Ten Years of Peace Processes in Colombia

You are warmly invited to a thought-provoking in-person dialogue with HE Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia, Danilo Rueda, Colombia's High Commissioner for Peace (online from Colombia), and HE Roy Barreras, Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom, former Senator, and government negotiator in the peace process with the FARC, who have all played pivotal roles in the peace efforts and political landscape of Colombia, in conversation with Dr Gwen Burnyeat, Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology at Merton College, Oxford.

Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus

Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe is a landmark work in the areas of anthropology and migration studies. Since its first publication in 1989, this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition is published to mark the centenary of the 1923 Lausanne Convention which led to the movement of some 1.5 million persons between Greece and Turkey at the conclusion of their war. It includes updated material with a new Preface, Afterword by Ayhan Aktar, and map of the wider region.

Nick Arndt

I am a second-year student in the MPhil in International Relations and a member of New College. Together with my colleague A.J, I serve as the course representative for the MPhil IR. I am broadly interested in contemporary German foreign and defence policy. My thesis will investigate the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on German strategic culture.

Ten Years of Peace Processes in Colombia

You are warmly invited to a thought-provoking in-person dialogue with HE Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia, Danilo Rueda, Colombia's High Commissioner for Peace (online from Colombia), and HE Roy Barreras, Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom, former Senator, and government negotiator in the peace process with the FARC, who have all played pivotal roles in the peace efforts and political landscape of Colombia, in conversation with Dr Gwen Burnyeat, Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology at Merton College, Oxford.

Secular imaginaries within the African National Congress in South Africa

Why is it that South Africa has a secular and liberal state, even though its population appears to be mostly religious and socially conservative? This paper studies the African National Congress (ANC) which has dominated electoral politics in the country since 1994. I explore two questions. How is that, despite representing a religious-conservative electorate as a 'people's party', the ANC has openly pursued a secular-liberal legislative agenda? And how is it that, despite pursuing a secular-liberal legislative agenda, the ANC embraces religious rhetoric in the public sphere?

Maria Puolakkainen

I am a DPhil student in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations and a member of Nuffield College. My research is motivated by the persistence of extreme economic inequality and I am working on questions on the politics of industrial policies, structural upgrading, and informal labour, with a regional focus on Latin America.

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