The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford

102 years ago, the first women received their Oxford degrees 🎓

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Happy New Year from us all at The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford!🎓💜

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Marina Pérez de Arcos
Sharinee Jagtiani
Urvi Khaitan
Anna Chirniciuc

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Marina Pérez de Arcos wins award for article on German-Spanish Cold War relationship DPIR alumna, DPIR Research Associate and CIS Research Associate Marina Pérez de Arcos has won the 2021 Federal Chancellor W***y Brandt Foundation Research Award for her research on the bond between German politician and statesman W***y Brandt and Spanish President Felipe González. ‘Like father, ...

Amazing work by Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh on the exciting political figure of Toussaint Louverture is being recognized with the Wolfson History Prize 2021!

Today's edition of The Times cites exciting research from Dr Marina Pérez de Arcos on British-Spanish spy Eduardo Martínez Alonso in Nazi-controlled Europe: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/secret-of-spys-route-to-freedom-from-nazi-controlled-europe-is-revealed-3mckm9t6t.

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We are absolutely thrilled to announce our co-founder Dr Marina Pérez de Arcos has won the James Whiston Memorial Prize 2021 for "the most original, accomplished, and important study recently published or accepted for publication in the Bulletin of Spanish Studies or the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies". You can find out more about this award and past winners here: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/journal-prize-james-whiston-memorial-prize/?utm_source=CPB&utm_medium=cms&utm_campaign=JOB08218 #.

The prize-winning articles are Education, Intelligence and Cultural Diplomacy at the British Council in Madrid, 1940–1941 Part 1: Founding a School in Troubled Times and Part 2: Shock Troops in the War of Ideas. The articles present original research on the British Council's fascinating yet underexplored history in 1940s Spain: https://t.co/jAf5oqZlr2?amp=1.

Rabindranath Tagore is most famous for being the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. He was also an important political thinker, activist, and educator, and the BBC has just released an interesting and timely program on his prescient environmentalist thought! Listen to it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct1rky.

The GTI project dedicated a session to his internationalist thought, which you can listen to here: https://www.globalthinkersoxford.com/podcast/episode/24dac7af/tagore-the-distinctiveness-of-the-global-prof-pk-datta.

Mark your diaries with a new event featuring Dr Taylor Sherman on 29 April! This virtual talk will focus on Professor Manu Bhagavan’s forthcoming biography on Madame Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, a pioneering politician and diplomat celebrated internationally for her brilliance, charm and glamour.

Sign up for the event here 👉 https://bit.ly/3cZg5Tw

"The LSE was an important site of creation and diffusion of women’s international thinking in 20th century Britain... However, when looking at contemporary mainstream IR, its history and scholars, it is as if the work of women thinkers had never existed... How could this happen?"

Revisit the themes of our public lecture with a report by Laura Mariani, MSc International Relations Theory:
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationalrelations/2021/03/18/women-in-international-thought-student-event-blogger-report/