St Antony’s College

Lecture Calendar

Hilary Term 2015

Index

AFRICAN STUDIES CENTRE 3

ASIAN STUDIES CENTRE 5

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EUROPEAN STUDIES CENTRE 9 ……………………

LATIN AMERICAN CENTRE 17

MIDDLE EAST CENTRE 20

PROGRAMME ON MODERN POLAND 22

NISSAN INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES 23

NORTH AMERICAN PROGRAMME 25

RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES CENTRE 26

VISITING PARLIAMENTARY FELLOWSHIP SEMINAR SERIES 28

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Note: Regular updates about lectures and seminars for the week ahead will be given with our Weekly Bulletins, sent each Thursday starting from Nought Week.

AFRICAN STUDIES CENTRE

HILARY TERM 2015

AFRICAN STUDIES SEMINAR

Thursdays at 5pm

All events take place in the Pavilion Room, St Antony’s College, unless stated

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Thursday 22 January, 5pm : 'Drugs in Africa: Histories and Ethnographies of Use, Trade and Control' - Book Launch With case studies from Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya presented by Gernot Klantschnig (York), Ann Laudati (Bristol) and Neil Carrier (Oxford) Thursday 29 January, 5 pm: Jacob Wiebel (Durham) ‘Layers of meaning and agency in the violence of the Ethiopian Red Terror’ Thursday 5 February , 5pm: 'A Man of Good Hope' - Book Launch Jonny Steinberg in conversation with Martin Meredith about Jonny's new book on migration and xenophobia Thursday 12 February, 5pm: 'Ethnographies of Uncertainty in Africa' - Book Launch With case studies from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Kenya presented by Elizabeth Cooper (Simon Fraser University), Marco di Nunzio (Free University Brussels), Nadine Beckmann (Roehampton), Julie Archambault (Oxford) & David Pratten (Oxford). Thursday 19 February, 5pm: Nic Cheeseman (Oxford) 'Does the African middle-class defend democracy? Evidence from Kenya.' Thursday 26 February, 5pm: Laurent Gabail (Oxford) ‘Believe it or Not. Self-distance and irony in the ritual practices of the Bassari of Guinea’ Thursday 5 March, 5pm: 'Researching Border-Crossing, Trade and Trust' Launch event of a collaborative Université Libre de Bruxelles/University of Oxford project, hosted by Emma Lochery (Oxford / ULB), Martin Rosenfeld (Oxford), Neil Carrier (Oxford), Nicholas van Hear (Oxford) and Andrea Rea (ULB) Thursday 12 March, 5pm: William Beinart and Neil Carrier (Oxford) 'Wild settlers, tame wildlife and the movies in Kenya'

AFRICAN STUDIES CENTRE

MICHAELMAS TERM 2014

SOUTH AFRICA DISCUSSION GROUP

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All events take place on Tuesdays at 5pm at St Antony’s College. Please check individual seminars for

further details.

Tuesday 27 January, 5pm: Reading: Albert Hirschman, ‘The Changing Tolerance For Income Inequality In The Course of Economic Development,’ Quarterly Journal of Economics, 8(4), 1973, pp. 544-566. (This classic essay, published years before South Africa’s democratic transition, seems uncannily to illuminate the wellsprings of legitimacy in South Africa’s young democracy. We discuss its applicability to the South African situation. Those who attend should read it beforehand.) Deakin Room, St Antony’s College Tuesday 10 February, 5pm: Reading: Samantha Vice, ‘How Do I Live In This Strange Place?’ Journal of Social Philosophy 41(3), 2010, pp. 324-242. (In 2010 South African philosopher Samantha Vice published a provocative essay on the ethics of being a white South African. The seminar consists of a discussion of the essay and those who attend should read it beforehand.) Deakin Room, St Antony’s College Tuesday, 24 February, 5pm: Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh (Oxford University) ‘The Politics of the University of Cape Town in the Zuma Era: Reflections and Ramifications’ Prof. Beinart’s Room, African Studies Centre Tuesday 3 March, 5pm ‘Whitewashing, Immigration and the Invention of a White South African Architectural Vernacular.’ Jonathan Katz, (Oxford University) Dahrendorf Room, St Antony’s College Tuesday 10 March, 5pm: Hennie Van Vuuren, (Institute for Justice and Reconciliation) ‘The Legacy of Apartheid-Era Economic Crime’ Dahrendorf Room, St Antony’s College For further information please contact jonny.steinberg@africa.ox.ac.uk

ASIAN STUDIES CENTRE

HILARY TERM 2015

TAIWAN STUDIES PROGRAMME SEMINAR SERIES

Seminars will be held, unless otherwise stated, from 5.00 to 7.00pm in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College

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All are welcome

Convenor: Feng-yi Chu Enquiries: e-mail: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk or tel: 01865-274559

Thursday 29 January, 5pm: Professor Tsai Yuan-Lin (National Chengchi University) "Taiwan and Palestine: Comparison in Cultural and Political Terms" Friday 6 February, 5pm: Professor John MacInnes (The University of Edinburgh) “National Identity: Personal Journey or Political Strategy” **Please note that this event will take place in the Pavilion Room** Thursday 12 February, 5pm: Film Screening with conversation from Documentary filmmaker: Chiang Wei-hua and a Student leader Chang Jiho on Two Crucial Student: Movements in Ma’s Presidency: “The Mob”. Friday 20 February, 5pm: Film Screening: "Banana Paradise” Thursday 26 February, 5pm: Dr Malte Philipp Kaeding (University of Surrey) "New Waves of Student Movement in East Asia"

ASIAN STUDIES CENTRE HILARY TERM 2015

SOUTH ASIA SEMINAR SERIES

Seminars will be held, unless otherwise stated, from 2.00 to 3.30pm on Tuesdays in the Fellow’s Dining Room, Hilda Besse Building at St Antony’s College

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Tuesday 20 January, 2pm: Justin Jones (Oxford) ‘Making the Muslim judge: laws, lives and legalities in twentieth century Indian Islam’ Tuesday 27 January,2pm: Daya Thussu (Westminster) ‘Mapping India’s Soft Power: Buddha to Bollywood’ Sunday 1 February, 1pm: Film Screening (sponsored by Asian Circle and Oxford India Society): “Lakshmi” (Please note that this event takes place on Sunday at 1pm, TS Eliot Theatre, Merton College. To register please visit the Eventbrite website) Tuesday 3 February, 2pm: Margret Frenz (Oxford) ‘Goans Abroad. A History of Migration across the Indian Ocean’ Thursday 5 February, 5pm: Amit Chaudhuri (UCL) Book Launch: ‘Odysseus Abroad’ ****Please note that this event takes place on a Thursday at 5pm**** Tuesday 10 February, 2pm: Farzana Shaikh (Chatham House) ‘Muhammad Iqbal and the ‘modern’ Muslim Mentality’ Tuesday 17 February, 2pm: Neilesh Bose (St John’s University) ‘Concepts of Pakistan and Facets of Decolonization: Bengal and the Twentieth Century’ ****event to take place in Pavilion Room, fourth floor Gateway Building**** Tuesday 24 February, 2pm: Student Presentations Wednesday 25 February, 2pm: Gautam Ghosh (Otago) ‘Divisions of Grandeur: Nation, Partition and Representation in Bengal’ ****Please note that this event takes places on a Wednesday****

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Tuesday 3 March, 2pm: Student Presentations Tuesday 10 March, 2pm: Gunnel Cederlöf (Uppsala University) ‘Governing monsoon landscapes: East India Company expansion on its North-eastern Frontier in the early 19th century’

All are welcome

Convenor & Chair: Dr Faisal Devji

Enquiries: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk or tel: 01865-274559

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SOUTHEAST ASIA SEMINAR SERIES

Seminars will be held fortnightly from 2pm to 3.30pm on every other Wednesday in the Deakin Room, Founder’s Building at St Antony’s College (Please note the change in day and venue from last term)

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Wednesday 4 February, 2pm: Dominik Muller (Visiting Research Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford Postdoctoral Fellow, Goethe-University Frankfurt) “Faith Control and the Politics of Exorcism in Brunei Darussalam” Wednesday 18 February, 2pm: Michael Buehler (Lecturer in Comparative Politics, SOAS) “The Diffusion of Islamic Laws Across Indonesia” Wednesday 4 March, 2pm: Su Lin Lewis (Associate Professor, University of Warwick) “Cosmopolitan publics in divided societies: inter-ethnic interactions in Penang, Rangoon, and Bangkok, 1920-1940”

All are welcome Convenor & Chair: Dr Matthew J Walton

Enquiries: asian@sant.ox.ac.uk or tel: 01865-274559

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EUROPEAN STUDIES CENTRE HILARY TERM 2015

Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place in the Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road.

Week 1 Monday 19 January, 5pm POMP Seminar Series: Who are the Poles and where’s Poland? Ethnic, civic, and cultural identities and frontiers in modern Poland To the Germans went the guilt and the crime; to us the keys and the cashbox: Restitution of private Jewish property in Polish courts (1945-1948) Łukasz Krzyżanowski (University of Warsaw) Discussant: Tim Cole (University of Bristol) Chair: Mikolaj Kunicki (St Antony’s College) Wednesday 21 January, 12.30pm ESC Visiting Fellows’ Seminar Series Euroscepticism v. Euroenthusiasm: The Missing Debate Joao Espada (St Antony’s College, The Catholic University of Portugal) Chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis (St Antony’s College) Light lunch provided Wednesday 21 January, 5pm SEESOX Seminar Series: Global South East Europe in a Multi-Polar World Beyond Europeanisation: European hegemony versus global influences Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College), Spyros Economides (LSE), James Ker Lindsay (LSE), Chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis (St Antony’s College) Thursday 22 January, 5pm SEESOX Seminar Children of Marx, Coca Cola and the Greek Colonels? Rethinking Student Resistance in the “Long 1960s” Kostis Kornetis (University of New York) Discussant: Eirini Karamouzi (St Antony’s College) Chair: Paul Betts (St Antony’s College)

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EUROPEAN STUDIES CENTRE HILARY TERM 2015

Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place in the Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road.

Week 2 Monday 26 January, 12.30pm: Lunchtime ESC Seminar - “Democratic Deficit” to a “Democratic Surplus”: Constructing Administrative Democracy in Europe Akis Psygkas (University of Bristol), Chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis (St Antony’s College) Light lunch provided Tuesday 27 January, 12.30pm: SEESOX Lunchtime Seminar !Romania's new German President: where do we go from here?“ Panel: John Beyer (St Antony's College), Corneliu Bjola (Department of International Development, Oxford), Laurentiu-Miha Stefan (Office of Romanian President), Mariela Neagu (New College), Michael Taylor (Oxford Analytica), Chair: Jonathan Scheele (St Antony's College) In cooperation with Oxford Department of International Development Light lunch provided Wednesday 28 January, 12.30pm: ESC Visiting Fellows’ Seminar Series "EU climate change policy: after 10 years of trying, is the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions trading system fit for purpose?“ Peter Vis (EU Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College) Chair: David Buchan (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies) Light lunch provided Wednesday 28 January, 5pm: SEESOX Seminar Series: Global South East Europe in a Multi-Polar World „Energy politics: Empowerment or dependency?“ Diana Bozhilova (King’s College, London), Konstantinos Filis (Panteion University)Androulla Kaminara (European Commission), Chair: David Madden (St Antony’s College) Thursday 29 January, 5pm, Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building: ESC Seminar Beggars can’t be choosers? The euro crisis and the rise of Chinese direct investment in Europe Sophie Meunier (Princeton University), Discussants: Paul Irwin Crookes (China Studies, SIAS), Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government ), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (St Antony’s College) Co-sponsored by the China Centre and the Centre for International Studies

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EUROPEAN STUDIES CENTRE HILARY TERM 2015

Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place in the Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road.

Week 3 Monday 2 February, 5pm: POMP Seminar Series: Who are the Poles and where’s Poland? Ethnic, civic, and cultural identities and frontiers in modern Poland: “Gendering Migration: Women’s Writing, Displacement and Melancholy“ Lecture on Selected Aspects of Polish Contemporary Literature Urszula Chowaniec (Language and Culture, UCL SSEES), Discussant: Ursula Phillips (Honorary Research Associate of UCL SSEES), Chair: Mikolaj Kunicki (St Antony’s College) Wednesday 4 February, 12.30pm: SEESOX Seminar Series: Global South East Europe in a Multi-Polar World “Entering through the back door: China’s interests in South-East Europe” John Farnell (Former European Commission), Rana Mitter (St Cross College) Chair: TBC Light lunch provided Wednesday 4 February, 5pm, Nissan Lecture Theatre: POMP Annual Kolakowski Lecture ”One century, three Polands: the Second Republic, People’s Poland, and the Third Republic” Dariusz Stola (Museum of the History of Polish Jews), Chair: Mikolaj Kunicki (St Antony’s College)

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EUROPEAN STUDIES CENTRE HILARY TERM 2015

Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place in the Seminar Room, European Studies Centre,

70 Woodstock Road.

Week 4 Monday 9 February, 5pm: POMP Seminar Series: Who are the Poles and where’s Poland? Ethnic, civic, and cultural identities and frontiers in modern Poland ‘’Polish return migration and transnational identities’’ Anne White (UCL), Discussant: Bridget Anderson (COMPAS: The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society), Chair: Mikolaj Kunicki (St Antony’s College) Tuesday 10 February, 5pm: Free Speech Debate Seminar ‘’NETWORKED! How we got here, and where the internet might be headed’’ John Naughton (Author ‘From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg, University of Cambridge), Respondent: Turi Munthe (Founder, Demotix), Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College) Organised by the Free Speech Debate Project of the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom Wednesday 11 February, 12.30pm, ESC Visiting Fellows’ Seminar Series ‘’The EU Budget: Value for Money?’’ Gijs De Vries (St Antony’s College), Chair: TBC Light lunch provided Wednesday 11 February, 5pm: SEESOX Seminar Series: Global South East Europe in a Multi-Polar World “Diasporas in times of crisis: Agents of change?” Robin Cohen (Oxford Diasporas Programme), Sarah Garding (Nuffield College) Antonis Kamaras (ELIAMEP), Chair: Renee Hirschon (St Peter’s College) Thursday 12 February, 5pm, Nissan Lecture Theatre, PEFM Seminar Series: Ethics in Finance “Has financial globalisation changed the context for US international policy?” Caroline Atkinson (Deputy Assistant to President Obama and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics, White House), Chair: Ngaire Woods (Blavatnik School of Government) **Registration required**

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EUROPEAN STUDIES CENTRE HILARY TERM 2015

Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place in the Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road.

Week 5 Monday 16 February, 5pm: POMP Seminar Series: Who are the Poles and where’s Poland? Ethnic, civic, and cultural identities and frontiers in modern Poland, Title: “Modern anti-discrimination laws and policies in a homogenous state – positive or exceptive? Polish example” Adam Bodnar (Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights), Chair: Mikolaj Kunicki (St Antony’s College) Tuesday 17 February, 5pm: ESC Seminar, “Václav Havel’s Contested Legacy: Alternative Visions of Politics and Europe” Jacques Rupnik (University of Paris, Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI)), Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College) Co-organised by the Oxford University Czech and Slovak Society Wednesday 18 February, 12.30pm: ESC Visiting Fellows’ Seminar Series “French, European or Global?: Writing Revolutionary History in the Twentieth Century” Tom Stammers (Deakin Fellow, St Antony’s College), Chair: Paul Betts (St Antony’s College) Light lunch provided Wednesday 18 February, 5pm: SEESOX Seminar Series: Global South East Europe in a Multi-Polar World “The influence of Islamic fundamentalism and new security challenges “ Ziya Meral (Cambridge University), Kerem Oktem (Graz University), Chair: TBC Friday 20 February, 5pm: SEESOX Seminar “Political Contestation, State Capture and European Integration in South Eastern Europe” Milada Anna Vachudova (University of North Carolina), Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College)

Tuesday 17th February

5pm

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EUROPEAN STUDIES CENTRE HILARY TERM 2015

Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place in the Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road.

Week 6 Monday 23 February, 12.30pm: ESC / Centre for International Studies Joint Seminar “Economic Governance: the advent of coercive Europeanisation” Brigid Laffan (Schuman Centre Director, European University Institute, Florence), Chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis (St Antony’s College), Light lunch provided Monday 23 February, 5pm: POMP Seminar Series: Who are the Poles and where’s Poland? Ethnic, civic, and cultural identities and frontiers in modern Poland, Polish-African economic and political relations after 1989 Andrzej Polus (University of Wrocław), Discussant: Patrick Kimunguyi (Monash University), Chair: Mikolaj Kunicki (St Antony’s College) Tuesday 24 February, 12.30pm: ESC Seminar “Forget Enlargement? The case of Ukraine and Turkey”, Yevgen Lantsuzovskyy (St Antony’s College), Chair: Kalypso Nicolaïdis (St Antony’s College) Tuesday 24 February, 5pm: SEESOX Seminar “Greece, the EEC and the Cold War 1974-1979.” Eirini Karamouzi (A.G Leventis Fellow, St Antony’s College) Discussant: Anne Deighton (Wolfson College), Chair: Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College) Wednesday 25 February, 12.30pm: ESC Visiting Fellows’ Seminar Series “Mr Papambiguous: Greek Socialists and European Integration” Eirini Karamouzi (A.G Leventis Fellow, St Antony’s College), Chair: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College), Light lunch provided Wednesday 25 February, 5pm: SEESOX Seminar Series: Global South East Europe in a Multi-Polar World “Migration to South East Europe: Transit or final destination?” Speakers from Greece, Bulgaria and COMPAS: Franck Duvell (COMPAS), Eugenia Markova (London Metropolitan University), Dragos Tudorache (European Commission), Chair: Jonathan Scheele (St Antony’s College) Thursday 26 February, 5pm: PEFM Seminar Series: Ethics in Finance “Crises, growth, and financial regulation: The case for macro-conduct policy” Kevin James (Systemic Risk Centre, LSE); Dimitri Tsomocos (Said Business School), Chair: David Vines (Balliol College)

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EUROPEAN STUDIES CENTRE HILARY TERM 2015

Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place in the Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road.

Friday 27 February, 9.30am – 7pm, Venues: Nissan Lecture Theatre & St John’s College Research Centre, SEESOX Conference “The Power of the People: the dynamics and limits of social mobilization in South Eastern Europe” Keynote: Michael Biggs (University of Oxford), Discussants: Srecko Horvat (University of Zagreb), Igor Stiks (University of Edinburgh) More information, and to register: http://protestconfox2015.wordpress.com/ Week 7 Monday 2 March, 12.30pm: SEESOX Seminar “Jews, Communists, and Germans: Greece’s handling of its Post-War Legacies” Katerina Kralova (Charles University, Prague), Chair: TBC, Light lunch provided Monday 2 March, 5pm: POMP Seminar Series: Who are the Poles and where’s Poland? Ethnic, civic, and cultural identities and frontiers in modern Poland, Title: TBC Dariusz Gawin (Warsaw Uprising Museum), Chair: Mikolaj Kunicki (St Antony’s College) Wednesday 4 March, 12.30pm: ESC Visiting Fellows’ Seminar Series “Politics of victimhood in contemporary Spain.” Vincent Druliolle (Santander Fellow, St Antony’s College), Chair: Paola Mattei (St Antony’s College), Light lunch provided Wednesday 4 March, 5pm: SEESOX Seminar Series: Global South East Europe in a Multi-Polar World “Russia: a partner and ally, or a Cold War competitor? “ Dimitar Bechev (LSE), Oleg Levitin (EBRD), Chair: Roy Allison (St Antony’s College) Thursday 5 March, 5pm: PEFM Seminar Series: Ethics in Finance, “Ethical behaviour in banking” Nathalie Gold (King’s College London),Chair: David Vines (Balliol College)

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EUROPEAN STUDIES CENTRE HILARY TERM 2015

Unless otherwise indicated, all events will take place in the Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road.

Week 8 Monday 9 March, 5pm: POMP Seminar Series: Who are the Poles and where’s Poland? Ethnic, civic, and cultural identities and frontiers in modern Poland “Democracy in Poland: Representation, participation, competition and accountability since 1989” Anna Gwiazda (King’s College), Discussant: Radosław Zubek (University of Oxford), Chair: Mikolaj Kunicki (St Antony’s College) Tuesday 10 March, Venue: Old Common Room, Balliol College, 5pm: PEFM Seminar Series: Ethics in Finance “Lessons from Ireland’s financial crisis” Ajai Chopra (Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC), Chair: Adam Bennett (St Antony’s College) Wednesday 11 March, 12.30pm: ESC Visiting Fellows’ Seminar Series “The problem of the two Burkes: a critical re-appraisal.” João Pereira Coutinho (St Antony’s College, The Catholic University of Portugal), Chair: Cathryn Costello (St Antony’s College), Light lunch provided Wednesday 11 March, 5pm: SEESOX Seminar Series: Global South East Europe in a Multi-Polar World “Global approaches to rule of law promotion in the Western Balkans “ Erwan Fouéré (Centre for European Policy Studies), Pierre Mirel (Former European Commission) Chair: Richard Caplan (Linacre College) Thursday 12 March, 5pm: POMP Seminar Series “Under the Cross: Polish Catholic Identity in post-Christian Europe” Adam Szostkiewicz (St Antony’s College), Discussant: TBC, Chair: Mikolaj Kunicki (St Antony’s College) Friday 13 March {Panel 1: 3 - 4.30pm, Panel 2: 5 – 6.30pm}: ESC Seminar “Echoes of Empire – A Conversation across disciplines (on the occasion of the book launch Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies)” Speakers will include: Timothy Garton Ash, Paul Betts, Anne Deighton, Gabi Maas, Kalypso Nicolaïdis, Berny Sebe, Tom Stammers, Claire Vergerio Friday 13 March, LSE, SEESOX Workshop “Russia and the Balkans in the shadow of the Ukraine crisis” Convenors: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony’s College), Dimitar Bechev (LSE) **Registration required**

LATIN AMERICAN CENTRE SEMINAR SERIES

HILARY TERM 2015

The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Tuesdays in the Seminar Room at the Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk (unless otherwise stated).

Convenors: Professor Eduardo Posada-Carbó A glass of wine will be served following the discussions.

Everyone welcome!

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Tuesday 20 January, 5pm: Professor Diamela Eltit (Simon Bolívar Chair, University of Cambridge) ‘Escribir bajo Pinochet: Memorias en tiempos de dictadura’ Joint seminar: Latin American Centre and Sub-faculty of Spanish (Please note that this seminar will be delivered in Spanish) Tuesday 27 January , 5pm: Dr Timothy Power and Dr Lucio Rennó, (University of Brasília) ‘The Brazilian general election of 2014 and the prospects for Dilma 2.0’ Tuesday 3 February, 5pm: Professor Julia Buxton (Central European University) ‘The development dimensions of Latin America's drug wars’ Tuesday 10 February, 5pm: Professor Peter Wade (University of Manchester) ‘Genetic belonging, citizenship and mixed nations in Latin America’ Tuesday 17 February, 5pm: Dr Iñaki Sagarzazu (University of Glasgow) 'The drivers of the political agenda in Venezuela, 1998-2008: The public, the media, the politicians?’ Tuesday 24 February, 5pm: Dr Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocanto ‘Carrots and sticks: Experimental evidence of vote buying and voter intimidation in Guatemala’ Tuesday 3 March, 5pm: Professor Nancy Bermeo ‘Armed conflict and party politics in Central America’ Tuesday 10 March, 5pm: Mr Malcolm Deas ‘Colombia: Peace and history’

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The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays in the Seminar Room (except week 5) at the Latin American Centre, 1 Church Walk (unless otherwise stated).

Convenors: Dr Christian Arnold, Dr Svitlana Chernykh and Dr Francesca Lessa.

A glass of wine will be served following the discussions.

Everyone welcome!

LATIN AMERICAN CENTRE HISTORY SEMINAR HILARY TERM 2015

Thursday 22 January. 5pm: The Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez’s Centro de Estudios de Historia Política, CEHIP, and LAC’s History Seminar: La distribución desigual de la seguridad social en Chile, 1920-1970 Francisca Rengifo (Centro de Estudios de Historia Política, CEHIP, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago). (Please note that this talk will be in Spanish). Week 2: No seminar Monday 2 February, 5pm: Armies, Politics and Revolution. Chile, 1808-1826 Book presentation, Juan Luis Ossa, Centro de Estudios de Historia Política, CEHIP, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile. Chair and commentators: Alan Knight, St. Antony’s College and Antony McFarlane, University of Warwick. Thursday,12 February, 5pm: Indigeneous Intellectuals in the Colonial Andes, XVIth and XVIIth Centuries Gabriela Ramos, University of Cambridge Friday 20 February, 5pm: at the Rothermere American Institute, Seminar Room, Basement, 1A South Parks Road Comparative History of the American Seminar, jointly organized with the Rothermere American Institute The Ideology of Creole Revolution: Ideas of Independence in the United States and Spanish America, Joshua Simon (Kings College London) Thursday 26 February, 5pm: The Americanization of Brazilian Foreign Relations, 1889-1914 Leslie Bethell (Kings College London and St. Antony’s College) Thursday 5 March, 5pm: The making of Pope Francis: Jorge Bergoglio and the Argentine Catholic Church, 1930s-1980s, Austen Ivereigh, author of The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope (2014) Wednesday 11 March, 5pm: Comparative History of the Americas Seminar jointly organized with the Rothermere American Institute: 'The Cult of the Virgen de Guadalupe North and South of the Rio Grande: A Contemporary History from the 1960s‚ Valerie Fraser (University of Essex)

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LATIN AMERICAN CENTRE SPECIAL EVENTS

HILARY TERM 2015

Thursday 22 January, from 11:00-12:30 Speaker: Dr. Guillaume Long, Ecuadorian Minister of Knowledge and Human Talent. ‘Ecuador's road to structural change: accomplishments and future challenges’ Pavillion Room, St Antony’s College Friday 27 February 2015, from 17:00 to 18:30: Speakers: Marcelo Medeiros, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and Rio Branco Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford, 2015, and Olivier Dabène, Professor of Political Science, Sciences-Po, Paris, President of the Political Observatory of Latin America and the Caribbean (OPALC). Brazil and the Regional Integration of Latin America Policy Challenges for the 21st Century. A Special Roundtable Discussion in Association with the Rio Branco Visiting Professorship of International Relations. Organized by the Brazilian Studies Programme, University of Oxford, with the generous support of CAPES, Brazilian Ministry of Education. Friday 13 March 2015 starts 17.00 Speaker: Annual Guido Di Tella Memorial Lecture. Professor John King. ‘Latin American Culture and Politics in the 1960s: The View from Buenos Aires’. Pavillion Room, St Antony’s College

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MIDDLE EAST CENTRE HILARY TERM 2015

Seminars will be held on Fridays at 5.00 – 6:30 p.m. in the

Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre (unless stated otherwise in the programme) 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

Topic: The state of Egypt, the State of Palestine Friday, 23 January, 5pm: Tarek Osman (The author of Egypt on the Brink) “Why Egypt’s 2011 Uprising Has Failed to deliver on its Promise?” Friday, 30 January, 5pm: Dina Bishara (Jarvis Doctorow Research Fellow in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East, DPIR, University of Oxford) “Between Co-optation and Mobilization: Egypt's Labor Movement from Mubarak to Sisi “ Friday, 6 February, 5pm: Christian Berger (Director for North Africa, Middle East, Arabian Peninsula, Iran and Iraq, EEAS, Brussels) “EU Middle East Policy Framework” Nissan Lecture Theatre Friday, 13 February, 5pm: Phyllis Starkey (St Antony’s College, a former Member of Parliament (1997-2010)) “How European Governments subcontract policy on Israel/Palestine to parliamentarians, civil society and businesses” Friday, 20 February, 5pm: Alon Liel (Former Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tel Aviv University) “ Israel-Palestine: Can Europe Save the Two-States Idea” Nissan Lecture Theatre Friday, 27 February, 5pm: Neil Ketchley (Hulme Research Fellow in Sociology, Brasenose College) “When Regimes Attack: Repression and Anti-Coup Mobilization in Egypt after 3 July 2013” Friday, 6 March, 5pm: Reem Abou el Fadl (SOAS, University of London) “Legitimisation Formulas: Sisi between Nasser and Sadat” Friday, 13 March, 5pm: Afif Safieh (Palestinian Diplomat, Former Head of Mission in London, Washington, Moscow) “Which way forward?”

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MIDDLE EAST CENTRE OTHER EVENTS

HILARY TERM 2015

Wednesday, 28 January, 5pm: Stephanie Cronin (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford) “Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World: Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress” Book Launch Thursday February 12, 5pm: Bernard Wasserstein (The University of Chicago): “The Men Who Ruled Palestine” (MEC and Israel Studies co-sponsored event) Saturday, 21st February, 9.00 am – 7.00 pm: The Sudanese Programme: Conference on “Darfur at the Cross Road” Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College [Sponsored by the Middle East Centre and Africa Studies Centre] WOMEN RIGHTS RESEARCH SEMINARS Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 12.45 – 14.00: Mariam Memarsadeghi: “Struggling for Gender Equality in the Digital Age: The Case of the Iranian Women’s Rights Movement” (A light lunch will be available on a first-come, first-served basis) Wednesday, 4th February, 5pm: Abouali Vedadhir (University of Teheran)“Demographic transition and the changes in reproductive behaviour of young Iranians in Iran” Wednesday, 4th March, 5pm: Sara Bamdad (Warwick University) “Demographic transition and the consequences of infertility for Iranian women” Please see website for more information and posters: http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/mec/middleeastlectures.html

Seminars will be held on Fridays at 5.00 – 6:30 p.m. in the

Library Reading Room at the Middle East Centre (unless stated otherwise in the programme) 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

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PROGRAMME ON MODERN POLAND HILARY TERM 2015

THEME: Who are the Poles and where’s Poland? Ethnic, civic, and cultural identities and frontiers in modern Poland. Monday 19 January, 5pm: Łukasz Krzyżanowski (University of Warsaw) and Discussant: Tim Cole (University of Bristol) “To the Germans went the guilt and the crime; to us the keys and the cashbox: Restitution of private Jewish property in Polish courts (1945-1948)” Monday 2 February, 5 pm: Urszula Chowaniec (Language and Culture, UCL SSEES) and Discussant: Ursula Phillips (Honorary Research Associate of UCL SSEES) “Gendering Migration: Women’s Writing, Displacement and Melancholy“ Lecture on Selected Aspects of Polish Contemporary Literature Wednesday 4 February, 5pm: Dariusz Stola (Museum of the History of Polish Jews) “One century, three Polands: the Second Republic, People’s Poland, and the Third Republic” ANNUAL KOŁAKOWSKI LECTURE Nissan Lecture Theatre Monday 9 February , 5pm: Bridget Anderson (COMPAS: The Centre on Migration, Policy and Society) and Anne White (UCL) “Polish return migration and transnational identities” Thursday 12 March, 5pm: Adam Szostkiewicz (Polityka weekly newsmagazine) “Under the Cross: Polish Catholic Identity in post-Christian Europe” Discussant: TBC Monday 16 February , 5pm: Adam Bodnar (Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights) , “Modern anti-discrimination laws and policies in a homogenous state - possible or exceptive? Polish example” Monday 23 February, 5pm: Andrzej Polus (University of Wrocław), Discussant: Patrick Kimunguyi (Monash University): “Polish-African economic and political relations after 1989” Monday 2 March, 5pm: Andrzej Polus (University of Wrocław) and Discussant: Patrick Kimunguyi (Monash University) and Dariusz Gawin (Warsaw Uprising Museum), Title: TBC Monday 9 March, 5pm: Anna Gwiazda (King’s College) and Discussant: Radosław Zubek (University of Oxford) “Democracy in Poland: Representation, participation, competition and accountability since 1989”

NISSAN INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES HILARY TERM 2015

Thursdays 2-3:30pm in the Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St Antony’s College

Convenors: Dr Ekaterina Hertog; Professor Takehiko Kariya

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Thursday 22 January, 2pm: Dr Hiro R Watanabe (University of Sheffield): “Labour market deregulation in Japan: its causes and consequences” (Pavilion Room) Thursday 29 January, 2pm: Professor Yuichiro Shimizu, Keio University: “How modern Japan fostered young elites? Education, Institution and Promotion” (Pavilion Room) Thursday 5 February, 2pm: Professor Midori Okabe, Sophia University: “Is Japan a Closed Society of Immigration? - Issues on International Migration and Territoriality in Japan” (Pavilion Room) Thursday 12 February, 2pm: Dr Chris Harding, University of Edinburgh: “Placing Japan's First Psychotherapists, 1930 – 1950” (Pavilion Room) Thursday 19 February, 2pm: Dr Jonathan Service, Wadham College: “The Greece of the East: Writing the History of Music in Meiji Japan” (Pavilion Room)

Thursday 26 February, 2pm: Professor Wilhelm Vosse, International Christian University: “Japan’s New

Security Cooperation in Counter-Piracy Missions”

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Friday 6 March, 5pm: Professor Aaron S. Moore, Arizona State University: “Engineering the

Empire: “Comprehensive Development” in Japan’s Colonial Borderlands”(Pavilion Room)

Friday 13 March, 2:30pm: Mr Tatsuya Mori, Film maker: “Film on Aum Sinrikyo” .There will be a

film showing of “A2” (on Aum Sinrikyo) from 2.30 - 4.30 p.m. with a short break, and then from

5.00 p.m. Mr Mori will give a talk about the film and his work (Please note that this will take place

on Friday 13th March and starts at 2.30 p.m. in the Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre followed by the

usual seminar starting at 5.00 p.m)

Those travelling from outside Oxford are advised to check on the Institutes website in case there has been a cancellation or change of venue http://www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/events

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NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAMME HILARY TERM 2015

Convenor: Dr Halbert Jones

Enquiries: north.american.studies@sant.ox.ac.uk

The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Mondays in the Pavilion Seminar Room.

Convenor: Dr Halbert Jones Monday 26 January, 5pm: Mr Paul Ashby, Kent: “NAFTA-Land Security: The Mérida Initiative, North American Integration, and U.S. Security Projection in Mexico” (Pavilion Room) Monday 9 February, 5pm: Dr David Howard: “Sustainable Urban Development in a Caribbean Context: Perspectives from Kingston, Jamaica” (Pavilion Room) Monday 23 February, 5pm: Dr Kate Quinn, UCL: “Black Power in Caribbean Context” (Pavilion Room)

Monday 9 March, 5pm: Dr Benjamin Smith, Warwick: “Mexican Conservatism, 1800-2000” (Pavilion Room)

RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES CENTRE HILARY TERM 2015

OUTSIDERS IN RUSSIA

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SESSIONS (WEEKS 2 – 8) ARE HELD ON MONDAYS AT 5.00pm IN THE NISSAN LECTURE THEATRE NB WEEK 1 MEETING (19 JANUARY) WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE PAVILION ROOM AT 5.00pm

ALL ARE WELCOME Monday 19 January, 5pm: Claire Shaw (Bristol) : “Outsiders in a hearing world? Sound, speech and marginality in the Soviet deaf community, 1917-1985” *NB WEEK 1 MEETING IN THE PAVILION ROOM* Monday 26 January, 5pm: Mark Vincent (East Anglia) : “The cult of the urka’: writing criminal subculture into Soviet historiography” (Nissan Lecture Theatre) Monday 2 February, 5pm: Francesca Stella (Glasgow) : “Stigma, in/visibility and the everyday experiences of non-heterosexual women in Russia: interrogating ‘the global closet” (Nissan Lecture Theatre) Monday 9 February, 5pm: Juliane Fürst (Bristol): “Liberating madness – punishing insanity: Soviet hippies, socialist psychiatry and the politics of craziness” (Nissan Lecture Theatre) Monday 16 February, 5pm: Julie Cassiday (Williams College, Massachusetts): “Camp, kitsch, or travesty? Gender and performance in the Putin era” (Nissan Lecture Theatre)

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Monday 23 February, 5pm: Robert Dale (Nottingham Trent): “Discarded on the edge of life’ or establishment figures? Leningrad’s Red Army veterans as insiders and outsiders” (Nissan Lecture Theatre) Monday 2 March, 5pm: Daniel Beer (Royal Holloway): “Vae victis!’ Siberian exile as a revolutionary battleground, 1880-1905” (Nissan Lecture Theatre) Monday 9 March, 5pm: Nathalie Moine (Centre d’études des mondes russe, caucasien, centre-européen, Paris): “Soviet doctors facing liberation: eyewitnesses, experts and collaborators” (Nissan Lecture Theatre) For any further information please contact richard.ramage@sant.ox.ac.uk THIS IS AN ADVANCED SEMINAR SERIES SUPPORTED BY THE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE OF RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES, THE FACULTY OF HISTORY AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY, AND THE HARRY SHUKMAN SEMINAR FUND (created in Harry’s memory by Fay and Geoffrey Elliott)

VISITING PARLIAMENTARY FELLOWSHIP SEMINAR SERIES

HILARY TERM 2015

Sessions take place on Tuesdays at 5 p.m. in the Nissan Lecture Theatre.

Convenors: Baroness Andrews (Labour), Lord Inglewood (Conservative) and Prof. Robert Service

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CAN THE CENTRE HOLD And Why Does It Matter?

Democratic Challenges and Central Power in the Twenty-First Century

Tuesday 20 January, 5pm Prof. David Marquand (Mansfield and St Antony’s); Sir Konrad Schiemann (former Judge of the EU Court of Justice): “The new politics: is the power of the centre sustainable?” Tuesday 27 January, 5pm Lord David Trimble (former First Minister of Northern Ireland); Lord Robert Lisvane (former Clerk of the House of Commons); Lord Kenneth Morgan (historian): “Devolution and the threat to Britishness” Tuesday 3 February, 5pm Prof. Norman Davies (St Antony’s); Lord Roger Liddle (former Principal Adviser to the European Commission): “Regional insurgencies inside the EU” Tuesday 10 February, 5pm Lord Robert Skidelsky (economist); Lord Raymond Oxford (former diplomat in Moscow and Kiev Embassies; Prof. Robert Service (St Antony’s) : “Moscow and Kiev: over-ambitious central powers?” Tuesday 17 February , 5pm Sir William Ehrman (former Chairman of the JIC and Ambassador to Beijing); Richard Graham MP; Prof. Steve Tsang (School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, Nottingham): “China and its territorial discontents” Tuesday 24 February, 5pm Prof. Avi Shlaim (St Antony’s); Lord David Triesman (Opposition spokesman on foreign affairs, House of Lords): “Nation-building and ‘enemy’ minorities in the Middle East” Tuesday 3 March, 5pm Baroness Kay Andrews (former Under-Secretary of State, DCLG; Chair, English Heritage); Prof. Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s); Graham Avery (former Director for Strategy, Coordination and Analysis, Directorate General, EU): Not a state but a nation: cultural nationalism and its discontents Tuesday 10 March, 5pm Simon Jenkins (Guardian columnist); Anthony Barnett (Founder, Open Democracy); TBA; “Is devolution really the answer to the democratic deficit?” This seminar series is open to the public. Please address queries may to: adelebiagi@hotmail.co.uk.

Published by the Development Office, St Antony’s College

Tel.: 01865 74496 Email: development.officer@sant.ox.ac.uk

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