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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[...]
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[...]
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,[...]
Mike Mesterton-Gibbons grew up in Coventry and graduated in 1974 with a BA in Mathematics from the University of York and in 1977 with a DPhil in Applied Mathematics from the University of Oxford. He[...]
What is the social responsibility of the sciences? In recent times, ethical conflicts surrounding race, gender, and the natural sciences have surfaced again. A recent editorial in Nature defending memorials to J. Marion Sims, who[...]
Join Saba Douglas-Hamilton, the highly acclaimed elephant conservationist and wildlife TV presenter of This Wild Life and Big Cat Diaries for an evening of exciting animal stories and intimate behind the scenes tales of life[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
A panel discussion on radio and youth-led development in southern Africa. Hosted by Rev’d Charlotte Bannister-Parker and facilitated by Nina Callaghan, Associate Director of the Children’s Radio Foundation. Panellists: The Rev’d Canon Mpho Tutu, CRF[...]
The annual Nabeel Hamdi Lecture, presented by CENDEP and the Oxford Human Rights Festival. Emeritus Professor Nabeel Hamdi is the founder of the MA in Development and Emergency Practice and long term director of CENDEP[...]
70 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, has the UN Human Rights Council lost its credibility? The Oxford Israel Forum and The Oxford Forum are delighted to host Hillel Neuer,[...]
The Rohingyas violently expelled by Myanmar are not recognized as international refugees by Bangladesh. Despite lacking citizenship and the right to work, they have sought to survive through covert employment in labour markets and clientelist[...]
In this paper, Tamsin Barber interrogates the role of recent debates around Modern Slavery and trafficking in framing and understanding the experience of new Vietnamese migrants working in the cannabis trade and nail salons in[...]
Dr. Claire Patterson is Associate Principal Scientist in Biopharmaceutics at AstaraZeneca, Macclesfield. She works at the interface between formulation development and in vivo product performance. Claire’s talk will introduce concepts in building mechanistic models of[...]
Immense ingenuity and unprecedented levels of funding are available for drug discovery, yet pharmaceutical research and development is failing to produce the medicines society requires. New organisational models of drug discovery are clearly needed, and[...]
This is a joint lecture with INET Oxford From biology to technology, a powerful mechanism to create innovation is recombination – the formation of new systems by combining old parts in new ways. However, we[...]
A short talk on the topic followed by a discussion finishing off with a guided meditation.
The presenters will reflect on their proposal to draw Sri Lanka into the paradigm of global history through the recently published edited collection Sri Lanka at the Crossroads of History (UCL, 2017 – the full[...]
This fifteen-year project has studied the fates and fortunes of 400 or so of the rarest plants in the county. The rate of loss of species has risen sharply from about one per decade to[...]
How can we understand ‘tension’, the experience of rigidity that often underpins systemic structures of domination, epistemic violence as well as physical aggression in South Asia? Following Zygmunt Bauman, I want to suggest that ‘tension’[...]
The Oxford Israel Forum, Oxford PPE Society and Oxford International Relations Society are delighted to host Dan Meridor, former Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. Mr Meridor will be discussing the current political situation in Israel[...]
Join Oxford Chancellor Lord Patten of Barnes in conversation with former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans in a special UK launch of the Evans’s recently published political memoir Incorrigible Optimist. Gareth Evans, Oxford PPE graduate[...]
Biomimetics is about bringing nature’s technology to business, but as commercial products appear on the horizon, more skills are quickly needed. In this case, the journey moves from the Great Barrier Reef to the Cambrian[...]
Parul Bhandari is currently a Visiting Scholar at St. Edmund’s College and the Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS), University of Cambridge, UK. She is also a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre of Social Sciences[...]
James Thornton is the founding CEO of ClientEarth. The New Statesman has named him as one of 10 people who could change the world, while The Lawyer has picked him as one of the top[...]
Sejuti Das Gupta’s current research project is a monograph on Indian agrarian political economy, based on her doctoral dissertation, to be published with Cambridge University Press in 2018. Her areas of interest are agrarian political[...]
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