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‘God knows this is a chronic, protracted situation’: The Myanmar military’s war on IDPs in Kachin and northern Shan states 5:00 pm
‘God knows this is a chronic, protracted situation’: The Myanmar military’s war on IDPs in Kachin and northern Shan states @ Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Nov 2 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
'God knows this is a chronic, protracted situation': The Myanmar military's war on IDPs in Kachin and northern Shan states @ Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College | England | United Kingdom
As the world watches the Myanmar military decimate the country’s Rohingya Muslim population, in northern Myanmar the military is fighting a war by other means. Across Kachin and northern Shan state, an estimated 120,000 people[...]
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Devaki Jain Lecture with Sonia Montaño 5:30 pm
Devaki Jain Lecture with Sonia Montaño @ Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College
Nov 6 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Devaki Jain Lecture with Sonia Montaño @ Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College | England | United Kingdom
How a Bolivian became a Feminist: A Personal History Sonia Montaño is a Bolivian sociologist. She is currently active in Bolivia as a feminist researcher and activist and member of PIEB (Programa de Investigation Estrategica[...]
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The Sweatshop Regime: Garments, Exploitation, and labouring Bodies made in India 2:00 pm
The Sweatshop Regime: Garments, Exploitation, and labouring Bodies made in India @ Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Nov 7 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The Sweatshop Regime: Garments, Exploitation, and labouring Bodies made in India @ Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum | England | United Kingdom
Drawing from Marxian and feminist insights, this presentation, based on a recently completed book, theorizes the garment sweatshop in India as a complex ‘regime’ of exploitation and oppression, jointly crafted by global, regional and local[...]
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Decolonise the Curriculum: A panel discussion 7:30 pm
Decolonise the Curriculum: A panel discussion @ Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall
Nov 8 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Decolonise the Curriculum: A panel discussion @ Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall | England | United Kingdom
How does the curriculum shape our society? Who decides what is important? How can it be improved? Our diverse panel of academics, activists and educators will dive into these and other questions related to the[...]
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Tracing Conscience in Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka 1960s to 2000s 2:00 pm
Tracing Conscience in Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka 1960s to 2000s @ Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Nov 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Tracing Conscience in Time of War: Archiving a History of Dissent in Sri Lanka 1960s to 2000s @ Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum | England | United Kingdom
Jonathan Spencer is Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society at the University of Edinburgh. He has carried out research in Sri Lanka since the early 1980s. His most recent book, Checkpoint, Temple,[...]
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Talking climate in Texas – Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and Christian 7:00 pm
Talking climate in Texas – Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and Christian @ The University Church of St Mary
Nov 15 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Talking climate in Texas - Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist and Christian @ The University Church of St Mary | England | United Kingdom
Katharine Hayhoe has been named one of FORTUNE’s ‘World’s Greatest Leaders’, TIME’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ and Huffington Post’s ‘20 Climate Champions’, and has shared the stage with Barack Obama and Leonardo DiCaprio to talk[...]
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Disability and Education – Meet the challenge of disability in schools and universities 5:00 pm
Disability and Education – Meet the challenge of disability in schools and universities @ St Anne's College
Nov 20 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Disability and Education - Meet the challenge of disability in schools and universities @ St Anne's College | England | United Kingdom
This seminar aims to address the difficulties met by disabled students and teachers in school and university and to hear more about what we can all do to ensure that those meeting such challenges enjoy[...]
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The British High Commission in Pakistan 1947-65: Role and History 2:00 pm
The British High Commission in Pakistan 1947-65: Role and History @ Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Nov 21 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The British High Commission in Pakistan 1947-65: Role and History @ Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum | England | United Kingdom
The paper examines the roles of three influential heads of the British High Commission in Pakistan’s early post-independence history, Sir Gilbert Laithwaite (1951-4), Sir Alexander Symon (1954-61) and Sir Morrice James (1961-5). In particular it[...]
Like a family? Values, Hierarchies and Child Labour in Myanmar’s Small Businesses Sector 3:30 pm
Like a family? Values, Hierarchies and Child Labour in Myanmar’s Small Businesses Sector @ Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College
Nov 21 @ 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Like a family? Values, Hierarchies and Child Labour in Myanmar’s Small Businesses Sector @ Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College | England | United Kingdom
Drawing on ethnographic data gathered in Pathein, Myanmar, the paper investigates the moral underpinnings of responsibilities and hierarchies in small businesses, specifically the question of what makes a good employer. It will show how responsibilities[...]
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Inducement and Smaller-States’ Triple Trade-offs: Southeast Asian Responses to China’s Belt and Road Initiative 2:00 pm
Inducement and Smaller-States’ Triple Trade-offs: Southeast Asian Responses to China’s Belt and Road Initiative @ Deakin Room, St Antony's College
Nov 22 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Inducement and Smaller-States' Triple Trade-offs: Southeast Asian Responses to China's Belt and Road Initiative @ Deakin Room, St Antony's College | England | United Kingdom
Policy is about trade-offs, more so in the realm of external affairs. This is especially true for weaker and smaller states faced with material inducement from big power, as their inherent limitations and vulnerabilities mean[...]
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND THE GLASS CEILING 10:30 am
WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND THE GLASS CEILING @ The Jam Factory
Nov 25 @ 10:30 am – 2:00 pm
WOMEN IN SCIENCE AND THE GLASS CEILING @ The Jam Factory | England | United Kingdom
The Oxford constituency of the Spanish Researchers in the United Kingdom (SRUK) is holding a discussion panel entitled “Women in science and the glass ceiling” where three invited speakers will give a short talk about[...]
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The Political Economy of Business-State Deals in Indian States 2:00 pm
The Political Economy of Business-State Deals in Indian States @ Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum
Nov 28 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
The Political Economy of Business-State Deals in Indian States @ Headley Lecture Theatre, Ashmolean Museum | England | United Kingdom
India has historically performed badly in the World Bank’s Doing Business Indicators and a key objective of the current Indian government is about improving de jure rules around investment decisions so as to facilitate economic[...]
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THE INTRIGUING WORLD OF BUTTERFLY BIOLOGY: novel approaches and many surprises 6:00 pm
THE INTRIGUING WORLD OF BUTTERFLY BIOLOGY: novel approaches and many surprises @ Oxford Brookes University (John Henry Brookes Lecture Theater)
Nov 29 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Professor Tim Shreeve will explore why different species of butterflies have alternative responses to environmental change. Butterflies are important indicators of environmental change and their status in the UK and Europe is changing rapidly. Tim’s[...]
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Production, reproduction and empowerment: the future of women in Africa 5:00 pm
Production, reproduction and empowerment: the future of women in Africa @ Oxford Martin School
Nov 30 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Women in Africa are congregated in poorly paid and precarious work (ILO, 2016) and have very high rates of school dropout, mortality and childhood morbidity. This is crucially linked to their role in childbirth and[...]