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Name: Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva
COMPAS, University of Oxford
https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/carlos-vargas-silva
Events this person is speaking at:
Wednesday 23 January 2019
Refugees and the UK labour market
Date: 23 January 2019, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Dr Isabel Ruiz (Harris Manchester College / Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 5 June 2019
The British Misinvention of the Caribbean: The Colonizer´s Mind
Date: 5 June 2019, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker
s:
Eduardo Posada-Carbó (University of Oxford),
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Eduardo Lalo (TORCH - Humanities Division)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 9 November 2022
Forced migration: Evidence and policy challenges
Date: 9 November 2022, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
s:
Dr Isabel Ruiz (University of Oxford),
Professor Alex Betts (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford),
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Dr Vlad Mykhenko (University of Oxford)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Blavatnik School of Government and Zoom
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 5 February 2024
The Roles of Acculturation Pressures and Migration Reasons on Subjective Well-Being for Migrants: Findings from Japan, Australia, the US, and the UK
Date: 5 February 2024, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Adam Komisarof (Keio University),
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Daisy Pollenne (DPhil in Migration Studies, COMPAS)
Venue: 58 Banbury Road, 58 Banbury Road OX2 6QS
Venue Details: COMPAS Boardroom: places extremely limited; no wheelchair access
Organiser:
Migration Oxford
Host:
Abril Ríos-Rivera (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS))
Friday 29 November 2024
Launch for the Handbook of Research Methods in Migration (2nd edition)
Date: 29 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: 51/53 Banbury Road, 51 Banbury Road OX2 6PE
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers:
Migration Oxford,
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is organising:
Friday 20 January 2017
The great migration of summer 2015: trajectories, journeys and hubs
Date: 20 January 2017, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Franck Duvell (COMPAS, Oxford)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers:
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Professor Elisabeth Hsu (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 27 January 2017
Chinese medical meshworks in East Africa: pots, patients and practitioners
Date: 27 January 2017, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Elisabeth Hsu (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers:
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Professor Elisabeth Hsu (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 3 February 2017
The idea of Nepal
Date: 3 February 2017, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor David Gellner (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers:
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Professor Elisabeth Hsu (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 10 February 2017
Ritual and group cohesion across space and time
Date: 10 February 2017, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Harvey Whitehouse (ICEA/CAM, University of Oxford)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers:
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Professor Elisabeth Hsu (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 17 February 2017
Climate, weather, culture
Date: 17 February 2017, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Steve Rayner (InSIS, University of Oxford)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers:
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Professor Elisabeth Hsu (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 24 February 2017
Locating the Pitt Rivers Museum
Date: 24 February 2017, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Dr Laura Van Broekhoven (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers:
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Professor Elisabeth Hsu (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 3 March 2017
Pentecostal pastorhood as calling and career: migration, religion, and masculinity between Kenya and the United Kingdom
Date: 3 March 2017, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Dr Leslie Fesenmyer (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers:
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Professor Elisabeth Hsu (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 10 March 2017
The people left behind: how and why cultural anthropologists got it wrong
Date: 10 March 2017, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Professor Nancy Scheper-Hughes (University of California, Berkeley)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Organisers:
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Professor Elisabeth Hsu (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 20 November 2017
The Market Model: Immigration Regime Variation and Convergence in 30 Countries
Date: 20 November 2017, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
:
Justin Gest (George Mason University)
Venue: 58 Banbury Road, 58 Banbury Road OX2 6QS
Venue Details: COMPAS Board Room
Organiser:
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 11 October 2018
Immigrant franchise and immigration policy: Evidence from the Progressive Era
Date: 11 October 2018, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Costanza Biavaschi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Ground floor lecture room, wheelchair accessible
Organisers:
Esther Arenas-Arroyo (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 18 October 2018
Numbers, narratives, neither, both? How different kinds of message evidence impact public perceptions about immigration in Great Britain
Date: 18 October 2018, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
William L Allen (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Ground floor lecture room, wheelchair accessible
Organisers:
Esther Arenas-Arroyo (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 25 October 2018
Is it ethnicity or religion? Evidence from a cross-national field experiment on labour market discrimination
Date: 25 October 2018, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Mariña Fernández-Reino (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Ground floor lecture room, wheelchair accessible
Organisers:
Esther Arenas-Arroyo (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 1 November 2018
Immigration and well-being: A neighbourhood-level analysis
Date: 1 November 2018, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Corrado Giulietti (University of Southampton)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Ground floor lecture room, wheelchair accessible
Organisers:
Esther Arenas-Arroyo (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 8 November 2018
National institutions and the politics of free movement in the European Union
Date: 8 November 2018, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker
:
Dr Martin Ruhs (European University Institute (EUI))
Venue: 58 Banbury Road, 58 Banbury Road OX2 6QS
Venue Details: First floor boardroom, not wheelchair accessible; limited seating
Organisers:
Esther Arenas-Arroyo (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Speed-Geeking Migration Challenge
Date: 8 November 2018, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
:
Various Speakers
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: The Hub: ground floor cafe, wheelchair accessible
Organisers:
Esther Arenas-Arroyo (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 15 November 2018
Selective emigration after Germany's failed 1848 revolutions and the rise of the Nazi Party
Date: 15 November 2018, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Toman Barsbai (University of St. Andrews)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Ground floor lecture room, wheelchair accessible
Organisers:
Esther Arenas-Arroyo (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 22 November 2018
Immigration Enforcement, Police Trust and Domestic Violence
Date: 22 November 2018, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker
:
Esther Arenas-Arroyo (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Venue: 64 Banbury Road, 64 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Ground floor lecture room, wheelchair accessible
Organisers:
Esther Arenas-Arroyo (COMPAS, University of Oxford),
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 7 June 2023
The economic and political consequences of colonialism in Puerto Rico
Date: 7 June 2023, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker
:
Edwin Irizarry-Mora (University of Puerto Rico)
Venue: 1 Church Walk, 1 Church Walk OX2 6LY
Venue Details: Latin American Centre (1 Church Walk, Oxford OX2 6LY), University of Oxford
Organiser:
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 29 November 2024
Launch for the Handbook of Research Methods in Migration (2nd edition)
Date: 29 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: 51/53 Banbury Road, 51 Banbury Road OX2 6PE
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers:
Migration Oxford,
Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA