Events of Interest to DPIR

Jan

19

Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after the Second World War

Tue, 19 Jan - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Paul Betts, Timothy Garton Ash, Margaret MacMillan, Steve Smith, Faisal Devji

Jan

20

The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines -

Wed, 20 Jan - 17:00 - .ics

Speaker: David Autor

Series: Governance of AI Seminar Series

Jan

20

Democracy in South East Europe: Backsliding or new normal?

Wed, 20 Jan - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Damir Kapidzic, Milada Vachudova

Series: South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Jan

21

European climate action: political economy challenges

Thu, 21 Jan - 14:00 - .ics

Jan

21

The 1984-5 Miners' Strike: An Oral History (joint meeting with Modern History Seminar)

Thu, 21 Jan - 17:00 - .ics

Speaker: Robert Gildea

*Booking Required

Jan

22

The Bonds of Family

Fri, 22 Jan - 16:00 - .ics

Speaker: Dr Katie Donington

Jan

22

Algeria and Sudan: A Late Spring or an Early Summer?

Fri, 22 Jan - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Mohanad Hashim, Dalia Ghanem

Jan

25

Changes over time in the global Multidimensional Poverty Index

Mon, 25 Jan - 15:00 - .ics

Speaker: Professor Sabina Alkire

*Booking Required

Jan

26

Taking back control: Comprador bankers and the revival of developmentalism in Poland

Tue, 26 Jan - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Dr Marek Naczyk, Dr Tim Vlandas, Jan Drahokoupil

Jan

27

Conversation: ‘Britain and Empire in World War II’

Wed, 27 Jan - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Ashley Jackson, Iain Johnston-White

Series: History of War Seminar Series

Jan

27

On 'Auschwitz': reflecting on the meaning of absolute death

Wed, 27 Jan - 17:30 - .ics

Speakers: Dan Diner, Professor Jonathan Wolff, Professor Dapo Akande, Marietta van der Tol

Where: Online event, Blavatnik School of Government

Jan

28

Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire

Thu, 28 Jan - 14:00 - .ics

Speaker: Caroline Ritter

*Booking Required

Jan

29

Plagued Legacies: Rethinking Black Death Narratives

Fri, 29 Jan - 16:00 - .ics

Speaker: Dr Nükhet Varlik

Jan

29

Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?

Fri, 29 Jan - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Maha Yahya, Maysoun Pachachi

Feb

01

Moderate internationally comparable MPI

Mon, 01 Feb - 15:00 - .ics

Speaker: Dr Elina Scheja

*Booking Required

Feb

02

’68ers, ’89ers, & post-89ers: What are the key historical generations in contemporary Europe?

Tue, 02 Feb - 17:00 - .ics

Feb

03

Qatari Women and the Labour Market- Towards an Empowering Alternative

Wed, 03 Feb - 14:00 - .ics

Speaker: Dr. Mawahib Abubakr

Series: MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Feb

04

“What Remains of What We Still Call, Sentimentally, our Communities”: Narrating the Crisis of Working-Class Community in 1980s Britain

Thu, 04 Feb - 14:00 - .ics

Speaker: Nicholas Garland

*Booking Required

Feb

05

Colonial public spheres, liberal thought and indirect rule in interwar Africa

Fri, 05 Feb - 16:00 - .ics

Speaker: Professor Emma Hunter

Feb

05

The Place of Religion After the Uprisings

Fri, 05 Feb - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Shadi Hamid, Nadia Oweidat

Feb

08

Multidimensional Poverty Indices and Children: Four Measurement Strategies

Mon, 08 Feb - 15:00 - .ics

Speaker: Mr Jakob Dirksen

*Booking Required

Feb

09

Is there still “rule of law” in Poland and Hungary?

Tue, 09 Feb - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Adam Bodnar, Zsolt Enyedi, Marta Bucholc, Timothy Garton Ash

Feb

10

Jan van Werth as military enterpriser

Wed, 10 Feb - 17:00 - .ics

Speaker: Michael Kaiser

Series: History of War Seminar Series

Feb

11

“Tactics are Dictated by the Existing Conditions”: The Design and Outcome of Provisional IRA Violence 1969-1979

Thu, 11 Feb - 14:00 - .ics

Speaker: Rachel Kowalski

*Booking Required

Feb

12

“Stop the World”: The end of empire and the “break-up of Britain”

Fri, 12 Feb - 16:00 - .ics

Speaker: Professor Stuart Ward

Feb

12

Libya - TBC

Fri, 12 Feb - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Anas al-Gomati, Mary Fitzgerald

Feb

16

Europe's Grand Strategy in a New World Order

Tue, 16 Feb - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Bart Szewczyk, Anne Deighton, Hartmut Mayer

Feb

18

“They’re Trying to Make Everyone Equal, and That Can’t Happen”: Gifted Education, Equality, and Difference in Britain, 1945-1990

Thu, 18 Feb - 14:00 - .ics

Speaker: Jennifer Crane

*Booking Required

Feb

19

Andrew Roth's End of Empire: An Unfinished History of Decolonization

Fri, 19 Feb - 16:00 - .ics

Speaker: Professor Philip Murphy

Feb

19

Russia and the Arab Uprisings

Fri, 19 Feb - 17:00 - .ics

Speaker: Vitaly Naumkin

Feb

22

The relationship between electrification, poverty, and economic development

Mon, 22 Feb - 15:00 - .ics

Speaker: Dr Frank Vollmer

*Booking Required

Feb

23

Unsettling Europe: further reflections on post-1945 history

Tue, 23 Feb - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Peter Gatrell, Hartmut Mayer, Paul Betts

Feb

24

Debating the Law, Creating Gender

Wed, 24 Feb - 14:00 - .ics

Speaker: Professor Irene Schneider

Series: MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Feb

25

Selina Todd in conversation with Mike Savage to launch her new book Snakes and Ladders: The Great Social Mobility Myth (2021)

Thu, 25 Feb - 14:00 - .ics

Speakers: Selina Todd, Mike Savage

Feb

26

Empire and China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

Fri, 26 Feb - 16:00 - .ics

Speaker: Professor Krishan Kumar

Feb

26

Tunisia – Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society)

Fri, 26 Feb - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Hela Ammar, Mohamed Kerrou

Mar

01

Inequality among the multidimensionally poor in over 100 countries

Mon, 01 Mar - 15:00 - .ics

Speaker: Dr Maria Emma Santos

*Booking Required

Mar

02

Between Region and Nation: Reimagining Basque Identity Within the French Nation-State, 1780-1870

Tue, 02 Mar - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Talita Ilacqua, Paul Betts, Professor David Hopkin

Mar

04

Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain

Thu, 04 Mar - 14:00 - .ics

Speaker: Sam Wetherell

*Booking Required

Mar

05

Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations

Fri, 05 Mar - 09:00 - .ics

Mar

05

Social Media - TBC

Fri, 05 Mar - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Dr. Marc Owen Jones, Dr Sahar Mohamed Khamis

Mar

08

Growth elasticity of multidimensional poverty in India between 2005/06 and 2015/16

Mon, 08 Mar - 15:00 - .ics

Speaker: Dr Suman Seth

*Booking Required

Mar

09

Cold War, Trade War: The Soviet Union, the EEC, and UNCTAD’s battle for free trade

Tue, 09 Mar - 17:00 - .ics

Speakers: Alessandro Iandolo, Paul Betts, David Priestland, Louise Fawcett

Mar

10

Managing British convoys, 1803-15: The Admiralty and Lloyd's

Wed, 10 Mar - 17:00 - .ics

Speaker: Roger Knight

Series: History of War Seminar Series

Mar

11

Slavery and the Art of Race (joint meeting with Modern History Seminar)

Thu, 11 Mar - 17:00 - .ics

Speaker: Philippa Levine

*Booking Required

Mar

12

Global and Imperial History graduate student research presentations

Fri, 12 Mar - 09:00 - .ics

Mar

12

Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered?

Fri, 12 Mar - 17:00 - .ics

Speaker: Professor Anoush Ehteshami