Tuesday 27 January 2025

• 16:00 - A New World Order? Warnings and Indicators
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 January 2025

• 17:15 - What is State Racism?
  Robin Celikates (FU Berlin)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 30 January 2025

• 12:45 - Women Politicians' Networks Reduce the Gender Gap in Political Retention: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Elite Interviews (with Omar Hammoud-Gallego, Miguel M. Pereira, Denise Baron)
  Katharina Lawall (University of Reading)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 2 February 2025

• 16:00 - Intervention Entrepreneurs: Revisiting Power and Process in US Intervention Decision-Making
  Marina Henke (Hertie School)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 3 February 2025

• 16:00 - Money in Modern War and the Blockade of Germany, 1914-18
  Jonathan Boff (Birmingham)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 19:30 - The Hardest Bridge
  Various Speakers

Thursday 5 February 2025

• 17:15 - Towards a Theory of Counter-Communities
  Daniel Loick (Amsterdam)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 6 February 2025

• 12:45 - When the national economy becomes personal: the link between personal economics and the national economic vote (joint with Geoffrey Evans and Zack Grant)
  Jane Green (Nuffield College-University of Oxford), Justin Robinson (Nuffield College)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 14:30 - Book Discussion: The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
  Dr. Senthorun Sunil Raj (Manchester Metropolitan University), Dr. David Eichert (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 9 February 2025

• 16:00 - Race, Violence, and the Effectiveness of Protest
  Devorah Manekin (Hebrew University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 10 February 2025

• 16:00 - Strategic Net Assessment
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford), Dr Edward Howell (CCW, Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Friday 13 February 2025

• 12:45 - Title TBC
  Andrew Eggers (University of Chicago)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 16 February 2025

• 16:00 - Fragmentation, Agenda Scope, and Government Concessions in Self-Determination Disputes
  Eleonora La Spada (University of Strathclyde)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 17 February 2025

• 16:00 - BELARUS: Autocracy, War and Diplomacy. A British Diplomat’s Observations of Life Inside Belarus
  Jack Hands
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 19 February 2025

• 17:15 - Rehearsing the Right Life: Adorno on Flourishing
  Richard Elliott (Reading)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 20 February 2025

• 12:45 - Gendered Expressions of Loyalty: How Women Play the Sycophant Card
  Lisa Fan (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 16:00 - Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
  TBA

Monday 23 February 2025

• 16:00 - Documentation and Denial: Contestation over Evidence of Mass Atrocities
  Kate Cronin-Furman (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 24 February 2025

• 16:15 - Naval Strategy in the Pacific: Balancing not Challenging China
  Lt Cdr Andrew Ward (CCW & Royal Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Friday 27 February 2025

• 13:00 - Landholding Inequality and the Political Economy of Place
  Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni (DPIR-Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 2 March 2025

• 16:00 - Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed
  Killian Clark (Georgetown)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 3 March 2025

• 16:00 - National Resilience and Preparedness
  Dr Rowena Hill (Nottingham Trent University)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 5 March 2025

• 17:15 - Are Corporations Spatial Entities?: The Demos in Digital Sovereignty
  Alina Utrata (University of Oxford)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 6 March 2025

• 12:45 - Populism and Resource Rents in International Relations
  Ferdinand Eibl (KCL), Steffen Hertog (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 9 March 2025

• 16:00 - Beyond the Threshold: Enemies, Tricksters, and the Temporality of Revolutions
  Rosario Forlenza (LUIS)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 10 March 2025

• 16:00 - How to End a Nuclear War: Deterrence and Provocation in War Termination
  Lauren Sukin (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Friday 13 March 2025

• 12:45 - Decolonizing the State: Bureaucratic Capacity and Policy Implementation in the Tanzanian Civil Service
  Jeremy Bowles (UCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 23 March 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods 2026
  Spyros Kosmidis (University of Oxford), Marnie Howlett (University of Oxford), Kalina Zhekova (UCL), Tom Robinson (LSE), Maksim Zubok (University of Oxford), Noah Bacine (University of Oxford), Nelson Ruiz (University of Essex), Michal Ovadek (UCL)

Thursday 23 April 2025

• 09:00 - Multi-level Negotiation, Mediation and Diplomacy: ‘Negotiating with difficult actors’ , OxPeace Training Workshop 23-24 April 2026
  Note that this is a TWO-DAY workshop, over two full days Thurs 23 and Fri 24 April, 09.30-17.30. . The exact venue will be confirmed as soon as possible, either in St John's or inearby. See the Abstract for application details.
  Martin Albani, Dr Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Friday 1 May 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Krzysztof Krakowski (King's College London)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Thursday 7 May 2025

• 13:00 - (Joint with the IR Colloquia, Note Different Day)
  Catherine DeVries (Bocconi University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Friday 15 May 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Guillermo Toral (IE University)
  Politics Research Colloquium