Name: MEC Administrator
St Anthonys College
Events this person is hosting:
Wednesday 18 November 2020
Feminists in the eyes of God: theories and practices of queer Muslim women in Britain
Date: 18 November 2020, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker
:
Dr Benjamin Dubrulle (Maison Française d'Oxford)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organisers:
Dr Nazila Ghanea ((Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford)),
Dr Soraya Tremayne (University of Oxford),
Professor Marilyn Booth (Al Saud Professor, Magdalen College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Tuesday 9 February 2021
The Arab and the Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
Date: 9 February 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Bashir Bashir (Open University of Israel),
Leila Farsakh (University of Massachusetts Boston),
Amal Ghazal (Simon Fraser University),
Brian Klug (Universiy of Oxford),
Hadeel Abu Hussein (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 21 May 2021
War on Bodies: Moral Immunity and the Psychopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran
Date: 21 May 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Orkideh Behrouzan (SOAS University of London),
Dr Maziyar Ghiabi (Wellcome Trust Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Monday 11 October 2021
The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives - Opening session
Date: 11 October 2021, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Cyrus Schayegh,
Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: ZOOM Webinar - This is the opening session for The Middle East c.1960-1980 - Global and Transnational Perspectives. Subsequent sessions will be held online from 5 pm UK time every Monday in Michaelmas term
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 15 October 2021
Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East
Date: 15 October 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Antony's College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 22 October 2021
MEC Friday Webinar Series - Dr Hussam Hussein - The politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan
Date: 22 October 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr. Hussam Hussein, Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 27 October 2021
Exclusion and Resistance: The Betrayal of the Afghan Peace Process
Date: 27 October 2021, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Lina Tori Jan (St. Antony’s College | Master of Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government)
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organisers:
Dr Nazila Ghanea ((Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford)),
Dr Soraya Tremayne (University of Oxford),
Professor Marilyn Booth (Al Saud Professor, Magdalen College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 29 October 2021
MEC Friday Webinar Series - The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its Afterlives
Date: 29 October 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr. Jamie Furniss, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis)/Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 5 November 2021
MEC Friday Webinar Series -Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf
Date: 5 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr. Manal Shehabi, Academic Visitor, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford; Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Monday 8 November 2021
The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Late Pahlavi Iran
Date: 8 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Ali Mirsepassi,
Arash Azizi,
Siavush Ranjbar Daemi,
Edmund Herzig
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser:
Middle East Centre
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 10 November 2021
The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?
Date: 10 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Youssef Cherif (Director, Columbia Global Centers|Tunis),
Dr Anne Wolf (Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 12 November 2021
Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
Date: 12 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS London)
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Monday 15 November 2021
The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Lebanon
Date: 15 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Nathaniel George,
Yvonne Albers,
Zeina Maasri,
Fadi Bardawil
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
Middle East Centre
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 17 November 2021
Social Change through Presence: White Marriage in Iran
Date: 17 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Dr Maral Sahebjame (Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington)
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organisers:
Dr Nazila Ghanea ((Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford)),
Dr Soraya Tremayne (University of Oxford)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 19 November 2021
Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq
Date: 19 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Michael Mason (Director of the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Monday 22 November 2021
The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - The Developmental State
Date: 22 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Touraj Atabaki,
Max Ajl,
Philip Marfleet,
Cyrus Schayegh
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
Middle East Centre
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Thursday 25 November 2021
Afghanistan and the Middle East
Date: 25 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University),
Kate Clark (Journalist)
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 26 November 2021
Climate, Colonialism, and Zionism in Palestine (1882-1948): New Historiographical Perspectives
Date: 26 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Netta Cohen (Christ Church, Oxford University)
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Monday 29 November 2021
The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Gender in the Global Middle East and North Africa
Date: 29 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Faika Çelik,
Aliye Gamze Sarıtunalı,
Amy Kallander,
Hannah Elsisi Ashmawi,
Laleh Khalili
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
Middle East Centre
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 3 December 2021
What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East
Date: 3 December 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Christian Henderson, Assistant Professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 26 January 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Religion
Date: 26 January 2022, 15:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Madawi al-Rasheed (LSE),
Pascal Menoret (Brandeis University)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 9 February 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Sovereignty
Date: 9 February 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Neguin Yavari (University of Leipzig),
Samy Ayoub (University of Texas-Austin)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 16 February 2022
A New Cold War in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)?
Date: 16 February 2022, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker
s:
Dr Guy Burton (Adjunct Professor, Brussels School of Governance),
Dr Christopher M. Davidson (Associate fellow, RUSI),
Dr Diana Galeeva (Academic Visitor to St. Antony’s College, Oxford University),
Dr Michael Willis (St. Antony's College, Oxford University)
Venue Details: St. Antony's College
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 23 February 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Violence
Date: 23 February 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Murad Idris (University of Michigan),
Nesrine Badawi (American University in Cairo)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 9 March 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Law
Date: 9 March 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 27 April 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 1 - EMPIRE
Date: 27 April 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Janet O’Brien, The Courtauld,
Azfar Moin, University of Texas-Austin
Venue Details: Online Webinar via ZOOM
Organiser:
Middle East Centre
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 29 April 2022
BOOK LAUNCH 'Algiers’ lynching, 1956. A social history of colonial racism'
Date: 29 April 2022, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Andrea Brazzoduro (MFO/Turin),
James McDougall (Trinity)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: The Middle East Centre Board Room
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Tuesday 3 May 2022
The Bride: An Illustrated History of Palestine, 1850-1948
Date: 3 May 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Roger Hardy (Former Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 25 May 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 2 - ARAB SPRING
Date: 25 May 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Maria Malmström, Lund University,
Usaama al-Azami, University of Oxford
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 1 June 2022
A Match Made in Heaven: Love and Piety in Iranian Spousal Selection
Date: 1 June 2022, 14:00 - 15:15
Speaker
:
Dr. Ramina Sotoudeh, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Middle East Centre Board Room, St Antony's College & ZOOM
Organisers:
Dr Nazila Ghanea ((Department for Continuing Education University of Oxford)),
Dr Soraya Tremayne (University of Oxford),
Professor Marilyn Booth (Al Saud Professor, Magdalen College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 3 June 2022
The Potential Impact of European Aids on National Curriculum in Emerging Entities Under and Post-Conflicts: Palestine As a Case
Date: 3 June 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Haya Fayyad Abu Hussein (Birzeit University/ Palestine)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 15 June 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 3 - RELIGION
Date: 15 June 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Rushain Abbasi, Stanford University,
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 22 June 2022
CANCELLED - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 4 - MARXISM
Date: 22 June 2022, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Fadi Bardawil, Duke University,
Nadia Bou Ali, American University of Beirut
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Tuesday 21 February 2023
Book Launch “Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism”
Date: 21 February 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Steffen Hertog (Associate professor of comparative politics, Department of Government, LSE)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Tuesday 10 October 2023
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
Date: 10 October 2023, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Nathan Thrall (Author and Journalist)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Tuesday 17 October 2023
HYBRID EVENT - Stories to Connect: The Reza Hosseini Memorial Lecture Series on the past and present of the Middle East
Date: 17 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Ghassan Salamé (Professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre & ZOOM Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Monday 23 October 2023
Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent
Date: 23 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr.Jillian Schwedler (Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: St. Antony’s College, Middle East Centre, Board Room
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Tuesday 24 October 2023
WRRS AND MENA POLITICS JOINT EVENT - Women and electoral politics in Iran and Turkey: Undemocratic structures and feminist resistance
Date: 24 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Mona Tajali, Associate Professor (Agnes Scott College)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: The Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St.Antony's College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Tuesday 31 October 2023
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Lecture Identity and history: The story of Ibn Tulun's demolished City
Date: 31 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Reem Bassiouney (The American University of Cairo)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Tuesday 7 November 2023
CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS - ‘Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba’
Date: 7 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Monday 27 November 2023
Modern Arab Kingship – Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East
Date: 27 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Adam Mestyan (Duke University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 1 December 2023
Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond
Date: 1 December 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Yoav di Capua (The University of Texas at Austin)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Monday 15 January 2024
Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War
Date: 15 January 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College),
Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford),
Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford),
Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Monday 4 March 2024
After Gaza: The Promise and Peril of Pax Americana
Date: 4 March 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Events this person is organising:
Friday 16 October 2020
The Dictatorship Syndrome (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
Date: 16 October 2020, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Alaa Al Aswany
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Friday 23 October 2020
Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
Date: 23 October 2020, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Maryam Alemzadeh ((Princeton)),
Siavush Randjbar-Daemi ((St Andrews))
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Prof Edmund Herzig (University of Oxford)
Friday 30 October 2020
Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
Date: 30 October 2020, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Dalia Fahmy ((Long Island University)),
Daanish Faruqi ((Duke))
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Dr Usaama Al-Azami ((Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford))
Friday 13 November 2020
The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
Date: 13 November 2020, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Sami Zemni ((Ghent))
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 20 November 2020
Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises) (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
Date: 20 November 2020, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College)
Friday 27 November 2020
Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There
Date: 27 November 2020, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Lina Khatib ((Chatham)),
Jeremy Bowen ((BBC News))
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College)
Friday 4 December 2020
The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
Date: 4 December 2020, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Ece Temelkuran
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford)
Friday 22 January 2021
Algeria and Sudan: A Late Spring or an Early Summer?
Date: 22 January 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Mohanad Hashim (BBC),
Dalia Ghanem (Carnegie)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Michael Willis (St Antony's)
Friday 29 January 2021
Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?
Date: 29 January 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Maha Yahya ((Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre)),
Maysoun Pachachi ((Film Director))
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford)
Friday 5 February 2021
The Place of Religion After the Uprisings
Date: 5 February 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Shadi Hamid (Brookings),
Nadia Oweidat (University of Kansa)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Dr Usaama Al-Azami ((Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford))
Tuesday 9 February 2021
The Arab and the Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
Date: 9 February 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Bashir Bashir (Open University of Israel),
Leila Farsakh (University of Massachusetts Boston),
Amal Ghazal (Simon Fraser University),
Brian Klug (Universiy of Oxford),
Hadeel Abu Hussein (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 12 February 2021
Libya: Past, Present and Future
Date: 12 February 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Anas al-Gomati (Sadeq Institute),
Mary Fitzgerald (King's College London)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Dr Usaama Al-Azami ((Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford))
Friday 19 February 2021
Russia and the Arab Uprisings
Date: 19 February 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Vitaly Naumkin (Russian Academy of Sciences),
Alexey Vasiliev (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford)
Friday 26 February 2021
Tunisia – Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society)
Date: 26 February 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Hela Ammar,
Mohamed Kerrou (University of Tunis El Manar)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
Professor Charles Tripp (SOAS London),
Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College)
Friday 5 March 2021
Counter-Revolutions Vs. Counter-Marginalization Movements: (Re)Visiting the Online Tug-of-War a Decade After the Arab Spring
Date: 5 March 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Dr. Marc Owen Jones ((Hamad Bin Khalifa University)),
Dr Sahar Mohamed Khamis ((University of Maryland))
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
Friday 12 March 2021
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered?
Date: 12 March 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Dr Stephanie Cronin ((St Antony's College, Oxford))
Friday 30 April 2021
Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book:The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
Date: 30 April 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Hamid Dabashi ((Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York))
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 21 May 2021
War on Bodies: Moral Immunity and the Psychopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran
Date: 21 May 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Orkideh Behrouzan (SOAS University of London),
Dr Maziyar Ghiabi (Wellcome Trust Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Monday 11 October 2021
The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives - Opening session
Date: 11 October 2021, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Cyrus Schayegh,
Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: ZOOM Webinar - This is the opening session for The Middle East c.1960-1980 - Global and Transnational Perspectives. Subsequent sessions will be held online from 5 pm UK time every Monday in Michaelmas term
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 22 October 2021
MEC Friday Webinar Series - Dr Hussam Hussein - The politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan
Date: 22 October 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr. Hussam Hussein, Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 29 October 2021
MEC Friday Webinar Series - The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its Afterlives
Date: 29 October 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr. Jamie Furniss, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis)/Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 5 November 2021
MEC Friday Webinar Series -Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf
Date: 5 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr. Manal Shehabi, Academic Visitor, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford; Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 10 November 2021
The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?
Date: 10 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Youssef Cherif (Director, Columbia Global Centers|Tunis),
Dr Anne Wolf (Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 12 November 2021
Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
Date: 12 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS London)
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 19 November 2021
Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq
Date: 19 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Michael Mason (Director of the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Thursday 25 November 2021
Afghanistan and the Middle East
Date: 25 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University),
Kate Clark (Journalist)
Venue Details: ZOOM
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 26 November 2021
Climate, Colonialism, and Zionism in Palestine (1882-1948): New Historiographical Perspectives
Date: 26 November 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Netta Cohen (Christ Church, Oxford University)
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 3 December 2021
What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East
Date: 3 December 2021, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Christian Henderson, Assistant Professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 12 January 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Caliphate
Date: 12 January 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Hüseyin Yilmaz (George Mason University),
Elizabeth Alexandrin (University of Manitoba)
Venue Details: ZOOM Online Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Middle East Centre
Friday 21 January 2022
Book launch: Islam and the Arab Revolutions
Date: 21 January 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Usaama Al-Azami (St.Antony's College)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College)
Wednesday 26 January 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Religion
Date: 26 January 2022, 15:00 - 15:30
Speaker
s:
Madawi al-Rasheed (LSE),
Pascal Menoret (Brandeis University)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 28 January 2022
The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
Date: 28 January 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Neil Ketchley (Associate Professor in Politics, St Antony’s College)
Venue Details: Zoom Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College)
Friday 4 February 2022
HYBRID EVENT - The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt
Date: 4 February 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford)
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 9 February 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Sovereignty
Date: 9 February 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Neguin Yavari (University of Leipzig),
Samy Ayoub (University of Texas-Austin)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 11 February 2022
HYBRID EVENT - Book Launch: Uncoupling Language and Religion: An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature
Date: 11 February 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Laurent Mignon (St. Antony's College)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 16 February 2022
A New Cold War in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)?
Date: 16 February 2022, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker
s:
Dr Guy Burton (Adjunct Professor, Brussels School of Governance),
Dr Christopher M. Davidson (Associate fellow, RUSI),
Dr Diana Galeeva (Academic Visitor to St. Antony’s College, Oxford University),
Dr Michael Willis (St. Antony's College, Oxford University)
Venue Details: St. Antony's College
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 18 February 2022
HYBRID EVENT - All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond
Date: 18 February 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Raphael Lefevre (St.Antony's College)
Venue Details: investcorp Lecture Theatre and ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 23 February 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Violence
Date: 23 February 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Murad Idris (University of Michigan),
Nesrine Badawi (American University in Cairo)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Thursday 24 February 2022
(Film showing) 'Lebanon. Explosion of Anger' film by Krzysztof Dzięciołowski
Date: 24 February 2022, 17:00 - 20:30
Speaker
s:
Michael Willis (St. Antony's College),
Raphaël Lefèvre (Department of Politics and International Relations),
Krzysztof Dzięciołowski
Venue Details: St. Antony's College
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 25 February 2022
HYBRID EVENT - The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty
Date: 25 February 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Joseph Sassoon (Director of the Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies and Professor of History and Political Economy at Georgetown University)
Venue: St Catherine's College, Manor Road OX1 3UJ
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre and Zoom
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 4 March 2022
HYBRID EVENT - Panel Discussion – The Future of Syria
Date: 4 March 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Ms Waad Alkhatib (Film Maker, For Sama)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre and Zoom
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 9 March 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Law
Date: 9 March 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto)
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 11 March 2022
HYBRID EVENT - Yemen’s Enduring Crisis
Date: 11 March 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre and Zoom
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 29 April 2022
BOOK LAUNCH 'Algiers’ lynching, 1956. A social history of colonial racism'
Date: 29 April 2022, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Andrea Brazzoduro (MFO/Turin),
James McDougall (Trinity)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: The Middle East Centre Board Room
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Tuesday 3 May 2022
The Bride: An Illustrated History of Palestine, 1850-1948
Date: 3 May 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Roger Hardy (Former Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 11 May 2022
HYBRID EVENT - The Right to Move: Gender and Space in Iranian Cinema
Date: 11 May 2022, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: The Middle East Centre Board Room and ZOOM
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 24 May 2022
The Ambiguities of Kurdish “Nationalism”
Date: 24 May 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 25 May 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 2 - ARAB SPRING
Date: 25 May 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Maria Malmström, Lund University,
Usaama al-Azami, University of Oxford
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 3 June 2022
The Potential Impact of European Aids on National Curriculum in Emerging Entities Under and Post-Conflicts: Palestine As a Case
Date: 3 June 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Haya Fayyad Abu Hussein (Birzeit University/ Palestine)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 15 June 2022
Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 3 - RELIGION
Date: 15 June 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker
s:
Rushain Abbasi, Stanford University,
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Thursday 16 June 2022
*Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture* - The Enduring Legacy of Oslo
Date: 16 June 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Diana Buttu (IMEU Communications Director, DAWN Fellow)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 22 June 2022
CANCELLED - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 4 - MARXISM
Date: 22 June 2022, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Fadi Bardawil, Duke University,
Nadia Bou Ali, American University of Beirut
Venue Details: ZOOM WEBINAR
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 20 January 2023
IRAQ: The Political Economy of Institutional Decay and Government Dysfunction
Date: 20 January 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Ali Allawi (Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Republic of Iraq and author of The Occupation of Iraq (2007))
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 27 January 2023
Clerics in the time of Tishreen: The evolution of religion-civil society relations in post-2003 Iraq
Date: 27 January 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Marsin Alshamary, Research Fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 31 January 2023
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Power/knowledge
Date: 31 January 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
s:
Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown),
Ovamir Anjum (Toledo)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Book Launch Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak
Date: 31 January 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 3 February 2023
Tracing Fragments: Art, Youth and Feminist Activism in Iraqi Kurdistan
Date: 3 February 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Houzan Mahmoud, Feminist Activist, Writer, and founder of Culture Project,
Isabel Käser, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern & Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Centre, LSE
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 8 February 2023
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Ottomans
Date: 8 February 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
s:
Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge),
Andrew Hammond (Oxford)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 10 February 2023
The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism
Date: 10 February 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 17 February 2023
The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State
Date: 17 February 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr. Inna Rudolf, Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at the War Studies Department of King’s College London and Partner at the Candid Foundation.
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 February 2023
Book Launch “Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism”
Date: 21 February 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Steffen Hertog (Associate professor of comparative politics, Department of Government, LSE)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Wednesday 22 February 2023
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Constitutionalism
Date: 22 February 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
s:
Gianluca Parolin (Aga Khan University),
Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 24 February 2023
Cheaters Dilemma: Iraq, WMD and the path to the 2003 war
Date: 24 February 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
The Chicken Farm problem: Iraqi WMD disclosures and the 2003 war
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 3 March 2023
Iraq 2018-2019: The Rule of Law: a perspective
Date: 3 March 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
The Rt Hon Sir Peter Gross, Formerly Lead Judge for International Relations
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 8 March 2023
Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Politics
Date: 8 March 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
s:
Hussein Omar (University College Dublin),
Susanna Ferguson (Smith College)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 10 March 2023
'The Transformation of Iraq since the 2003 Invasion: From "The Dodgy Dossier", to Human Security, Gender, and the Nation's Future in the Face of Climate Change'
Date: 10 March 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Ibrahim al-Marashi, Associate Professor at California State University, San Marcos
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 28 April 2023
Book Launch - Russia and the GCC 'The Case of Tatarstan’s Paradiplomacy'
Date: 28 April 2023, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Diana Galeeva (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor Investcorp Building)
Organisers:
RESC Administrator (St Antony's College),
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford),
Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Tuesday 2 May 2023
Israel's Covert Diplomacy in the Middle East
Date: 2 May 2023, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Elie Podeh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor Investcorp Building)
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 5 May 2023
Shi‘a visions of Muslim unity in contemporary Britain
Date: 5 May 2023, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor Investcorp Building)
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 12 May 2023
The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story
Date: 12 May 2023, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Dr Haytham Alhamwi (Syrian British Consortium),
Dr Husam Haj Omar (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, lower ground floor of the Investcorp Building, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF (lift available)
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 19 May 2023
Book Launch, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism
Date: 19 May 2023, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Toby Matthiesen (Ca’ Foscari University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, lower ground floor of the Investcorp Building, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF (lift available)
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Tuesday 10 October 2023
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
Date: 10 October 2023, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Nathan Thrall (Author and Journalist)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 13 October 2023
CANCELLED - Jewish images of Sultanic power in the 18th and 19th centuries in Palestine, Syria and Iraq
Date: 13 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 17 October 2023
HYBRID EVENT - Stories to Connect: The Reza Hosseini Memorial Lecture Series on the past and present of the Middle East
Date: 17 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Ghassan Salamé (Professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre & ZOOM Webinar
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 20 October 2023
Arabic Literature in a Posthuman Age
Date: 20 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Teresa Pepe (University of Oslo, Norway)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Walter Armbrust (St. Antony's College)
Monday 23 October 2023
Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent
Date: 23 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr.Jillian Schwedler (Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: St. Antony’s College, Middle East Centre, Board Room
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 27 October 2023
The World is not a Place of Dwelling: Spiritual Creativity in the Arts of Contemporary Islam
Date: 27 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Noah Saloman (Irfan and Noreen Galaria Research Chair and Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 31 October 2023
Sheikh Zayed Book Award Lecture Identity and history: The story of Ibn Tulun's demolished City
Date: 31 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Reem Bassiouney (The American University of Cairo)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 3 November 2023
Zanzibar's Liberation between the "Global 60s" and Local Politics
Date: 3 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Amal Ghazal (Doha Institute, Qatar)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 7 November 2023
CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS - ‘Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba’
Date: 7 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 10 November 2023
Floating Weeds: Water Hyacinth and the Egyptian Anthropocene
Date: 10 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Pascal Menoret (Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation (Cairo); Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 November 2023
Deviant women: citizenship, political participation, and incarceration of the secular left in post-revolutionary Iran (1979-1990)
Date: 14 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Rosa Rahimi (University of Oxford, Magdalene College)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom
Organisers:
Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St.Antony's College),
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St.Antony's College)
Friday 17 November 2023
Single Motherhood, Celebrities, and Popular Culture in Egypt
Date: 17 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Hanan Hammad (Professor of History and Chair of Women & Gender Studies at Texas Christian University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 24 November 2023
What have the Arab Uprisings done to “Contemporary Arab Thought”?
Date: 24 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 27 November 2023
Modern Arab Kingship – Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East
Date: 27 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Adam Mestyan (Duke University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Friday 1 December 2023
Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond
Date: 1 December 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Yoav di Capua (The University of Texas at Austin)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Monday 15 January 2024
Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War
Date: 15 January 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College),
Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford),
Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford),
Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Monday 22 January 2024
Israeli Public Opinion and Political Options after 7 October
Date: 22 January 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Yuli Tamir (Beit Berl College)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford)
Monday 29 January 2024
The Settler Movement, Political Impasses, and Beyond
Date: 29 January 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Prof Hagar Kotef (SOAS University of London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College)
Monday 5 February 2024
Genocide and Accountability in Gaza: The Limits and Potential of International Law
Date: 5 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Prof Noura Erakat (Rutgers)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford)
Monday 12 February 2024
MEC X ESC Panel Discussion: The Debate on Recognition of Palestine
Date: 12 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Chris Doyle (CAABU),
Alon Liel (Policy Working Group),
Haizam Amirah Fernández (Elcano Royal Institute)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Monday 19 February 2024
Is a Binational State Possible After 7 October?
Date: 19 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow),
Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Monday 26 February 2024
Rebuilding From the Rubble Yet Again: Whither the Fourth Phase of Palestinian Collective Action?
Date: 26 February 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Prof Beshara Doumani (Brown University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Monday 29 April 2024
The United Nations and the Question of Palestine
Date: 29 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr Adri Imseis (Queen's University)
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Wednesday 8 May 2024
The Damascus Events Book Launch
Date: 8 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Monday 13 May 2024
Three Frontiers to one Boundary: The Making of the Ottoman-Iranian Boundary
Date: 13 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Sabri Ates (Southern Methodist University)
Venue: 68 Woodstock Road, Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Dr Zeinab Azarbadegan (University of Oxford)
Monday 3 June 2024
Documentary film screening: Antoine the Fortunate (WWI in the Ottoman Empire)
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford),
Associate Professor Nefin Dinc (James Madison University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
TBC
Thursday 13 June 2024
The 46th Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture
Date: 13 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Amaney Jamal (Princeton University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Friday 14 June 2024
Book launch - Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911
Date: 14 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Janet Afary (University of California)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford)
