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Name: Professor Eugene Rogan
St Antony's College, University of Oxford
https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/research-centres/middle-east-centre
Events this person is speaking at:
Monday 3 June 2024
Documentary film screening: Antoine the Fortunate (WWI in the Ottoman Empire)
Date: 3 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
s:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford),
Associate Professor Nefin Dinc (James Madison University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
TBC
Events this person is hosting:
Tuesday 18 October 2022
Book Launch: The Making of the Modern Middle East
Date: 18 October 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Jeremy Bowen (BBC)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, lower ground floor of the Investcorp Building, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 21 October 2022
Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power
Date: 21 October 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, lower ground floor of the Investcorp Building, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Organiser:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Tuesday 8 November 2022
Book Launch: Inside Qatar: hidden stories from the one of the richest nations on earth
Date: 8 November 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Dr John McManus (British Institute at Ankara)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, lower ground floor of the Investcorp Building, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 18 November 2022
Thinking beyond the Islamic state versus modern liberalism: Islamism, non-Muslims, and communitarian citizenship
Date: 18 November 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Rachel Scott (Virginia Tech, USA)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, lower ground floor of the Investcorp Building, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 2 December 2022
Contesting Muslim Legal Sovereignty in Colonial India
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 2 December 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Associate Professor Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University in Qatar)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, lower ground floor of the Investcorp Building, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Organisers:
TBA
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 28 April 2023
Book Launch - Russia and the GCC 'The Case of Tatarstan’s Paradiplomacy'
Date: 28 April 2023, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Diana Galeeva (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor Investcorp Building)
Organisers:
RESC Administrator (St Antony's College),
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Hosts:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford),
Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Tuesday 2 May 2023
Israel's Covert Diplomacy in the Middle East
Date: 2 May 2023, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Elie Podeh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor Investcorp Building)
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 12 May 2023
The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story
Date: 12 May 2023, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Dr Haytham Alhamwi (Syrian British Consortium),
Dr Husam Haj Omar (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, lower ground floor of the Investcorp Building, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF (lift available)
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 19 May 2023
Book Launch, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism
Date: 19 May 2023, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Toby Matthiesen (Ca’ Foscari University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, lower ground floor of the Investcorp Building, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF (lift available)
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Anthonys College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Wednesday 7 June 2023
Memorial Event: Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies (1933-2020) & Celia Kerslake, Emeritus Fellow in Turkish (1946-2023)
Date: 7 June 2023, 16:45 - 17:45
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, lower ground floor of the Investcorp Building, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF (lift available)
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Antony's College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Wednesday 14 June 2023
Exile and the history of Palestine: Safed and the Critique of Zionism
Date: 14 June 2023, 14:00 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Professor Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
Venue: 68 Woodstock Road, Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom (Kirdar Building, Middle East Centre, St Antony's College)
Organiser:
Professor Yaacov Yadgar (University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Thursday 15 June 2023
Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture 2023: Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective
Date: 15 June 2023, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
:
Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, lower ground floor of the Investcorp Building, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF (lift available)
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Antony's College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Monday 21 October 2024
The challenges of writing Middle East history after 7 October: from Gaza to the climate crisis
Date: 21 October 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University)
Venue: 68 Woodstock Road, Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organisers:
Middle East Centre,
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Tuesday 5 November 2024
Conflict and citizenship: the challenges of Palestinian-Arabs in Israel
Date: 5 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker
:
Professor Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University)
Venue: 68 Woodstock Road, Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser:
MEC Administrator (St Antony's College)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 8 November 2024
Regional dimensions of the Gaza crisis, and the Arab role in the UN Security Council
Date: 8 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Mouin Rabbani,
Hasmik Egian
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 22 November 2024
Writing Middle Eastern lives: biography in modern Arab history
Date: 22 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut),
Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford),
Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Middle East Centre,
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Thursday 5 December 2024
Defining antisemitism: what is the point?
Date: 5 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University),
Dr Brian Klug (Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Middle East Centre,
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 24 January 2025
Lebanon and Syria amidst regional turmoil
Date: 24 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Associate Professor Joseph Bahout (Director of the Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, AUB)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers:
Middle East Centre,
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Tuesday 28 January 2025
The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
Date: 28 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
Date: 28 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Caroline Tee (University of Chester),
Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL),
Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (University of Cambridge),
Associate Professor Fabio Vicini (University of Verona)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 14 February 2025
Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace
Date: 14 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Dahlia Scheindlin (Fellow, Century International & Columnist, Haaretz Newspaper)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Tuesday 18 February 2025
Genocide in Gaza
Date: 18 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Thursday 27 February 2025
Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 9 May 2025
Toward an Inclusive Archaeological and Historical Narrative of Palestine
Date: 9 May 2025, 15:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Friday 16 May 2025
Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
Date: 16 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Philip Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Thursday 12 June 2025
Zaha Hadid: A Life in Architecture
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Tuesday 14 October 2025
Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
Date: 14 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Yoram Meital (Ben-Gurion University)
Venue: 68 Woodstock Road, Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Thursday 16 October 2025
Gaza Genocide as a Symptom: Fragile World Order and Regional Impacts
Date: 16 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Ahmet Davutoğlu (Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Türkiye)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Tuesday 28 October 2025
Safe Corridor
Date: 28 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Professor Marilyn Booth (Al Saud Professor, Magdalen College),
Mr Jan Dost (Author)
Venue: 68 Woodstock Road, Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Thursday 30 October 2025
Food and Language: Rhetorical-Cultural Excavations in Arab Heritage / الطعام والكلام: حفريات بلاغية ثقافية في التراث العربي
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Said Laouadi (Cadi Ayyad University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Thursday 20 November 2025
Seeds in the Rubble: Cultural Vitality in the Arab World
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Mr Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi (Founder, Barjeel Art Foundation)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Thursday 27 November 2025
Stranger Visions: Ghuraba’ and Egypt’s Ideological Crisis
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Thursday 4 December 2025
The Code of Karam: How Literature Shapes Post-Revolutionary Social Spaces in Cairo
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser:
Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Events this person is organising:
Friday 21 October 2022
Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power
Date: 21 October 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
:
Professor Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre, lower ground floor of the Investcorp Building, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF
Organiser:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host:
Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)