Café de investigación con Gerald Power

Research Coffee es una serie de eventos cuyo objetivo es servir de plataforma para el debate sobre publicaciones, proyectos y documentos de trabajo del profesorado de la UCA, así como de los estudiantes de la UCA. Se requiere inscripción previa para este evento.

Nuestra próxima sesión será organizada por Doctor Gerald Power who will present his work ‘The Making of a Sultan: The Secret History of the British Council and Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman, 1956-70’. Discussants for this topic will be Doctor Pelin Ayan Musil; Dra. Ebru Akcasu

A continuación encontrará el resumen de la ponencia, pero para recibir la ponencia completa y el enlace a la reunión, regístrese con antelación. ¡Le esperamos!

Resumen:
This presentation explores the character and significance of the education of Qaboos bin Said, the future Sultan of Oman (ruled 1970-2020). That Qaboos received a British education from 1958 to 1965 is well known. What is less understood and documented is the persistent interest in young Qaboos’s development within both the UK Foreign Office and the British Council, the British state’s overseas cultural and educational relations apparat. This paper attempts to grapple with the questions of what the British aimed to achieve by fostering the development of the heir to the Sultanate, and to what extent a British education shaped the character of Qaboos and contributed to the successful British-aided coup of 1970 which saw Qaboos replace his father as absolute ruler of Oman.