OxPo Workshop on European and Global History

3 pm - Jenny Andersson (Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po)
'The Futurists. Futurology and the Neoliberal Imagination'.
Discussant: David Priestland (Oxford)

4.15 pm - Paul Lenormand (Centre d'Histoire, Sciences Po)
'A Multinational Exile: Recruiting 'Czechoslovaks' in the Soviet Union during World War II'
Discussant: Robert Gildea (Oxford)

5.30 pm - Gaetano di Tommaso (Centre d'Histoire, Sciences Po)
'Energy Security and National Interest in Early Twentieth-Century America: At the Origins of Washington's Fixation with Foreign Oil'.

The Southeast Asia Seminar: Postgraduate Research Session

Incorporating the Delphi Method within Poverty Measurement, a Case Study of West Java, Indonesia
Putu Natih (Trinity, Social Policy and Intervention)
Reading Rejection: What does the Rhetoric of Southeast-Asian Diplomacy tell us about the Regional Response to the Rohingya crisis?
Theophilus Kwek (Merton, Refugee Studies)
The Evolution of Jakarta's Flooding Policy
Thanti Octavianti (Trinity, Geography)
A Comparative Analysis of the Evolution of Migrant Worker Desirability in Malaysia and Indonesia since the 1970s

Boundaries and Belonging in the Indo-Myanmar Borderlands: Chin refugees in Mizoram

This seminar will consider the case of Chin refugees from Myanmar in the north-east Indian State of Mizoram, drawing on Migdal’s (2004) concepts of ‘virtual checkpoints’ and ‘mental maps’ to analyse and interpret the trajectory of boundary-creation, boundary-policing and boundary-removal in Mizo-Chin relationships. It is often assumed that the life course of displacement is one of deteriorating relationships between refugees and a host community.

Transforming Memory: Community Recollections of Inter-Religious Peace and Conflict in Myanmar

Research and training conducted by the Myanmar Media and Society (M.MAS) project in 2015 encountered persistent expressions of fear and antagonism directed towards religious Others as well as articulated memories of solidarity and peace. People would often seek to reconcile the contradiction between these memories and contemporary narratives that demonize religious Others. Our research suggests that these attempts at reconciling contradiction can make important contributions to peace.
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