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St Antony's College is the most cosmopolitan of the seven graduate colleges of the University of Oxford, specialising in international relations, economics, politics and history of particular parts of the world.
There are more than 400 students from some 77 different countries studying for postgraduate degrees and each year around 100 visiting senior members from the academic, diplomatic, business and political worlds come to the College.
Series associated with St Antony's College
Almanac – The Oxford Middle East Podcast
Asian Studies Centre
Centenary celebration of the first modern Spanish endowment at Oxford
Contemporary Islamic Studies
Europe's Stories Project
European Studies Centre
Free Speech Debate
Israel Studies Seminar
Latin American Centre
Law and Politics from St Antony's College
Middle East Centre
Middle East Centre Booktalk
Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Oxford Political Thought
Russian Literature and Culture
St Antony's looks at the World
The Tunisian Revolution: Origins, Course and Aftermath
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 594 | Borders and Identities: Who is a “Bangladeshi” in Assam? | This talk explores the ambiguities surrounding Indian citizenship in Assam, Northeast India. With Malini Sur (University of Western Sydney) | Malini Sur | 22 Oct 2021 | |
| 593 | Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema | Join us for Booktalk Episode 9, Professor Deborah Starr (Cornell University) in conversation about her new book, Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema, published by California Press. | Deborah Starr, Walter Armbrust | 21 Oct 2021 | |
| 592 | 7. Timothy Garton Ash: Finale Interview | The Europe’s Stories Podcast | For something different in this series finale, we speak with Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Politics at Oxford and Director the Europe’s Stories Project. | Timothy Garton Ash, Ana Martins, Lucas Tse; | 20 Oct 2021 | |
| 591 | Creative Commons | Atalia Omer - Pathways toward a Jewish Israeli Restorative Ethics | Atalia Omer discusses restorative justice practices and the possibilities (and limits) of Jewish critiques of Zionism. | Atalia Omer, Yaacov Yadgar | 20 Oct 2021 |
| 590 | A Shared Vision? Reflections on the creation of unity in opposition in Myanmar’s civil disobedience movement since February 2021 - Part 2 | Since the Myanmar army overturned the November 2020 election and asserted itself violently against the will of its own people in February 2021. | Khin Ohmar, Martin Smith | 19 Oct 2021 | |
| 589 | A Shared Vision? Reflections on the creation of unity in opposition in Myanmar’s civil disobedience movement since February 2021 - Part 1 | Since the Myanmar army overturned the November 2020 election and asserted itself violently against the will of its own people in February 2021. | Tom Sheahan, David Moe | 19 Oct 2021 | |
| 588 | Creative Commons | 6. Europe in the World | The Europe’s Stories Podcast | Ana and Lucas speak with Marianna Lovato and Olivier de France, the team’s experts on foreign policy and international politics. | Marianna Lovato, Olivier de France, Ana Martins, Lucas Tse | 12 Oct 2021 |
| 587 | Independence and Colonialism in the Western Sahara | Piotr Schulkes, Helna Murphy, Hajar Meddah, and Felix Walker discuss the recent development in the Western Sahara, caused by America’s recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the territory. | Piotr Schulkes, Helna Murphy, Hajar Meddah, Felix Walker | 06 Oct 2021 | |
| 586 | 5. Democracy | The Europe’s Stories Podcast | Today, we talk with Sophie Vériter and Josef Lolacher about the core of the European project - democracy. | Sophie Vériter, Josef Lolacher, Ana Martins, Lucas Tse | 05 Oct 2021 | |
| 585 | Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics | Join us for Booktalk Episode 8, Dr Carl Rommel (University of Helsinki) in conversation about his new book Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics, published by University of Texas Press in July 2021. | Carl Rommel, Walter Armbrust | 29 Sep 2021 | |
| 584 | 4. Social Europe | The Europe’s Stories Podcast | Ana and Lucas speak today with our team’s specialists on the things that bring quality of life to Europeans - jobs, industry and the welfare state. | Kristijan Fidanovski, Guillaume Paugam, Ana Martins, Lucas Tse. | 28 Sep 2021 | |
| 583 | 3. Free Movement | The Europe’s Stories Podcast | Ana and Lucas speak today with Victoria Honsel and Reja Wyss, who co-wrote the report chapter on climate action. Both have also been young Europeans actively involved in politics. | Reja Wyss, Victoria Honsel, Ana Martins, Lucas Tse | 21 Sep 2021 | |
| 582 | 2. Free Movement | The Europe’s Stories Podcast | Ana and Lucas speak today with Luisa Melloh, who manages the project behind this series. Many things flow across borders - capital, goods, ideas - but young Europeans also assume that they themselves can move freely and with ease. | Luisa Melloh, Ana Martins, Lucas Tse | 14 Sep 2021 | |
| 581 | 1. Who Are Young Europeans | The Europe’s Stories Podcast | Today, Ana and Lucas speak with Dan Snow and Maeve Moynihan about who young Europeans are. | Maeve Moynihan, Dan Snow, Ana Martins, Lucas Tse | 07 Sep 2021 | |
| 580 | Theft of Time: Notes on Spolia and the Writing of Indian History | Sudipta Sen (University of California, Davis) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 26 April 2021. | Sudipta Sen | 23 Jun 2021 | |
| 579 | "Our History": The Everyday Social and the Sense of Historical Touch | Sundar Sarukkai (Centre for Society and Policy, IISc) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 10 May 2021. For more information on the event, see here. For queries, please contact the seminar convenor at saih@history.ox.ac.uk. | Sundar Sarukkai | 17 Jun 2021 | |
| 578 | A Historian among the Goddesses of Modern India | Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 31 May 2021. | Sumathi Ramaswamy | 17 Jun 2021 | |
| 577 | Monuments in Replica: Imperial Commemorations in Britain and its Colonies | Durba Ghosh (Cornell University) speaks at the Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar on 7 June 2021. | Durba Ghosh | 17 Jun 2021 | |
| 576 | War on Bodies Moral Immunity and the Psychopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran | Dr Orkideh Behrouzan (SOAS University of London), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series on 21st May 2021, chaired by Edmund Herzig (Faculty of Oriental Studies). Discussant: Dr Maziyar Ghiabi (University of Exeter). | Orkideh Behrouzan, Edmund Herzig, Maziyar Ghiabi | 17 Jun 2021 | |
| 575 | Conversation with Maria Stepanova and Sasha Dugdale | A conversation with the Moscow-based poet and prose writer Maria Stepanova and her main translator Sasha Dugdale about three volumes of Stepanova's work newly translated into English. | Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale, Stephanie Sandler, Oliver Ready | 15 Jun 2021 | |
| 574 | Dostoevsky at 200: A roundtable | An event with leading scholars and the novelist Alex Christofi, to mark the bicentenary of Dostoevsky's birth by discussing new approaches to the work and life of this titanic figure. | Yuri Corrigan, Lynn Ellen Patyk, Alex Christofi, Caryl Emerson | 28 May 2021 | |
| 573 | Making Film in Egypt | Join us as we listen to Dr Chihab El Khachab (King’s College, Cambridge) in conversation about his new book – Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry. Published by American University in Cairo Press. | Chihab El Khachab | 18 May 2021 | |
| 572 | Women's Rights on The Altar of a Strategic Stake: The New Population Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran | Professor Marie Ladier-Fouladi (CNRS)/ CETOBaC) gives a talk for the MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars. Chaired by Soraya Tremayne (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology). | Marie Ladier-Fouladi | 18 May 2021 | |
| 571 | Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book:The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad | Hamid Dabashi (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York), gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. | Hamid Dabashi | 07 May 2021 | |
| 570 | "वासाड गावाचा धनगर राजा": Ecological Refugees in Ancestral Grass-scape (Historical life space and changing socio-economic dynamics) | Saili Palande-Datar gives the fourth and final presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. | Saili Palande-Datar | 28 Apr 2021 | |
| 569 | Mobilizing transregional indigenous identities on cross-sectional borders | Bina Sengar gives the third presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. | Bina Sengar | 28 Apr 2021 | |
| 568 | Persian Cosmopolis and World Literature in Precolonial Marathi Literary Historiography | Sachin Ketkar gives the second presentation on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. | Sachin Ketkar | 28 Apr 2021 | |
| 567 | Circuits of interchange and influence: The 1979 Rucha issue on Urdu and Marathi modernist poetry | Anjali Nerlekar gives the first talk on the second day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. | Anjali Nerlekar | 28 Apr 2021 | |
| 566 | Education, Nationalism and the Native Body: the Pradnya Pathshala Project | Rahul Sarwate gives the fourth presentation on the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. | Rahul Sarwate | 28 Apr 2021 | |
| 565 | सत्ता तुझी राणीबाई: Royals in Marathi Writings | Shraddha Kumbhojkar gives the third presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. | Shraddha Kumbhojkar | 28 Apr 2021 | |
| 564 | Like Milk and Sugar | Dominic Vendell gives the second presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. | Dominic Vendell | 28 Apr 2021 | |
| 563 | The Tinderbox documentary film discussion | Gillian Mosely (Film Director and Producer) joins Dr Anne Irfan, Professor Eugene Rogan and our Middle East Centre webinar audience to talk about her documentary film, The Tinderbox - Israel and Palestine: time to call time? | Gillian Mosely, Anne Irfan, Eugene Rogan | 20 Apr 2021 | |
| 562 | Debating the Law, Creating Gender - MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars | Professor Irene Schneider (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), gives a talk for the MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars. Chaired by Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford) | Irene Schneider | 19 Apr 2021 | |
| 561 | Booktalk episode 6: Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis | For our sixth episode of MEC Booktalk, guest author David Warren (Washington University in St Louis) discusses his recent book, Rivals in the Gulf, published by Routledge in January 2021. | David Warren, Usaama al-Azami | 12 Apr 2021 | |
| 560 | Chand Bibi between Persianate cosmopolitanism and regional particularism | Roy Fischel gives the first presentation for the first day of the Maharashtra Studies Conference. | Roy Fischel | 01 Apr 2021 | |
| 559 | Ashmolean Museum - Middle East Centre: Owning the Past: A troubled century of Anglo-Iraqi relations | A webinar that explores the complex history binding Iraq and the U.K. from the First World War through the mandate and creation of the Hashemite monarchy, and Britain’s role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and its aftermath. | Eugene Rogan, Dina Rizk Khoury, Charles Tripp, Myfanwy Lloyd | 24 Mar 2021 | |
| 558 | Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered? | Sponsored in association with Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali, Founder and Chair, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute. With Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Professor of International Relations in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University) | Anoush Ehteshami | 19 Mar 2021 | |
| 557 | Counter-Revolutions Vs. Counter-Marginalization Movements: (Re)Visiting the Online Tug-of-War a Decade After the Arab Spring | Dr Marc Owen Jones (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) and Dr Sahar Khamis (University of Maryland) give a talk for the MEC Friday Seminars Series. Chaired by Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College, Oxford). | Marc Owen Jones, Sahar Khamis, Walter Armbrust, Eugene Rogan | 17 Mar 2021 | |
| 556 | Tunisia: Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society) | Hela Ammar (Artist) and Mohamed Kerrou (University of Tunis El Manar) give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. Chaired by Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College, Oxford), the discussant was Professor Charles R H Tripp (SOAS). | Hela Ammar, Mohamed Kerrou, Michael Willis, Charles R H Tripp | 12 Mar 2021 | |
| 555 | Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Elana Shapira: Berta Zuckerkandl and Her Circle: Austrian Nationalism and Zionism in Viennese Modernism | Elana Shapira discusses the tangled relationship between Austrian Nationalism and Zionism in Viennese Modernism | Elana Shapira | 09 Mar 2021 | |
| 554 | Libya: Past, Present and Future | Anas El Gomati (Sadeq Institute) and Mary Fitzgerald (King's College London) give a talk on Libya for the Middle East Centre seminar series. Chaired by Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College). | Anas El Gomati, Mary Fitzgerald | 09 Mar 2021 | |
| 553 | A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic | Guest author Dr Fatemeh Shams (Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania) talks with Booktalk host Dr Zuzanna Olszewska (University of Oxford). | Fatemeh Shams, Zuzanna Olszewska | 04 Mar 2021 | |
| 552 | The Place of Religion After the Uprisings | Dr. Shadi Hamid (Brookings Institution; contributing writer, The Atlantic) and Professor Nadia Oweidat (Kansas State University) give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday seminar series. Chaired by Dr Usaama al-Azami (St Antony's College). | Shadi Hamid, Nadia Oweidat, Usaama al-Azami | 26 Feb 2021 | |
| 551 | Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Maja Gildin Zuckerman: The Pragmatism of Proto-Zionism: Tracing Jewish Nation-building through a Cultural Sociological Framework | Maya Gildin Zuckerman discusses a 1897 tour from London to Palestine as a moment in the Zionist meaning making process. | Maja Gilding Zuckerman | 23 Feb 2021 | |
| 550 | Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism? | Maha Yahya (PhD, Director, Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre) Maysoon Pachachi (Film director) give a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St. Antony's College, Oxford). | Maha Yahya, Maysoon Pachachi, Eugene Rogan | 23 Feb 2021 | |
| 549 | History, politics, and Anecdotes with Eugene Rogan | Piotr Schulkes and Eugene Rogan discuss the importance of history in contemporary Middle Eastern politics, how the West discusses the region, and a number of stories from Rogan’s time at Oxford. | Piotr Schulkes, Eugene Rogan | 22 Feb 2021 | |
| 548 | Jamie Stern-Weiner: IHRA: The Politics of a Definition | Jamie Stern-Weiner (Oxford) traces the genesis and evolution of a controversial 'working definition' of antisemitism. | Jamie Stern-Weiner | 16 Feb 2021 | |
| 547 | The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought | Join us for the fourth MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Andrew March about his new book, The Caliphate of Man: The Invention of Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought, published by Harvard University Press, 2021 | Usaama al-Azami, Andrew March | 16 Feb 2021 | |
| 546 | Delusional states: Love, Citizenship and Resistance in Gilgit-Baltistan | This talk examines the emotional and intimate logics of occupation, citizenship, and state-making in Gilgit-Baltistan, a contested borderland between India and Pakistan that forms part of the Kashmir dispute. | Nosheen Ali | 10 Feb 2021 | |
| 545 | Lebanon’s Economic and political crisis | Piotr Schulkes, Felix Walker, and Michael Memari cover the ongoing crises in Lebanon’s political and economic systems. | Michael Memari, Felix Walker, Piotr Schulkes | 09 Feb 2021 | |
| 544 | Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition | Join us for the third MEC Booktalk episode where Dr Usaama al-Azami talks with guest author Ahmed El Shamsy about his new book, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition. | Ahmed El Shamsy, Usaama al-Azami | 07 Feb 2021 | |
| 543 | Creative Commons | A Contrapuntal History of Hindustan | Manan Amend (Columbia), gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series. | Manan Amend | 04 Feb 2021 |
| 542 | Anna Prashizky: Connecting Ethnicity and Space: The New Russian-Mizrahi-Mediterranean Pop Culture in Israel’s Periphery | Ann Prashizky discusses 'self orientalistation' by the 1.5 generation of FSU immigrants to Israel. | Anna Prashizky | 02 Feb 2021 | |
| 541 | Adam Sutcliffe: Light Unto the Nations - The Idea of Jewish Purpose and the Emergence of Zionism (Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar) | Adam Sutcliffe (KCL) discusses how Zionist ideologues have viewed the notion of Jewish purpose. | Adam Sutcliffe | 27 Jan 2021 | |
| 540 | New Year’s Episode | The whole team gets together to discuss what their moment of note of 2020 was, what they are looking out for in 2021, and what their favourite book on the Middle East is. | Piotr Schulkes, Helena Murphy, Frederike Brockhoven, Max Randall | 26 Jan 2021 | |
| 539 | Tal Shamur (Cambridge): The emergence of melancholic citizenship at the urban periphery: The case of south Tel Aviv protest against global migration | Tal Shamur presents his work on the melancholic protest of Hatikva residents. | Tal Shamur | 19 Jan 2021 | |
| 538 | The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet | Episode 2, with Dr Faisal Devji, (St Antony’s College, Oxford), talks with Joshua Craze (University of Chicago) and writer Aaron Tugendhaft about Aaron's new book The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet, University of Chicago Press 2020. | Faisal Devji, Joshua Craze, Aaron Tugendhaft | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 537 | Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads | First episode of Booktalk, where host Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford) talks with David Rundell on his book Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads, Bloomsbury Publication (2020. | Eugene Rogan, David Rundell | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 536 | The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships | Ece Temelkuran, author of How to Lose a Country: the Seven Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship (2019) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar series. Chaired by Dr Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College, Oxford). | Ece Temelkuran, Laurent Mignon | 09 Dec 2020 | |
| 535 | Child abuse and dancing boys in Afghanistan | Piotr Schulkes, Rose Johnson, and Max Randall dive into the phenomenon of the Dancing Boys of Afghanistan. | Piotr Schulkes, Rose Johnson, Max Randall | 03 Dec 2020 | |
| 534 | Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There | Dr Lina Khatib, Director, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham, Jeremy Bowen (Middle East Editor, BBC News) give a talk on Syria and it's current political situation. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford). | Lina Khatib, Jeremy Bowen | 03 Dec 2020 | |
| 533 | Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Rose Stair (Oxford): Age and gender in German-language cultural Zionism | The fourth lecture in the Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies seminar series. Rose Stair discusses cultural Zionism through a focus on age and gender. | Rost Stair | 01 Dec 2020 | |
| 532 | Creative Commons | Jeko Khere So Khaye (He who tills has the right to eat); 'development' and the politics of agrarian reform in late 1940s and early 1950s in Sindh | Sarah Ansari (Royal Holloway) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series. | Sarah Ansari | 26 Nov 2020 |
| 531 | Creative Commons | Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises) | Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College, Oxford), author of Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution (2019), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series on 20th November 2020. | Walter Armbrust, Michael Willis | 25 Nov 2020 |
| 530 | Peter Bergamin (Oxford): Guns and Moses: Jewish anti-British Resistance during the Mandate for Palestine | Peter Bergamin presents some findings and conclusions from his recent research on the British Mandate for Palestine, focusin on the phenomena of Jewish illegal immigration and anti-British terrorism, and their role in Britain’s eventual abandonment of the | Peter Bergamin | 24 Nov 2020 | |
| 529 | ‘God Does not Discriminate’: Inclusive Mosques Politics in France and the United Kingdom | Benjamin Dubrulle (Maison Française d'Oxford), gives a seminar for the MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars. Chaired by Dr Soraya Tremayne (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford) on 18th November 2020. | Benjamin Dubrulle | 24 Nov 2020 | |
| 528 | Avi Shlaim on Revisionist History and Israel | Piotr Schulkes and Avi Shlaim, Fellow of the British Academy, sit down to discuss Israel’s New Historians; who they are, what they believe, and the popular reception to it. | Avi Shlaim, Piotr Schulkes | 20 Nov 2020 | |
| 527 | The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures | Professor Sami Zemni (Ghent) gives a talk on the Tunisian Revolution on its 10 year anniversary. Part of the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series, chaired by Dr Michael Willis (St Anthony's College). | Sami Zemni | 18 Nov 2020 | |
| 526 | Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Yuval Evri (KCL) - The Return to Al-Andalus: Disputes Over Sephardic Culture and Identity Between Arabic and Hebrew | Yuval Evri discusses his new book, The Return to Al-Andalus, Disputes Over Sephardic Culture and Identity Between Arabic and Hebrew | Yuval Evri | 17 Nov 2020 | |
| 525 | The New Populist nationalism in Saudi Arabia | Madawi Al-Rasheed (KCL and LSE), author of Salman’s Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia (2018) and Ben Hubbard (The New York Times), author of MBS: The Rise to Power of MBS (2020) give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. | Madawi al-Rasheed, Ben Hubbard | 17 Nov 2020 | |
| 524 | Rajput loyalties in the Mughal age | Cynthia Talbot (Texas at Austin) gives a talk for the Asian Studies Centre seminar series on Mughal India and the Rajput. | Cynthia Talbot | 12 Nov 2020 | |
| 523 | Global histories of hierarachy? Reflections from India on Caste, race and the Black Lives Matter movement | Nayanika Mathur (Oxford) and Rosalind O'Hanlon (Oxford) give a talk for the Modern South Asian Studies seminars on the Black Lives Matter movement. | Nayanika Mathur, Rosalind O'Hanlon | 11 Nov 2020 | |
| 522 | Nahshon Perez (Bar-Ilan) and Yuval Jobani (Tel Aviv): Governing the Sacred: Political Toleration in Five Contested Sacred Sites | Nachshon Perez discusses Perez and Jobani's co-authored book on the politics of contested sacred sites | Nachshon Perez | 10 Nov 2020 | |
| 521 | Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt | Dalia Fahmy (Long Island University) editor of Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy (2017), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. | Dalia Fahmy, Daanish Faruqi, Usaama al-Azami | 10 Nov 2020 | |
| 520 | Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement | Part of the Middle East Centre Women's Rights Research Seminars. With Dr Mine Yildirim Chair: Dr Nazila Ghanea (Department for Continuing Education,University of Oxford). | Mine Yildirim, Nazila Ghanea | 06 Nov 2020 | |
| 519 | Domestic audience costs and foreign policy making in India: recent shifts in the BJP's strategy | Unlike ever before in India’s history, domestic political calculations and audience costs dictate the shaping of the country’s foreign and security policy. | Happymon Jacob | 05 Nov 2020 | |
| 518 | Pandemic as event: thinking modern Indian society through a crisis | Conjunctures and crises reveal the fault lines of a society. Covid 19 and the resultant lockdown in India have brought back memories of the devastation wrought by the flu epidemic of 1918 and the political crackdown by the colonial government. | Dilip Menon | 05 Nov 2020 | |
| 517 | Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran | Maryam Alemzadeh (Princeton) Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (St Andrews), author of The Quest for Authority in Iran: a history of the presidency from revolution to Rouhani (2017), give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. | Maryam Alemzadeh, Siavush Randjbar-Daemi | 04 Nov 2020 | |
| 516 | Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Semina: Danielle Drori (Oxford): Yosef Klausner in Translation: Zionism and Christianity | The second seminar in the Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalism Sereis. Danielle Drori discusses Zionism and translation, with a focus on Klausner's Life of Jesus | Danielle Drori | 03 Nov 2020 | |
| 515 | Orientalism and the Language of the Middle East | Lillie Sullivan, Piotr Schulkes, and Hajar Meddah discuss what the Middle East as a region is and how it is portrayed in academia and the media. | Piotr Schulkes, Hajar Meddah, Lillie Sullivan | 02 Nov 2020 | |
| 514 | Hadeel Abu Hussein (Oxford): Palestinian Arab Citizens in Israel, Equality Struggle | Hadeel Abu Hussein discusses the historical stages of the Palestinian Arab citizens in Israel with respect to their political formation and social experience as individuals and a collective starting from 1948, until nowadays. | Hadeel Abu Hussein | 27 Oct 2020 | |
| 513 | The Dictatorship Syndrome | Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Dictatorship Syndrome (2019), gives a talk for the Middle East Centre seminar series. Chaired by Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford) | Alaa Al Aswany, Eugene Rogan | 23 Oct 2020 | |
| 512 | Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Seminar: Yair Wallach, (SOAS): Language of Revival or Conquest? Hebrew in the Streets of early 20th century Jerusalem | Yair Wallach discusses his book A City in Fragments: Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem (Stanford University Press, 2020). | Yair Wallach | 22 Oct 2020 | |
| 511 | Sandy Kedar: Emptied Lands - A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev. | Prof. Sandy Kedar (Haifa) discusses his co-authored book on the legal rights of the Bedouin in the Negev. | Sandy Kedar | 14 Oct 2020 | |
| 510 | Female Entrepreneurship in the Middle East | Frederike Brockhoven sits down with Rania Ayman of Entreprenelle, Yasmeen Mjalli of Babyfist, and Lina Khalifeh of Shefighter to discuss female entrepreneurship in the Middle East. | Frederike Brockhoven, Rania Ayman, Lina Khalifeh | 07 Oct 2020 | |
| 509 | The Kafala System | Hajar Meddah, Felix Walker and Piotr Schulkes discuss the Middle East’s controversial Kafala system, that allows employers to exploit workers and undermine their rights without breaking the law. | Hajar Meddah, Felix Walker, Piotr Schulkes | 28 Sep 2020 | |
| 508 | St Antony's Looks At the World - Ep 7: Dr Thierry Malleret | For Episode 7, we are joined by Dr Thierry Malleret (SAM 1991-2), founder and principal author of the Monthly Barometer - www.monthlybarometer.com/. | Thierry Malleret | 18 Sep 2020 | |
| 507 | The Leszek Kołakowski Lecture: Is Poland still a liberal democracy? Constitutional breakdown and potential revival | Wojciech Sadurski (University of Sydney and University of Warsaw), gives the 2019 Leszek Kołakowski Lecture. | Wojciech Sadurski | 08 Sep 2020 | |
| 506 | 30 Years after the Velvet Revolutions of 1989: Time for a New Liberation? | In this lecture, Professor Timothy Garton Ash will explore the peculiar character of populism in post-communist Europe, and the considerable forces of resistance to it. | Timothy Garton Ash | 08 Sep 2020 | |
| 505 | Normalization, annexation, and the Palestinians | Piotr Schulkes, Frederike Brockhoven, and Michael Memari discuss the impact of the normalization of the UAE-Israeli relationship on Netanyahu’s annexation plan, why it's yet more bad news for Palestinians, and American reticence to improve the situation. | Michael Memari, Frederike Brockhoven, Piotr Schulkes | 08 Sep 2020 | |
| 504 | St Antony's Looks At the World - Ep 1: Professor Simukai Chigudu | Professor Simukai Chigudu, Associate Professor of African Politics, joins us to discuss his book The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe and the lessons for today. | Simukai Chigudu | 26 Aug 2020 | |
| 503 | Antony's Looks At the World - Ep 2: Professor Thomas Hale | Professor Thomas Hale, Associate Professor in Global Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government; Fellow of St Antony's College discusses his recent pioneering work on the Covid-19 response tracker. | Thomas Hale | 26 Aug 2020 | |
| 502 | St Antony's Looks at the World - Ep. 3 Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis | Professor of International Relations, Faculty Fellow, St Antonys College discusses her recent reflections on the Coronavirus pandemic and what it means for our story and myth. | Kalypso Nicolaidis | 26 Aug 2020 | |
| 501 | St Antony's Looks at the World - Ep. 4 - Professor Archie Brown | For our fourth episode of St Antony's Looks at the World, we have Emeritus Fellow Professor Archie Brown discussing his latest book - 'The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Reagan, and Thatcher, and the End of the Cold War'. | Archie Brown, Julie Newton | 26 Aug 2020 | |
| 500 | St Antony's Looks at the World Ep 5: Adam Pourahmadi | For our fifth edition of St Antony's Looks at the World we are delighted to be joined by Adam Pourahmadi (MPhil Modern Middle Eastern Studies, 2015), Digital Producer at CNN. | Adam Pourahmadi | 20 Aug 2020 | |
| 499 | St Antony's Looks at the World Ep 6: Professor Sir John Redwood MP with Dr Zachary Karabell | For our sixth edition of St Antony’s Looks at the World, we present two of our most distinguished alumni: Professor the Rt Hon Sir John Redwood (History, 1971) interviewed by Dr Zachary Karabell (Middle Eastern Studies, 1988). | Sir John Redwood, Zachary Karabell | 20 Aug 2020 | |
| 498 | 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture Europe's Story: Phoenix or Phantom? | Timothy Snyder (Yale) gives the 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf lecture on Friday May 3rd 2019. Introduced by Manfred Lahnstein (ZEIT-Stiftung) and chaired by Timothy Garton Ash (Oxford). | Timothy Synder, Timothy Garten-Ash, Manfred Lahnstein | 18 Jun 2020 | |
| 497 | Germany, Europe and the West - 2020 Annual Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture | The 2020 Dahrendorf Lecture, given by Dr Norbert Röttgen (Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, German Bundestag). The discussant is Gideon Rachman (Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator, Financial Times). Chaired by Professor Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's). | Norbert Röttgen | 15 Jun 2020 | |
| 496 | 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 8. Concluding discussion:from cacophony to polyphony? | What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Natalie Nougayrede (Guardian), Daniel Judt (Oxford) Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (Oxford). | Natalie Nougayrède, Daniel Judt, Timothy Garton Ash | 12 Jun 2020 | |
| 495 | 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium 7. Europe's stories seen from outside | What Stories Does Europe Tell? Contested Narratives, Complex Histories, Conflicted Union. With Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Ashoka University, Delhi), Sonia Lucarelli (University of Bologna), Khaled Fahmy (Cambridge) Chair: Faisal Devji (Oxford). | Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Sonia Lucarelli, Khaled Fahmy, Faisal Devji | 12 Jun 2020 |
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