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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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Book Launch-A Man of Good Hope by Dr Jonny Steinberg
Please see the list of fantastic reviews!
http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9419852/refugees-and-resilience-a-story-of-africa/
Dr Jenny Chan Contributes to Global Labour Journal
Rina Agarwala, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Jenny Chan, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Alexander Gallas, University of Kassel, Germany
Dr Marcus Rebick, 1956 - 2015
It is with great sadness that we announce that Dr Marcus E Rebick, University Lecturer in the Japanese Economy, and Governing Body Fellow at St Antony’s from 1994 to 2012 died peacefully at home on Thursday 29 January 2015, aged 59.
Narendra Modi's Insurance Diplomacy: An Article by Sampad Patnaik
Congratulations to Sampad Patnaik (MSC CI 2014-15) on the publication of his article "Narendra Modi's Insurance Diplomacy" in The Diplomat.
Sampad tells us:
Welcome to our first Recognised Students from Lahore School of Economics
On Monday January 19th, CSASP welcomed our first four students from the Lahore School of Economics as part of the University's Recognised Student programme.
The students will be attending seminars and groups of interest across the Univeristy, whilst working on their PhDs.
Memorial Service for Terry Ranger
A Memorial Service is being held on Saturday 28th February, at 11.00 am at Christ Church. All welcome to attend.
Terence Ranger obituary - the guardian online
One of Africa's most radical and influential historians - Terance Ranger obituary
'Don't Make Yourself at Home' Uighurs and Tibetans feel left out of China's Economic Boom; Ethnic Discrimination is not Helping
Dr Reza Hasmath's latest research on ethnic minorities in China is in the current Economist issue (January 17, 2015).
LIVE-STREAM: Rising Inequality in the Global South: Practice and Solutions
To view a live-stream of this event, please click here.
Terence Ranger Obituary (1929 - 3 January 2015)
Terence Ranger, who has died in Oxford at the age of 85, was one of the most stimulating and influential African historians of the last half century.