Art History, Book launch, French studies, Italian Studies

Book launch for Rossella Maria Bondi’s new book @MFOxford #Italian #French

Rossella Maria Bondi will discuss her new book, À la recherche de l’homme nouveau. Alberto Savinio et les avant-gardes à Paris 1911-1937, on 4 March 2021 at 8pm GMT, at an online event co-organised by the Maison Française d'Oxford and the Oxford Italian Association. She will be joined by Dr Barbara Giraud-Pavlov (Oxford Brookes University),… Continue reading Book launch for Rossella Maria Bondi’s new book @MFOxford #Italian #French

Book launch, Environmental Studies, Genre fiction

Book launch for #Cli-Fi #climatechange fiction #academicbookweek @acbookweek

                            Please join us for a wine reception and discussion of climate change! Cli-Fi: A Companion, edited by Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra, will be launched at the Oxfam Bookshop (56 St Giles, Oxford) at 6 pm on Wednesday 11 March. Volume… Continue reading Book launch for #Cli-Fi #climatechange fiction #academicbookweek @acbookweek

Book launch, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies

Book launch: Power-Knowledge in Tabari’s «Histoire» of Islam

Power-Knowledge in Tabari’s «Histoire» of Islam: Politicizing the past in Medieval Islamic Historiography by Amir Moghadam and Terence Lovat will be launched at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford on 22 November 2019. The launch will take place in Talbot Hall, LMH in Norham Gardens at 2 pm. All are welcome! «This is an outstanding work on… Continue reading Book launch: Power-Knowledge in Tabari’s «Histoire» of Islam

Australian Studies, Book launch, conference, Indigenous Studies

Book launch for Matteo Dutto’s Legacies of #Indigenous Resistance at the European Association for Studies of #Australia (#EASA)

Matteo Dutto's book Legacies of Indigenous Resistance: Pemulwuy, Jandamarra and Yagan in Australian Indigenous Film, Theatre and Literature was launched at the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) annual conference in Toulon, France in September 2019. Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives series editor Anne Brewster, Mitchell Rolls and Stephen Muecke all spoke at the event, alongside author Matteo… Continue reading Book launch for Matteo Dutto’s Legacies of #Indigenous Resistance at the European Association for Studies of #Australia (#EASA)

African Studies, Book launch, Italian Studies, migration studies

Photos from the launch: Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean @TORCHOxford

Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean: Shifting Cultures in Twenty-First-Century Italy and Beyond, edited by Claudia Gualtieri, was launched on Friday 25 January at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). Volume editor Claudia Gualtieri (University of Milan) was joined by Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English at Oxford) and Maeve Moynihan and Lena Hart… Continue reading Photos from the launch: Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean @TORCHOxford

African Studies, Book launch, critical race studies, Italian Studies, migration studies

Book launch: Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean @TORCHOxford

Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean: Shifting Cultures in Twenty-First-Century Italy and Beyond, edited by Claudia Gualtieri, will be launched on Friday 25 January at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean: Shifting Cultures in Twenty-First Century Italy and Beyond is a new publication in the TORCH Race and Resistance Programme's… Continue reading Book launch: Migration and the Contemporary Mediterranean @TORCHOxford

Australian Studies, Book launch, Film Studies, French studies, Transnational Studies

Book launch: Unbridling the Western Film Auteur

The English Language and Foundation Studies Centre will be launching two new books by ELFSC staff. Among them is Unbridling the Western Film Auteur, edited by Emma Hamilton and Alistair Rolls. The book renders a complex portrait of the Western auteur by considering the genre in a transnational context. It proposes that narrow views of auteurism should… Continue reading Book launch: Unbridling the Western Film Auteur

Australian Studies, Book launch, Jewish studies

Book Launch: Anna Rosenbaum’s ‘The Safe House Down Under’ at the Embassy of the Czech Republic

Originally posted on the Embassy of the Czech Republic's website On July 4 the Embassy of the Czech Republic hosted the launch of Anna Rosenbaum's book The Safe House Down Under, the story of Australia's immigration policy towards the admission of Czechoslovak refugees trying to escape the Nazi regime. Ondřej Boháč, Chargé d´Affaires a.i. of… Continue reading Book Launch: Anna Rosenbaum’s ‘The Safe House Down Under’ at the Embassy of the Czech Republic

Archaeology, Book launch, history

Book launch: Blick Mead: Exploring the ‘First Place’ in the Stonehenge Landscape

Blick Mead: Exploring the 'First Place' in the Stonehenge Landscape, by David Jacques, Tom Phillips and Tom Lyons, will be launched at 7.30pm on Wednesday 7 March at the Old Bishop's Palace in Ely. The authors will be introducing their book, tracing the evolution of the Blick Mead dig from its local community-based origins to its current… Continue reading Book launch: Blick Mead: Exploring the ‘First Place’ in the Stonehenge Landscape