https://youtu.be/LcV1mGc_Yx4 Jess Wallis (Middle East Events Officer, OxSID) animates the work of Lauren Johnston (research associate, China Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London) based on an interview between her and Leo Bartels (Africa Events Officer, OxSID) which took place in June 2020 covering the increased interaction between China and areas … Continue reading Modern China-Africa Relations with Lauren Johnston
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Coronavirus has been an inescapable headline for most of this year and stands in a position to dominate discussion for the foreseeable future. Consequently, the analysis of what governments and institutions should have done differently becoming a keen topic of debate. One lesson learnt from the pandemic is already clear: America’s deep fault lines of … Continue reading Partisan Pandemic: Public Health in the Age of Trump
Middle East Events Officer, Caitlin Hennessy, speaks with Dr Sa'ed Atshan Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College and who is currently on sabbatical a Visiting Scholar in Middle Eastern Studies at University of California, Berkley about his recent publication 'Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique'. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ZyErTQMaElfWyLplrVPzD?si=vO92Wm0mSu2xJSzm3AhGyQ Interview by Caitlin Hennessy. … Continue reading “Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique” with author Dr. Sa’ed Atshan
Africa Events Director, Priyan Selvakumar speaks with Matthew Page, Chatham House Associate fellow for the Africa programme. He is also the former US intelligence Nigeria expert as well as former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Africa on the National Intelligence Council. Since this interview we've seen a major development in the situation in Nigeria as … Continue reading “A Day in the Life of a Nigerian Politician” with Matthew Page
Europe Events Director, Timea Iliffe, speaks with Catherine Woollard, Director of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0IAGcbFT3ppdWAAl5L3yaA?si=_PHi3ylATn625ss7z67d8Q Interview by Timea Iliffe. Music by Lorcan Cudlip Cook
In this podcast with academic and author Professor Cathryn Costello, we discuss the significance of refugee and asylum law for human rights, and investigate the ways that systems of international law have been put into question during COVID-19. We use migration as a lens of analysis to interrogate assumptions that law is fixed in order … Continue reading “Human Rights and Refugee Law During COVID-19” with Prof. Cathryn Costello
The Tiananmen Square massacre is a significant part of China’s history, yet one which is slowly being forgotten by the younger Chinese generation. Having grown up in Hong Kong, where censorship isn’t as heavy as in mainland China, Athena Kam – a first year law student at Pembroke – has seen how censorship has affected … Continue reading The Tiananmen Square Massacre
https://youtu.be/5WzH7OegzUw OxSID's Jess Wallis explains the history and context behind the Syrian Civil War, as well its current situation.
Join us for a conversation with Jonathan Watts, the Global Environment Editor at The Guardian Newspaper. Jonathan has been a journalist at the Guardian for 24 years, taking up roles such as North Korea visiting reporter, Asia Environment correspondent, East Asia correspondent, Disaster coverage, and Latin America correspondent, writing extensively on environmental degradation, deforestation and … Continue reading “Journalism and Climate Activism” with Jonathan Watts, Global Environment Editor at the Guardian
Many in the UK suspected the Prime Minister’s somewhat awkward utterance from behind the dispatch box two weeks ago—‘yes of course Black Lives Matter’—of being hollow. That it was belated is indisputable. It jarred with the numerous well-evidenced accusations of racism that many in the media and wider public have laid at Boris Johnson’s door, as … Continue reading If Black Lives Matter, don’t merge DFID with the FCO
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