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