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Past ODID Events
Below you will find information about special events organised by the department in the past. For information about past events organised by our research groups, please see the individual group websites.
Please note - some of the events below include audio files which lack a transcription. If you would like a transcript, please email communications@qeh.ox.ac.uk.
07 Nov 2019
15-Min Flash Talk: Shipwrecked Māori or plain sailing? Cultural controversy over an iconic picture
Time:
13:00
Speaker:
Dr Robin Cohen
Series:
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
Location:
Meeting Room A, ODID, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB
Department Event
24 Oct 2019
15-Min Flash Talk: Renewable Energy and Refugees: Is Energy the Missing Piece?
Time:
13:00
Speaker:
Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen
Series:
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
Location:
Seminar Room 1, ODID, 3 Mansfield Road Oxford OX1 3TB
Department Event
17 May 2019
The Cognitive Empire: Struggles for Cognitive Justice and Global Peace
Time:
17:30
Speaker:
Professor Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni (University of South Africa)
Series:
Olof Palme Lectures
Location:
Wolfson College, Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Department Event
14 May 2019
Available light: towards a history of community and political practice under apartheid
Time:
17:00
Speaker:
Prof. Daniel Magaziner (Yale University)
Series:
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 2, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
07 May 2019
ODS Annual Lecture | In Praise of Floods and Wetland Refuges
Time:
11:00
Speaker:
Professor James C Scott (Yale University)
Series:
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
Location:
St Antony's College, Nissan Lecture Theatre, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Department Event
03 May 2019
House of Stone: An Evening with Novelist Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Time:
17:00
Speaker:
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Series:
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 1, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
14 Mar 2019
Storytelling and Social Order in Africa Workshop
Time:
09:00
Speaker:
See further details
Series:
ODID Conferences & Workshops
Location:
Seminar Room 1, ODID, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB
Department Event
07 Mar 2019
Digital Transformation of the Commonwealth
Time:
16:00
Speaker:
Nabeel Goheer (Assistant Secretary General, Commonwealth Secretariat)
Series:
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 3, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
28 Feb 2019
The violence of humour and ridicule in typewriter and tweet diplomacy
Time:
16:00
Speaker:
Akos Kopper (Head of Department of International Relations and European Studies, ELTE University, Budapest)
Series:
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 1, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
25 Feb 2019
Roundtable on ‘Protest and Violence in Post-Coup Zimbabwe’
Time:
17:00
Speaker:
Shari Eppel (Director, Solidarity Peace Trust), Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
Series:
ODID Special Lectures & Seminars
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 2, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
11 Feb 2019
Social Bonding in Diplomacy: Face-to-Face Interactions and Rituals in the 4th Image
Time:
15:00
Speaker:
Nicholas J Wheeler (University of Birmingham)
Series:
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Location:
Queen Elizabeth House, Seminar Room 1, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Department Event
31 Jan 2019
ODID-OSGA Indian Elections Workshop I: Politics in the run-up to Indian elections 2019
Time:
09:00
Speaker:
See further details
Series:
ODID Conferences & Workshops
Location:
St Antony’s College, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Department Event