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Latest News
New grant awarded to researchers at the Latin American Centre
Diego Sánchez-Ancochea and Francesca Lessa were successfully awarded a grant from the University of Oxford’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account in February 2015 for their pr
Scholarship for Oxford Students to visit Lahore, Pakistan
February 2015 sees the end of a very successful one month visiting scholarship for four PhD students from Pakistan hosted by Wolfson College and the Contemporary South Asia Programme in SIAS.
2013-2014 MSc student Ryan Brown publishes her essay in Slate Magazine based on Ponte, South Africa's Tower of Dreams
Dr Neil Carrier & Emma Lochery's article on Diaspora has been chosen by Taylor and Francis
Book Launch-A Man of Good Hope by Dr Jonny Steinberg
Dr Jenny Chan Contributes to Global Labour Journal
Dr Marcus Rebick, 1956 - 2015
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RESC Seminar. 'Discarded on the edge of life' or establishment figures? Leningrad's Red Army veterans as insiders and outsiders'
Monday, 23 February, 2015 - 17:00
The Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Speaker(s):
Robert Dale (Nottingham Trent)
儒家禮樂文明簡論》 (this lecture will be in Chinese)
Monday, 23 February, 2015 - 17:00 to 18:45
China Centre Lecture Theatre 1
Speaker(s):
Prof. PENG Lin 彭林, Professor, Department of History, Tsinghua University; Director, Tsinghua University Research Center for Chinese Ritual (清華大學中國禮學研究中心主任)
South Africa Discussion Group: The Politics of the University of Cape Town in the Zuma Era: Reflections and Ramifications
Tuesday, 24 February, 2015 - 17:00
Prof. Beinart’s Room, African Studies Centre
Speaker(s):
Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, Oxford University
Seminar in Modern Israel Studies:Field Notes from the American Jewish Civil War over Israel
Tuesday, 24 February, 2015 - 17:00 to 18:30
Carrots and sticks: Experimental evidence of vote buying and voter intimidation in Guatemala
Tuesday, 24 February, 2015 - 17:00 to 18:30
Divisions of Grandeur: Nation, Partition and Representation in Bengal
Wednesday, 25 February, 2015 - 14:00
LAC Film Series: Evita, the documentary
Wednesday, 25 February, 2015 - 18:00 to 20:00
Japan’s New Security Cooperation in Counter-Piracy Missions
Thursday, 26 February, 2015 - 14:00 to 15:30
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