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Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History

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This paper examines the challenges and opportunities of centring Indigenous thought in imperial, legal, and political history before 1900, contributing to the growing field of Global Indigenous Intellectual History. It addresses key issues, including the interpretation and representation of Indigenous concepts, the description of their norms, and the shift from Eurocentric to Indigenous perspectives.

Oxford Conservative Thought Reading Group, Meeting 1: What is Conservative Thought?

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The Oxford Conservative Thought (OCT) Reading Group is a non-partisan group devoted to academic exploration of small-c conservative political thought. We welcome, and actively encourage, viewpoint diversity and constructive engagement across ideological divides (all good-willed participants are welcome!)

Please register here: https://forms.gle/W4tX5qFgSAU171ap9

Each week we read one assigned text, and we recommend more for anyone who is very keen!

The OCT meets weekly in term time on Fridays from 4-5:30pm.

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Scaling Impact: How Consultants Shape the Field

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In this month's seminar, co-hosted with the Gradel Institue of Charity, we will be joined by sociologist and non-profit strategist Leah Reisman, and EY sustainability partner and climate strategy advisor, Ben Taylor, to discuss the powerful role consultants play in shaping how organisations think about and do impact, in the non-profit, private and public sectors.

Daniel Alexander Novick Goldstein

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Living with Digital Surveillance in China. Citizens’ Narratives on Technology, Privacy, and Governance

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Digital surveillance is a daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China. This book explores how Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it. It investigates their imaginaries about surveillance and privacy from within the Chinese socio-political system. Based on in-depth qualitative research interviews, detailed diary notes, and extensive documentation, Ariane Ollier-Malaterre strives to ‘de-Westernize’ the internet and surveillance literature.

Rethink....how we pay for things

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Workshop on political violence involving DPIR hosted in Sarajevo

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Iman Iftikhar

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Lukas Seibert

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Lukas Seibert is a DPhil (PhD) candidate in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations. In his doctoral thesis, he investigates how transparency regulations affect legislators' extra-parliamentary activities and how remunerated side jobs influence their behaviour within parliament. By exploring these dynamics, his work sheds light on broader questions of transparency and accountability in legislative bodies.

Graham Higgins

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Graham Higgins is studying for his DPhil in Politics at St Johns College, Oxford under the supervision of Dr Ranjit Lall. His thesis, “Budget Execution: Examining Congress’ hidden hand in US foreign policy” intends to expose the ways in which Congress has rapidly expanded its power over the President’s foreign policy agenda via its suite of oversight tools.

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