Professor Leandro Prados de la Escosura

(Universidad Carlos III, Madrid)

“Well-Being Beyond GDP: What Does Economic History Tell Us?”

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 17:00

The Old Library, Front Quad, All Souls College

Followed by a drinks reception at 18:30

If you would like to attend, either in person or on Zoom,

please email sheilagh.ogilvie@all-souls.ox.ac.uk

Old Library, All Souls College

An OxREP-UrbNet conference

Organisers: Rubina Raja (Aarhus University) and Andrew Wilson (University of Oxford)

See and download the conference programme here

Register here (registration required)

Examination Schools

Anne Applebaum, Journalist, historian

“They Didn't Understand Anything, Just Spoiled People's Lives": Brutality, Incompetence and Historical Echoes in Russian-occupied Ukraine

Anne Applebaum is a journalist, a prize-winning historian, a staff writer for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, where she co-leads a project on 21st century disinformation and co-teaches a course on democracy. Her books include Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine; Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956; and Gulag: A History, which won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Her most recent book is the New York Times bestseller, Twilight of Democracy, an essay on democracy and authoritarianism. She was a Washington Post columnist for fifteen years and a member of the editorial board; she has also been the deputy editor of the Spectator and a columnist for several British newspapers. Her writing has appeared in the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, among many other publications.

The lecture is the nineteenth in a series funded by a generous benefaction from Dr S. T. Lee, who has funded lectures in the humanities all over the world.

There will be a wine reception after the lecture.

Registrations are compulsory. Please fill out the form here: https://forms.office.com/e/tzpbV61h1H

This is an in person event taking place at:

Fitzhugh Auditorium of Exeter College Oxford's Cohen Quad, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG (Map)

→ To join us please reserve your spot here 

A Touch of Genius
The Life, Work and Influence of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard

Edited by André Singer

(RAI Book Series Volume 4, Sean Kingston Books)
 

Evans-Pritchard was one of the most influential anthropologists of his, or any other time. Indeed, as time goes by, his importance becomes ever more evident. In A Touch of Genius, a distinguished group of contributors consisting of E-P’s colleagues, family and those who have used his writings reflect upon his life, work and influence. This launch event will provide an opportunity to discuss the book, to learn from the contributors, and to reconsider E-Ps life and legacy.

Andre Singer, the editor of the volume, was E-P’s research assistant, and is a leading documentary film maker and author. A former President of the Royal Anthropological Institute, he is currently CEO of Spring Films.

Contributors:
Grace Akello, Tim Allen, Ahmed Al-Shahi, Raymond Apthorpe, Bruno Braak and John Justin Kenyi, Douglas Davies, Francis Mading Deng, Susan Drucker-Brown, Deirdre Evans-Pritchard, John Evans-Pritchard, David Hicks, Wendy James, Timothy Jenkins, Douglas H. Johnson, David B. Kronenfeld, Eisei Kurimoto, Pierre Lee, Harriet D. Lyons and Andrew P. Lyons, Piero Matthey, Leben Nelson Moro, Christopher Morton, Elizabeth Ngutuku and Auma Okwany, Juan Ossio, Bruce Ross-Smith, Gary Seaman, David Shankland, André Singer, Richard Werbner, Roy Willis, John Gai Yoh, Melha Ruot Biel, Kim Jal Lieh and Naomi Pendle

The event is kindly supported by Exeter and All Souls Colleges, Oxford, and by the Royal Anthropological Institute. 

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Old Library, All Souls College
University of Oxford, OX1 4AL