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Moderated conversation around race as a category of historical analysis in graduate research.

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How do you turn research into impact? ‘Impact’ has become one of the buzzwords of the social sciences; but what does it mean, especially in relation to government policy and practice? Beyond lists of ‘recommendation’, how do researchers plan pathways to societal and economic transformation? The session will bring together three academics who have all successfully influenced public policy in their research: Prof.

Europe Beyond the Euro: Building Protection for Europe’s Economies in the Time of Risks

This seminar is organised jointly with the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University and the UNDP Human Development Report Office. This seminar will be held online.

Until recently Syria was known as a state of openness for the many waves of forced migrants that came from the Balkans and other neighboring countries over the 19th and 20th century and took shelter in Syria. The mass influx of peoples into Syria over the last 150 years, including Circassians, Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, Armenian, Assyrians, Albanians, Kosovars, Palestinians and Lebanese and Iraqis, created a modern nation of great cultural hybridity.

In 1981 the Israeli columnist and artist Amos Kenan wrote in his non-fiction essay book Your Land, Your Country:

On the 8th anniversary of the disappearance of the four Syrian human rights activists, Razan Zaitouneh, Wa'el Hamada, Nazem Hamadi and Samira Khalil, the Oxford Syria Society would organizes a panelist of scholars and activists to discuss the human rights movement within the Syrian revolution, derailed by more extremist factions within the Syrian opposition. The panel will discuss how this event has changed the trajectory of the Syrian revolution and the future of human rights work in Syria.