Department: Middle East Centre
Talks:

Friday 24 January 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 24 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Associate Professor Joseph Bahout (American University of Beirut)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Middle East Centre, Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 January 2025

The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 28 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Caroline Tee (University of Chester), Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL), Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (University of Cambridge), Associate Professor Fabio Vicini (University of Verona)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Friday 31 January 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 31 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Richard Barltrop (Trustee, The Sudanese Programme)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Laurent Mignon (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian Voter Records
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 11 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Associate Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford)

Friday 14 February 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 14 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Dahlia Scheindlin (Fellow, Century International & Columnist, Haaretz Newspaper)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

Genocide in Gaza
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 18 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Friday 21 February 2025

The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 21 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Johannes Waardenburg (IULM)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Friday 28 February 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 28 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Khalil Shikaki (Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 4 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Max Gallien (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Michael Willis (St Antony's College)

Friday 7 March 2025

From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 7 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jerome Drevon (Senior Analyst, Crisis Group)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 11 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)

Friday 14 March 2025

Do we really owe Arabs nothing?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 14 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Fouad Laroui
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Michael Willis (St Antony's College)