Where Are We At? - PGR and ECR Symposium

This special symposium for Oxford Postgraduate and Early Career researchers is an opportunity to share "where you are at" in your research with our vibrant community of women’s, gender and queer historians. It is, more broadly, a day to think about the state of play in these sub-disciplines and their relationship with each other. The day will consist of various panels, poster presentations, and pre-circulated papers, which will allow attendees to consider these sub-fields of history - and their connections to other fields in the social sciences and humanities - in diverse formats.

The Long Disenchantment: Reassessing UK-EU Relations from Accession to Brexit

This book seeks to replace a comforting European narrative of British missed opportunities with a chronicle of the complexity of UK/EC-EU relations. After nearly a decade of Brexit (2016), it revisits the historical evolution of the relationship between Britain and Europe since the 1970s. Building on an in-depth study of primary and secondary sources, the author sheds new light on the intricacies of that relationship.

The "Care" Series: Reading: Anne Antoni, Juliane Reinecke, and Marianna Fotaki, 'Making Time to Care, and Caring for Time'

Citation for reading: Anne Antoni, Juliane Reinecke, and Marianna Fotaki. 'Making Time to Care, and Caring for Time: "Tricking Time" to Cope with Conflicting Temporalities in a Child Protection Agency.' _Journal of Business Ethics_ 188.4 (2023): 645–663.

Local expert: *Freya Willis*

What is “care” good for, and how best to apprehend it as a scholarly category? The “Care” Series gathers scholars of any discipline who are interested in reading and thinking about “care” together. Each session, we gather to discuss a short reading with the help of a local expert.

2025 Astor Lecture: Beyond Mere Inconvenience: United States and Civilian Harm

In this lecture, Professor Kinsella will evaluate the United States military’s detailed Instruction on Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response (CHMR). What are its implications for conceptualizing CHMR as a strategic and moral military imperative and assessing the preeminent role of the United States under both the Biden and Trump administrations? What are its implications for democratic accountability and for engagement with civilian casualties and civilian harm?

Changing Global Politics and its impact on Singapore and ASEAN

ABSTRACT

High Commissioner of Singapore to the UK Mr Ng Teck Hean will share his views on the rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape and its global implications, especially on Singapore and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Mr Ng’s brief remarks will set the context for an interactive Q&A with students.

The session, moderated by Professor Joerg Friedrichs, will be followed by an informal reception.

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The Modern Life of Sanskrit: An Encounter with Psychoanalysis

One of the modern disciplines where Sanskrit finds fertile ground is psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis gets established in India by the early 1920s, thanks to Girindrasekhar Bose and Romain Rolland, both of whom are closely connected to Freud in the final years of his life, and try to get him interested in Indian philosophy, psychology and spirituality. While Freudian psychoanalysis as a clinical practice peters out for the most part after independence, it enjoys a renaissance in Indology, through the work of A.K. Ramanujan, Robert Goldman and Wendy Doniger, among others.

Conceptualising 'compounded suffering' in the post-war context

Suffering is strongly associated with war, but not with its aftermath. In spite of its ambiguity the post-war period represents a transformation from humanitarian crisis to development and peacebuilding. Consequently references to suffering are replaced by political, economic, social ‘challenges’ and ‘issues’ that fail to accurately and fully represent the experience of most war survivors, especially women who often make up a larger percentage of the population.
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