Expert Preferences for Carbon Pricing in the Developing World
Reflections on Tunisian Women’s Continued Fight for Respect, Dignity and Rights - Focus on Women in the Labour Movement
Exact venue location: Kirdar Building of the Middle East Centre (MEC), entrance at 68 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF – access to this building is at the north side, next to the bike rack The Boardroom is on the ground floor next to the main staircase of the hallway.
Webs of oppression’ in everyday organizing in Palestine: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis
Julia Youjia Hoffmann
Julia is an MPhil student in International Relations at St Antony's College. Her research interests include constructivist theory, decolonial theory, East Asian International Relations, and the geopolitics of China. Before coming to Oxford, Julia completed a BA in International Relations at King’s College London's War Studies Department, where she conducted research on China’s authoritarian environmental policy model. She now hopes to pursue a career in political publishing (or open a cinema in Berlin and/or China).
Sophia Stutzmann
The Kids are Alt Right?
Attitudes to Migration and Patterns of Discrimination: Findings from Japan, the UK, Colombia, and Peru
This event aims to present the differences in attitudes to migration and patterns of discrimination among receiving society members in Japan, the UK, Colombia, and Peru towards various migrant groups in those countries. Adam Komisarof will examine the diverging criteria for social acceptance in Japanese society towards immigrants from China, Western countries, and ethnic Japanese from South America, employing frameworks of national identity and social markers of acceptance. He will also detail how this approach may be applied in other country contexts.
IR Theory for the 21st Century (Or How to Take Nature Seriously
The fact that we are facing irreversible climate change in the twenty-first century -- not to mention our collective experience with the COVID-19 pandemic -- has woken International Relations (IR) up to the realisation that the subfield has not paid enough attention such matters. As a result, IR is much more concerned about nature now.