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Middle East Centre
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Centres, Peripheries and New Histories of the Left in Iran

How historians can gain new insights from global history, and how historians and histories of Iran can contribute
Rothermere American Institute
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'Healing Our Divided Society': The Kerner Commission at 50

This presentation and discussion, features Gary Younge (University of Manchester) Alan Curtis (Eisenhower Foundation) on the legacies and lessons of the Kerner Commission and their relevance to the current American moment.
Asian Studies Centre

The Uniqueness of Downtown Yangon

Su Su (Mandalay Technological University) speaks on 'The Uniqueness of Downtown Yangon' at the Southeast Asia Seminar on 26 October 2016
Department of Education Public Seminars

Imagining a future after schooling

Young people navigating uncertainty in contemporary Britain.
Anthropology

Exploring the city's 'sutures'

Filip De Boeck (KU Leiden) explores 'urban life between want and wish', drawing on examples from the DRCongo (4 March 2016)
International Migration Institute

Access to social protection for internal migrants and the obstacles to adequate coverage

The main destinations of migrants are the mega cities and other urban areas, yet governments are ill-prepared to receive this large influx of people and internal migrants are exposed to a new set of risks and vulnerabilities.
Faith and displacement (Forced Migration Review 48)

FMR 48 - The costs of giving and receiving: dilemmas in Bangkok

Local faith-based organisations play a central role in meeting the basic needs of the increasing urban refugee population in Bangkok. This raises challenges for all involved.
Transport Studies Unit Podcasts

Gender and Transport, the Neglected Dimension: Social inclusion, access and sustainable urban mobility

Professor Margaret Grieco, Edinburgh Napier University, delivers a seminar as part of the 'Socio-spatial inequalities, transport and mobilities' seminar series held in the Transport Studies Unit during Hilary Term 2012.
Oxford Internet Institute

Urban Informatics: The Internet, locative media and mobile technology for urbanites

Marcus Foth overviews various urban informatics projects, exploring the communicative ecology of urban residents, community engagement using public history and digital storytelling, and social navigation for mobile urban information systems.
Oxford Internet Institute

The Second Life of Urban Planning

Marcus Foth demonstrates the value of various tools and services (eg Second Life) for engaging people in novel and participatory planning exercises, and for investigating how the public interpret and understand proposed urban designs and urban planning.

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