RSC Public Seminar Series

Speaker: Professor Audrey Macklin (University of Toronto)

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Audrey Macklin is Professor and Chair in Human Rights Law at the University of Toronto. She holds law degrees from Yale and Toronto, and a bachelor of science degree from Alberta. After graduating from Toronto, she served as law clerk to Mme Justice Bertha Wilson at the Supreme Court of Canada. She was appointed to the faculty of Dalhousie Law School in 1991, promoted to Associate Professor 1998, moved to the University of Toronto in 2000, and became a full professor in 2009. While teaching at Dalhousie, she also served as a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board.

Professor Macklin’s teaching areas include criminal law, administrative law, and immigration and refugee law. Her research and writing interests include transnational migration, citizenship, forced migration, feminist and cultural analysis, and human rights. She has published on these subjects in journals such as Refugeand Canadian Woman Studies, and in collections of essays such as The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Bill and Engendering Forced Migration.

Light refreshments will be served after the event.

Medieval Scottish Gothic: Glory and Excess
With Tim Porter, lecturer

(ticket includes tea & cake!)
Friday 5 December, 2–4pm
Ashmolean Museum Lecture Theatre

With the 2014 referendum for Scottish independence, the historic relationship between Scotland and England has recently been a prevalent topic of political discussion. This year also marks the 700th anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn, a significant Scottish victory in the First War of Scottish Independence. These lectures explore three key aspects of the Anglo-Scottish relationship during the Middle Ages.

Tickets are £9/£8 concessions (includes tea & cake), and booking is recommended as places are limited.

Part of a Medieval Scotland Afternoon Tea Lecture Series.
http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Lectures/?id=132

A public meeting of the Oxford Communist Corresponding Society, consisting of an introductory talk of about twenty minutes, followed by an hour of discussion. No need to book.

SPEAKER

Professor Dawn Chatty (Refugee Studies Centre)

Refugee studies rarely address historical matters; yet understanding ideas about sanctuary, refuge and asylum have long roots in both Western and Eastern history and philosophy. Occasionally the Nansen era of the 1920s is examined or the opening years of, say, the Palestinian refugee crisis are addressed. But by and large the circumstances, experiences and influences of refugees and exiles in modern history are ignored. This article attempts to contribute to an exploration of the past and to examine the responses of one State – the late Ottoman Empire – to the forced migration of millions of largely Muslim refugees and exiles from its contested borderland shared with Tsarist Russia into its southern provinces. The seminar focuses on one particular meta-ethnic group, the Circassians, and explores the humanitarian response to their movement both nationally and locally as well as their concerted drive for assisted self-settlement. The Circassians are one of many groups that were on the move at the end of the 19th century and their reception and eventual integration without assimilation in the region provide important lessons for contemporary humanitarianism.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Professor Dawn Chatty is a social anthropologist whose ethnographic interests lie in the Middle East, particularly with nomadic pastoral tribes and refugee young people. Her research interests include a number of forced migration and development issues such as conservation-induced displacement, tribal resettlement, modern technology and social change, gender and development and the impact of prolonged conflict on refugee young people.

Professor Chatty is both an academic anthropologist and a practitioner, having carefully developed her career in universities in the United States, Lebanon, Syria and Oman, as well as with a number of development agencies such as the UNDP, UNICEF, FAO and IFAD. After taking her undergraduate degree with honours at UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles), she took a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies, the Hague, Netherlands. She returned to UCLA to take her PhD in Social Anthropology under the late Professor Hilda Kuper.

Following the award of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, Dawn spent the period October 2005–September 2007 researching and writing a manuscript on Dispossession and Forced Migration in the Middle East. The volume was published by Cambridge University Press (May 2010) with the title Dispossession and Displacement in the Modern Middle East.

Professor Chatty was Director of the Refugee Studies Centre from 2011-2014.

Berwick to Bannockburn: Why England Went to War with Scotland
With Tim Porter, lecturer

Friday 30 January, 2–4pm, Ashmolean Lecture Theatre
Ticket includes tea & cake

With the 2014 referendum for Scottish independence, the historic relationship between Scotland and England has recently been a prevalent topic of political discussion. This year also marks the 700th anniversary of the battle of Bannockburn, a significant Scottish victory in the First War of Scottish Independence. These lectures explore three key aspects of the Anglo-Scottish relationship during the Middle Ages.

Tickets are £9/£8 concessions (includes tea & cake), and booking is recommended as places are limited. http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Lectures/?id=132

21CC is a multidisciplinary conference, which unites leading minds to explore the opportunities and challenges of the 21st century. Led by Oxford students it is partnered with the Oxford Martin School, which pioneers research, policy and debate on global issues.

What: Our 2015 conference will cover some of the most pressing global challenges and opportunities of the 21st century including cybersecurity, geoengineering, inequality and arms trafficking.

Who: Speakers include the Director of Privacy International, the UK Parliamentary Cyber Adviser, previous Director of the Special Forces, the ex-VP of the World Bank, Head of Arms Control at Amnesty International, Directors from the Institute for New Economic Thinking, leading climate change scientists, UN and NATO experts and many more!

When: 7th Feb, Saturday of 3rd Week, at the Mathematics Institute.

Visit: www.21cc-oxford.com for tickets and more info!

SPEAKER

Professor Yasmin Khan (Kellogg College, University of Oxford)

This paper seeks to frame the Partition of India of 1947 as a wartime event and to situate it within the context of wartime transformations in India of the 1940s. India was greatly changed by the war, and became a receiving country for the first time of thousands of refugees of numerous nationalities from Eastern Europe, Russia and South East Asia. In particular, the arrival of British and Indian refugees from Burma after the Japanese invasion of 1942 had a significant impact on Indian opinions about refugees and their rights. The ‘civil society’ responses of political parties – particularly the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League – to wartime refugees paved the way for responses in 1947 as refugee rehabilitation was already established as a political tool for consolidating vote-banks in the context of decolonisation. British India’s responses to wartime refugees helped to establish structures that would be revitalised in response to the massive Partition crisis, when India and Pakistan were created in 1947.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Professor Yasmin Khan is a British historian and writer, and University Lecturer in British History (18th to early 20th century) based in the Department for Continuing Education, and a member of the History Faculty. Her research focuses on the history of the British in India, the British Empire, South Asian decolonisation, refugees and the aftermath of empire. She has also written about the Second World War and the imperial dimensions of the conflict.

She was educated at Oxford (St. Peter’s and St. Antony’s colleges) and was previously a Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and a Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has held research grants from the British Academy (Postdoctoral Fellowship), the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust.

Publications include The Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan (Yale University Press/Penguin India, 2007) which won the Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society. She has also published in journals including History Workshop Journal, Modern Asian Studies and The Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs.

Professor Khan has given public lectures and talks in the UK, Nepal, India, Pakistan and the USA. She is a trustee of the Charles Wallace India Trust which welcomes applications from Indian research students. She is an editor of History Workshop Journal, a journal committed to debating the role of history in public life, and exploring the dialogue between past and present. She has contributed to media including the Guardian, BBC Radio and Channel 4 News.

SPEAKER

Dr Benjamin Gray (University of Edinburgh)

This paper will address the place of exiles and refugees in the Greek polis (city-state), with a focus on the later Classical and Hellenistic periods (c. 400-100 BC). It will address the different forms of protection and aid granted by Greek poleis and their citizens to Greeks displaced through war and civil strife. It will also analyse the range of arguments advanced by ancient Greeks for protecting or helping exiles and refugees, including the self-presentation of displaced Greeks themselves. For example, refugees and their hosts could present aid to displaced groups as inspired by justice, law, freedom and shared Greek identity. Alternatively, in a move which became increasingly prominent in the period considered here, they could present help to the displaced as a matter of humane sympathy or even charity. This paper will argue that the diverse range of relevant Greek practices and values both reflected and helped to shape complex and shifting ancient Greek ideas about the city, citizenship, democracy, justice, freedom, virtue and gender. Throughout its argument, the paper will draw connections and contrasts between ancient Greek and modern practices and ideology, and their underpinnings in broader ethical and political ideals. Modern practices and values concerning aid to refugees draw on, and combine, different ancient Greek approaches and traditions, as well as departing from them.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

After growing up in south-east London, Dr Gray studied Classics at Merton College, Oxford (2002-2006). He was then elected a Fellow by Examination at All Souls College, Oxford (2006-2013), where he did postgraduate research and began teaching ancient history. He moved to Edinburgh as a Chancellor’s Fellow in October 2012.

Dr Gray is principally interested in the ancient Greek city-state and in ancient Greek political and ethical thought, especially of the fourth century BC and the Hellenistic and early Imperial periods. He studies the wide-ranging political and ethical ideas and debates of those periods, with particular attention to the multiple connections between political rhetoric and political philosophy. A central aim of this work is to integrate the evidence of the inscribed public documents of Greek cities more closely into the history of ancient Greek ethical and political thought, by comparing their rhetoric with that of literary and philosophical sources. He is also interested in the modern reception of ancient politics, especially in connection with issues of migration and deportation and with the history of European socialism.

SPEAKER

Dr Tom Lambert (Exeter College, University of Oxford)

The relationship between host and guest is a prominent feature of early medieval law. Hosts are expected to protect their guests: harming someone else’s guest, or even behaving in a way likely to provoke violence, is a serious insult for which financial compensation is required. This idea that homes are protected spaces underlies their use as refuges by people in fear of violence, and seems to have had a strong influence on the way sanctuary in churches was understood. This paper places Anglo-Saxon (c.600-1100) legal treatments of refuge in the context of a broader web of ideas, looking at the problems that hospitality could raise by giving potentially threatening outsiders protection without simultaneously integrating them into local legal networks, and the various ways we find laws trying to address these problems without denying people’s right to protect their guests in principle. It concludes by surveying the erosion of this right in most contexts apart from churches in the twelfth century, as well as its survival in the form of ecclesiastical sanctuary rights throughout the later Middle Ages.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr Lambert is a historian of early and high medieval England with broad-ranging interests in social, cultural, economic and political developments between the seventh and thirteenth centuries. His research is on legal themes; in particular, it focuses on the issue of how and why kings asserted their right to punish wrongdoing in a society that also regarded vengeance and compensation in feud as legitimate legal practice. His main interest is on what would be termed ‘crime and punishment’ in later periods. What makes the subject fascinating, in his view, is that this way of thinking about law and order fits with early medieval ideas about wrongdoing imperfectly. ‘Crime and punishment’ was clearly part of Anglo-Saxon legal culture, but so too was violent vengeance in feud: the challenge is understanding how these seemingly very different approaches to wrongdoing could coexist as part of a coherent legal system. He is currently working on a book – provisionally entitled Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England – that looks at this issue in detail.

Dr Lambert completed his undergraduate degree in history at the University of Durham and stayed there for both a Masters in Medieval History and a PhD, which he finished in 2009. He then held a one-year fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research in London before coming to teach in Oxford in October 2010 as a lecturer at Balliol College. He moved to Exeter College in September 2012 to take up the Bennett Boskey Career Development Fellowship in History, a position that balances the research element of a junior research fellowship with the tutorial responsibilities of a college lecturer.

The Oxford Israel Forum is delighted to be hosting Lieutenant Hen Mazzig who will speak about his role as an IDF Humanitarian Officer in efforts to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

Hen was in the IDF for almost five years. As a lieutenant in the COGAT unit, he worked as an intermediary between the Israeli Defence Forces and the Palestinian Authority, the UN and the many NGOs that work in the West Bank. During his service, he facilitated several infrastructure projects including the construction of schools, hospitals, roads and water-related infrastructure. Hen also served as an as an openly gay LGBTQ activist in the IDF.

He is now a prolific blogger, political commentator and Director of Israeli Education at StandWithUs.

SPEAKER

Professor Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester)

In this talk, Professor Gatrell will throw down the gauntlet by challenging historians of the modern world to take refugees seriously. Why, when other ‘marginalised’ groups – women, the working class and slave populations for example – have become incorporated into the mainstream of historiography, have refugees been left in the cold? Perhaps it is because refugees are thought to be unorganised, inactive and inarticulate. Perhaps the neglect originates in the belief that refugees are transient players on the world stage, in the sense that ‘being refugee’ is assumed to be a dramatic but brief hiatus. These assumptions are problematic and questionable. But what might ‘refugee history’ look like? In picking up the gauntlet, Professor Gatrell’s answer will necessarily be wide-ranging, taking account of histories of categorisation, political upheaval, humanitarianism and the often problematic relationship of refugees to their own past.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Professor Gatrell has spent most of his academic career at the University of Manchester, with short spells teaching part-time at the University of Liverpool and at the London School of Economics. His first teaching post was at the University of East Anglia (1976). His undergraduate and PhD degrees are from the University of Cambridge. Between 1997 and 2002 he was Head of the School of History and Classics, which now forms part of the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures. He currently chairs Sub-panel 27 (Area Studies) for the REF (Research Excellence Framework), 2014. He is one of the founding members of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester.

The British Academy awarded him a Research Readership in 1995-1997, enabling him to research and to write A Whole Empire Walking: Refugees in Russia during World War 1 (Indiana University Press, 1999), as well as several related articles and conference papers. This book won the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize, 2000, awarded by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies for ‘outstanding work in Russian, East European or Eurasian studies in any branch of the humanities or social sciences’, and the Alec Nove Prize, 2001, awarded by British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies, for an ‘outstanding monograph in Russian and East European Studies’.

He has since extended his interest in the history of population displacement in a number of directions. These include collaborative research projects on population displacement, state-building and social identity in the aftermath of the First World War and the Second World War – see publications. He also became interested in the UN and global campaigns on behalf of refugees, and in 2011, Free World? The campaign to save the world’s refugees, 1956-1963 was published by Cambridge University Press.

His latest book is entitled The Making of the Modern Refugee (Oxford University Press, 2013).

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SPEAKER

Dr Gerhard Wolf (University of Sussex)

In anticipation of a demographic crisis in Europe in the aftermath of the war, US President Roosevelt set up the M(igration)-Project in 1942. Convinced that demographic problems had heavily contributed to, and were further exacerbated by the two world wars, radical solutions were sought to prevent Europe from driving the world into the abyss again. Solutions proposed included the establishment of an International Settlement Authority to oversee mass emigration of those who could not be integrated into, and were thereby threatening, the stability of the envisaged European post-war order that was taking shape at Potsdam: refugees, ethnic minorities and surplus populations. This paper will analyse the work done by the M-Project, situate it in the context of US demographic policies towards Europe and European refugees, and look at how these plans affected population policies in Europe until 1950.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr Wolf studied German-Jewish Studies at Sussex (MA in 2000), political science at the Free University in Berlin (2001), and history at the Free University Berlin, the University of Hamburg, and the Humboldt University Berlin (PhD in 2010).

His research focuses on modern German and European history, in particular the history of European population policies, migration, National Socialism, the Holocaust and genocide.

He is Deputy Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex.

What the World is losing in Iraq

A special talk with Dr Paul Collins, Curator of the Ancient Near East Collections at the Ashmolean Museum

Thursday 2 April, 1-2pm, Lecture Theatre

Ancient Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) is where the world’s first cities emerged along with the invention of writing, the codification of laws, and the creation of extensive empires. This talk explores the recent destruction of museums, libraries, archaeological sites, mosques, churches and shrines across northern Iraq to highlight the unique heritage that is being lost.

This talk in the Lecture Theatre is FREE and no booking is required.

This book talk is a joint event between the Oxford Martin School and the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

This book talk will see author Chris Woods discuss his new book Sudden Justice: America’s Secret Drone Wars, an exposé of the little-understood yet extremely significant world of drone warfare. His work is based on insights from many of those intimately involved – the pilots and analysts, US and UK intelligence officials, Special Forces and Pentagon commanders.

Chris Woods is an award-wining investigative journalist who specialises in conflict and national security issues. During almost a decade at the BBC, he was a senior producer for both Panorama and Newsnight.

The event will be introduced by Dr Alex Leveringhaus, a James Martin Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and lead author of the recent Oxford Martin Policy Paper Robo-Wars: The Regulation of Robotic Weapons.

The book talk will be followed by a book signing, all welcome

This book talk will be live webcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdE9AJrZ_Fk

Evening with Sami Awad of the Holyland Trust http://www.holylandtrust.org
Monday 15th June – Impossible to Possible: what does nonviolence mean in Palestine today?
Palestinian Christian Sami Awad, the Executive Director of the Holy Land Trust will lead discussions about nonviolence and its role in bringing a just and lasting peace to all who live in the Holy Land.
Holy Land Trust exists to lead in creating an environment that fosters understanding, healing, transformation, and empowerment of individuals and communities, locally and globally, to address core challenges that are preventing the achievement of a true and just peace in the Holy Land.
6.30pm for 7.00pm start; Friends Meeting House, 43 St. Giles, Oxford.
“It is encouraging for us to know that people have realised that you can stand up for the human rights of the Palestinians without compromising the rights of Israelis to also live in peace. You do not have to pick a side. I invite you ..to continue praying for peace for both communities that live in what we all call the Holy Land.”
Sami Awad.
“We have to not only understand those people who are oppressing us, but try to walk in their shoes, and ultimately to really engage with what it means to follow Jesus’ call to love our enemies.”
Sami Awad.
Sami will be visiting the UK with the Amos Trust. As well as the event on 15th June, Sami will also give a sermon in St Giles Church on Sunday 14th June. These events contribute to the Oxford Palestine Unlocked festival (4th – 20th June) . More details on the website http://palestineunlocked.com and also http://www.amostrust.org

This is a special workshop hosted by the Refugee Studies Centre as part of Oxford Refugee Week.

Programme:

Chair: Professor Dawn Chatty, Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration and former Director of the RSC

Speakers:
Dr Jeff Crisp, independent consultant, RSC Research Associate, and former Head of Policy Development & Evaluation at UNHCR

Dr Maria Kastrinou, Lecturer, Brunel University

Dr Sara Pantuliano, Director of Humanitarian Policy Group, Overseas Development Institute

Dr Patricia Sellick, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Trust, Peace & Social Relations, Coventry University

Professor Roger Zetter, Professor Emeritus of Refugee Studies, RSC

Since 2011, the on-going conflict in Syria has had an enduring and devastating impact. According to the latest inter-country report of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the humanitarian crisis has reached an unprecedented scale: 7.6 million people are internally displaced in Syria, while more than 3.9 million are seeking protection in neighbouring Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.

Against the background of this unprecedented humanitarian crisis, what are Syrians’ aspirations for their futures? What kind of futures do they want to build? And what measures have EU Member States taken in response to the crisis?

This workshop will draw on ethnographic accounts from work directly with Syrian communities in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey. The workshop will bring together experts and academics that have had direct fieldwork experience and can speak about the concerns, needs and aspirations of Syrians who have fled Syria.

This event is open to all. No registration is required.

A wine reception will follow afterward.

A one-day free exhibit featuring powerful children’s drawings from Burma and Sudan.

The event is co-sponsored by Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) and Waging Peace. The drawings from Burma were collected on visits by HART to their partners. HART works with these partners and others in conflict or post-conflict areas, often facing persecution and oppression and trapped behind closed borders. The areas in which HART’s partners work are often not reached by larger organisations and Government support.

The pictures from Sudan were collected by Waging Peace, from Darfuri children living in refugee camps in Chad. Waging Peace is a non-governmental organisation that campaigns against genocide and systematic human rights abuses and seeks the full implementation of international human rights treaties.

These drawings are commanding and moving, providing an insight into the lives and minds of children living in these contexts.

A lecture in aid of the British red Cross services in Oxfordshire and beyond kindly given by award winning journalist Peter Taylor and entitled ‘Terrorism from IRA to Al Quaeda and ISIL.’ In his lecture Peter will describe his 40 year journey from reporting the IRA to investigating Al Qaeda and, latterly, assessing the Islamic State. He will discuss how successful – or otherwise – governments and states have been in countering the threats and addressing their root causes.

In conjunction with The Angus Library and Archive’s exhibition, ‘Navigating the Congo’, Bandi Mbubi, will be joining us to speak about conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo and his work in demanding the development of fairtrade technology which uses conflict-free minerals.

Bandi Mbubi is a founder and director of Congo Calling, an organisation who are working to bring the world’s attention to the atrocities being committed in the Congo and for a peaceful resolution to the ongoing war. Bandi writes and speaks nationally and internationally to create a mass movement of consumers who demand the development of fair trade technology which uses ethically-sourced, conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The exhibition will be open to visitors before the talk from 1pm-5.30pm on 22nd September.

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2 pm on Wednesdays, normally in the Barclay Room, Green Templeton College.
Convenors: James Painter, David Levy

Nazanine Moshiri, roving correspondent, Al Jazeera English
2 December: ‘The changing nature of reporting from a war zone’

One week after the 1967 ‘Six-Day War’, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz and Editor Avraham Shapira, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing only a fragment of the conversations to be published. Censored Voices reveals these original recordings for the first time.

Following the screening, there will be a talk from Professor Derek Penslar, Oxford’s Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies. Dr Penslar has written a number of books and articles on Israel’s place in modern Jewish and world history, and co-edits two scholarly journals, The Journal of Israeli History and Jewish Social Studies.

Please book by emailing events@lmh.ox.ac.uk

A public meeting featuring veteran peace campaigner Bruce Kent plus speakers from CND and Momentum. There will also be questions and discussion.

Parliament will soon be making a decision on Trident replacement. Come and hear the facts.

All welcome – feel free to join in the discussion or just listen.

Organised by Oxford CND and Momentum Oxford

The 2016 annual Heron-Allen lecture will be given by Dominic Johnson, Alastair Buchan Chair of International Relations, Director of Research, at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), Oxford.

For millions of years, humans and other animals have had to find ways to coexist in sharing finite resources in the environment. Often this has led to competition and conflict, but it has also led to the evolution of remarkable adaptations and systems of social organisation that promote cooperation and sharing. Dominic suggests that we have often focused too much on the former and not enough on the latter, more optimistic aspects of ecology and evolution. Today, with the rapid rise in human population and consumption, the Earth’s finite resources are dwindling beyond repair, and we desperately need fresh approaches to maximise our chances of damage limitation. Dominic and the interdisciplinary “Natural Governance” project team at Oxford suggest that major new insights may come from studying and learning how other species, as well as indigenous human societies, have successfully managed common resources in the past, and the social and behavioural mechanisms which enable this sharing and conflict resolution to succeed. The team believe that, even if by small steps, this approach opens a new avenue for the successful governance of natural resources. From long term studies of badgers in Wytham Woods, to hunter-gatherers in Africa, to contemporary conflicts over resources, the talk will give examples of new ways to think about our predicament and ask whether nature itself may hold solutions to help us preserve it.

The lecture starts promptly at 5.15pm in the Simpkins Lee Theatre and finishes with a drinks reception in the Monson Room. The event is free to attend and guests are welcome. To book your place(s), please email events@lmh.ox.ac.uk.

An introductory talk of about twenty minutes, followed by Q&As and an hour or so’s discussion among the audience. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take an active part in the discussion.

Dr Barghouti will talk about the situation in Palestine, concentrating on the Palestinian strategy of non-violent resistance, and the exposure of the grave violations of human rights in occupied Palestine.

Speaker:
Dr Mustafa Barghouti, General Secretary, Palestine National Initiative (Mubadara), Ramallah, Palestine

Chair:
Dr Avi Shlaim, Senior Research Fellow, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford

Speaker: Dr Rita Giacaman, Founding Director, Institute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Palestine

Rita Giacaman will present research findings on the impact of the 2009 and 2014 assaults on the health of the population of Gaza.

Speaker: Miri Weingarten, Physicians for Human Rights–Israel

Miri Weingarten will link the attempts made by Israeli and Palestinian groups to seek accountability for Palestinians in international fora and the punitive responses of the Israeli government.

Introductory Speaker and Chair:

▪Karl Sabbagh, British-Palestinian writer, documentary maker, and publisher

Panel members:

▪ Mustafa Barghouti, Palestine National Initiative (Mubadara), Ramallah, Palestine

▪ Rita Giacaman, Birzeit University, Palestine

▪ Jeremy Moodey, Embrace the Middle East

▪ Karma Nabulsi, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

▪ Naomi Wayne, Jews for Justice for Palestinians

Short film and panel discussion with:

▪ Sir Stephen Sedley – one of the authors of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office report ‘Children in Military Custody’ (2012) which was discussed this January in Parliament

▪ William Parry – journalist/documentary film maker ‘Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails’

▪ Oxford Ramallah Friendship Association visitors who attended a juvenile court in the West Bank

(Event run by Oxford Ramallah Friendship Association – ORFA)

In the fourth and final lecture of the Trinity Term Annual Lecture Series on ‘Global Education’, Prof Stefan Dercon will discuss ‘Education and jobs as a response to the Syrian refugee crisis’.
Speaker
Prof Stefan Dercon is Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Economics Department, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economics and Chief Economist at the UK Department of International Development. His research at Oxford University relates to the application of microeconomics and statistics to problems of development.

BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson discusses his first-hand experiences of world-wide events, from the 2011 Libyan civil war to the current-day migrant crisis.