Monday 13 October 2025

• 16:00 - The Logic of Law in the Jihadi Insurgency in Mozambique
  Eric Morier Genoud (Queen's University Belfast)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 14 October 2025

• 13:30 - How to survive a hostile world
  Patrick Porter (Birmingham)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 12:30 - The Political Unconscious of Global Polycrisis
  Kerem Nisancioglu (SOAS)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 17 October 2025

• 13:00 - Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach
  Adriana Bunea (University of Bergen)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 15:30 - Oxford Conservative Thought Reading Group, Week 1: Against Change?
  TBA
  Oxford Conservative Thought Reading Group
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week One: The Wall
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 20 October 2025

• 16:00 - When Criminals Help the State: Winning Hearts and Minds through Facilitation of State Service Provision
  David Cerero (Yale University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 13:30 - The Rise and Fall of the British Army, 1975–2025
  Brigadier (rtd) Ben Barry (OBE (IISS))
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 12:30 - International Order(ing) as Complex Indebtedness: An Alternative Framework for World Politics
  Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 24 October 2025

• 13:00 - Racing through Election Cycles: The Political Consequences of the Tour de France
  Ala' Alrababah (Bocconi University)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Two: Origins, Omelas, Odo
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 27 October 2025

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 16:00 - Gendered Narratives and Armed Group Publicity During Civil Wars
  Meredith Loken (University of Amsterdam)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 18:00 - BAFUNCS OxUNA UN Careers Paths Speakers’s Panel
  Stephen Rudgard (FAO), Jeff Crisp (UNHCR and Chatham House), Tomoko Nishimoto (United Nations)

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 13:30 - Russia's Hybrid War
  Bob Seely MBE
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 12:30 - How Domestic Politics Shape the United States' Nuclear Credibility
  Lauren Sukin (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 31 October 2025

• 13:00 - Varieties of Authoritarian Policymaking
  Emilia Simison (Queen Mary University of London)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 3 November 2025

• 16:00 - The Logic of Party Violence
  Ursula Daxecker (Amsterdam)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Hidden Frontiers: Emerging Issues, Black Swans in Geopolitics, Defence, and Security
  Latika M Bourke (ANU National Security College), Dr. Sebastian Seidel (BwConsulting), Jutta Doberstein (NYT Author), Taylor El Hage (International SOS), Dr. Matthew Finch (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 17:00 - Treason, Terrorism, and Betrayal: Why Individuals Cross the Line
  Dr William Costanza (Georgetown University)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 12:30 - The Impacts of Globalization on Political Knowledge: Evidence from Climate Awareness in Africa
  Amanda Kennard (Stanford University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 7 November 2025

• 13:00 - Losers' Consent in Polarized Elections: Observational and Experimental Evidence
  Ignacio Jurado (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Four: Time
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Saturday 8 November 2025

• 09:00 - Peace, Security, Women's Rights, & Peacebuilding in Challenging Times
  Please save the date! Further details will come in September.
  Prof Gearoid Millar (University of Aberdeen), Professor Sabina Alkire (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Meghan Campbell (University of Birmingham), Shelagh Daley (Safderworld, FCDO), Eva Tabbasam (GAPS), Nita Ywanarajah (TBC), Maimud Mohamed (ASAL), Ufra Mir (Kashmir & SE Asia), Gilah Allardice (Peace Direct)
  OxPeace Events

Monday 10 November 2025

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 13:30 - Reflections on American foreign and defence policy by Shashank Joshi
  Shashank Joshi (The Economist)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 17:30 - Lester B. Pearson Inaugural Lecture: Passions, Preferences, and the Politics of Self-Binding
  Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)

Friday 14 November 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Rikhil Bhavnani (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Five: Revolution
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 17 November 2025

• 16:00 - Divided We Stand? Identity Strategies in the Wake of Conflict
  Ceren Lord (University of Oxford)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 12:30 - Norms, Practices, and Change in a Planetary Era
  Steven Bernstein (University of Toronto)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 21 November 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Tugba Bozcaga (King's College London)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Six: The University
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 24 November 2025

• 16:00 - Resident Resistance: Denouncing Criminalized Groups in Rio de Janeiro
  Nicholas Barnes (St. Andrew's)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 12:30 - The Politics of Deference by International Courts
  Theresa Squatrito (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 28 November 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Sascha Riaz (EUI)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 1 December 2025

• 16:00 - Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective: Hierarchy and Ethnic Violence in India and Beyond
  Dan Naseemulah (University of Oxford)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 12:30 - Collective Reciprocity and the Failure of Climate Change Mitigation Treaties
  Sam Housekeeper (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 5 December 2025

• 13:00 - Who Gets Protection from Protectionism? Evidence from the Buy American Act
  Hye Young You (Princeton University)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed - Week Eight: Resistance
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Friday 23 January 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Kristin Michelitch (Institute for Advanced Study - Toulouse)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Friday 13 February 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Andrew Eggers (University of Chicago)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Friday 6 March 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Ferdinand Eibl (KCL), Steffen Hertog (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Friday 13 March 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Jeremy Bowles (UCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium