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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).
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.
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Great Results at Wolfson College's WIN Pitch Event
Bhumi Purohit, a M.Sc. student in the Contemporary India Studies program (2014-15), recently co-presented a business plan for H2Ox at Wolfson College's WIN Pitch event.
India under Narendra Modi: Reconsidering Indian foreign policy
On Monday, 4 May, Dr Kate Sullivan’s workshop, India under Narendra Modi: Reconsidering Indian foreign policy (co-convened with Professor Manjari Chatterjee Miller of Boston University), united leading scholars in St Antony’s College to debate and discuss the antecedents, possible direct
OUSU Teaching Awards
Congratulations to Professor Sho Konishi and Dr George Kunnath for their nominations in the Outstanding Supervisor category.
Dr George Kunnath shortlisted for the OUSU Teaching Awards
The Oxford University Student Union Teaching Awards shortlist for 2015 has been published this week and we are excited to see that Dr George Kunnath has been shortlisted in the Outstanding Supervisor category.
University of Oxford is best in the world for Geography and Area Studies
QS has released its annual subject ranking with Oxford University being ranked as number one for Area Studies and Geography. The rankings are based on academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact.
Dr Makovicky receives Fell Fund Award
Congratulations to Dr Makovicky on receiving a John Fell Fund Award for her project ‘Ecologies of Citizenship: Reviving Pastoralism in the Polish Carpathians’.
Current MSc student Sheriden Gunderson publishes in the Daily Nation: Chewing over change
Chewing over change: Miraa farmers move on to passion fruit and dairy cows