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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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New Book by Danilo Limoeiro (MPhil 2011)
The University of Brasília Press has just released a new book by LAC alumnus Danilo Limoeiro. Entitled Além das Transferências de Renda (Beyond Income Transfers), the monograph examines the reduction of inter-regional inequalities in Brazil during the 2000s.
Rachel Murphy gave a presentation on 'Parents' Migration and Children's Subjective Wellbeing and Health' at the British Academy
Dr Rachel Murphy gave her presentation at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Workshop on Sustainable Urban Development. The workshop was held on 25th-26th March 2015.
Dr Ian Cooper posts a blog - Namibia and President Pohamba's legacy
Dr Ian Cooper has posted a blog- Presidential Power: Presidents and Presidential Politics around the World
MPhil student, Warren Stanilaus publication
Warren Stanislaus, a researcher at the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation and a former MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies student, has recently had an article on the role of think tanks in Japan, published in the Spring 2015 issue of Global Asia.
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)"