WRRS AND MENA POLITICS JOINT EVENT - Women and electoral politics in Iran and Turkey: Undemocratic structures and feminist resistance

Abstract: Advocates of women's rights have long demanded women’s greater access to political office, especially the national parliament, with hopes to influence policy making with feminist agendas. However, feminist activists’ focus on electoral politics has been mixed in autocratic and patriarchal contexts. While some research pointed to the role of critical actors in policy making who act as feminist insiders, others warned about the futility of such intentions in undemocratic contexts. Comparing Iran and Turkey in recent decades, Dr.

Kabuki music and compositions

Denjiro Tanaka VII and his associates will perform a selection of Kabuki music and his compositions. Denjiro plays the kotsuzumi (small hand drum) and Tatsuichiro Imafuji plays the shamisen (three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument) and other musical instruments. He will explain the various features of instruments and invite the audience onto the stage to try the musical instruments. The event will conclude with Q&A session.

Lily Green

Lily is a DPhil student at the Department of Politics and International Relations, specialising in authoritarian politics, environmental governance, and state-society relations, with a regional focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. Her research explores how autocratic regimes maintain control and legitimacy among populations facing material, environmental, and political pressures, and how citizens experience and respond to these dynamics both within and beyond national borders.

Juliet Paiva

I am a second-year MPhil candidate in Political Theory, studying the intersection of democratic theory and political epistemology. My research broadly explores the role of truth in democracy. My MPhil dissertation examines cases of deep disagreement in the age of so-called “post-truth” politics—instances where different groups within democracies cannot agree on facts. Drawing on epistemic theories of deliberative democracy, social epistemology, and group cognition, I argue that the popular post-truth explanations misdiagnose the problem of deep disagreement in democracy.

Konstantin Niewerth

Konstantin Niewerth is reading for an MPhil in European Politics and Societies in St Antony's College. His main research interest is in immigrant political participation: his thesis covers the impact of country of origin economic conditions on political behaviour in migrants' host countries.

Before joining Oxford for his MPhil, Konstantin studied Classics at Durham University, with a focus on ancient philosophy and politics. Outside of Academia, Konstantin worked as a Campaign Organiser for the Green Party of England and Wales in the lead-up to the May 2023 local elections.

From ‘closedness’ to ‘closeness’: how changing community values sustains a traditional craft industry

Japan’s craft industries have frequently been cited as one of the main cultural domains affected by the ageing and shrinking population. Adopting new technologies or marketing strategies has shown attempts to maintain them. However, the transformation of community values has gotten less attention. This presentation examines the resilience of the Tamba pottery industry in Hyogo Prefecture by looking at the potters’ collective re-evaluation of their internal social dynamics.

University of Oxford Annual Black History Month Lecture: Ann Pratt, Mary Seacole, and Questioning British History

This year’s Black History Month Lecture, ‘Ann Pratt, Mary Seacole, and Questioning British History’, will be delivered by Dr Christienna Fryar, writer and independent historian of Britain and the Caribbean. This lecture tells the story of two mixed-race Jamaican women, one of whom is widely considered an important figure within Black British history while the other is barely known, and questions the fraught relationship between British history and Black British history.
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