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REES Alumni Event
On the 25th of April, the first REES Alumni Event took place. Both MSc and MPhil students gathered in the Dahrendorf Room at St Antony’s College to hear from REES alumni about the career paths they undertook after leaving REES.
Kate Sullivan de Estrada to appear on Radio 4's 'Start the Week'
Dr Kate Sullivan de Estrada will be appearing on Radio 4's 'Start the Week' programme next Monday (22 May).
Judith Pallot discussing her book on BBC Radio 4
On Wednesday 17th May at 4pm Judith Pallot will be discussing her and Elena Katz's book 'Waiting at the Prison Gate: Women, Identity and the Russian Prison System’ with Laurie Taylor, on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Thinking Allowed'.
(POST)SOCIALISMS IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT: a new WIP group, starting MT 2017
Starting in Michaelmas Term 2017, (Post)Socialisms in the Global Context is a new work-in-progress group for faculty and students working on themes related to socialism and postsocialism, broadly defined.
Prof Dan Healey on the persecution of gay men in Chechnya
Prof Dan Healey has published on Huffington Post about the persecution of gay men in Chechnya.
Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF-2017 - SIAS Internal Selection process
The EC has now opened the 2017 Call for Proposals for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowships.
New Publication by Christopher Davis: The Ukraine Crisis and Russia’s Changing Economic and Military Relationships with Europe and Asia
A new publication in April 2017 by Christopher Mark Davis, Reader in Command and Transition Economies at REES, analyses Russia’s Changing Economic and Military Relations with Europe and Asia from Cold War to the Ukraine Conflict: The Impacts of Power
Paul Irwin Crookes speaks on EU-China economic relations at a policy roundtable in Zurich organised by Chatham House and Credit Suisse Research Institute
Paul Irwin Crookes presented the latest research thinking on EU-China trade relations at a research seminar jointly organised by The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and Credit Suisse Research Institute and hel
Part-time Departmental Lecturership in Contemporary Chinese Studies
The School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford
Grade 7: £31,076 - £38,183 p.a. (pro rata)
The School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies seek applications for part-time (50% FTE), fixed-term Departmental Lectureship in Contemporary Chinese Studies.
The role will involve teaching and teaching-related administration in the Contemporary China Studies programme. This includes giving lectures and classes as part the core course Study of Contemporary China; classes in research methods and an option course as well as supervise some masters’ dissertations.
Call for papers: Re-configuring power: looking back at the decades around independence
South Asia Day, Trinity Term, 2017
South Asia Research Cluster (SARC), Wolfson College, University of Oxford with the Contemporary South Asia Seminar.
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LAC DPhil network students present their research
On 20 November 2014 several of the LAC-DPhil network students made very professional and interesting presentations, the discussants had good questions and comments that pushed the speakers to think in new ways, and the audience pushed them further. It was an excellent first session of the year t
Successful Conference on Accountability for Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations in Dictatorships and Civil Conflicts
Practitioners and academics from different regions of the world discussed corporate complicity, the most innovative approach in transitional justice practices.
Professor Sasse - Troubles on the EU's Borders: The Ukraine Crisis
Troubles on the EU's Borders: The Ukraine Crisis
EU-Russia Relations: Now in Permanent Crisis?
Professor Gwen Sasse will be part of a debate in Brussels November 27th
Click here for info.
Oxford-Ko Graduate Scholarships
The Oxford Graduate Scholarships have been established through a groundbreaking new matched funding initiative to enable the creation of fully-funded scholarships for graduate students of the highest calibre from across the world.
We are pleased to announce the publication of Ghosts from a Biscuit Tin Exhibition Catalogue.
The Exhibition Opening Reception, 11 Novemver 6-8pm in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne’s College.
Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa
We are pleased to announce the publication of Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa co-edited by Elizabeth Cooper and David Pratten.
Oxford University: Beyond Knowledge
Want to understand more about what it is like to set foot in Oxford for the first time as a graduate student? Read MSc in Contemporary India student Divya David's entertaining account in The Gulf Today
Professor Gwen Sasse's latest Carnegie blog
please click here to read article.
Prof Gwen Sasse interviewed on German Radio
Professor Sasse was interviewed for the programme 'Journal am Morgen' by the public radio station ARD-SWR2 (a prominent programme aired by one of the regional branches of the main rad