OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
In 2014, the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War, SEESOX arranged a symposium at St Antony’s putting the spotlight on South East Europe, the region in which the initial spark of the of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand ignited the War. Our focus was on the dramatic regional transformation brought about by the War and the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, how this irrevocably altered the region and shaped the rest of its 20th century history (and beyond), and on the lasting legacies of those events, and the very different ways in which they are remembered and framed in the various countries of the region. In 2016, the three convenors (Othon Anastasakis, David Madden and Elizabeth Roberts) co-edited a book which was a volume in its own right, not just the record of the symposium; and it seems fitting to revisit symposium, book and legacies in November 2018, the hundredth anniversary of the ending of the War.
