Thursday 22 May 2025

• 14:00 - Has Liberalism Failed? With Matt Sleat
  Dr Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield)

Friday 23 May 2025

• 13:00 - Executive Influence on Legislative Institutions: Evidence from the UK House of Commons
  Tom Fleming (UCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Four: Work
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 26 May 2025

• 16:00 - Bringing War Back In
  Luis Schenoni (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 16:00 - AI for Humanity w/ MayaCode
  In-person only
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Computational Political Science Group Event Series

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 13:00 - The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - African Military Thought
  Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:30 - In Conversation with Prof Abiodun Williams: Lessons in Leadership from the United Nations
  Prof Abiodun Williams (The Fletcher School at Tufts University)
  Oxford International Relations Society

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 15:30 - Synthetic Agents for Social Science Workshop
  Emma Madden (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Computational Political Science Group Event Series
• 17:15 - A Revolution in Maritime Military Affairs? Russia and Ukraine in the Black Sea
  Commander Steve Walton (SST-CCW & Royal Navy)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 16:00 - Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID) Workshop
  Jeffrie Quarsie (University of Oxford), Ines Fernandes (University of Oxford)
  Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID)

Friday 30 May 2025

• 13:00 - Polarization and Cooperation: A Behavioral Experiment (with Ignacio Jurado and Albert Falcó)
  Sandra León (University of Autonoma-Madrid)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Five: Revolution
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 2 June 2025

• 14:00 - Fireside Chat with Prof Jeffrey Sachs: Can US-China Relations Develop Sustainably? (Online Event)
  Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
  Oxford International Relations Society
• 16:00 - Perpetrators of Mass Violence: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?
  Alette Smeulers (Amsterdam)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:45 - "Courageous or Coerced?" Europe´s role in a changing geopolitical order
  Lukas Mandl (European Parliament)
  Europeanist Society Oxford

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 13:00 - Political Romanticism
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - When the Dust Settles: The behind-the-scenes story from the UK's top disaster planner
  Professor Lucy Easthope (University of Bath)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Beyond Our Current Boundaries: Peace Studies from Africa and the Global South. Book Launch and talk.
  Followed by drinks reception. Copies of the book will be available at launch price tba
  Various Speakers
  OxPeace Events
• 17:00 - In Conversation with Dr Leslie Vinjamuri (Chatham House): Making Sense of Trump's First 100 Days in Power
  Please note that this event has been rescheduled from 14 May to 3 June.
  Dr Leslie Vinjamuri (Chatham House)
  Oxford International Relations Society

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Different venue from normal - New Space at Gradel Quad
  Dr Kai Heron (Lancaster University)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 6 June 2025

• 13:00 - Does Fairness Matter? Opportunity, Inequality and Redistribution (joint with David Rueda)
  Verena Fetscher (DPIR Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Six: Art
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 9 June 2025

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  Gasica Ouzounian (University of Oxford)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 13:00 - The Nomos of the Earth
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - Winning the Peace Through Adaptation: The Importance of Innovation and Partnerships in the 21st Century Warfare
  Admiral Stuart Munsch
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Conceptualising 'compounded suffering' in the post-war context
  Followed by drinks reception
  Dr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes University)
  OxPeace Events

Wednesday 11 June 2025

• 17:00 - Making China Policy in an Era of Great Power Competition: Panel Discussion feat. Prof Todd Hall, Prof Kerry Brown, and Ruby Osman (OxIRSoc)
  Todd Hall (Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford), Professor Kerry Brown (King's College London), Ruby Osman (Tony Blair Institute for Global Change)
  Oxford International Relations Society

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 16:00 - Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID) Workshop
  Dr Jasmine Gani (London School of Economics)
  Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID)

Friday 13 June 2025

• 13:00 - Adjusted Expectations: Citizens' Willingness to Compromise Post-Election
  Ida Hjermitslev (University of Aalborg)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Seven: Love
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 16 June 2025

• 16:00 - Organized Political Violence in Greece, 2003-2019: Comparing the Far Right and the Far Left
  Lamprini Rori (Athens)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 13:00 - State, Movement, People
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - The Struggle for Liberation: A History of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994
  John Kegel (Netherlands Defence Academy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 17:00 - The Authoritarian Personality and Political Culture Today
  Prof Benjamin Morgan (University of Oxford)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 20 June 2025

• 13:00 - How Electoral Fraud Facilitates Elite Rent-Sharing (joint with Liam Rose)
  Aliz Tóth (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Eight: Home
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Thursday 26 June 2025

• 12:00 - In Conversation with Prof Cynthia Enloe: How to Make Feminist Sense of the World Today?
  Prof Cynthia Enloe (Clark University)
  Oxford International Relations Society