Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Talks:

Thursday 22 May 2025

Has Liberalism Failed? With Matt Sleat
Date: 22 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Dr Matt Sleat (University of Sheffield)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: Room to be confirmed on registration
Organiser: Jacob Williams (University of Oxford)
Host: Jacob Williams (University of Oxford)

Friday 23 May 2025

Executive Influence on Legislative Institutions: Evidence from the UK House of Commons
Date: 23 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Tom Fleming (UCL)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Four: Work
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Bringing War Back In
Date: 26 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Luis Schenoni (UCL)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

AI for Humanity w/ MayaCode
Date: 26 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:15
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Hall
Organiser: Oxford Computational Political Science Group (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Computational Political Science Group (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

African Military Thought
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

In Conversation with Prof Abiodun Williams: Lessons in Leadership from the United Nations
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Abiodun Williams (The Fletcher School at Tufts University)
Venue: Oriel College, Oriel Square OX1 4EW
Venue Details: Harris Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Synthetic Agents for Social Science Workshop
Date: 28 May 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker : Emma Madden (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser: Oxford Computational Political Science Group (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Computational Political Science Group (University of Oxford)

A Revolution in Maritime Military Affairs? Russia and Ukraine in the Black Sea
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Commander Steve Walton (SST-CCW & Royal Navy)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID) Workshop
Date: 29 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Jeffrie Quarsie (University of Oxford), Ines Fernandes (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organisers: Naji Safadi (University of Oxford), Shubhankar Kashyap (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 May 2025

Polarization and Cooperation: A Behavioral Experiment (with Ignacio Jurado and Albert Falcó)
Date: 30 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Sandra León (University of Autonoma-Madrid)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Five: Revolution
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025

Fireside Chat with Prof Jeffrey Sachs: Can US-China Relations Develop Sustainably? (Online Event)
Date: 2 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Perpetrators of Mass Violence: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?
Date: 2 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Alette Smeulers (Amsterdam)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

"Courageous or Coerced?" Europe´s role in a changing geopolitical order
Date: 2 June 2025, 17:45 - 19:00
Speaker : Lukas Mandl (European Parliament)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: Europeanist Society (University of Oxford), Severin Dauer (University of Oxford)
Host: Europeanist Society (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Political Romanticism
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

When the Dust Settles: The behind-the-scenes story from the UK's top disaster planner
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Lucy Easthope (University of Bath)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Beyond Our Current Boundaries: Peace Studies from Africa and the Global South. Book Launch and talk.
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room, accessible
Organiser: Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)
Host: OxPeace (University of Oxford)

In Conversation with Dr Leslie Vinjamuri (Chatham House): Making Sense of Trump's First 100 Days in Power
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Leslie Vinjamuri (Chatham House)
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Pontigny Room
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Kai Heron (Lancaster University)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: New Space at Gradel Quad
Organisers: Kendall Gardner, Theo Hickfang, Miyo Peck-Suzuki
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 June 2025

Does Fairness Matter? Opportunity, Inequality and Redistribution (joint with David Rueda)
Date: 6 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Verena Fetscher (DPIR Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Six: Art
Date: 6 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 9 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Gasica Ouzounian (University of Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: Thomas Hegghammer (University of Oxford), Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Tuesday 10 June 2025

The Nomos of the Earth
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Winning the Peace Through Adaptation: The Importance of Innovation and Partnerships in the 21st Century Warfare
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Admiral Stuart Munsch
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Conceptualising 'compounded suffering' in the post-war context
Date: 10 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes University)
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Dahrendorff Room, accessible
Organiser: Alejandro Posada Tellez (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Rev Dr Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford), OxPeace (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Making China Policy in an Era of Great Power Competition: Panel Discussion feat. Prof Todd Hall, Prof Kerry Brown, and Ruby Osman (OxIRSoc)
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: 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)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Oxford China Centre, Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID) Workshop
Date: 12 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Jasmine Gani (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organisers: Naji Safadi (University of Oxford), Shubhankar Kashyap (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

Adjusted Expectations: Citizens' Willingness to Compromise Post-Election
Date: 13 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Ida Hjermitslev (University of Aalborg)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Seven: Love
Date: 13 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Platnauer Room
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Organized Political Violence in Greece, 2003-2019: Comparing the Far Right and the Far Left
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Lamprini Rori (Athens)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Tuesday 17 June 2025

State, Movement, People
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organisers: TBA
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

The Struggle for Liberation: A History of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : John Kegel (Netherlands Defence Academy)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

The Authoritarian Personality and Political Culture Today
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Prof Benjamin Morgan (University of Oxford)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 6
Organisers: Kendall Gardner, Theo Hickfang, Miyo Peck-Suzuki
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 June 2025

How Electoral Fraud Facilitates Elite Rent-Sharing (joint with Liam Rose)
Date: 20 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Aliz Tóth (LSE)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Eight: Home
Date: 20 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 June 2025

In Conversation with Prof Cynthia Enloe: How to Make Feminist Sense of the World Today?
Date: 26 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Prof Cynthia Enloe (Clark University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA