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Macmillan Coffee Morning
The SIAS Macmillan Coffee Morning took place on Friday 29th September in aid of cancer support.
The event was well attended my SIAS staff and students and has raised £159.81 for the charity.
Ashmolean Exhibition: Old Traditions, New Visions: Art in India and Pakistan after 1947
FREE DISPLAY
Until 18 March 2018
Gallery 29
Free Admission
Rachel Murphy gives Keynote Talk in Guangdong and is Visiting Scholar at Hong Kong University
At the end of August Professor Rachel Murphy delivered an invited key note talk at the Thirteen International Conference of Chinese Agriculture and Rural Development (ICARDC XIII) on the role of parental migration in driving China’s a
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).
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The Harry Shukman Scholarship 2015-16
The Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre is pleased to offer a scholarship to students of the Master's programme in Russian and East European Studies who are based at St Antony's. A preference will be given to students studying the Caucasus and/or an Islamic theme.
Crossing boundaries: taking a cognitive scientific perspective on Slavic languages and linguistics
We are pleased to announce that the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) will hold its 14th annual conference in the UK from Wednesday December 9 to Sunday December 13 2015. The event will take place on the campuses of the Universities of Oxford and Sheffield.
Paul Irwin Crookes delivers an invitation lecture on EU-China economic relations at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London
Paul Irwin Crookes delivered a lecture at the Lau China Institute of King’s College London on the politics of EU-China economic relations.
Rachel Murphy in Citymetric (New Statesman)
Rachel Murphy was quoted in an article in Citymetric (New Statesman) about China’s urbanisation on 20th February 2015:
Rachel Murphy in Chinese Social Science News 中国社会科学报
Rachel Murphy was quoted in an article on the ‘new normal’ and social development in China in Chinese Social Science News 中国社会科学报, 12th March 2015
Security and Defensive Democracy in Israel. A Critical Approach to Political Discourse by Dr Sharon Weinblum
Dr Sharon Weinblum, Israel Institute and Wiener-Anspach Postdoctoral fellow has just published a new book "Security and Defensive Democracy in Israel. A Critical Approach to Political Discourse (Routledge 2015)"
Introducing the Charles Wallace Trust Visiting Fellowship for Pakistan
The Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust are offering sponsorship for one scholar or practitioner from Pakistan to visit the Department of Politics and International Relations for one O
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