Department: Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
Talks:

Friday 25 April 2025

The Last Soviet Famine, 1946/47
Date: 25 April 2025, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Professor Yuri Shapoval, Dr Filip Slaveski, Professor Stephen Wheatcroft
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Host: Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Israeli Far-Right amid the Erosion of the 'Legitimate Circle of Politics'
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Ferit Belder (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Bringing Dark Heritage to Light: Monuments to Wartime Foreign Laborers in Japan
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Andrew Gordon (Harvard University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Second-Class Citizenship In Peruvian Amazonia: Everyday life, civil society organisations and indigenous Awajun perspectives
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Sarah A. Radcliffe (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025

The Brazilian Studies Programme Annual Conference: Pathways to Development
Date: 2 May 2025, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Eduardo Posada-Carbó (University of Oxford), Felipe Krause (University of Oxford), Gregory Thaler (University of Oxford), Graham Denyer Willis (University of Cambridge), Karabekir Akkoyunlu (SOAS), Malu A. C. Gatto (University College London), Daniel H. Alves (King's College London), Andreza Souza Santos (King's College London), Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford), Rodrigo Frazalossi de Moraes (University of Southampton), Marina Duque (Newcastle University), Matthew Richmond (Newcastle University), Tom Long (University of Warwick)
Venue: St Hugh's College, St Margaret's Road OX2 6LE
Venue Details: Mordan Hall
Organiser: Felipe Krause (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Love, Pride, Fear, and Happiness: Zionism as a Case Study for 'National Emotions'
Date: 6 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Dr Yair Berlin (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 5
Organisers: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Losing Hurts: Defeated Legislators and Satisfaction with Democracy in Latin America
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Araceli Mateos Díaz (University of Salamanca)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Timothy Power (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid
Date: 12 May 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Prof Rebekah Lee (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Steiner in Zion: The Reception of Anthroposophy in Israel
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Professor Boaz Huss (Ben-Gurion University)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

A Proposal To Unlock Investment For Small-Scale Farmers In Latin America
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:30
Speaker : Miguel Robles (Universidad del Pacifico, Lima)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

"A Man Learns Only from What His Heart Desires": Hebrew Textbooks Reimagined
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:15 - 15:45
Speaker : Rakefet Anzi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford), Professor Yaacov Yadgar
Host: Dr David Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Indigenous Justice In Bolivia And The Travails Of Plurinational Constitutionalism
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : René Provost (McGuill University)
Venue: Latin American Centre Library, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford
Organiser: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme