"What is MaBaTha? The group, best known by its Burmese language acronym, but also called the Organisation for the Protection of Race and Religion, has become virtually synonymous with Buddhist nationalism and anti-Muslim discrimination and violence in Myanmar, especially since 2012. U Wirathu, MaBaTha’s most prominent member, is infamous for his extremist, racist and sexist remarks, and recently received a one year teaching ban from Myanmar’s Buddhist authorities.
Since 2010, the UK has already experienced one of the longest periods of public spending restraint over the last century. However, year-to-year cuts in public spending were notably less deep than after both World Wars and the ‘Geddes Axe’ cuts of the 1920s.
Nick Hewlett from the University of Warwick speaks at this Trinity Term's final Ideas and Political Violence Seminar.
Professor Hewlett looks at the question of how we should approach the paradox of violence in pursuit of peace and equality. His discussion focuses on non-violence and equality as imperative goals, peace and violence in modernity and late modernity, and the ways in which this paradox has been considered by thinkers such as Karl Marx, among others.
Matthew Walton, Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony’s College, speaks at the Ideas and Political Violence Seminar.
His talk centres on the Myanmar Media and Society Project, which is a collaboration between the Programme on Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony's College and the Myanmar IT for Development Organization. The project focuses on finding ways to better understand the production of violence in Myanmar and to use this understanding to support local groups working for peace.
Alessandro Ferrara, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, gives the keynote address at the 2017 Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference.
Prof. Ravi Kanbur (Cornell) engages with the question of how Brexit will impact developing countries, focusing in particular on the EU aid budget, intergovernment organisation influence, exchange rates and tourism.
Academics, journalists and researchers gathered at St Antony's College in May 2017 to discuss the impact of Brexit within the UK and beyond from a variety of geographic perspectives.
Dr. Barry Sterland (Brookings) discusses the impact of Brexit for Australian markets and national foreign policy decision-making.
Academics, journalists and researchers gathered at St Antony's College in May 2017 to discuss the impact of Brexit within the UK and beyond from a variety of geographic perspectives.
'You Looking at Me, Looking at You: Brexit Britain and the World' was presented by the Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM) Programme and the talks in this podcast series offer a diverse selection of those given at the conference.
Prof. Andrew Hurrell (Oxford) places Brexit into the context of macro-level contemporary and historical changes in regional and national power.
Academics, journalists and researchers gathered at St Antony's College in May 2017 to discuss the impact of Brexit within the UK and beyond from a variety of geographic perspectives.
'You Looking at Me, Looking at You: Brexit Britain and the World' was presented by the Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM) Programme and the talks in this podcast series offer a diverse selection of those given at the conference.
