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Saturday 5 May 2018 , continued from previous page

10:00 - Roundtable with Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif
There is no need to book your place, just join us on the day.
Ms. Maimunah Mohd Sharif (Executive Director, United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat))

Sunday 6 May 2018

18:00 - "What you sow, you will Reap: A Buddhist Conception of Justice"
Peggy Morgan (Mansfield College)
Justice and Judgement

Monday 7 May 2018

12:00 - Jimmy Carter and the Failed US-China Secret Talks on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
Sheng Peng (St. Antony’s )
American History Graduate Seminar
12:30 - “Towards a postmodern national narrative? The Algerian war memorial and contemporary French landscapes of memory”
Andrea Brazzoduro (Deakin fellow, St Antony’s College)
Maison Française d'Oxford Events
12:30 - Towards a postmodern national narrative? The Algerian war memorial and contemporary French landscapes of memory
Andrea Brazzoduro (Deakin Fellow, St Antony’s College), Robert Gildea (Worcester College)
14:30 - Megan Daffern, The Psalms: Just Prayer?, OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE SEMINAR
Megan Daffern
OLD TESTAMENT/HEBREW BIBLE SEMINAR
14:30 - The Psalms: Just Prayer?
Megan Daffern
Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible Seminar
17:00 - Pre- and early Islamic history in Iranian local histories
Harry Munt (University of York)
The Iranian World from the Sasanians to Islam
17:00 - Pre- and early Islamic history in Iranian local histories
Harry Munt (University of York)
The Iranian World from Sasanians to Islam
17:00 - The South African Special Branch v The New African 1962-4: Censorship by harassment of a radical journal
James Currey (Founder of James Currey, publisher)
African History & Politics Seminars
17:00 - ‘Rescuing Global History from the Nation’
Naomi Standen (University of Birmingham)
Medieval History Research Seminar
17:00 - ‘“Give to the innocent that which is their due”: mania and religious language in the beginnings of the Aboriginal painting movement’
Kitty Hauser (Sydney)
Themes in the Modern History of Religion
17:00 - Welfare State Modernism and the Politics of Aesthetic Change
Guy Ortolano (NYU)
Oxford Architectural History Seminar
17:00 - Political risks in Europe: Brexit and its impact on businesses
Mujtabar Rahman (Eurasia Group, Europe), Charles Enoch (University of Oxford), Kalypso Nicolaidis (University of Oxford)
17:00 - Dilma Rousseff: Women, Politics and Democracy in Brazil
Doors will open at 4:30pm. Any seats that are not filled by 4:50 p.m. will be released only to Oxford affiliates with a valid BOD card, on a first-come, first-served basis.
TBA
17:00 - Woman in finance & Formalisation through taxation - Two student presentations
Please join us for refreshments and nibbles after the talks
Kristina Kaempfer (St Antony's College, Oxford), Jonas Richter (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
17:30 - Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Trinity Term 2018: Gone but not Forgotten: Coming to Grips with Extinction
Drinks will be served after each seminar. All welcome, no booking required.
Harriet Ritvo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
17:30 - Gone but not Forgotten: Coming to Grips with Extinction
Professor Harriet Ritvo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
18:30 - Terrorism: Problem and Solution
Tawakkol Karman
19:15 - The Cities of the Future
Radhika Khosla (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development / Centre for Policy Research, Delhi)

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