hosted an East Asia Dialogue in St Antony’s College with a delegation of influential thinkers from India who work on China and East Asia.
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REES Academics Visit Moscow for Research and to Observe Events Related to the 100th Anniversary of the Great Bolshevik Revolution of 1917
On Sunday 5th October Professors Chris Davis and Chris Gerry of REES travelled to Moscow together for academic work related to their joint and individual projects on economics of health and health reform in Russia.
An Exhibition of Photographs – Lives on the Move
A new exhibition of photographs, curated by Dr Indrajit Roy, opens in the Private Dining Room at Wolfson College on Saturday 11 November.
Prof Chris Davis on Lessons from the Economies of Russia, East Europe and China for Reform of North Korea and Korean Unification
North Korea has been attracting attention in the international press for its ballistic missiles shot through Japanese airspace, tests of nuclear weapons, and exchanges of polemics with a leader of a major democracy.
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Doctoral student Linda Qian (Area Studies - China) publishes article in the International Journal of Communication
Doctoral student Linda Qian (Area Studies - China) has published an article in the International Journal of Communication, based on the dissertation she wrote for her MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies.
Forum on Health, Environment and Development (FORHEAD) 9th Annual Conference in Beijing
The Forum on Health, Environment and Development will hold its 9th Annual Conference in Beijing November 9-10, 2017. Please see attached notice and spread the word!
For more information, contact Dr Jennifer Holdaway.
Professor Christopher J. Gerry publishes in Social Science Indicators
A new paper has been published by Christopher Gerry and his team of Russian researchers examining the emerging patterns of life expectancy across 30 OECD countries, including 11 East European countries.
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Launch of new website for the University of Oxford Japan Office
We are pleased to announce a new website for the University of Oxford Japan Office. This is the first time the office in Japan has had a website www.oxfordujapan.org
A Trip to the Ashmolean
The Ashmolean Museum’s University Engagement Programme (UEP) was established in 2012 with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to further the partnership between the Ashmolean and the University’s faculties, and to enhance the impact of cross-disciplinary teaching and learning at Oxford.
Horizontes Newsletter No 1, Summer 2013
Dear friends, Queridos amigos, We are pleased to announce the launch of the first edition of Horizontes, the University of Oxford Latin American Centre newsletter
LAC Debates Remittances to Latin America
On 22nd October 2013, the LAC held a roundtable discussion on the economic and political effects of remittances to Latin America.
Marie Arana at the Latin American Centre
Students and members of staff listen to the Washington-based writer Marie Arana, who gave a talk on Simon Bolívar and the wars of independence in Spanish America at the LAC on 18 October. The author of various books, including the novel Cellophane, and a memoir about her bicultural chi
Teaching award makes way for Hindi drama
The Teaching Excellence Awards scheme – run by the Teaching Audit Committee of the Social Sciences Divisional Board – has granted a project-funding award to Dr Kate Sullivan of the Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme.
Dalit and Adivasi 'Incorporation' in the Indian Economy
Professor Barbara Harriss-White will be speaking at a book launch and panel discussion in New Delhi at the Jawaharlal Nehru University on Thursday October 17th.
The Chilean coup of 1973, forty years on
On 15th October 2013, the LAC held a roundtable discussion on the legacy of the Chilean military coup of 11th September 1973, which deposed the elected Socialist president Dr Salvador Allende and led to 17 years of military dictatorship by General Augusto Pinochet.
MSc student, Yao Li, interviewed for BBC's China Week
Yao Li, a student on the MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies, was interviewed on BBC Oxford as part of its China Week.
Dr Rachel Murphy awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
Dr Rachel Murphy has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship to write a monograph on 'The Children of China's Great Migration and Urbanisation'.