Lucas de Lima Silva, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil
Local-Regional relations and Colonial Villages of Indians in Dutch Brazil (1633-1654)

Michele Sollai, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Geneva
Microcosms of colonial development: Italian and Ethiopian farmers at the crossroads of fascist empire building (1937-1941)

The paper will explore the birth and development of an idea of region in the French Basque country in the aftermath of the French Revolution, thus countering the frequent view that regionalism, as a cultural phenomenon, was born in the late nineteenth century. It will argue both for the persistence of a specific ancien-régime style of localism in post-Revolutionary France and for the evolution of such localism into a new stereotyped regional identity.

The series

This term’s series explores social science’s big concepts. It examines the contested meaning and diverse application of some of the theoretical ideas that unify and challenge social scientists. It brings together the bright minds of Oxford, and high profile external speakers, to consider the range of ways in which we can think about ‘power’, ‘space’, ‘identity’, and ‘belonging’.

The series

This term’s series explores social science’s big concepts. It examines the contested meaning and diverse application of some of the theoretical ideas that unify and challenge social scientists. It brings together the bright minds of Oxford, and high profile external speakers, to consider the range of ways in which we can think about ‘power’, ‘space’, ‘identity’, and ‘belonging’.

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, to register, visit: https://bit.ly/3q1F24y

About the presenter:

Kashmir is among the oldest unresolved international conflicts on the United Nations' agenda. Over the last few decades, India has imposed a state of permanent emergency in Indian-administered Kashmir, through 'draconian' domestic laws that quell the political struggle and the rights of the people of Kashmir. Thousands have been killed in extrajudicial executions, scores have been arbitrarily detained, and many subjected to enforced disappearances. Sexual violence has been used as a weapon of war to subjugate an entire population.

He is widely known as ‘the Swiss John Oliver’ (Tages Anzeiger). The Migros Magazine described him as the ‘Late Night Star’. For some, he is the rescuer in times of satire hardship (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ). Others again simply know him as ‘the one with the curly hair’. Michael Elsener might have many faces. What can surely be said, is that he is currently the most trenchant, critical and political stand-up comedian in Switzerland. He has inspired people on stage and in his late Night Show in Germany, New York City and Switzerland, and is now taking a virtual stop in Oxford.

Yemen has been termed by the UN as 'the world's worst humanitarian crisis'. 80% of the population – 24.1 million people – need some form of humanitarian assistance, and the UN continues to warn of impending widespread famine. The UN has described this as a 'man-made crisis', caused by the conflict in Yemen that has been ongoing for six years now.