Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 13:00 - Introduction to Carl Schmitt
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - Expanding the European Defense Technological Industrial Base for Deterrence
  Matthew Boyce (US Navy and SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 April 2025

• 17:00 - Book Pre-Launch: Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries (OUP, 2025)
  Dr Mohsen al Attar (Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University), Claire Smith (University of Amsterdam), Dr Radha D’Souza (Westminster Law School), Nciko Wa Nciko (Amnesty International), Dr Raghavi Viswanath (School of Oriental and African Studies), Yang Han (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 17:30 - Where International Relations Theory Went Wrong, and How It Can Get Back on Track – and Become Policy Relevant Again
  Prof Marco Verweij (Constructor University)
  Oxford International Relations Society

Friday 2 May 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week One: Beginnings
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 13:00 - Political Theology
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
  Jonathan Carroll (Sandhurst)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 15:00 - Fireside Chat with Prof Jeffrey Sachs: Can US-China Relations Develop Sustainably? (Online Event)
  Please note that this event has been rescheduled due to a last-minute change in Prof Sachs' schedule. We are currently rescheduling the event and will notify all registered participants once it has been reconfirmed.
  Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
  Oxford International Relations Society
• 17:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2025: 'How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding'
  Christine Ahn (Institute for Policy Studies), Lt Gen (Ret) Dan Leaf (US Air Force)

Friday 9 May 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Two: Child Liberation
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 17:30 - In Conversation with Prof G John Ikenberry: Is Liberal Internationalism Dead?
  John Ikenberry (Princeton University)
  Oxford International Relations Society

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 13:00 - The Concept of the Political
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Friday 16 May 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Three: Prison Abolition
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 13:00 - The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - Hybrid Warfare
  Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:00 - In Conversation with Prof Vladislav Zubok: How the Kremlin's Past Shapes its Present
  Vladislav Zubok (LSE)
  Oxford International Relations Society

Friday 23 May 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Four: Work
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 13:00 - The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - Title TBC
  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

Friday 30 May 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Five: Revolution
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 2 June 2025

• 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

Friday 6 June 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Six: Art
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 13:00 - The Nomos of the Earth
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt

Friday 13 June 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Seven: Love
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 13:00 - State, Movement, People
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt

Friday 20 June 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Eight: Home
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group