• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Jo Boyce (University of Oxford, Oxford Dept of International Development)
• Web Address: http://www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/
• Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development

Monday 9 February 2015 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Diplomacy and Crises: A practitioner's insight and outlook
  Wilfried Bolewski (Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, American Graduate School in Paris, former German Ambassador)

Monday 2 March 2015 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Regulating Business for Peace: The United Nations, the Private Sector, and Post-Conflict Recovery
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA

Monday 16 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Judgments and Justifications: The United Kingdom as International Crisis Manager, 1992-2003
  Markus Kornprobst (Diplomatic Academy of Vienna)

Monday 31 October 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - From Gridlock to Catalyst: The Surprising Evolution of the Climate Regime
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Monday 7 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sweet Talk: Paternalism and Collective Action in North-South Trade Negotiations
  Professor J P Singh (Director, Centre for Cultural Relations, University of Edinburgh)

Monday 28 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Eraced: International Relations and the Global Colour Line
  Nivi Manchanda (Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge)

Monday 6 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Whose Peace? Local Ownership and UN Peace Operations
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading)

Monday 20 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Dirty Gold: How Activism Transformed the Jewelry Industry
  Dr Michael Bloomfield (University of Bath)

Monday 27 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Reputation-Building of Emergent ODA Donors from Europe and Latin America
  Luciana Alexandra Ghica (University of Bucharest)

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Symbolic Insult in Diplomacy: a subtle game of diplomatic slap
  Professor Alisher Faizullaev (Former Ambassador of Uzbekistan to the United Kingdom)

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis: Bangladesh Response
  Md. Shahidul Haque (Foreign Secretary, Government of Bangladesh)

Monday 20 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Market Model: The Commodification of Migrants and their Rights
  Professor Justin Gest (George Mason University)

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Freedom by Force: Why Foreign-Imposed Democracy Succeeds or Fails
  Jonathan Monten (University College London)

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Whose Peace? Local Ownership and United Nations Peacekeeping
  Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading)

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Disrupting Warfare: How we use technology to help mitigate the effects of violent conflict on civilians in Syria and beyond.
  John Jaeger (Co-Founder & CEO, Hala Systems)

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Social Bonding in Diplomacy: Face-to-Face Interactions and Rituals in the 4th Image
  Nicholas J Wheeler (University of Birmingham)

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The violence of humour and ridicule in typewriter and tweet diplomacy
  Akos Kopper (Head of Department of International Relations and European Studies, ELTE University, Budapest)

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Digital Transformation of the Commonwealth
  Nabeel Goheer (Assistant Secretary General, Commonwealth Secretariat)

Wednesday 1 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Tokyo 2020 and Japan's Soft Power
  Professor Yasushi Watanabe (Keio University), Professor Corneliu Bjola (University of Oxford)

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
  Ambassador Prof Dr Claas Knoop

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:30 - The Future of Foreign Policy is Feminist - Insights from building a feminist startup to change the status quo of foreign policy
  Kristina Lunz (Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy)

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Creating a Concept: ‘Friendship’ in International Relations
  Felix Berenskötter (Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in International Relations at SOAS, University of London)

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Afghanistan: What went wrong? Who is to blame? What next?
  Please note this is open to members of Oxford University only. Please register using your Oxford email address.
  Peter W Galbraith (former US diplomat)

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Surviving the 21st Century
  Space is limited to 38 people.
  TBA

Monday 14 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Religion and World Politics: Presence, Absence or Resurgence?
  This event is open to members of the University only; spaces are limited.
  Ali Al Youha (DPIR, University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The UK government approach to crisis management
  This event is open to members of the University only. Numbers are limited and admission will be on a first come, first served basis.
  David Munroe (UK Cabinet Office)

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:15 - Humanitarian Diplomacy: What it is and how it works
  Dr Hugo Slim (Oxford)

Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Political Entrepreneurship in the Digital World: What it is and how it works
  Kristina Lunz (Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy)

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The UN at a Crossroads: The Ukrainian War and the Challenge of Multilateral Diplomacy
  Ambassador Rytis Paulauskas (Permanent Representative of the Republic of Lithuania to the United Nations), Richard Gowan (UN director, International Crisis Group)

Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The UK government approach to crisis management
  David Munroe (UK Cabinet Office)

Monday 28 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Building a global fundraising career: a view from the MENA region and UNHCR
  This event is taking place online only so please register via the link below if you would like to attend. The event finishes at 4pm UK time.
  Houssam Chahine (UNHCR)

Wednesday 25 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Toward Social Diplomacy
  Professor Dr. Alisher Faizullaev (The University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)

Tuesday 31 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Book Talk: 'Peacebuilding Legacy: Programming for Change and Young People's Attitudes to Peace'
  Sukanya Podder (Reader in Post-war Reconstruction and Peacebuilding, King's College London)

Tuesday 14 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Geo-technology: an analysis of global decoupling pressures in technology and geopolitics today
  Scott Young (Consultant, Geo-technology (and former GGD student) from the Eurasia Group), Nick Reiners (Senior Analyst, Geo-technology, Eurasia Group)

Wednesday 26 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:30 - Book Talk: ‘Queer Diplomacy: Homophobia, International Relations, and LGBT Human Rights’
  Dr Douglas Janoff

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The UN at a time of geopolitical divisions: challenges and opportunities
  Sam Daws (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Inevitable decline or renovation of Liberal International Order
  Please enter the building via Jowett Walk (attendees will be let in from 5.45). The talk will be followed by a reception in the Main Hall at QEH.
  Vittorio Emanuele (Parsi)

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - The Ethics of Countering Disinformation: Navigating Normative Ideals in the Age of Fake News
  The talk will be followed by a reception in the Main Hall
  Alicia Fjällhed (Department of Strategic Communication, Lund University)

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Moldova's Foreign Policy in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape
  The speaker will join via Zoom.
  Dorin Recean (Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova)

Friday 26 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - How an Embassy contributes to Science Diplomacy
  Dr. Minh-Hà PHAM (Counsellor for Science and Technology at French Embassy in the United Kingdom)

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Online Diplomatic Participation Using Diplotainment: A Conceptual Exploration and Illustrative Analysis
  Dr Pawel Surowiec-Capell (University of Sheffield)

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - The New Era of Digital Diplomacy: The Future of AI and the Metaverse for International Relations
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable online. Those attending in-person should use the entrance on Jowett Walk, which will be open from 17:50-18:00. Those attending online should email mscggd-admin@qeh.ox.ac.uk for the meeting link.
  Dr. Martin Waehlisch (United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs)