Monday 18 May 2015

• 17:00 - Book launch: Water, Civilisation and Power in Sudan
  Dr Harry Verhoeven (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 March 2016

• 17:00 - Twenty-five Years in the Search for Peace: Reflections on the Nobel Peace Prize (Cyril Foster Lecture)
  Geir Lundestad
• 17:30 - Constitutional Studies Lecture: What Does the Failure of the House of Lords Bill 2012 Tell Us about the UK Constitution?
  Jesse Norman MP (MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire)

Wednesday 15 March 2017

• 09:15 - The New Politics of Authoritarianism
  Various Speakers

Thursday 11 May 2017

• 16:00 - 'Security Governance "of the People, by the People, for the People": Auxiliary Forces in Civil Wars'
  Corinna Jentzsch (Leiden)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 12 May 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Talking to Trump’
  Frances Stead Sellers (senior writer, Washington Post)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Monday 15 May 2017

• 12:15 - 'Domestic Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Approval Under Electoral Authoritarianism'
  Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - 'Cooperation, Conflict, and the Costs of Anarchy'
  This is a special meeting of the DPIR International Relations Colloquium, and will be held in addition to the usual Thursday seminar
  Professor James D. Fearon (Stanford University)

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 12:15 - Cultural Appropriation as Insult
  TBA
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series
• 12:30 - ‘The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office in the U.S.’
  Professor Nicholas Carnes (Duke University)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - 'Russia's views on and adaptation to the Changing Character of War'
  Dr Katazyna Zysk
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 May 2017

• 12:00 - ‘Nuclear Prominence and Cyber Persistence: The dynamics of 21st century international security’
  Dr. Richard J. Harknett (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - ‘News in the digital age, and how The Economist fits in’
  Tom Standage (The Economist)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 18 May 2017

• 12:30 - Lessons from the Battle of Trafalgar: Military decision making in the Information Age
  Lieutenant Commander Matt Offord
• 16:00 - 'Comparing Political Violence in Bosnia and Northern Ireland'
  Professor Siniša Malešević (University College Dublin)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 19 May 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Media freedom and free speech in South Africa’
  Kate O’Regan (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Monday 22 May 2017

• 12:15 - 'Follow the (foreign) leader: How Government Clarity Promotes Cross-Nationally Influential Political Parties'
  Lawrence Ezrow (University of Essex)

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 12:15 - On Coding: Conceptual Analysis in Political Philosophy
  Keith Dowding (Australian National University)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series
• 12:30 - 'Voicing Opposition: Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries'
  Adam Dean (Middlebury College)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 24 May 2017

• 12:15 - ‘Poland on Its Way to Digitization’
  Krzysztof Szubert (Secretary of State, Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs, The Government Plenipotentiary for Digital Single Market, Government of Poland)
• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Maria Stepanova (Colta.ru)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 12:00 - 'Brand Warfare and the Demobilization of FARC Rebels in Colombia'
  Dr Alex Fattal (Penn State)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 12:30 - 'The Political Consequences of Terrorism. A Quasi-Experimental Approach'
  Laia Balcells (Duke)
• 16:00 - 'Rivalry and Revenge: The Politics of Violence during Civil War' - Book Panel
  Unlike other events in this series, this talk will not be recorded and published as a podcast.
  Laia Balcells (Duke), Kristin Bakke (UCL), Dr Jonathan Leader Maynard (University of Oxford), Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 26 May 2017

• 09:00 - Conference on the ‘Historical Rawls’
  Various Speakers

Monday 29 May 2017

• 12:15 - The Economic Origins of Authoritarian Values: Evidence from Local Trade Shocks in the United Kingdom
  Stephanie Rickard (LSE)

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 12:15 - The Moral Costs of Costless Warfare: Distributing Harms and Risks in Armed Humanitarian Intervention
  Linda Eggert (Oxford)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series
• 12:30 - ‘Propaganda and Nation Building: Evidence from Rwanda’
  Professor Sharun Mukand (Warwick University)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 31 May 2017

• 12:15 - ‘Fake Sites and Fake News’
  Edward Lucas (The Economist)
• 14:00 - ' "The Optician of Lampedusa" - Opening the World's Eyes to the Human Story Behind Mass Migration'
  Emma Jane Kirby (BBC)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 1 June 2017

• 16:00 - 'Syria and the Battle of Ideas'
  Alex Bellamy (University of Queensland)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Monday 5 June 2017

• 12:15 - The Rise of Western Democracy: Why it Happened in Europe and Not China or the Middle East
  David Stasavage (NYU)

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 12:15 - Constitutionalising Anarchy: The Case of Occupy Wall Street
  Ruth Kinna (Loughborough), Alex Prichard (University of Exeter), Thomas Swann (Loughborough)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series
• 12:30 - Progressivism Without the People: Why Focusing on Health Inequality Makes Inequality Overall More Persistent
  Julia Lynch (University of Pennsylvania)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 7 June 2017

• 12:30 - 'Why locals can't own international interventions: evidence from civilian EU missions in Somalia, Kosovo and the Palestinian Territories'
  Dr Filip Ejdus (University of Bristol), Adis Merdzanovic (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Richard Caplan (Linacre)
• 14:00 - 'Producing News Videos that Young People Care About'
  Sakhr Al-Makhadhi (AJ+)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 8 June 2017

• 12:30 - China’s National Problem: Han-Centrism and International Politics
  Brad Thayer (Tallinn University)
• 16:00 - 'Reconciling Narratives of Conflict and Peace in Contemporary Myanmar'
  Matthew Walton (University of Oxford)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Monday 12 June 2017

• 12:30 - ‘Trump and the Future of the Liberal International Order’
  Professor Joseph Nye
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 16:00 - The Power of Global Performance Assessment
  Beth Simmons (University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday 13 June 2017

• 12:15 - Reflection as a Political Practice in Arendt and Rawls
  Sam Bruce (Oxford)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 14:00 - 'Broadcasting in the Age of Trump and Brexit'
  Justin Webb (BBC)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 15 June 2017

• 16:00 - How should we approach the paradox of violence in pursuit of peace and equality?
  Nick Hewlett (Warwick)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 16 June 2017

• 17:00 - Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture in International Relations 2017 : 'Universities in an Age of Populism'
  Professor Louise Richardson (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford)

Monday 26 June 2017

• 10:00 - Oxford Summer Institute 2017
  TBA

Thursday 7 September 2017

• 12:30 - Conference on Public Life and Religious Diversity
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 26 September 2017

• 18:00 - CRIC Public Lecture: Online Radicalisation - Myths and Reality
  Professor Peter Neumann (King's College London)

Wednesday 27 September 2017

• 18:00 - CRIC Public Lecture: Conflict, Complexity and Cooperation
  The Right Honourable the Lord Alderdice (Director of the Centre for Resolution of Intractable Conflicts)

Monday 9 October 2017

• 17:00 - The contested meaning of "Failed States” for international order (SEESOX, CIS and ESC Co-Sponsored Seminar)
  Susan Woodward (City University of New York)

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 12:30 - ‘Technology, Security, and Regime Survival in North Korea’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jieun Baek (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘What’s happening to our media’
  Rasmus Nielsen (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 12:15 - IR Publishing: Current and future challenges (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  John Lough (OUP)

Friday 13 October 2017

• 12:15 - Opportunistic election timing, a complement or substitute for economic manipulation?
  Lunch will be provided.
  Dr Tristin Beckman (University of Oxford), Professor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - ‘Quizzing leaders for a global audience’
  Stephen Sackur, BBC Hard Talk
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 17 October 2017

• 17:00 - 'Victorian Voting: Party Orientation and Class Alignment Revisited'
  Professor Janne Tukiainen (VATT Institute for Economic Research)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Changing patterns of digital news consumption’
  Nic Newman (research associate and lead author of Digital News Report at RISJ)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 12:15 - Radio for Peace: UN Broadcasting and Violence against Civilians (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Jessica DiSalvatore (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 October 2017

• 12:15 - 'The Price of Cooperation: How Authoritarian States Retain Control'
  Dr Barbara Piotrowska (University of Oxford )
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 12:30 - Book Manuscript Workshop: ‘Economic Statecraft’
  Lunch will be provided to those who have registered.
  Cecile Fabre (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - ‘Google and Facebook: Friend or Foe?’
  Helen Lewis, deputy editor, New Statesman
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 24 October 2017

• 12:15 - Davids and Goliath: Can an area studies-global IR conversation help shape the discipline? (CIS, SIAS and ESC Co-Sponsored Talk)
  Nora Fisher Onar (Coastal Carolina University)
• 17:00 - 'Improving Political Communication: Results from a Pilot Field Experiment in Pakistan'
  Miriam Golden (Professor of Political Science, UCLA )
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 12:00 - CIS-Sponsored Book Launch: 'The Virtual Weapon and International Order’
  Warm lunch will be provided.
  Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)
• 14:00 - Q&A discussion with physician, academic and writer whose work covers medicine, policy, statistics and campaigning
  Ben Goldacre, author of Bad Science (director EBM DataLab, Nuffield Dept Primary Care )
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 17:30 - 'The Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series: Andrés Bello'
  Professor Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford )
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 12:15 - The Global Politics of the AI Revolution: A Research Agenda (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Allan Dafoe (Yale)

Friday 27 October 2017

• 14:00 - From Leningrad to Leninfall: The Geopolitics of Soviet Monuments 100 Years since the Russian Revolution (CIS and Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Co-Sponsored Lecture)
  Myroslava Hartmond (CIS, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - ‘Reporting on globalized issues. A study of China and the environmental movement’
  Stephen Reese, Professor of journalism, University of Texas
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 31 October 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Under Pressure: Political Geography of Mobilization’
  Alexandra Cirone (LSE)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Britain, Brexit and the new political chaos'
  Jack Blanchard (editor, London playbook at Politico)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 17:30 - The Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series: Francisco de Vitoria
  Dr Annabel Brett (Cambridge)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 12:15 - Attitudes towards Killing in War (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Dr Livia Schubiger (LSE)
• 12:30 - Let Them Eat Credit: Urban-Rural Biases and the Politics of Sovereign Default
  Cameron Ballard-Rosa (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
  Comparative Political Economy Seminars
• 16:30 - CIS-Sponsored Roundtable: 'Women in the History of International Thought'
  Professor Patricia Owens (University of Sussex)

Friday 3 November 2017

• 12:15 - 'Ministerial Government and Reform Productivity in Parliamentary Democracies'
  Hanna Bäck (Lund)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - ‘Lessons learnt launching Al Jazeera English, and how they can be applied to news media today’
  Al Anstey, Former MD, Al Jazeera English
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Saturday 4 November 2017

• 10:00 - Effective Use of Data in EPQs - Teachers' Workshop
  Professor Andy Eggers (University of Oxford ), Nicholas Martindale (DPIR, Oxford)

Tuesday 7 November 2017

• 17:00 - The Causal Effect of University Education on Political Attitudes and Behavior
  Professor Dominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich and London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 17:30 - The Bingham Lecture in Constitutional Studies: Brexit, British Politics and Our Fragile Constitution
  Professor Anand Menon (King’s College London)

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 12:30 - ‘Technology, Security, and Regime Survival in North Korea’
  Jieun Baek (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘The evolution of digital journalism and tapping into tech for story-telling’
  Lianna Brinded (Europe editor at Quartz)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 15:00 - Book Panel: Europe's Functional Constitution. A Theory of Constitutionalism Beyond the State.
  Turkuler Isiksel (Columbia University)

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 12:15 - The paradox of safe areas in ethnic civil wars (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Dr Stefano Recchia (Cambridge)
• 12:30 - Democratic Drain: Emigration and Democratization in the Middle East
  Justin Gest (George Mason University)
  Comparative Political Economy Seminars

Friday 10 November 2017

• 12:15 - 'Mapping Mutations in Legislation: A Bioinformatics Approach'
  Sandwiches are available!
  Ruth Dixon (Blavatnik)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - ‘The challenges of writing about corruption in Africa’
  Michela Wrong, author of “Now it’s our turn to eat”
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Monday 13 November 2017

• 13:00 - ‘The Populist Explosion’: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics (CIS, RAI and ESC Co-Sponsored Talk)
  Sandwich lunch available on a first-come, first-served basis.
  John B. Judis (Author and Journalist)

Tuesday 14 November 2017

• 17:00 - Everybody loves a winner: A field experiment providing information on polls in South Africa
  Kate Orkin (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 12:30 - Singularity on the Battlefield? AI, US-China Competition, and the Future of Warfare
  All are welcome. Warm lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Elsa B. Kania (Center for a New American Security)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘Platform power and responsibility in the attention economy’
  John Naughton (columnist The Observer and director press fellowship programme, Wolfson College)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 17:00 - CIS-Sponsored Talk: 'Historical Institutionalism Meets Practice Theory: Renewing the Selection Process of the United Nations Secretary-General'
  Professor Vincent Pouliot (McGill University)
• 17:45 - The Global Thinkers of the International Discussion Series: Jeptha Duncan and Narciso Garay
  Rolando de la Guardia (The Latin American Centre)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 12:15 - No Friends but the Mountains: Why conflict persists at high altitude. (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Judith Matloff (Columbia)
• 17:00 - Governance and Leadership in the EU's Digital Single Market
  Krzysztof Szubert (Secretary of State, Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs, The Government Plenipotentiary for Digital Single Market, Government of Poland)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

Friday 17 November 2017

• 12:15 - 'Audits for Accountability: Evidence from Municipal By-elections in South Africa'
  Sandwiches are available!
  Dan Berliner (LSE), Joachim Wehner (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - ‘A reporter's discovery during the financial crisis: those in charge were making it up as they went along’
  Katherine Griffiths, banking editor, The Times
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 21 November 2017

• 15:00 - Crowd-sourcing safety. How data is taking-on sexual harassment.
  Elsa-Marie D'Silva (Red Dot Foundation (Safecity))
  Q-Step Talks
• 17:00 - Democratic Capitalism at a Crossroads
  Professor Carles Boix (Princeton )
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Reporting from Yemen and other inaccessible war zones: risk and how to find out if you're in trouble’
  Laura Silvia Battaglia
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 09:00 - DPhil Politics/IR graduate seminar
  Various Speakers
• 12:15 - Resistable Restrictions? The Effectiveness of States’ Efforts to Silence Civil Society (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Kristin Bakke (UCL)
• 12:30 - Rewarding Merit or Luck? The Competency Signal in Comparative Perspective
  Daniela Campello (Fundação Getúlio Vargas/EBAPE), Cesar Zucco Jr (Fundação Getúlio Vargas/EBAPE)
  Comparative Political Economy Seminars

Friday 24 November 2017

• 12:15 - The role of family history in shaping attitudes toward outgroups
  Dr Elias Dinas (Brasenose College)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 17:00 - Prior Beliefs and Arguments: The Micro-Mechanisms of Attitude Certainty and Attitude Change in Deliberative Settings
  TBA
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 29 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Decline in media freedom worldwide’
  Jodie Ginsberg (chief executive, Index on Censorship)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 12:15 - Divergent paths. Institutional constraints and post-Cold War Italian and German defence policy (IR Colloquium: MT)
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Fabrizio Coticchia (University of Genoa)

Friday 1 December 2017

• 12:15 - Does Online Activism Affect Legislative Behaviour?
  Sandwiches will be available at the session!
  Jack Blumenau (UCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 12:30 - The Urban Advantage in Revolution
  Mark Beissinger (Princeton)
  Comparative Political Economy Seminars

Friday 12 January 2018

• 15:00 - The Destruction of Syria and Failure of Conflict Prevention
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Alexander Bellamy (University of Queensland)

Wednesday 17 January 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Is it true? Why questions about the news are changing’
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 16:00 - Extremism, Genocide, and Ideological Contestation
  Dr Omar McDoom (LSE)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars
• 17:00 - Toward a Critical Theory of Vulnerability
  Dr Timo Jütten (Essex)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 19 January 2018

• 12:30 - Identity and citizenship: a response to terrorism? Analysing how the French government responded to the 2015 attacks in Paris
  Professor Florence Faucher (Sciences Po), Laurie Boussaguet (European University Institute, Florence)
• 17:00 - ‘Journalistic ethics in practice: The bright side, dark side and taboos’
  TBA
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Monday 22 January 2018

• 17:00 - Disrupted democracy in Ukraine? Protest, performance and contention in the Verkhovna Rada
  Dr Sarah Whitmore (Oxford Brookes University)
  Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Tuesday 23 January 2018

• 17:00 - Tales from the War Rooms: the Brexit Referendum 2016
  Andrew Hood (Senior Advisor at Dechert LLP and former Legal Advisor to the Cameron administration), Will Straw (former executive director of Britain Stronger in Europe), Tim Shipman (Sunday Times political editor and author of 'All Out War' and 'Fall Out')
  Brace for Impact: The Multiple Dimensions of Brexit

Wednesday 24 January 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Not-for-profit journalism - a model for change'
  Rachel Oldroyd (managing editor, Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 16:00 - Structural Violence, Public Health and the Militarization of Assistance
  Dr Julia Amos (University of Oxford)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars
• 17:00 - Madness and the Limits of Recognition
  Dr Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed (Birkbeck)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 26 January 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Trust, power and the crisis of media’
  Ed Williams (chief executive officer, Edelman UK and Ireland)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Monday 29 January 2018

• 10:00 - Introduction to Mindfulness in Politics
  Chris Ruane MP (Houses of Parliament)
• 17:00 - Health and well-being in Russia: new approaches, new challenges
  Professor Christopher Gerry (University of Oxford)
  Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Wednesday 31 January 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Photojournalism in the digital age’
  Adrian Hadland (senior lecturer, University of Stirling)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 16:00 - Will strong nation-states and a stronger United Nations guarantee a new global order?
  Michael von der Schulenburg (United Nations)
• 17:30 - Rabindranath Tagore on International Relations
  P.K, Dutta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 12:30 - The Politics of School Reform: Inequality, Political Parties, and Student Sorting
  Charlotte Haberstroh (University of Oxford)
  Comparative Political Economy Seminars
• 12:30 - A Theory of Treatymaking
  A sandwich lunch is booked according to numbers. Please email andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk if you would like to be included in the sandwich order.
  James Morrow (University of Michigan)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - “Self-Reliant Struggle” or Revolution?: On the Limits of Ideology in African Civil War
  Zoe Marks (Edinburgh)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars
• 17:00 - Historical Criticism without Progress: Memory as an Emancipatory Resource for Critical Theory
  Peter Verovšek (Harvard & Sheffield Universities)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 2 February 2018

• 12:30 - Diasporas, Political Institutions, and International Investment
  David Leblang has indicated that he would be willing to meet with students and staff on Friday February 3. If you would like to arrange a meeting, please contact David Doyle.
  David Leblang (University of Virginia)
• 17:00 - ‘Britain’s media and politics’
  Tony Gallagher (editor-in-chief, The Sun )
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 17:00 - The challenges to growth in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
  Sergei Guriev (SciencesPo)
  Post-Soviet Politics and Society
• 17:00 - Nationalism, Populism and the New Europe
  Gisela Stuart (Chair of the Vote Leave Campaign Committee; MP for Edgbaston, 1997-2017), Peter Kellner (Journalist and Former President of YouGov), Nick Timothy (Joint Chief of Staff for Theresa May, 2016-2017)
  Brace for Impact: The Multiple Dimensions of Brexit

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 12:30 - Applied AI for Organizational Yield
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Ralph-Dieter Wagner (General Manager, EMEA, r4)
• 14:00 - ‘Restoring trust in news’
  Alessandra Galloni (global news editor, Reuters)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 17:30 - The International Thought of Muhammad Ali Jinnah
  Faisal Devji (St Antony's College)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 12:30 - Religion Within Global International Society
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Andrew Hurrell (Balliol College)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - When Is One Recognizable
  Dr. Danielle Petherbridge (UCD)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 9 February 2018

• 12:15 - Title TBC
  Wolfgang C. Mueller (University of Vienna)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - 'Perils of Political Polling'
  Joe Twyman (YouGov)
  Q-Step Talks
• 17:00 - ‘Let’s talk about money. Public broadcasters and business news’
  Jasmin Buttar (editor, BBC Business and Economics centre)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Monday 12 February 2018

• 17:00 - After 20 years: Russia and the European Convention on Human Rights
  Prof Jeffrey Kahn (Southern Methodist University)
  Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Wednesday 14 February 2018

• 12:30 - “Delayed Disclosure”: National Security, Whistle-blowers and the Crisis of Secrecy
  Richard J. Aldrich (University of Warwick), Christopher R. Moran (University of Warwick)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - ‘Covering the underworld: organized crime, cities and disputed territories’
  Antonio Sampaio (research associate for security and development, Institute of International Studies)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 17:30 - Jawaharlal Nehru on International Relations
  Judith Brown (Balliol)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 12:30 - The Long Shadow of Economic Geography: Political Inequality and Public Goods Provision in the Original 13 US States
  Pablo Beramendi (Duke), Jeff Jensen (NYU-Abu Dhabi)
  Comparative Political Economy Seminars
• 12:30 - Winning or Losing in Investor-to-State Dispute Resolution: The Role of Arbitrator Bias and Experience
  The sandwich lunch is booked according to numbers. Please write to andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk by 10am on Tuesday 13 January if you’d like to be included in the sandwich order.
  Eric Neumayer (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - How do Salafi Jihadi Ideological Commitments Matter in Multiparty Civil Wars: Rationales, Costs, and Regulations
  Dr Jerome Drevon (University of Oxford)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars
• 17:00 - Does History Travel? Historiography and Non-Western Pasts
  Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 16 February 2018

• 12:15 - The Long-Term Economic Returns to Naturalization
  Dalston Ward (ETH Zurich)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 14:30 - China and the changing Development Financing Landscape in Africa
  Alexandra Zeitz (University of Oxford ), Dr. Tobias Broich (University of Maastricht)
  Oxford University China Africa Network (OUCAN)
• 17:00 - "When a president wages war on a press at work", Reuters Memorial Lecture by Marty Baron, 16 February 2018
  Marty Baron (The Washington Post)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Monday 19 February 2018

• 17:00 - Ethnic hierarchy in the Russian labour market
  Dr Alexey Bessudnov (University of Exeter)
  Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Tuesday 20 February 2018

• 12:30 - Engineering Informal Institutions: Long run impacts of alternative dispute resolution on violence and property rights in Liberia
  Dr Alexandra Hartman (UCL)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 17:00 - The UK in the World: Rise or Decline of an Independent Britain?
  Baroness Catherine Ashton (High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and First Vice President of the European Commission in the Barroso Commission from 2009 to 2014), Jonathan Freedland (Columnist for The Guardian newspaper)
  Brace for Impact: The Multiple Dimensions of Brexit

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 12:30 - Breaking the Privacy Barrier: Big Data Style Analytics Using Secure Computing
  Dan Bogdanov (Cybernetica AS)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘There are many roads to power – How to build a career in journalism’
  Alexandra Borchardt (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 17:00 - The Dynamics of Chinese Labour Migration to Africa
  Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford)
  Oxford University China Africa Network (OUCAN)

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 12:30 - How Legislatures Discuss Violence: The Case of Nigeria
  The sandwich lunch is booked according to numbers. Please email andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk by noon on Tuesday 20 January if you’d like to be included in the sandwich order.
  Kazuhiro Obayashi (Hitotsubashi University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Conflict, Complexity and Cooperation
  Please note that this event has been cancelled.
  The Right Honourable the Lord Alderdice (Director of the Centre for Resolution of Intractable Conflicts)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars
• 17:00 - War Beyond the Human
  Dr Lauren Wilcox (Cambridge)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 23 February 2018

• 12:15 - Terms of Agreement: The Challenge of Muslim Inclusion
  Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (University of Bergen)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - ‘Who’s watching? Filmmaking and journalism in war zones’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Nevine Mabro (deputy editor, Channel 4 News)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar
• 17:00 - CIS Sponsored Book Launch: The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Problems of International Politics)
  This talk has been cancelled by the speaker in solidarity with the UCU strikes.
  Dr Matthew Longo (St Anne’s)

Monday 26 February 2018

• 12:00 - Mindfulness in Politics
  Sophie Maclaren (Kalapa Leadership Academy; SBS)
• 17:00 - Mobilizing under uncertainty: from fleeing to fighting in wartime Abkhazia
  Dr Anastasia Shesterinina (University of Sheffield)
  Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 12:30 - Mobile Phone Ownership and Civic Engagement: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
  Professor Philip Roessler (College of William and Mary)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 17:00 - The New Relationship: EU Negotiations and the Interim Agreement
  George Bridges (Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union 2016-2017), Henry Newman (Director of Open Europe), Hartmut Mayer (Director of European Studies Centre, St Antony's College), William Wallace (Lib-Dem Lords Spokesman on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 2015-2016)
  Brace for Impact: The Multiple Dimensions of Brexit

Wednesday 28 February 2018

• 12:30 - From ICBMs to Instagram: The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Nuclear Escalation and Arms Control
  Heather Williams (King’s College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - ‘Reporting the world’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Roula Khalaf (deputy editor, Financial Times)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 17:00 - Transformation and Resilience within African communities in China
  Dr. Adams Bodomo (University of Vienna)
  Oxford University China Africa Network (OUCAN)

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 12:30 - From Claims to Violence: Signaling, Outbidding and Escalation in Ethnic Conflict
  Sandwiches will be available at the session!
  Manuel Vogt (UCL)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - The Resonance of Moral and Legal Principles in Civilians’ Attitudes towards Wartime Harm: Qualitative Evidence from Afghanistan
  Janina Dill (University of Oxford)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars
• 17:00 - Capitalist Society or Defective Functional Differentiation?: Reflections on Statehood, Critical Theory and Inter-systemic Mediation
  Prof Darrow Schecter (Sussex)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 2 March 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Collusion: how Russia helped Donald Trump win’
  Luke Harding (foreign correspondent, The Guardian)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Monday 5 March 2018

• 12:00 - Mindfulness in Practice
  Sophie Maclaren (Kalapa Leadership Academy; SBS)
• 17:00 - The influence (and limits) of Russia’s strategic narrative during ‘information war’ in Ukraine
  Dr Joanna Szostek (Royal Holloway)
  Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 12:30 - Cyber Weapons: What Are They Good For?
  Lunch will be provided from 12.15pm.
  Max Smeets (cybersecurity fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (Stanford University), and Research Associate at the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs (University of Oxford))
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘The “King of Whoppers” and political factchecking in the 2016 US presidential race’
  Lucas Graves (senior research fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 17:00 - The Chinese Storyteller: The Key Narratives of a New Player in Africa
  Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson (London School of Economics)
  Oxford University China Africa Network (OUCAN)

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 12:30 - Our Weapons, Our Problem: Civil Society, Domestic Policy and Arms Exports in the UK
  Sandwiches will be available at the session!
  Rodrigo Moraes (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Politics and the Promise of Violence
  Please note that this event has been cancelled.
  Professor Christopher Finlay (Durham University)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars
• 17:00 - Structural Power and Interstitial Agency
  Dr Eva von Redecker (Humboldt)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 9 March 2018

• 12:15 - Accountability from Within: Politically Insulated Bureaucrats and Incumbent Rent-Seeking
  Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez (Juan March - Carlos III Institute)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 12:30 - America’s Peculiar Mix of Plutocracy and Populism
  Jacob Hacker (Yale)
  Comparative Political Economy Seminars

Monday 12 March 2018

• 18:30 - Rethinking the Peace Negotiations in Colombia
  HE Mr Néstor Osorio Londoño (Colombian Ambassador to the United Kingdom), Professor Eamon Gilmore (EU Special Envoy for the Peace Process in Colombia), Joaquin Villalobos (Peace Process Advisor to the Government of Colombia)

Tuesday 13 March 2018

• 10:00 - Academic Workshop in Honour of Alan Ryan
  Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia), Lisa Herzog (University of Munich), Jacob Levy (McGill University), Pratap Mehta (Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi), Carole Pateman (UCLA and University of Cardiff), Mark Philp (Warwick), Dr. Alexander Prescott-Couch (University of Oxford), Michael Rosen (Harvard University), Dr Sophie Smith (Christ Church, Oxford University), Stuart White (Jesus College, Oxford)

Monday 19 March 2018

• 09:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods
  Dr Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos (University of Oxford), Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford ), Dr Jessica Di Salvatore (University of Oxford), Dr Annette Idler (University of Oxford), Dr Spyros Kosmidis (University of Oxford ), Dr Andreas Murr (University of Warwick)

Tuesday 24 April 2018

• 12:30 - Open Versus Closed: Personality, Identity and the Politics of Redistribution
  Professor Howard Lavine (University of Minnesota)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Artificial intelligence, Robotics and Conflict
  Al Brown (US Ministry of Defence)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• 12:30 - AI, the Study of International Affairs, and the Art of Governance
  Tantum Collins (Principal, Research & Strategy, DeepMind)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘Reporting the world’
  Roula Khalaf (deputy editor, Financial Times)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 12:30 - “Filthy Lapdogs”, “Stooges” and “Little Rocket Man”: Making Sense of International Insults
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Stephane J. Baele (University of Exeter)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 1 May 2018

• 13:00 - Cyber Strategy: The Evolution of Cyber Power and Coercion
  Dr Brandon Valeriano (Marine Corps University)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 May 2018

• 12:30 - State-Sponsored Hacktivism: Attributing Cyber Information Operations Using Hacktivist Personas
  Christy Quinn (Security Specialist in Cyber Threat Intelligence)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - 'Political actors and the manipulation of social media audience groups through the use of junk news and other forms of automation
  Vidya Narayanan (director of research, Computational Propaganda Project, Oxford Internet Institute)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 3 May 2018

• 12:30 - Islamic Law and International Law: Peaceful Resolution of Disputes
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Emilia Justyna Powell (University of Notre Dame)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - The Idea of an "Economy of Violence" in Political Theory and Ethics
  Professor Christopher Finlay (Durham University)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 4 May 2018

• 12:00 - Juries, Hobbes and Weber
  A sandwich lunch will be provided so please register if you would like to attend.
  Richard Tuck (Harvard)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series
• 17:00 - ‘Populism as a challenge and a threat to media in liberal democracies’
  Dr. Alexander Görlach (senior fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 13:00 - Offensive Cyber, Ecology and the Competition for Security in Cyberspace: The United Kingdom’s Approach
  Graham Fairclough (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 14:00 - ‘The news of tomorrow’
  RISJ Journalist Fellows
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 10 May 2018

• 16:00 - Conflict, Complexity and Cooperation
  Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
  Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 11 May 2018

• 12:00 - Shakespeare, violence and war
  A sandwich lunch will be provided so please register if you would like to attend.
  Ariel Colonomos (Sciences Po Paris), Theodor Meron (President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals), Dr Elizabeth Frazer (University of Oxford)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series
• 17:00 - ‘Online disinformation: what do we know, what can we do?’
  Rasmus Nielsen (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Saturday 12 May 2018

• 09:00 - OxPeace Tenth Annual Day-Conference - The Business of Peace: Business and Economics in Peacebuilding
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 15 May 2018

• 13:00 - North Korea's Hidden Revolution
  Jieun Baek (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 12:30 - Free, Open, Peaceful and Secure: Applying the UK's New 'Fusion Doctrine' in Cyberspace
  Nick Dean ( Cabinet Office)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘Reporting of the refugee crisis and the AfD in Germany’
  Tanit Koch (former editor-in-chief, Bild)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 17 May 2018

• 12:30 - Throwing Back the Boomerang? Norm Diffusion, Social Opprobrium, and Great Power Behaviour in the United Nations
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Carlotta Minnella (University of Oxford), Swapna Pathak (Oberlin College)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2018: The New New Civil Wars
  Prof Barbara F. Walter (UC San Diego)

Friday 18 May 2018

• 12:00 - Responsibility for the past and the changing identity of the state
  A sandwich lunch will be provided so please register if you would like to attend.
  Avia Pasternak (UCL)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series
• 12:30 - Calming the Markets: When technocratic appointments signal credibility
  Despina Alexiadou (University of Strathclyde)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Panel Discussion with Barbara Walter: Political Violence and Extremism
  Prof Barbara F. Walter (UC San Diego), Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Annette Idler (University of Oxford), Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford )
• 17:00 - ‘We Can’t Handle The Truth: Race, Big Data and Public Policy’
  Trevor Phillips (writer and broadcaster)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Monday 21 May 2018

• 17:00 - The Politics of US Taxation
  Andrea Louise Campbell (MIT)

Wednesday 23 May 2018

• 12:30 - Inside the (Real) Zero Day Industry
  Joseph Cox (Motherboard)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘Experts as journalists and the contest for the truth’
  Stephen Khan (editor, The Conversation)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 24 May 2018

• 12:30 - The Nature of Realism
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Patrick James (University of Southern California)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 25 May 2018

• 12:00 - Arendt and the Legitimate Expectation for Hospitality and Membership Today
  A sandwich lunch will be provided so please register if you would like to attend.
  Michael Weinman (Bard College Berlin)
  Political Theory Research Seminar Series
• 12:30 - Bureaucrats and the Resource Curse in Africa
  TBA
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - ‘Broadcasters and the international story’
  Nevine Mabro (deputy editor, Channel 4 news)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Wednesday 30 May 2018

• 12:30 - Accountable Algorithms: How to Make New Tech Work for Society
  Hal Hodson (The Economist)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘In pursuit of repertoires of news consumption. Analysing how people use news media in everyday life’
  Kim Schroder (visiting fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 31 May 2018

• 09:00 - Symposium on Liberalism’s Religion by Cécile Laborde
  Various Speakers
• 12:30 - The UN and its Discontents: The Sociology of an International Organisation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  David M. Malone (Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations & Rector of the UN University), Rupert Burridge (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Dangerous Diplomacy
  Dr Herman Salton (Asian University for Women, Bangladesh), Neil MacFarlane (Oxford)

Friday 1 June 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Whistleblowing and intelligence’
  Ewen MacAskill (defence and intelligence correspondent, The Guardian)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Wednesday 6 June 2018

• 12:30 - Avoiding Tragedy: Promoting Space Sustainability Through Global Space Governance
  Nikita Chiu (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘Statistics and the battle against misinformation’
  Professor Denise Lievesley (Professor of Social Statistics & Principal Green Templeton College, University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 7 June 2018

• 12:30 - Breaking Deadlock? Efforts to Meet Half-way in Norm Contestation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Anette Stimmer (University of Oxford), Samuel Ramani (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 8 June 2018

• 17:00 - Oxford Fulbright Lecture: The best of centuries or the worst of centuries?
  Professor Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Innovation and the conversation on the rise of China’
  Gary Liu (CEO, South China Morning Post)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 14 June 2018

• 12:30 - Prisoners of the Past: A Narrative Theory of International Cooperation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Mareike Kleine (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 18 June 2018

• 17:00 - Why We Fight
  This event has been rescheduled for 5pm Monday 25 June
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Mike Martin (KCL)

Tuesday 25 September 2018

• 12:30 - Why Quantum Computing Will Not Destabilize International Security: The Political Logic of Cryptology
  Lunch will be provided
  TBA

Tuesday 9 October 2018

• 13:00 - Introducing the Changing Character of Conflict Platform Project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts
  Dr Katerina Tkacova (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 12:30 - Trusting Enemies: Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Nick Wheeler (University of Birmingham)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 16 October 2018

• 13:00 - From “All Art is Propaganda” to All Propaganda is Marketing
  Alexander Fattal (University of Pennsylvania)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 12:30 - Toward a Privacy-Enhancing Electronic Value Exchange
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Geoff Goodell (UCL)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘Protecting whistle-blowers and sources in the digital age’
  Julie Posetti (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 12:30 - AI Governance: A Research Agenda
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Allan Dafoe (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 22 October 2018

• 18:00 - Multilateral responses to current security challenges: OSCE’s offer
  Ambassador Thomas Greminger (Secretary General of the OSCE)

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 13:00 - The Changing Character of Conflict and the Work of the United Nations on Terrorism
  Elizabeth Joyce (United Nations)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• 12:30 - AI and Ethics
  Stephanie Hare
• 14:00 - ‘Breaking news: the remaking of journalism’
  Alan Rusbridger (Lady Margaret Hall)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 25 October 2018

• 12:30 - Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia: How Trade Makes the State
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Christine Cheng (Kings College London)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 26 October 2018

• 12:15 - The Popular Side of Austerity: Public Support for Budget Balance in Europe
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Lucy Barnes (UCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - ‘Misinformation and its effect on public life’
  Phoebe Arnold (Reuters Institute)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 13:00 - Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict: Fighting Impunity in DRC
  Chloe Lewis (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 12:30 - Russian Revisionism and Cyberspace
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘Transformations in news organizations’
  Anita Zielina (NZZ Media Group)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 17:30 - Rana Mitter on the Global Thought of Chiang Kai-Shekh
  Professor Rana Mitter
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 12:30 - The Logic of Illicit Flows in Armed Conflict: Explaining Variation in Violent Non-State Group Interactions
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Annette Idler (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 2 November 2018

• 12:15 - Mass Protests and Ethnic Armies: How Coup Proofing Impacts Military Defection
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Kirsten Harkness (St Andrews)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - ‘NGOs as newsmakers’
  Matthew Powers (Department of Communications, University of Washington)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 6 November 2018

• 13:00 - Gender, State-collapse, Conflict and State-building: Recent Research from the Somali Context
  Change to original programme
  Judith Gardner
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 12:30 - The Politics and Technology of Cyber Security
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Danny Steed (ReSolve Cyber)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘Networked solidarity in the age of Trump’
  Professor Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, Department of Sociology, Senior Research Associate, Christ Church, University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 8 November 2018

• 12:30 - Gunboat Diplomacy: Power and Profit at Sea in the Making of the International System
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jason Sharman (University of Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 9 November 2018

• 17:00 - ‘Reporting austerity Britain’
  Danica Kirka (Associated Press)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 13 November 2018

• 13:00 - Rebel Diplomacy: Territoriality, Identity and the ‘Foreign’ Affairs of Non-State Armed Groups
  Dr David Brenner (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 14:00 - ‘Empowered: Popular feminism and popular misogyny’
  Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 12:30 - Prohibition, Preference and Prediction: Public Opinion on the Use of Force and Nuclear Weapons
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Scott Sagan (Stanford University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 16 November 2018

• 12:15 - Democracy in Order: How Sequencing and Party Politics Shaped the First Wave of Democratization
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Valerie Belu (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - ‘The state, the media and Euroscepticism in Italy’
  Marco Varvello (RAI Italian TV)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 20 November 2018

• 13:00 - The law and practice of cross-border humanitarian relief operations: Syria as a case study
  Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Emanuela-Chiara Gilliard (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Persistent Engagement in Cyberspace
  JD Work (Marine Corps University)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

Wednesday 21 November 2018

• 12:30 - Will European cybersecurity policy deliver strategic autonomy and cyber sovereignty?
  Paul Timmers (University of Oxford), James Morrison (Head of Cabinet of European Commissioner Sir Julian King)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘The rebirth of audio’
  Nic Newman (research associate and lead author of Digital News Report at RISJ)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 22 November 2018

• 12:30 - Compliance and Resistance: Understanding the Agency of Rising Powers
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 23 November 2018

• 12:15 - Politics of Educational Expansion
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Professor Dulce Manzano (University Complutense, Madrid)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 12:30 - Is Algorithmic Justice an Oxymoron? Consumers vs. Citizens in a Big Data World
  Allison Stanger (Middlebury College)
• 13:00 - The Constitution of Illicit Orders: Contested Sovereignty in Territorial Domains
  Dr Christopher Lilyblad (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 12:30 - The Möbius Hacker: Reflections on Studying Shifting Identities in Cybersecurity
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Leonie Tanczer (UCL)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘Behind the lens. The impact and implications of visual storytelling’
  Hazel Thompson
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 29 November 2018

• 12:30 - The Art of Diplomacy in an Age of Real-Time Governance
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jennifer Cassidy (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 30 November 2018

• 12:15 - Contrasting Formal and Informal Power Sharing
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Simon Hug (Geneva)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 15 January 2019

• 13:00 - Why the Responses to Address Intrastate Armed Conflicts fail?
  Michael von der Schulenburg (United Nations)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 January 2019

• 14:00 - Do we need a new kind of journalism in 2019? The new challenges of trust and misinformation
  Rachael Jolley (Index on Censorship magazine)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 17 January 2019

• 12:30 - Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  TV Paul (McGill)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 21 January 2019

• 11:00 - Politics Scriptorium
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 13:00 - Gaming Integrated Deterrence and Defence in Europe in an Era of Strategic Competition
  Ivanka Barzashka (Kings College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 12:30 - Moral Manoeuvres: Cybersecurity in Egypt and the Gulf States
  Lunch will be provided from 12:15pm
  James Shires (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - The coldest story ever told: Kayne and the Up Next algorithm
  Caithlin Mercer (Yahoo UK)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 24 January 2019

• 12:30 - The Death of this Norm is Greatly Exaggerated: What Really Happens with Norm Erosion
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Sarah Percy (Queensland)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - War Beyond the Human: Robots, Race and Reproduction
  Dr Lauren Wilcox (Cambridge)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 25 January 2019

• 12:15 - Guidelines for Constructing and Evaluating Complex Concepts
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Gary Goertz (University of Notre Dame)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 13:00 - The Consequences of Refugee Repatriation for Stayees: A Threat to Stability and Sustainable Development?
  Dr Isabel Ruiz (University of Oxford), Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - AI and Ethics: The European Approach
  Roberto Viola (European Commission)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

Wednesday 30 January 2019

• 12:30 - Corporate Boards and AI Adoption in Financial Services
  Lunch will be provided from 12.15pm
  Clara Durodié
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - Short and strong: making The Economist Espresso
  Lane Greene (The Economist)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 31 January 2019

• 12:30 - Rise and Fall of Political Orders
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Richard Ned Lebow (KCL)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Towards a Materialist Theory of Ideological Propaganda
  Dr Titus Stahl (Groningen)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 1 February 2019

• 12:15 - Candidate Coethnicity, Rural Dwelling, and Partisanship in Africa
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Dr Robin Harding (University of Oxford), Kristin Michelitch (Vanderbilt University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 4 February 2019

• 17:00 - Solidarity as Critical Methodology in Mapping a Multi-Layered Colonial Present
  Dr Goldie Osuri (Warwick)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 13:00 - The Russian Way of War
  Chuck Bartles (US Foreign Military Studies Office)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• 12:30 - GCHQ at the Heart of National Security for 100 Years – Helping to Keep Us All Safe
  Sir John Adye (Former Director, GCHQ)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - India’s social media elections
  Vidya Narayanan (director of research, Computational Propaganda Project, Oxford Internet Institute)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 7 February 2019

• 12:30 - ‘Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall’: Self-Legitimation by International Organizations
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 8 February 2019

• 12:15 - Democratization, De Facto Power, and Taxation: Evidence from Military Occupation during Reconstruction
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Mario Chacon (New York University Abu Dhabi)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 13:00 - "Chinese Infrastructural Financing"
  Dr Igor Rogelja ( King’s College London)
• 13:00 - Moscow's Syrian Campaign: Change and Continuity in Russian Strategic Culture
  Dmitry Adamsky (IDC Herzliya)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 February 2019

• 12:15 - From Riot Police to Tweets: How World Leaders Use Social Media during Contentious Politics
  *Special Wednesday event in Seminar Room G*
  Pablo Barbera (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 14:00 - Diving deep. Slow news and reader engagement
  Chris Cook (Tortoise, ex BBC Newsnight, FT)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 14 February 2019

• 12:30 - Humanitarian Club
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Michael Barnett (George Washington)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Horkheimer, Adorno and Societal Transformation
  Prof Maeve Cooke (UCD)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 15 February 2019

• 12:15 - Title TBC
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Alex Scacco (Berlin Social Science Centre)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 13:00 - Military Intelligence in the Era of Great Power War
  Rose Keravuori (ROSE women LLC)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 12:30 - Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime
  Jonathan Lusthaus (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - Digital rebranding of legacy media – reviving the Madras Courier
  Shrenik Rao (Madras Courier)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 21 February 2019

• 12:30 - Who Fights for Reputation? The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Keren Yarhi-Milo (Princeton)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Objective Reason and Irrational Society: The 'Linguistic Turn' in Horkheimer and Adorno
  Prof Fabian Freyenhagen (Essex)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 22 February 2019

• 12:15 - Strategic Victimization
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Miguel Rueda (Emory University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 26 February 2019

• 13:00 - The Changing Character of the Mexican War on Drugs: State Building Process, Bureaucracy and U.S. Policy (1940-1980)
  Carlos Pérez-Ricart (St. Antony’s College)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 February 2019

• 12:30 - Hinkley Point C: Value for Money?
  Simon Bittlestone (National Audit Office)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - Should the state pay for journalism?
  Polly Curtis (HuffPost UK )
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 12:30 - The Financial Statecraft of Debtors: The Political Economy of External Finance in Africa
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Alexandra Zeitz (University of Oxford )
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - The Real Political Contradiction of Adorno's Critical Theory
  Dr Gordan Finlayson (Sussex)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 1 March 2019

• 12:15 - The Effect of Political Campaigns in Multiethnic Societies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Ken Opalo (Georgetown University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 5 March 2019

• 13:00 - A Westphalia for the Middle East?
  Dr Patrick Milton (University of Cambridge)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 March 2019

• 12:30 - The Politics of Publicly Attributing Cyber Incidents
  Florian Egloff (ETH Zurich)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - From Victims to Suspects - representation of Muslim women
  Dr Shakira Hussein (University of Melbourne’s Asia Institute)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 12:30 - The Liberal International Order Was Never Popular: The Merging Contestation in the Non- West and the West
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Critical Theory, Ideology, and Common Sense
  Dr Lorna Finlayson (Essex)
  Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 8 March 2019

• 12:15 - Accountability Beyond Outcomes: Experimental Evidence on Voters and Executive Performance
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Michael Becher (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 8 April 2019

• 09:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods
  Ezequiel González Ocantos (University of Oxford), Andy Eggers (University of Oxford), Annette Idler (University of Oxford), Anja Neundorf (University of Nottingham), Tom O’Grady (UCL), Thomas Robinson (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 April 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing!)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium

Tuesday 30 April 2019

• 13:00 - From Borders to Borderlands: Lessons learnt from the Danish Demining Group Border Security Management experience in East Africa, Sahel and North Africa
  Natasha Leite (Danish Refugee Council)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 May 2019

• 14:00 - Why don’t we take women as seriously as men?
  Mary Ann Sieghart (University of oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 2 May 2019

• 12:30 - Gender, Community and Religion in Cameroon: Living in the Midst of Multiple "Crises"
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Cecelia Lynch (UC Irvine), Yang Han (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 6 May 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil and MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 13:00 - Continuities in Russian Foreign Policy Goals in the Post-Soviet Period
  Dr Dmitry Gorenburg, (Harvard)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:15 - AI Adoption Strategies
  Abhishek Dasgupta (Oxford), Steven Wendler (r4 Technologies)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

Wednesday 8 May 2019

• 14:00 - British media and populism, and Brexit
  Trevor Kavanagh
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 9 May 2019

• 12:30 - Regimes of Difference: Culture and Order in World Politics
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Christian Reus-Smit (Queensland), Eric Haney (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 10 May 2019

• 12:15 - Quantifying Dynamic Policy Responsiveness: Evidence from State Minimum Wage Laws in the U.S.
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Gabor Simonovits (CEU)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 13 May 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 13:00 - Conflict and Social Cohesion
  Professor Frances Stewart (University of Oxford), Arnim Langer (Ku Leuven)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 May 2019

• 12:30 - A Spectrum of Offensive Cyber Operations
  Daniel Moore (iDefense, Accenture)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power & Privilege Shape Public Discourse
  Sue Robinson
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 16 May 2019

• 12:30 - Islamic Law States and the International Order
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Emilia Justyna Powell (University of Notre Dame), Katharine Brooks (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 17 May 2019

• 12:15 - Kickbacks and Limits on Campaign Donations
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Nelson Ruiz-Guarin (University of Oxford )
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 20 May 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium

Tuesday 21 May 2019

• 13:00 - Information-psychological warfare in Russian security strategy
  Katri Pynnöniemi (University of Helsinki)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 May 2019

• 12:30 - The International Politics of Cyber
  Alexander Evans (Cyber Director, FCO)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - Reputation, trust and keeping watch
  Inga Thordar
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 23 May 2019

• 12:30 - “Globalization in the First Person”: Political Risk and the Study of International Relations
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Nigel Gould-Davies (Mahidol & Chatham House)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 24 May 2019

• 12:15 - The Politics of Portfolio Design in European Democracies
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Ulrich Sieberer (Bamberg)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 27 May 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing+Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium

Wednesday 29 May 2019

• 12:30 - Being a Part of the Problem: Innovation Within Government
  Alison Hawks (H4D UK)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - The failure of political journalism
  Helen Lewis
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Monday 3 June 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium

Wednesday 5 June 2019

• 14:00 - Telling the international story
  Caro Kriel
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Friday 7 June 2019

• 12:15 - Political Tolerance and the Crisis of Democracy in Israel
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Mark Peffley (Kentucky)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 10 June 2019

• 09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing and Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium

Wednesday 12 June 2019

• 12:30 - Drawing the Line: Cyber Mercenary or Cyber Threat Intelligence Provider?
  Stewart K. Bertram (Digital Shadows)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - Protecting newsrooms from political pressures
  Bobby Ghosh
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Monday 17 June 2019

• 11:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
  TBA
  Politics Scriptorium

Wednesday 19 June 2019

• 14:00 - Social media, protest and press freedom in Sri Lanka
  Meera Selva (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 4 July 2019

• 12:30 - Cross-border Conflicts and their Connections: The Case of the African Great Lakes and South Sudan
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 9 October 2019

• 16:00 - 'Anatomies of Revolution' Roundtable
  George Lawson (LSE), Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford ), Elizabeth Frazer (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 13:00 - The Changing Grammar of War: Countering Hybrid and Grey Zone Coercion at the Strategic Level
  Dr Rob Johnson (Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 14:30 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2019: The EU’s Role as a Global Player for Peace and Stability
  Federica Mogherini (High Representative of the EU)

Wednesday 16 October 2019

• 14:00 - Healing words - Innovations in health reporting
  Mia Malan (Bhekisia)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 12:30 - Where is Conflict Research? Geographic Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Brian Phillips (Essex)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 18 October 2019

• 12:15 - The Rich, the Poor, and the Other: Distributional, Consequences of Philanthropic Provisioning of Public Goods
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Asli Cansunar (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 21 October 2019

• 17:00 - 'Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit' Book Debate
  Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford), Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford), Teresa Bejan (University of Oxford), Tae-Yeoun Keum (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 13:00 - Goliath: Why the West Isn't Winning. And What We Must Do About It
  Dr Sean McFate (Atlantic Council)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 14:00 - Political attacks on journalism in central and eastern Europe
  Meera Selva (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 12:30 - Civil Wars and State (Un)Making
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Adrian Florea (Glasgow)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 25 October 2019

• 12:15 - Gender, Social Recognition, and Political Influence
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Cesi Cruz (UBC)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:30 - Global International Thought in the Portuguese-speaking World: Joaquim Nabuco
  Leslie Bethell (St Antony’s College and King’s College London)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 13:00 - How AI could change the foundational assumptions of international relations
  Dr Stuart Armstrong (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 October 2019

• 12:30 - Social Media Polarization Over Brexit
  Lucas Kello (University of Oxford), Alice Thwaite (Echo Chamber Club), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - The state of journalism
  Dorothy Byrne (Channel 4 Television)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 12:30 - Incumbents Beware: The Impact of Offshoring on Elections
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Stephanie Rickard (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 1 November 2019

• 12:15 - The Democrat Disaster: Hurricane Exposure, Risk Aversion and Insurance Demand
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Raluca Pahontu (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 12:30 - When AI Ethics Goes Astray: The Case of Autonomous Vehicles
  Hubert Etienne (Facebook AI Research)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 13:00 - Coercion without war? Chinese maritime paramilitary and constabulary activities and the fallacy of the grey zone
  Dr Alessio Patalano
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 14:00 - The 50:50 Project - increasing women's representation in the BBC's journalism
  Ros Aktins (BBC News)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 12:30 - The Logic of Strategic Assets
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Allan Defoe (University of Oxford), Jeff Ding (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - The State of Colombia's Transition
  Various Speakers

Friday 8 November 2019

• 12:15 - Lucky Strike: Candidate Quality, Intra-Party Competition and the Personal Incumbency Advantage
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Kostas Matakos (KCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 12:30 - “Information Security” versus “Cybersecurity”: Conceptual Challenges
  Jackie Kerr (Stanford University)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 13:00 - Grey Zone Conflict and Hybrid Threats: An Era of Legal Competition
  Dr Aurel Sari (University of Exeter)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Amílcar Cabral and the International: Race, Colonialism, Liberation
  Branwen Guffydd Jones (Cardiff University)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 12:30 - Launderers Anonymous: Two Global Field Experiments on Regulatory Compliance in the Finance Industry
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Mike Findley (University of Texas at Austin)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 15 November 2019

• 12:15 - Responsiveness, If You Can Afford It: Policy Responsiveness in Good and Bad Economic Times
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Lawrence Ezrow (University of Essex)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 13:00 - Understanding the China Threat
  Bradley Thayer (University of Texas San Antonio), Lianchao Han (Understanding the China Threat)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 14:00 - Virtual Reality News: the post-hype reality in 2019
  Zillah Watson (BBC VR Hub)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 12:30 - The Hirschman Effect in Latin America’s Relations with the United States
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Tom Long (Warwick)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 22 November 2019

• 12:15 - Ethnic Bias in Judicial Decision-Making: Evidence from the Kenyan Appellate Courts
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Andy Harris (NYU-AD)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:30 - Gilberto Freyre: An international intellectual and ancestor of Southern Theory
  Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge), Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke (Centre of Latin American Studies, Cambridge)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 13:00 - Marginality, (in)security and political participation in conflict and beyond
  Cancelled! Rescheduled to Thursday 5 December, 12pm.
  Dr Daire McGill (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 November 2019

• 12:30 - East-West Technology Conflict
  Robert Hannigan (UK National Cyber Security Centre)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - Putting the audience at the heart of journalism
  Federica Cherubini (Hearken)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 12:30 - Territorial Self-Governance and Ethnic Conflict Management
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Natascha Neudorfer (Birmnigham)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 29 November 2019

• 12:15 - Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from 2500 Parliamentarians
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Amanda Clayton (Vanderbilt)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 3 December 2019

• 13:00 - ISIS versus the West: Narrative War for the 21st Century. The Case of positive disinformation
  David Patrikarakos
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Beyond Passivity and Naivety? Locating agency in Ethiopia-China financing and development of Adama wind energy infrastructure
  TBA
  Oxford University China Africa Network Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 14:00 - Press freedom and media censorship
  Rasmus Nielsen (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 12:30 - The Politics of Legal Pluralism: Why Does the Chechen Government Promote Customary Law and Sharia
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Egor Lazarev (Harvard)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 6 December 2019

• 12:15 - Direct Democracy in Representative Systems: Understanding Breakdowns in Responsiveness Through Ballot Initiative Success
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Thomas Robinson (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 15 January 2020

• 12:30 - Regulating Autonomous Weapons: The Role of Timing
  Neil C. Renic (University of Hamburg)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 13:00 - Libya and Challenges for International conflict resolution
  Christopher Thornton (Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 January 2020

• 14:00 - The truth behind Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles
  Richard Fletcher (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 23 January 2020

• 12:30 - Freedom by Force: Why Foreign-Imposed Democracies Succeed or Fail
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jonathan Monten (University College London)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 24 January 2020

• 12:15 - Attributing Policy Influence under Coalition Governance
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  David Fortunato (Texas A&M)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 13:00 - The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace
  Dr Oscar Jonsson (Stockholm Free World Forum)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 January 2020

• 14:00 - Leading digital transformation
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 15:00 - Punitive rationales for bombing in the Vietnam War: the salience of deontological and consequentialist motives
  Christine Pelican (St Benet's)
  American Politics Graduate Seminar
• 17:15 - Why Counter-Insurgency Fails
  Professor Azar Gat (Tel Aviv University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 12:30 - Dispute Inflation: Intangible Stakes and the Intensification of Preferences
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 31 January 2020

• 12:15 - How Does Constituency-Level Partisanship Affect Parliamentary Behaviour?
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Thomas Fleming (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 13:00 - China's Good War: How Memory of the World War II past is shaping a nationalist future
  Professor Rana Mitter
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 February 2020

• 14:00 - Notes from the frontline: Journalism in Bolsenaro’s Brazil
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 6 February 2020

• 12:30 - Comparing National Power in an Age of Transition
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 7 February 2020

• 12:15 - Repression and Dissent Around a Potential Critical Juncture: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Lauren Young (UC Davis)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 13:00 - Trojan Horse, Copycat, or Scapegoat? Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus
  Dr Sara Polo (University of Essex)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 February 2020

• 14:00 - Notes from the frontline: Misinformation and propaganda wars in Ukraine and Russia
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 13 February 2020

• 12:30 - World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Emanuel Adler (Toronto)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 14 February 2020

• 12:15 - Legacies of the Third Reich: Concentration Camps and Out-group Intolerance
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Jonathan Homola (Rice University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 13:00 - Uncertainty and Mutual Recognition in Colombia - the Study of the Nature of Armed Non-State Actors in the Colombian Conflict
  Dr Jan Boesten (CCW, Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 February 2020

• 14:00 - Notes from the frontline: A dangerous moment: reporting Hong Kong’s protests
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 17:15 - The Demos at War: lessons on democratic warfare from Thucydides and Machiavelli
  Erica Benner
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance
• 17:30 - Life and Thought of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: Prof Manu Bhagavan
  Prof Manu Bhagavan (City University of New York)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Friday 21 February 2020

• 12:15 - Public Perceptions of the Criminalization of Grand Corruption in Latin America
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Ezequiel González Ocantos (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 24 February 2020

• 12:30 - Indian media and caste: why are lower caste journalists missing from newsrooms?
  Tejas Harad (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism)

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 13:00 - Conflict and Wellbeing Deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 February 2020

• 14:00 - News in the Digital Age
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 12:30 - Climate Change, the Illusion of Separation, and the Date-of-Last Opportunity
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Henry Shue (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:30 - Dr Merze Tate on IR: Prof Cecelia Lynch
  Prof Cecelia Lynch (University of California, Irvine)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Friday 28 February 2020

• 12:15 - Title TBC
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Sara Hobolt (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 13:00 - Terrorism and recent developments in Human Rights
  Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:15 - The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
  A wine reception will follow the talk
  David Kilcullen (University of New South Wales, Canberra)

Wednesday 4 March 2020

• 12:00 - Political Gossip and how it drives everything
  Marie Le Conte (politics writer)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Friday 6 March 2020

• 12:15 - Title TBC
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Shaun Bevan (University of Edinburgh)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 13:00 - The IR thought of Susan Strange: Prof Cornelia Navari
  Prof Cornelia Navari (University of Buckingham)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 13:00 - Is forecasting political violence feasible? Experiences from the ViEWS project.
  Håvard Hegre (Uppsala University)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:30 - The IR thought of Claudia Jones: Prof Patricia Owens
  Prof Patricia Owens (University of Sussex)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Wednesday 11 March 2020

• 14:00 - A new wave: Female editors and new audiences
  Meera Selva (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 12:30 - Secrets in Global Governance: Disclosure Dilemmas and the Challenge of International Cooperation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Austin Carson (Chicago)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 13 March 2020

• 12:00 - The logic of consistency and the rise of human rights institutions: CIS Book Manuscript Workshop
  Lunch will be provided.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Gjovalin Macaj (Leiden University)
• 12:15 - Title TBC
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Andy Hall (Stanford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 30 March 2020

• 08:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 29 April 2020

• 14:00 - Building a global media brand
  Prashant Rao, global editor, The Atlantic
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 30 April 2020

• 11:00 - Visualizing International Relations
  Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
  William A.Callahan (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 1 May 2020

• 12:15 - Affluence and Policy Influence in Advanced Democracies
  Delivered via Zoom
  Mads Andreas Elkjaer
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 6 May 2020

• 14:00 - Brexit in a time of crisis
  Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 16:00 - Sri Lanka: Dr Vinya Ariyaratne
  Delivered via Zoom
  Dr Vinya Ariyaratne
  Transformative Justice for the Post-COVID Transition: Insights from Leaders of Transitional Countries

Thursday 7 May 2020

• 11:00 - The International Peace and Counter-Peace Architecture
  Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
  Oliver Richmond (Manchester)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 8 May 2020

• 12:15 - Placebo Tests for Casual Inference
  Delivered via Zoom
  Andy Eggers (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 13 May 2020

• 14:00 - Reporting pandemics: Measles and Coronavirus in the Pacific Islands
  Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 16:00 - Transitional Leadership Insights from Iraq: Dr. Bakhtiar Amin
  Delivered via Zoom
  Dr Bakhtiar Amin
  Transformative Justice for the Post-COVID Transition: Insights from Leaders of Transitional Countries

Thursday 14 May 2020

• 14:30 - Of Two Minds? Rationalism and Psychology in International Relations
  Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
  Paola Solimena (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 15 May 2020

• 12:15 - Insuring Against Hunger? Long-Term Political Consequences of Exposures to the Dutch Famine
  Delivered via Zoom
  Professor David Rueda (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 20 May 2020

• 14:00 - Fact checking a global story
  Clara Jiménez Cruz, co-founder of Maldita.es
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 16:00 - Transitional Leadership Insights from Afghanistan: Dr. Sima Samar
  Delivered via Zoom
  Dr Sima Samar
  Transformative Justice for the Post-COVID Transition: Insights from Leaders of Transitional Countries

Thursday 21 May 2020

• 14:30 - Calling it Peace: Liberal Order and Liberal Nostalgia
  Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
  Patrick Porter (Birmingham)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 22 May 2020

• 12:15 - Terrorism, Trust, and Ethnic Identification: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nigeria
  Delivered via Zoom
  Dr Robin Harding (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 27 May 2020

• 14:00 - Journalists under pressure - the emotional toll of covering crises
  Meera Selva (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 16:00 - Transitional Leadership Insights from The United Nations: Youssef Mahmoud
  Delivered via Zoom
  Youssef Mahmoud
  Transformative Justice for the Post-COVID Transition: Insights from Leaders of Transitional Countries

Friday 29 May 2020

• 12:15 - Turning Out Together: The Impact of Gender-Specific Polling Station on Voter Turnout
  Delivered via Zoom
  Shruti Lakhtakia
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 3 June 2020

• 14:00 - The role of the Today programme in a national crisis
  Sarah Sands, editor of BBC Radio 4 Today programme
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Friday 5 June 2020

• 12:15 - Who governs? A new global dataset on members of cabinets
  Delivered via Zoom
  Jacob Nyrup
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 10 June 2020

• 14:00 - Holding power to account
  Matthew Caruana Galizia, investigative journalist
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 15:00 - The US-China conflict: What implications for the world trading system?
  Registration has reopened for this event - please sign up using registration link to access the Zoom room. Please arrive online at 14.45 ready to be admitted to the Zoom Room for the talk to begin promptly at 15.00.
  Lloyd C. Nelson (NYU School of Law), Robert Howse (NYU School of Law), Prof. Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), Ignacio Garcia Bercero (University of Oxford; EU Commission)

Friday 12 June 2020

• 12:15 - Who wants technocrats? A comparative study of citizen attitudes in nine young and consolidated democracies
  Delivered via Zoom
  Mlhail Chiru
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 17 June 2020

• 14:00 - Public sector broadcasting and trust in dangerous times
  Dorothy Byrne, head of news and current affairs, Channel 4 News
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Friday 19 June 2020

• 12:15 - The Effect of Counter-Stereotypes on Attitudes Toward Gender and LGBT Equality
  Delivered via Zoom
  Jae-Hee Jung
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 24 June 2020

• 16:00 - Operationalising European democracy: Three Proposals
  Please register with an institutional email address before the event, and arrive online at 15.45 ready to be admitted to the Zoom Room for the talk to begin promptly at 16.00.
  Matteo Garavoglia (University of Oxford), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford), Daniel Innerarity (University of the Basque Country)

Thursday 10 September 2020

• 10:00 - Stress Test
  This lecture is via Zoom only
  Hannah Storm (Ethical Journalism Network)
  RISJ Summer School 2020

Friday 11 September 2020

• 10:00 - Numbers Game
  This lecture is via Zoom only
  Tim Harford
  RISJ Summer School 2020

Wednesday 7 October 2020

• 13:00 - The missing perspectives of women in COVID-19 news
  Luba Kassova (AKAS audience strategy consultancy)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Tuesday 13 October 2020

• 13:00 - The Power of Uncertainty: How Change in Conflict Influences Security
  Annette Idler (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 October 2020

• 16:00 - What is data bias, and why should journalists pay attention?
  Prof Safiya Noble
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - Maritime power in British strategy, 1945 to the present
  Dr Tim Benbow (KCL)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 15 October 2020

• 15:00 - Public Diplomacy in Times of Crisis & Citizens' Attitudes
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Farsan Ghassim (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 16 October 2020

• 12:30 - Building Tribes: How Administrative Units Shaped Ethnic Groups in Africa
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Carl Mueller-Crepon (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 20 October 2020

• 13:00 - CANCELLED: Russia’s Intelligence and Security Agencies in the Current Time of Troubles
  Cancelled. Apologies for the inconvenience.
  Dr Andrew Foxall
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 13:00 - Under pressure: journalists and the battle to keep reporting’
  Meera Selva (University of Oxford)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 15:00 - The Suffragist Peace
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Joslyn Barnhart (UC Santa Barbara)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 23 October 2020

• 12:30 - Bureaucratic Revolving Doors and Interest Group Participation in Policymaking
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Hye Young You (New York University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 26 October 2020

• 17:00 - Race and the 2020 US Election
  TBA
  America Decides

Tuesday 27 October 2020

• 13:00 - Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics
  Professor Dominic Johnson (Alastair Buchan Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 October 2020

• 13:00 - The 7 principles of reflective journalism
  Shirish Kulkarni (Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 29 October 2020

• 15:00 - Elite Misperceptions and the Domestic Politics of Conflict
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Joshua Kertzer (Harvard University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 30 October 2020

• 16:00 - Protection or Peril? Colonial Jurisdictions and Ethnic Segregation in Mexico
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Jenny Guardado (Georgetown)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 3 November 2020

• 13:00 - War by Others’ Means: Delivering Effective Partner Force Capacity Building
  Dr Jack Watling (RUSI)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 November 2020

• 13:00 - How significant is Russian influence on global politics?
  Luke Harding (The Guardian)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 18:00 - Agora Oxford Climate Roundtables: How can the UK turn 2020 from a climate crisis to a green milestone?
  Professor Nick Eyre (Environmental Change Institute), Geraint Davies (MP Labour), Sarah Handley (Siemens Energy), Alex Scott (E3G), Dr Julia Spragg (Greenpeace)

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 15:00 - China's Changing National Security Doctrine under Xi Jinping
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Sheena Greitens (University of Texas at Austin), Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 6 November 2020

• 12:30 - Party adaptation, factionalism, and organizational choices
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Matthias Dilling (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 10 November 2020

• 13:00 - Russian Military Modernisation: Progress and Ambitions
  TBA
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 November 2020

• 13:00 - The value and future of public service media
  Noel Curran (European Broadcasting Union)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 12 November 2020

• 15:00 - Defining Statehood: Exclusion from Universal Organizations
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Christina Davis (Havard University), Cecilia Corsini
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 13 November 2020

• 16:00 - “Reinvigorating Local News,” from News Hole: The Demise of Local News and Political Engagement – and What We Can Do about It (co-authored with Danny Hayes).
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Jennifer Lawless (University of Virginia)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 17 November 2020

• 13:00 - Campaign Without End? The Future of Western Overseas Counter-Terrorism Intervention
  William Evans (Foreign Office)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 13:00 - Covid reporting in South Africa
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 15:00 - Natural Resources and Territorial Sovereignty: The Separate Independence of Oil-Rich Protectorates
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Naosuke Mukoyama (University of Oxford), Hussam Hussein
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 20 November 2020

• 16:00 - Public Opinion and the Psychologies of Threat
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  David Hendry (London School of Economics)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 13:00 - Rethinking Western Strategy and the Character of War in the Twenty-First Century
  Dr Jonathan Boff (University of Birmingham)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 November 2020

• 13:00 - The importance of young voices in British media
  Izin Akhabau (The Voice)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 26 November 2020

• 15:00 - Shaping States into Nations: The Effects of Ethnic Geography on State Borders
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Carl Mueller-Crepon (University of Oxford), Kan Li
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 27 November 2020

• 12:30 - Who Answers for the Government? Bureaucrats, Ministers, and Responsible Parties (with Max Goplerud)
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Daniel M. Smith (Harvard University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 1 December 2020

• 13:00 - Repeating past mistakes? The British withdrawal and return ‘East of Suez’
  Dr William James (CCW)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 December 2020

• 12:30 - The Cyber Domain and Geopolitical Competition: Where To Next?
  Please arrive 5 minutes before the event begins. Please register using your Oxford email address.
  Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 13:00 - A new media success story
  Emily Ramshaw (The 19th)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 15:00 - Quantum Theory as Critical Theory: Entanglement, Alienation, and the Politics of Social Physics
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Alexander Wendt (Ohio State University), John de Bhal
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 4 December 2020

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - The Polish Women’s Strike: Reproduction, Work, Activism
  Please arrive 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Marta Lempart, Elżbieta Korolczuk, Magdalena Grabowska

Wednesday 9 December 2020

• 13:00 - The War Against the BBC
  Patrick Barwise (London Business School)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Tuesday 15 December 2020

• 15:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2020: Reflecting on the advances of International Relations
  Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Rosemary Foot (University of Oxford), Adam Roberts (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 January 2021

• 13:00 - Experiments in innovation at The Washington Post
  The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required.
  Elite Truong (The Washington Post)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Tuesday 19 January 2021

• 13:00 - Interstate Influence Operations and International Security Studies
  Josh A Goldstein (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 January 2021

• 13:00 - Building relationship and trust on TikTok – and finding news stories
  The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required.
  Sophia Smith Galer (BBC)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 13:00 - This Ad was Tailored for You: Estimating the Effect of Micro-targeted Political Campaigning in the 2020 US Presidential Election
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Musashi Jacobs-Harukawa (Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar

Thursday 21 January 2021

• 15:00 - Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Patricia Owens (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 22 January 2021

• 16:00 - Elite Kinship Network and State-Building Preferences in Imperial China
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Yuhua Wang (Harvard)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 13:00 - All Domain Operations
  Oliver Lewis (Rebellion Defence)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
  TBA
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar
• 13:00 - Journalism and time
  The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
  James Harding (Tortoise Media)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 28 January 2021

• 15:00 - It's the Politics, Stupid: Explaining US-Iranian Relations Since the Revolution
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 29 January 2021

• 16:00 - Institutional Sequencing and Regime Stability: The Case of Germany, 1871-1933
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Amel Ahmed (University of Massachusetts)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 13:00 - Military Medicine and the Changing Costs of War
  Professor Tanisha Fazal (University of Minnesota)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 February 2021

• 13:00 - Arrested development: Zimbabwean journalism
  The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
  Hopewell Chin’ono
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
  TBA
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 15:00 - Before Defeat: The Rise and Decline of World Orders
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 5 February 2021

• 16:00 - Gender and the Impact of Proportional Representation: A Comment on the Peripheral Voting Thesis
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Dawn Teele (University of Pennsylvania)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 13:00 - Artificial Intelligence and National Security Decision-making
  Dr Erik Lin-Greenberg (MIT)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 13:00 - Keeping tech accountable: a conversation with The Markup
  The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
  Julia Angwin (The Markup)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 13:00 - From Your House to Their House: Do Changes in Consituency House Prices Change How MPs Speak About Housing?
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Laure Bokobza (Oxford), Jacob Nyrup (Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar
• 18:00 - Finding friends for Global Britain
  Prof. Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford), Mr Charles Parton (The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)), Amy Pope (Chatham House)

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 15:00 - The Tension Within Norms: Agency and Risks in Pursuit of Global Climate Justice
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Carlotta Minnella (Duke), Swapna Pathak (Oberlin College), Marco Scauso (Quinnipiac)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 12 February 2021

• 16:00 - Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  David Bateman (Cornell)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 13:00 - Cyber Law and Norms: Why they fail us
  Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 13:00 - Displacing the Political Fiscal Cycle. Blessing or Curse?
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Nelson Ruiz (University of Oxford), Luis Martinez (Chicago)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar
• 13:00 - Data and subscriptions: El Pais' lessons in pandemic coverage
  The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
  Borja Echevarría (El País)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 18 February 2021

• 15:00 - Orchestration around the Governor’s Dilemma: G7/G20 Governance of Financial Stability and Market Integrity
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins
  David Hagebölling (Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 19 February 2021

• 16:00 - Party System Institutionalization and Stability in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Michael Bernhard (University of Florida)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 13:00 - Russia's Use of the Wagner Group 'Private' Military Company
  Professor Kimberly Martin (Columbia University)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 February 2021

• 13:00 - Stuff's 2020 Facebook exit: what happened next
  The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
  Sinead Boucher (Stuff)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
  TBA
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 15:00 - Power in IR: Matching Empirical Uses to Theoretical Advances’
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Karolina Milewicz (Oxford), Duncan Snidal (University of Oxford), Kenneth Stiller (Oxford), Jacklyn Majnemer (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 26 February 2021

• 16:00 - The punishment against black girls and women and its political consequences
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Sally Nuamah (Northwestern)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 13:00 - Black Gold and Blackmail: Oil and Great Power Politics
  Rosemary Kelanic (University of Notre Dame)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 March 2021

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
  TBA
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar
• 13:00 - Covering the cartels: the history and mission of Zeta
  The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
  Adela Bello (Zeta magazine)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 4 March 2021

• 15:00 - Thanks For Your Service: What Drives Public Confidence in the U.S. Military and Why it Matters
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Peter Feaver (Duke University), Jim Golby (UT-Austin)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 5 March 2021

• 16:00 - Parties as Disciplinarians: Charisma and Commitment Problems in Programmatic Campaigning
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Rocio Titiunik (Princeton)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 13:00 - How distance constrains US grand strategy in an era of military-technological innovation
  Paul van Hooft (The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Insecurities, Uncertainty, and Human Rights: A Conversation with the Colombian Ombudsman
  Due to unforeseen urgent changes in the schedule of the Ombudsman, this event has been postponed (new date tbc)
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Carlos Ernesto Camargo Assis (Ombudsman of Colombia), Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government)
  CONPEACE Webinar Series

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 13:00 - News media in the Far East in 2021
  The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
  Daisuke Furuta (Buzzfeed)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 09:00 - EU - China relations in 2021: challenges and responses
  Registration has now closed.
  His Excellency Ambassador Nicolas Chapuis, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the People's Republic of China
• 14:00 - Reconstructing International Political Economy: A Deweyan Approach
  Note earlier time of 2pm-3.30pm GMT. Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 12 March 2021

• 16:00 - Closing the Gap: The Politics of Property Rights in Kenya
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Mai Hassan (Michigan)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 24 March 2021

• 15:00 - Financial Patterns and International Architectures: Grand corruption, Nigeria and the Role of the West
  Dan Haberly (Sussex), Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Oxford), Tena Prelec (Oxford), Jackie Harvey (Northumbria), Peter Sproat (Northumbria)

Friday 16 April 2021

• 10:00 - Germany after Merkel: recalibrating EU and foreign policies
  Katja Kipping (Leader of "Die Linke", German Bundestag)

Monday 19 April 2021

• 09:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods
  Scott Cunningham (Baylor), Jody La Porte (Oxford), Thomas Robinson (Durham), Tom O’Grady (UCL)

Tuesday 20 April 2021

• 17:15 - Oxford Spring School public lecture: Using Twitter for Social Science Research
  Arun Frey (University of Oxford), Christopher Barrie (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 21 April 2021

• 13:00 - 13 Lessons from Lockdown
  RISJ Journalist Fellows
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 16:00 - Insecurities, Uncertainty, and Human Rights: A Conversation with the Colombian Ombudsman (Event will be held in Spanish)
  Regrettably, due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Carlos Ernesto Camargo Assis (Ombudsman of Colombia), Dr Annette Idler (University of Oxford)
  CONPEACE Webinar Series

Thursday 22 April 2021

• 17:15 - Oxford Spring School public lecture: MRP Modelling
  Chris Hanretty (Royal Holloway)

Tuesday 27 April 2021

• 13:00 - China’s Military Strategy in the New Era
  Professor M Taylor Fravel (MIT)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 April 2021

• 13:00 - Newlines: a fresh voice from the Middle East
  Hassan Hassan & Kareem Shaheen (Newlinesmag.com)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - The Royal Navy in the Indo-Pacific: Why small is sometimes better
  René Balletta (Royal Navy)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 29 April 2021

• 15:00 - The Power of the Weak: How Informal Power-Sharing Shapes the Work of the United Nations Security Council
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Christoph Mikulaschek (Harvard)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 30 April 2021

• 16:00 - Does Decentralization Promote Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Kenya's Constituencies Development Fund
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Daniel Posner (UCLA)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 13:00 - Subversive Economics: Pervasive, Dangerous and Largely Invisible
  Elisabeth Braw (American Enterprise Institute (AEI))
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Professor Michael Keating: The Fractured Union. State and Nation in the United Kingdom
  Professor Archie Brown (University of Oxford), Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Professor Stephen Whitefield (University of Oxford), Professor Michael Keating (Aberdeen)

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 13:00 - Covering protests, pandemics and politics in India
  Manisha Pande (Newslaundry.com)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Becoming Someone: Youth, violence and drug-dealing in Colombia’s urban periphery
  Dr Elena Butti (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Prof Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
  CONPEACE Webinar Series

Thursday 6 May 2021

• 15:00 - Disentangling Norms, Morality and Modes of Reasoning: The September 2019 Brexit Rebellion
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Jess Gliserman (University of Oxford), Anette Stimmer (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 7 May 2021

• 16:00 - Repression in the digital age: Communication technology and the politics of state violence
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Anita Gohdes (Hertie)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 13:00 - Protean War: Embracing Complexity in International Relations
  Dr Emily Whalen (University of Texas)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 May 2021

• 13:00 - Investigative Journalists team up to tell the stories of the world's biggest rainforests
  Gustavo Faleiros (Pulitzer Center)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 13 May 2021

• 15:00 - The Power of Money in World Politics: The Ford Foundation and the Inter-American Human Rights Regime
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 14 May 2021

• 16:00 - Democracy and Dignified Development in South Africa
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Evan Lieberman (MIT)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 13:00 - Why the U.S. Military Forgets What It Learns in War
  Jon Askonas
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 May 2021

• 13:00 - Revitalising the public editor role
  Kathy English (Toronto Star)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 20 May 2021

• 15:00 - Public Opinion and Foreign Electoral Intervention
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Jessica Weeks (Wisconsin-Madison)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 21 May 2021

• 16:00 - A Conjunctural Theory of Political Revolution: The Case of Spanish American History
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  James Mahoney (Northwestern)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 25 May 2021

• 18:00 - Developing post-Brexit Development Policy with Prof Amelia Hadfield
  Prof Amelia Hadfield (University of Surrey)

Wednesday 26 May 2021

• 13:00 - The perils of parachute journalism in Myanmar
  Aye Min Thant
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Wednesday 2 June 2021

• 13:00 - Ethiopian elections: what to expect in Addis
  Samuel Getachew
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Wednesday 9 June 2021

• 13:00 - Covering Covid: Lessons from a health reporter
  Jessica Hamzelou (New Scientist)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Wednesday 16 June 2021

• 13:00 - Journalism behind bars – the Belarusian crisis
  Volha Siakhovich (Belarusian Association of Journalism)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Wednesday 23 June 2021

• 13:00 - Live from Capitol Hill: Robert Moore recounts Jan 6
  Robert Moore (ITV News)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 13:00 - The Operational Application of Offensive Cyber: Challenges and Opportunities
  Conrad Prince (RUSI)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 13 October 2021

• 17:00 - Justice deferred: the Jamal Khashoggi story
  Bryan Fogel
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 14 October 2021

• 15:00 - The Politics of Emotion in International Relations: Who Gets to Feel What and Whose Emotions Matter
  If joining by Zoom, please log on 5 minutes before start of talk.
  Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 15 October 2021

• 16:00 - How Patrons Select Brokers: Efficacy and Loyalty in Urban Indian Machines
  Please join the Zoom meeting 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Tariq Thachil (University of Pennsylvania)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 19 October 2021

• 13:00 - Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq
  Brigadier (rtd) Ben Barry (OBE (IISS))
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 October 2021

• 13:00 - The role of the press in Chile’s new constitution
  Francisca Skoknic (LaBot)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 15:00 - International Authority and Institutionalized Inequalities
  Prof Michael Zurn (Free University Berlin)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - 'Suffering and International Progress' - Bapsybanoo Marchionness of Winchester Lecture 2021
  Professor Michael N. Barnett (George Washington University)

Friday 22 October 2021

• 16:00 - Attention Shoppers: Retail and Consumption in the American Political Economy
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Kathleen Thelen (MIT)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 13:00 - Integration – the Goldilocks factor 
  Lt. Col. Al Brown (British Army)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 October 2021

• 13:00 - Quakes, coups and courage: how to cover Haiti
  Jacqueline Charles (Miami Herald)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 28 October 2021

• 15:00 - When is it “ok” to leave? U.S. public opinion toward withdrawal from international organizations
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Dr Inken von Borzyskowski (UCL)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 29 October 2021

• 16:00 - Markets or What? Economic Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Agrarian Activism
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Adam Slez (University of Virginia)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 2 November 2021

• 13:00 - Triple Axis: Iran's relations with Russia and China
  TBA
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 November 2021

• 13:00 - DPIR Alumni Career Conversations: International Organisations and Think Tanks
  Richard Ponzio (Stimson Center), Frances Z. Brown (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), David Malone (United Nations University)
  DPIR Alumni Career Conversations
• 16:00 - Nicaraguan journalism in exile
  Carlos F. Chamorro
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 18:00 - Who is Alexei Navalny? A conversation with Ben Noble about the 2021 Sakharov Prize winner
  Dr Ben Noble (UCL)

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 15:00 - Military Policing Exacerbates Crime and Human Rights Abuses: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Cali, Colombia
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Robert Blair (Brown University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 5 November 2021

• 16:00 - Upending Impunity: Explaining Post-Tenure Presidential Prosecutions in Latin America
  Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Gretchen Helmke (University of Rochester)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 13:00 - Dispute Inflation
  Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 November 2021

• 13:00 - Reporting climate change from the Pacific Islands
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 15:00 - Mapping the global international system of the nineteenth century (1815-1914)
  This session is now taking place online only. Please join the call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Edward Keene (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 12 November 2021

• 16:00 - Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Bob Kaufman (Rutgers)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 15 November 2021

• 16:00 - Five years of the Colombian Peace Agreement
  Lord Alderdice (University of Oxford), Andries Gomez-Suarez (University of Winchester), Mariels Kohpn (TUC)

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 13:00 - The Central role of Space Domain Awareness in future military conflicts
  Stuart Eves (SJE Space Ltd)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 15:00 - From Pluribus to Unum? The Civil War and Imagined Sovereignty in 19th Century America
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Melissa Lee (Princeton University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 19 November 2021

• 16:00 - Government Debt and the Electoral Cycle
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Layna Mosley (Princeton)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Annual Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture in International Relations - "Preventing the Next Pandemic"
  Devi Sridhar (Professor in Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh and a Senior Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 13:00 - New technology in War
  Dr Olivier Schmitt (University of Southern Denmark)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 November 2021

• 13:00 - Nigeria vs Twitter: the fight for freedom of expression
  Fisayo Soyombo (Foundation for Investigative Journalism)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 25 November 2021

• 15:00 - Competing memories of conflict
  If joining online, please join Zoom call 5 minutes before start of the talk.
  Dr Kathrin Bachleitner (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 26 November 2021

• 16:00 - A Moral Theory of Vaccination: States, Societies and the Control of Contagion in China and India
  Unfortunately, this talk has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prerna Singh (Brown University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 30 November 2021

• 13:00 - Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO
  Professor Janne Matlary (University of Oslo)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Migration Crisis on the Belarus/EU border - Fight Against What?
  Professor Neil MacFarlane (University of Oxford), Dr Michael Taylor (Oxford Analytica), Tadeusz Giczan (Nexta), Dr Dimitar Bechev (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 December 2021

• 13:00 - Behind the Pandora Papers
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 2 December 2021

• 15:00 - Digital Counterterrorism: Why Combatting Online Extremism is So Hard – And What Can Be Done About It
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Prof Tamar Mitts (Columbia University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 3 December 2021

• 16:00 - Regulation and Distrust During the Covid Pandemic: Evidence from Russia
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Timothy Frye (Columbia University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 12 January 2022

• 13:00 - Afghanistan and me: a female perspective
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Monday 17 January 2022

• 17:00 - The UN and the changing character of peacemaking: new tools and new thinking
  Please note this event has now been moved online. A video link will be posted closer to the time. Attendees are asked to log on 5 minutes prior to the start of the event.
  Raja Gundu (United Nations)

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 13:00 - On Russian strategy in the social media battlefield
  Dr David Gioe (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 January 2022

• 12:00 - DPhil Politics Research in Progress seminar
  Javier Pérez Sandoval (University of Oxford)
• 13:00 - The death of the Kyiv Post and the fight for its rebirth
  Elina Alem Kent (Kyiv Independent)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - It’s grand, but is it strategy? The origins of ‘grand strategy’ revisited
  Please note that the venue has been changed to the Manor Road Building.
  Dr. David Morgan-Owen (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 20 January 2022

• 15:00 - ‘Right-Peopling’ the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1885-2020
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Carl Mueller-Crepon (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 21 January 2022

• 16:00 - The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle-Class
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Tomila Lankina (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 25 January 2022

• 13:00 - Illusions of Autonomy: Why Europe Cannot Provide for Its Security If the United States Pulls Back
  Dr Hugo Meijer (Sciences Po)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 January 2022

• 13:00 - The art of the viral news explainer
  Ros Atkins (BBC News)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 27 January 2022

• 15:00 - The Legalization of Global Economic Governance: Contracting or Multilateralism?
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Karen Alter (Northwestern University), Timothy Meyer
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 28 January 2022

• 16:00 - Circumstantial Liberals: Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Jan Rovny (Sciences Po Paris)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 13:00 - Copenhagen 1807: A British War of prevention and pre-emption?
  Professor Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 February 2022

• 13:00 - The trouble in Turkey
  Kemal Göktaş (Kisa Dalga)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - Presidents, Politics and Military Strategy: Electoral Constraints during the Iraq War
  Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 15:00 - NATO After 9/11: Counterterrorism, Organized Violence and the Transnational Remaking of the Euro-Atlantic Security
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Julien Pomarede (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 4 February 2022

• 16:00 - Online Hate Speech and How to Counter it
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Dominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Africa for the Africans: A History of Self-Determination before Decolonization
  Please note this is an online event
  Adom Getachew (Chicago)

Tuesday 8 February 2022

• 13:00 - Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
  Please use this link to join the meeting: https://jh.zoom.us/j/97354488555?pwd=emRsbWU1TEx0Z3A0VG0vWEU5VTdFQT09
  Professor Mary Sarotte (Johns Hopkins)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 February 2022

• 13:00 - Journalism in Kazakhstan with Darkhan Umyrbekov
  Darkhan Umyrbekov
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 10 February 2022

• 15:00 - Virtual Territories
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Jordan Branch (Claremont McKenna College)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 11 February 2022

• 16:00 - How Emancipation Drives Property Rights: Theory and Evidence from Imperial Brazil
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Jorge Mangonnet (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 15 February 2022

• 13:00 - Maritime Strategy: Using the Other 71%
  Captain Brent Spillner (US Navy), Commander Andrew Livsey (Royal Navy and CCW Visiting Research Fellow)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 February 2022

• 13:00 - Undisrupting the media? Micropayments for news
  Dominic Young (Axate)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - Cyber Capabilities and Decision Making - if we are being out thought, will we always be outfought?
  Sally Walker
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 15:00 - The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Inevitability
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Yuna Han (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 18 February 2022

• 16:00 - Democratization after Democratization: how first wave democracies ended electoral corruption
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Isabela Mares (Yale)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 13:00 - People’s Liberation Army Modernisation: from drivers of change to strengths and weaknesses
  Meia Nouwens (The International Institute for Strategic Studies)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 February 2022

• 13:00 - It's no joke: political cartooning in East Africa with Maddo (Paul Kelemba)
  Maddo
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 15:00 - Institutional Racism in International Relations
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Phillip Lipscy (University of Toronto), Jiajia Zhou
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 25 February 2022

• 16:00 - Conflict Shapes in Flux: A Typology of Spatial Change in Armed Conflict
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Kate Tcakova (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 13:00 - The Indo-Pacific Tilt, Geopolitics and International Law - Issues and Challenges
  Captain Ian Park (Royal Navy)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 March 2022

• 13:00 - Insights from Bellingcat on Russia's Ukraine ambitions with Christo Grozev
  Christo Grozev
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - The Strategies of Small States: Safeguarding Autonomy and Influencing Great Powers
  Dr Hillary Briffa (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 3 March 2022

• 15:00 - Making an Underworld: Internationalism and Moral Panics
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Jeanne Morefield (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 4 March 2022

• 16:00 - The Challenges to Representative Democracy: Populism, Technocracy and Political Pluralism
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Daniele Caramani (EUI)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 13:00 - ‘War’ vs ‘Conflict’: changing Russian perceptions between the military and the civilian security establishment
  Mark Galeotti (UCL)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 March 2022

• 12:00 - Dispersal Policies in European Member States: Austria, France and Germany - A Multi-Level-Governance Perspective
  Viviane Spitzhofer (Sciences Po, Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 15:00 - Can a leopard change its spots? Implicit theories and signaling in international politics
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Paola Solimena (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 11 March 2022

• 16:00 - Post-Communist Regime Trajectories - A Challenge to the Mainstream Comparative Approach
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Balint Magyar (CEU)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 14 March 2022

• 09:30 - OxPeace 3 Day Training Workshop in Mediation and Negotiation
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 22 March 2022

• 10:00 - Turning point: The implications of Putin’s war for Europe’s economic and political choices
  Paolo Gentiloni (European Commission), Professor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford), Professor Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Matteo Garavoglia (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 5 April 2022

• 18:00 - Is There a Better Way to do Democracy? A Roundtable on Hélène Landemore's 'Open Democracy'
  Date changed to 5 April 2022
  Hélène Landemore (Yale University), Udit Bhatia (University of Sheffield), Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago), Stuart White (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 April 2022

• 14:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods 2022
  Scott Cunningham (Baylor), Bruno Castanho Silva (Cologne), Jody La Porte (Oxford), Andreas Murr (Warwick), Tom Robinson (Durham), Chris Barrie (Edinburgh)
  DPIR Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods

Wednesday 20 April 2022

• 13:00 - Why journalism needs information security
  Philip Di Salvo (London School of Economics)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 13:00 - International Law, Politics and Ethics of Humanitarian Military Intervention
  Dr Iacovos Kareklas (CCW)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 April 2022

• 13:00 - Distilling the news: one month into the FT Edit App
  Malcolm Moore (Financial Times)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 28 April 2022

• 13:00 - Contemporary Enfranchisement: A Theory on Party Positioning
  Klaudia Wegschaider (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Why Ordinary People Care About International Law
  Janina Dill (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 29 April 2022

• 16:00 - Organization, Literacy, and the Rise of Secular Parties (with Kit Rickard)
  Zeynep Bulutgil (UCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 13:00 - Responsible Stakeholder or Challenger? Assessing India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel
  Dr Walter Ladwig III (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 13:00 - Climate change, drug wars and elections in the Philippines
  Regine Cabato (Washington Post)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 5 May 2022

• 13:00 - The Industrial Park Model and Global Value Chain Integration in Ethiopia
  Nicolas Lippolis (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Binding international law without ratification: delegation in environmental treaties
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Jon Pevehouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 6 May 2022

• 16:00 - Political Dynasties in the European Parliament
  Alexandra Cirone (Cornell)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 13:00 - Reflexive Control Theory: a Soviet perspective on influence and why it matters in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  Maria de Goeij (CCW)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Legalist Assaults on Democracy
  PLEASE NOTE: THIS SESSION WILL TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY
  Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 11 May 2022

• 13:00 - Media survival in Ukraine
  Jakub Parusinski (Kyiv Indy)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 12 May 2022

• 13:00 - Israel’s New Kingmakers: Arab Voter Trade-Offs Between Economic- and Ethnicity-Oriented Voting in the 2021 Knesset Election
  Scott Singer (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Plans are Worthless, But Planning is Everything: A Resurrection of the Study of Grand Strategic Planning
  Nina Silove (ETH Zurich)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 17 May 2022

• 13:00 - Nation-Building in the Borderlands of a Borderland: A Cartographical Examination of the Russia-Ukraine War
  This event will now be on Teams as well as in person. Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Yjg4ZjgwMTUtODc2MS00ZWE1LTg3OWItMWYyMjU3YzVkZjZm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22a4e7f38d-7c83-4a62-a150-818baca67a19%22%7d
  Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 May 2022

• 13:00 - Lessons in visual journalism from Paraguay's El Surtidor
  Jazmín Acuña (El Surtidor)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 19 May 2022

• 15:00 - Theory of Linkage Politics
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Kennedy Mbeva (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 20 May 2022

• 15:30 - The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion: In conversation with Mark R. Beissinger
  Please note that this event will now begin 30 minutes earlier than originally advertised, at 15:30 GMT
  Mark R. Beissinger (Princeton), Anne Wolf (Oxford), Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford), Neil Ketchley (Oxford), Andrea Ruggeri (Oxford)
• 16:00 - Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA): external validity and generalization in case study and multi-method research
  This is a hybrid event. If you wish to join the Join Zoom Meeting, please use the following details: us06web.zoom.us/j/81400620216?pwd=ZXdSWGxkWmZ3dmZvM1BVVnJoMnVldz09 Meeting ID: 814 0062 0216 Passcode: 535586
  Stephan Haggard (UCSD)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Saturday 21 May 2022

• 10:00 - Backsliding and resilience in liberal democracies: One-day conference
  Please register using the Eventbrite link
  Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford), Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin), Isabela Mares (Yale), Vicente Valentim (Nuffield College), Professor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford), Justin Grimmer (Stanford), Lonna Atkeson (Florida), Susan Stokes (Chicago), Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins University), Stephen Haggard (UC San Diego), David Bateman (Cornell), Melis Laebens (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 25 May 2022

• 13:00 - Reporting on digital culture in India
  Shadma Shaikh (Factor Daily)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 13:00 - The Trojan Horse Affair and its aftermath
  Hamza Syed (New York Times)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 2 June 2022

• 13:00 - Voting for redistribution in times of economic crisis: does the effect of redistributive preferences change in scarcity times?
  Jaime Coulbois (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 June 2022

• 13:00 - Reporting on the women the pandemic left behind
  Ryan Lenora Brown (The Continent)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 9 June 2022

• 13:00 - The varying effects of middle class size on perceptions of grand corruption
  Raquel Chanto (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series

Monday 13 June 2022

• 10:00 - No Shortcuts: Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force
  Max Smeets (ETH Zurich)

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 13:00 - Hong Kong and the story of our time
  Ronson Chan (HKJA)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 16 June 2022

• 13:00 - My Neighbour, My Friend? The Rise and Demise of Local Civil Alliances in Ethnic War
  Amiad Haran Diman (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series

Monday 20 June 2022

• 16:00 - Peacekeeping: research, policy, and practice
  Professor Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Dr John Cockell (United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali)
  Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) Showcase 2022

Tuesday 27 September 2022

• 15:30 - Research Showcase Event - DPIR
  If you cannot attend in person, please Join us virtually via Teams: https://tinyurl.com/yafmd6jr
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 12 October 2022

• 13:00 - The emotional impact of investigative journalism
  John Allan Namu (Africa Uncensored)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 13:00 - The emotional impact of investigative journalism
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 13:00 - Putting indigenous rights on the news agenda
  Isabella Higgins (ABC news)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 16:00 - The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions - Book Talk and Round-table
  Neta Crawford (University of Oxford), Oliver Belcher (Durham University), Jan Selby (Sheffield University)

Friday 21 October 2022

• 13:00 - Civic Associations, Populism, and (Un-)Civic Behavior: Evidence from Germany
  Bogdan Popescu (Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 13:00 - The Face of Peace: Government pedagogy amid disinformation in Colombia
  Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 October 2022

• 12:00 - Climate journalism: Covering Pakistan's flooding crisis
  Hamid Mir (Capital news)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Friday 28 October 2022

• 13:00 - Social Norms, Preference Falsification, and Support for Stigmatized Parties
  Sandwich lunch available
  Vicente Valentim (Nuffield College)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 16:30 - Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict
  Huss Banai (Indiana University, Bloomington), Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 2 November 2022

• 12:00 - Climate journalism: Covering Pakistan's flooding crisis
  Hamid Mir (Capital talk)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Friday 4 November 2022

• 13:00 - The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation
  Sandwich Lunch Available
  Dr Rachel Bernhard (Nuffield College)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 7 November 2022

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa. The National Peace Accord 1991-1994
  Joint event, DPIR and OxPeace (Oxford Network of Peace Studies)
  Rev Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford), William Beinart (University of Oxford), Felicity Steadman (independent mediator and peace facilitator), Professor Richard Caplan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 13:00 - Know your enemy: Empathy and imagination in strategy
  Dr Kenneth Payne (King's College, London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 November 2022

• 13:00 - Behind the scenes of the world's number one Spanish podcast
  Carolina Guerrero (Radio Ambulante)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Friday 11 November 2022

• 13:00 - Purging to Transform the Post-Colonial State: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
  Sandwich Lunch Available
  Dr Neil Ketchley (Associate Professor in Politics, St Antony’s College)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 17:00 - The Geopolitics of Cybersecurity: Old Problems, New Trends
  Mr Viljar Lubi (Embassy of Estonia) (Estonian Ambassador to the United Kingdom), Edward Lucas (Oxford), Vili Lehdonvirta (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 13:00 - Avoiding the pitfalls of Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 coverage
  Chris McHardy (Arabian Radio Network)
• 13:00 - Roundtable with Journal Editors
  Please note that this is an online event via Zoom.
  Professor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford), Geoff Evans (University of Oxford)

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 16:30 - Life, Death, and the Western Way of War
  Lorenzo Zambernardi (University of Bologna)

Friday 18 November 2022

• 13:00 - Sexism and Voting for Women Candidates: Evidence from Britain, the United States, and Canada
  Rosalind Shorrocks (University of Manchester), Elizabeth Ralph-Morrow (UCL), Roosmarijn de Geus (University of Reading)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 13:00 - Provocative presence: Strategic ambiguity and naval options in a restive world
  Captain Brent Spillner (US Navy)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 12:30 - Going Quiet – The New Politics of the Climate Welfare State
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Katrijn Siderius (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Marshalling the troops: how Ukraine's biggest newsroom stayed afloat in the war
  Sevgil Musaieva (Ukrainska Pravda)

Friday 25 November 2022

• 13:00 - Democracy, Votes, and Participation
  Filip Kostelka (European University Institute)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 30 November 2022

• 12:30 - Nein to EU debt. Oder doch? Studying the Relationship between Elite Cues and Public Opinion with Twitter Data
  Sandwich lunch provided
  Maksim Zubok
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Business stories are climate stories: rewriting the finance journalism playbook
  Sharon Chen (Bloomberg Green)

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 14:00 - Implementing the SDGs in Africa: the UN's 'nexus approach' to implementation of peace, rights, and development:
  Prof Alain Tschudin (Durban Univ. of Technology)

Friday 2 December 2022

• 13:00 - Just look at the pictures: Imagery use in jihadi magazines, 1984-2022
  A sandwich lunch will be provided
  Thomas Hegghammer (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium and Oxford Constitutional Studies Forum

Wednesday 7 December 2022

• 13:00 - Missing Perspectives in News: what the third report reveals about intersectionality of coverage
  Luba Kassova (Co-founder and director of AKAS)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Wednesday 11 January 2023

• 13:00 - The role of journalism in disrupting corruption
  Jane Bradley (New York Times)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Wednesday 18 January 2023

• 13:00 - How The Wire's Meta controversy could have been avoided
  N Ram (The Hindu Group)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - Declinism in Postwar Britain and the United States
  Dr Robert Ralston (University of Birmingham)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 19 January 2023

• 15:00 - Purchasing Prestige or Seeking Security? Military Procurement Choices Between the Dual Pressures of Status Loss and Military Threats
  Sam Seitz (University of Oxford), Patrick Gill-Tiney (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 20 January 2023

• 13:00 - Digital Politics and Foreign Interventions through Illiberal Communication: A Natural Language Processing Approach
  Please note - change of speaker and subject. Sandwich Lunch provided
  Ashrakat Elshehawy
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 13:00 - The Difficulty of Innovation in Defence
  Oliver Lewis (Rebellion Defence), Bob Daigle (Rebellion Defence)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 January 2023

• 12:30 - Unpacking Coalition Governance: Presenting a Measure of Coalition Differentiation
  Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
  Christine Sheldon (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Are any Twitter alternatives fit for purpose?
  David Lee (Financial Times)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 15:00 - A Qualitative Analysis of International Governance Approaches to Powerful Technologies
  Robert Trager (UCLA), Chris Morris (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Research Seminar on the Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics
  A drinks reception will be provided. Email nicolas.lippolis@politics.ox.ac.uk if you wish to attend.
  Ignacio Sánchez Cuenca (University of Oxford), Eunice Goes (Richmond), António Costa Pinto (ICS Lisbon), Pedro Magalhães (ICS Lisbon), Ana Catalano Weeks (Bath), Jorge M. Fernandes (IPP, CSIC Madrid)

Friday 27 January 2023

• 13:00 - What Can Government Do with Data Science and Artificial Intelligence?
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Professor Helen Margetts (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 1 February 2023

• 12:30 - The Pursuit of Merit: How Individuals Justify Market Inequality
  Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
  César Fuster Llamazares (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Using data to tell LGBTQ+ stories in Uganda
  Caleb Okereke (Minority Africa)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - The Post-Cold War Anglo-American military relationship
  Professor Wyn Rees (University of Nottingham)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 15:00 - Rethinking “middle powers” as a category of practice
  John de Bhal (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 3 February 2023

• 13:00 - Relating Voter ID Laws to Voter Turnout: Going Beyond the United State
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Tom Barton (Royal Holloway)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 13:00 - Evolution of far-right ideologies
  Professor Peter Neumann (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 12:30 - Will She Run? Role Models Events, Informational Content and Women's Political Ambition
  Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
  Marta Antonetti (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Navigating newsgathering in the deadliest country for journalists
  Marcela Turati Muñoz (Freelance Investigative Reporter)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 15:00 - Don't blame it on the Blob
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Andy Payne (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 10 February 2023

• 13:00 - On the Causes of Party System Institutionalization in Asia
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Fernando Casal Bertoa (University of Nottingham)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 12:30 - How Important Are Candidates' Sociodemographic Characteristics to Britons and What Do British MPs Publicise - and Not Publicise - About Themselves Online
  Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
  Matthew Hepplewhite (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 13:00 - What to expect from the Nigerian election
  Seun Okin-Toba (Channels TV)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - Regional cooperation: US-UK relations and strategic dilemmas following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979-1989
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 16 February 2023

• 15:00 - Quechua and Aymara Revolution in International Legal Thought: An Initial Exploration
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 17 February 2023

• 13:00 - Fairweather friends: Why Chinese polluters want more regulation
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 20 February 2023

• 16:00 - Workshop: War, Peace and world order in the "Long" 20th Century: Challenges and Perspectives
  Patrick O Cohrs, Edward Keene
• 16:00 - War, Peace and World Order in the "Long" 20th Century - Challenges and Perspectives
  Patrick O'Cohrs (St Anthony's College, Oxford), Patrick Quinton-Brown (University of Oxford), Michael Jonas (Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg)

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 13:00 - The follower map: Towards a theory of the roots of cultural variations in leadership ideals
  Venue Change: Seminar will now take place in Pembroke College. Sandwiches will not be available this week
  Professor Mark van Vugt (Vrije Universiteit), Dr Sirio Lonati (Neoma Business School)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 12:30 - Fuelling Opposition to Green Legislation Across the Urban-Rural Divide: Evidence from Germany
  Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
  Francesco Raffaelli (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 13:00 - The Prince's secrets: behind the podcast exposing China's leader
  Sue-Lin Wong (The Economist)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 15:00 - Beyond the Blob: The Politics of Restraint in the Middle East
  Ebenezer Azamati (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 22:30 - Tolerance and Mere Civility
  Register at - https://american.swoogo.com/bejan/begin Live streamed event from School of Public Affairs in Washington DC.
  Teresa Bejan (Oriel, Oxford)

Friday 24 February 2023

• 13:00 - Campaign Promises and Legislative Leadership Posts
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Stefan Muller (University College Dublin)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 12:00 - Jihadist Mobilisation in Divided Contexts: Cleavages, Collaboration and Resistance
  Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
  Natasja Rupesinghe (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Jordan and Kuwait: US-UK relations in the aftermath of Suez
  Dr Louise Kettle (University of Nottingham)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 15:00 - Legitimacy in IR
  Lora Viola (Free University of Berlin), Alexandra Stafford (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 3 March 2023

• 13:00 - Uncivil society in eastern Europe
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Prof Lenka Bustikova (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 6 March 2023

• 17:30 - Reuters Memorial Lecture - 'How to report under a dictatorship: lessons from Nicaragua and beyond'
  If you would like to follow the lecture online, please click on the link below and we will send you details of how to do so closer to the time - https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7231854/2023-Memorial-Lecture-online-audience-access
  Carlos F. Chamorro

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 13:00 - NATO's Nordic Neophytes: How Sweden & Finland's Accession to NATO Alters the Military Balance in Northeast Europe
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 13:00 - Will AR and VR change war reporting forever?
  Khalil Ashawi (Focus), Hail Khalaf (Focus)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 12:30 - When Do Firms Speak Up? The Role of Empowered Knowledge Workers
  Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
  Luis Cornago Bonal (Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 15:00 - White supremacy in the United States during the post-Cold War and War on Terror eras
  Anna Meier (Nottingham), Alejandro Posada Téllez (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 10 March 2023

• 13:00 - What's the Half-Life of the Economic Vote? (About a Year and a Half)
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Jack Bailey (University of Manchester)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 13 March 2023

• 09:15 - OxPeace Training Workshop: Local Peacebuilding and International Agencies: Grassroots Skills and Wisdom in Support
  Cost: Students are asked to pay just £20, and non-students £50. Coffee, tea and a sandwich lunch will be provided. The workshop is being subsidized by the independent Oxford Peace Research Trust (OPRT). Applications: Please send your application, giving your name, contact details (phone, postal address, email) your present course if you are a student, a brief CV, and a short statement of why you would like to participate, to Assistant Organizer, Megan McDowell: Megan.mcdowell@hotmail.co.uk You can expect a quick reply, and when accepted you will receive information on how to pay to secure your place. Places will be capped at twenty participants. Please apply now!
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 15 March 2023

• 11:00 - Women, Socialism, and early International Relations
  Ricardo Villanueva (Visiting Fellow University of Oxford)

Monday 20 March 2023

• 10:30 - Oxford Conflict Peace and Security Hub
  Lars-Erik Cederman (LSE), Carl Müller-Crepon (LSE), Seung Hoon Chae (University of Oxford), Micha Germann (University of Bath), Patricia Justino (UNU-WIDER), Neil Ketchley (Oxford), Dan Miodownik (University of Oxford), Amiad Haran Diman (University of Oxford), Kristin Marie Bakke (UCL), David Siroky (University of Oxford), Jakob Schram (University of Oxford), Dan Midownik (Hebrew University), Livia Isabella Schubiger (University of Oxford), Lars-Erik Cederman (ETH), Laia Balcells (Georgetown), Anastasia Shesterinina (York), Vincenzo Bove (Warwick), Emily Myers (Duke)

Monday 27 March 2023

• 09:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods
  Applications have now closed
  Spyros Kosmidis (University of Oxford), Tom O’Grady (UCL), Marnie Howlett (University of Oxford), Andreas Murr (Warwick), Vicente Valentim (University of Oxford)
  DPIR Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods

Monday 24 April 2023

• 10:00 - 2023 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
  Various Speakers
  2023 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 10:00 - 2023 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
  Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia), Andrea Sangiovanni (Kings College London)
  2023 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 12:45 - The role of business journalism in a financial crisis
  Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel economist, GTC Visiting Fellow)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 15:00 - Weaponized Interdependence: Global Monopolies as the Sources of Power
  Claas Mertens (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 28 April 2023

• 13:00 - The Demand and Supply of Pandemic Populism: A Global Overview
  Petra Guasti (Charles University in Prague)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Saturday 29 April 2023

• 09:00 - Learning from Ukraine: origins, impacts, and lessons for peacebuilding
  Registration: this is strongly advised. It will probably be possible to walk in on the day (bring cash, Students £5, others £10, and donations are welcome) but please register in advance if possible to help with numbers for catering. Coffee/tea breaks and sandwich lunch are included.
  Various Speakers
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 13:30 - The Contribution of (Military) Psychology to the Operational Readiness of the Swiss Armed Forces
  Please note the later start time
  Professor Hubert Annen (CCW & Swiss Military Academy)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Reparations Unbound? Dilemmas of Dismantling Racial Injustice
  Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Thursday 4 May 2023

• 15:00 - Global consultocracy? The politics of layering modes of global governance
  Professor Vincent Pouliot (McGill University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 5 May 2023

• 13:00 - Civil Resistance in the Streetlight: Replicating and Assessing Evidence on Nonviolent Effectiveness
  Sandwiches provided.
  Christoph Dworschak (University of York)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 13:00 - From Integrated Deterrence to Integrated Defense
  Professor Antulio Echevarria (CCW & US Army War College)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 14:30 - Gender in Academia & DPIR
  Professor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford), Rachel Bernhard (University of Oxford), Marnie Howlett (University of Oxford), Kamissa Camara (University of Oxford), Tim Soutphommasane (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 10 May 2023

• 13:00 - Top 5 takes from Washington Post's TikTok experiment
  Carmella Boykin (Associate Producer, Washington Post TikTok team)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 15:00 - Quechua and Aymara Revolution in International Thought: An Initial Exploration
  Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:15 - CCW Annual Lecture: Peace is Poor Reading: The Postwar Army Experience
  Brian Linn (Texas A&M)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Friday 12 May 2023

• 13:00 - Young People Punish Undemocratic Behaviour Less Than Older People
  Kristian Vrede Skaaning Frederiksen (Aarhus)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 13:00 - Disinformation and Hybrid Threats – The Singapore Perspective
  Dr Shashi Jayakumar (S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Book Launch: Making International Institutions Work by Ranjit Lall
  Ranjit Lall (University of Oxford), Professor Raj Chetty (Harvard University), Prof Joseph Stiglitz (Columbia University), Duncan Snidal (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Nuclear Terrorism: What is the Threat? (Oxford Cyril Foster Lecture 2023)
  Professor Jessica Stern (Boston University)
• 17:15 - Universality, Necessity and Progress: Marx and the Problem of History
  Amy Allen (Penn State)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 13:00 - Crowdfunding independent journalism in Latam
  Camille Alexandra Padilla Dalmau (Co-founder, 9Millones crowdfunding and publishing platform)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 11:00 - Towards a Post Middle East international politics?
  Professor Yaacov Yadgar, Professor Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford ), Thomas Hegghammer (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - Military Medicine and Military Effectiveness
  Professor Tanisha Fazal (University of Minnesota)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 19 May 2023

• 13:00 - How do elected politicians think about the economy? Evidence from Germany and the UK
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Lucy Barnes (UCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 22 May 2023

• 17:15 - Interests: What They Are and Why They Matter
  Please note this seminar is on Monday
  Jeremy Gilbert (UEL)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 13:00 - Raising McCAIN: Challenges and Opportunities in Returning a “Mishap Ship” to Warfighting Readiness
  Captain Ryan Easterday (CCW & US Navy)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - The Technological Space Race: Space Resources, Space Exploitation, and International Competition
  Please contact julia.carver@politics.ox.ac.uk or elisabeth.siegel@univ.ox.ac.uk to RSVP and for the Microsoft Teams details.
  TBA
  Cyber Strategy and Tech Statecraft
• 17:30 - Bingham Lecture 2023: Brexit and the Political Constitution
  Professor Meg Russell (UCL)
  Bingham Seminars in Constitutional Studies

Wednesday 24 May 2023

• 13:00 - How media businesses in Asia are using AI
  Rishad Patel (Co-founder, creative director and head of product at Splice Media)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Friday 26 May 2023

• 13:00 - Pimps, star chambers, ratbags and Westphalians: Parliamentary debates about racial discrimination in Australia, 1975-2017
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Tim Soutphommasane (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 13:00 - Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community
  Dr Katharine Millar (LSE)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Disinformation, deepfakes, and image provenance
  Please contact julia.carver@politics.ox.ac.uk or elisabeth.siegel@univ.ox.ac.uk to RSVP and for the Microsoft Teams details.
  TBA
  Cyber Strategy and Tech Statecraft

Wednesday 31 May 2023

• 13:00 - Lessons from the Amazon: novel ways to report on the climate
  David Hidalgo (Executive Editor, OjoPúblico)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 14:00 - Peacekeeping Exits and Statebuilding Legacies: Improving UN Transitions Based on Empirical Evidence?
  Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Maline Meiske (University of Oxford)

Friday 2 June 2023

• 13:00 - Talk by Jonathan Homola
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Jonathan Homola (Rice University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 5 June 2023

• 14:00 - A framework for the unsupervised and semi-supervised analysis of visual frames
  Michelle Torres (Rice)

Tuesday 6 June 2023

• 13:00 - North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order: When Bad Behaviour Pays
  Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - The UK National Cyber Force and Cognitive Effect
  Please contact julia.carver@politics.ox.ac.uk or elisabeth.siegel@univ.ox.ac.uk to RSVP and for the Microsoft Teams details.
  TBA
  Cyber Strategy and Tech Statecraft
• 17:15 - The Heterosexual Gag
  Asa Seresin (University of Pennsylvania)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Wednesday 7 June 2023

• 13:00 - Covering Israel's historic protests
  Noa Landau (Deputy editor-in-chief, Haaretz)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Friday 9 June 2023

• 13:00 - The Co-opted State: Development, Corruption and Bureaucrats in Ghana
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Sarah Brierley (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 13 June 2023

• 13:00 - Black Swans: Do we have the Culture and Will to Adapt Rapidly to Unforeseen and Potentially Catastrophic Events?
  Dr Kevin Rowlands (Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Cognitive Science and AI
  Please contact julia.carver@politics.ox.ac.uk or elisabeth.siegel@univ.ox.ac.uk to RSVP and for the Microsoft Teams details.
  TBA
  Cyber Strategy and Tech Statecraft
• 17:15 - The Mute Compulsion of Capital
  Søren Mau (University of Aarhus)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 13:00 - Journalism in exile: lessons from Latin America and East Africa
  Louisa Esther Mugabo (Journalist and PhD Candidate)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Friday 16 June 2023

• 13:00 - The politics of central banking: Using text-as-data to analyse technocratic responsiveness
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Christel Koop (King's)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 21 June 2023

• 13:00 - Escaping toxic newsroom spaces and online hate
  Dhanya Rajendran (Editor-in-Chief, The News Minute)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 13:00 - Contemporary Mental Health and Illness in the UKAF
  Surg. Cdr. Charlotte Evans (Royal Navy)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• 13:00 - The art of graphic journalism: lessons from WaPo's Searching for Maura project
  KC Schaper (Washington Post)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:00 - Career Paths in International Development: UN Civil Service
  SOLD OUT
  Sam Daws (University of Oxford ), Stephen Rudgard (United Nations), Melanie Hutchinson (DEFRA)
• 17:15 - Out of the Shadows: The Shock of Non-Hybrid War
  Patrick Porter (Birmingham)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 12:30 - The past, present, and potential of economic security
  Mona Paulsen (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 13 October 2023

• 13:00 - What is Nationalism?
  Kai Quek (Hong Kong University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 16 October 2023

• 16:00 - Legitimacy, Capacity, and International Mediation in Africa
  Duursma Allard (ETH Zurich)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 13:00 - Thanks for your Service: The Causes & Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military
  Peter Feaver (Duke University)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 12:00 - Alumni Career Conversations - Careers in Climate, Environment and Sustainability
  Frederick Teo (GenZero)
  DPIR Alumni Career Conversations
• 13:00 - Predictors of psychological stress in the field
  Anthony Feinstein, Laura Dulce Romero
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Allies of the Weak: La Résistance and Jews in the Holocaust
  Kasia Nalewajko (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 12:30 - Opening Up By Cracking Down
  Adam Dean (George Washington University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 13:00 - DPIR Career Services Induction
  This talk is for MPhil and DPhil students only.
  Niamh Walsh (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Russo-Ukraine War, Deep Strike, & Escalation
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 17:00 - Research Speed Meet-Up
  Please note that this event is open to DPIR Staff, post-docs and DPhils Only.
  TBA

Friday 20 October 2023

• 13:00 - Fiscal Policy Preferences with Tax, Spending and Borrowing Trade-offs
  Lucy Barnes (UCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 23 October 2023

• 16:00 - Living to Fight Each Other Another Day: Armed Group Relationships in Multiparty Civil Wars
  Regine Schwab (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - PRC Influence, Technology Theft, and Insider Threats
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 13:00 - Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits
  Fully Booked
  Dr Rob Geist-Pinfold (Kings College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 13:00 - Unpacking Canada’s cruel history: lessons from a Pulitzer-winning podcast
  Connie Walker (CBC)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 15:00 - Deepfakes and Disinformation I
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:15 - Strategy, Surprise and False Futurism
  Professor Alexander Evans (London School of Economics)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 12:30 - Noblesse Oblige: Status Motivations and Public Support for Foreign Aid
  Marina Duque (UCL)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 27 October 2023

• 13:00 - The Dance of European Integration: How Ideology and Policy Shape Support for the EU
  Simon Hix (European University Institute)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 13:30 - Secular imaginaries within the African National Congress in South Africa
  David Jeffery-Scwikkard (King's College)
  Political ethnography reading and seminar group

Monday 30 October 2023

• 14:00 - Black History Month Panel Discussion
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Communities of Violence: Summary Executions in Germany 1945
  Bastiaan Willems (Lancaster University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 13:00 - When Does the Great Game End? Long Term Geostrategic Trajectories of the Russian War Against Ukraine
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 13:00 - Networking Africa's investigative journalists
  Anas Aremeyaw Anas (ZAM Magazine)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Identity Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Defection: The Social Identity Aspect of Pro-Government Militias
  Dr Yaniv Voller (School of Politics and International Relations, Keynes College, University of Kent)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 15:00 - Deepfakes and Disinformation II
  Cassidy Bereskin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Ten Years of Peace Processes in Colombia
  Various Speakers
  OxPeace Events

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 15:00 - Cognitive Warfare, Theory, Practice, & Legalities
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 17:00 - Prof. Neta Crawford's Inaugural Lecture as the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations: The 'Fierce Urgency of Now': war, climate, and change in the deep time of world politics
  Neta Crawford

Friday 3 November 2023

• 12:30 - How America Weaponized the World Economy
  Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins), Abraham Newman (Georgetown)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 13:00 - Will personal votes matter for ministers? Electoral causes and consequences of cabinet committee membership
  Peter Nielsen (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Andrew Tyrie: Are the UK’s economic and financial regulators fit for purpose?
  Andrew Tyrie

Monday 6 November 2023

• 16:00 - The Price of Certainty: Artificial Intelligence, Decision-Making, and the Future of Conflict
  Adam McCauley (Department of National Defense, Government of Canada)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Artificial Intelligence, Decision-Making, and the Future of Conflict
  Discussion Group, Adam McCauley (Department of National Defense, Government of Canada)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 13:00 - The Pendulum of War: Lanchester Models of Combat
  Dr Stephen Coulson
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 13:00 - Internet freedom and Independent press in 2023 – a view from India
  Apar Gupta (Internet Freedom Foundation)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 15:00 - Implications for Artificial Intelligence on Military and Political Decision-Making
  Adam McCauley (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:15 - Fashions and Fallacies in Contemporary Strategic Thought 
  Dr Chiara Libiseller (Leiden University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 12:30 - Women’s Prewar Social Leadership and Collective Action After War: Evidence from Nepal
  Emily Myers (Duke)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 10 November 2023

• 13:00 - The Impact of Equal Opportunity Statements in shaping the Gender Distribution in Job Applications
  Marianna Baggio (Joint Research Centre, European Commission)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 13 November 2023

• 11:00 - CV Workshop
  Open to graduate students only.
  TBA
• 17:00 - Terrorism, Prediction, and Emerging Technologies
  Discussion Group, Joshua Stewart (Oxford)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 13:00 - Economics and National Security
  Dr Jason Shepherd (RUSI)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 13:00 - Refocusing attention on the climate crisis.
  Dr Friederike Otto (University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 15:00 - Intelligence Services and Artificial Intelligence
  Carla Zoe Cremer (Human Information Processing Lab)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 12:30 - Making Sense of How We Make Sense of Chinese Foreign Policy
  Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 17 November 2023

• 13:00 - Opposition Movements and Groups 1789-2020: Introducing the OMG Dataset
  Carl Henrik Knutsen (Oslo University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 20 November 2023

• 17:00 - Great Power Competition and Disinformation in Africa
  Discussion Group, Caroline Baylon (Future Generations in the UK Parliament)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 13:00 - Cyber Deception
  Rob Black (Wilton Park)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - How civil society supports peacebuilding: the case of Colombia
  Dr. Andrei Gómez-Suárez (University of Winchester / Rodeemos el Diálogo), Laura Acosta (University of Bristol / Rodeemos el Diálogo), Alejandro Posada Tellez (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 13:00 - ¡GOOOL!: Meet the team behind the resignation of Rubiales
  Sandra Riquelme (Relevo), Fermín Elizari Vidaurre (Relevo)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 15:00 - The Technology Private Sector as a site of US-China Competition
  Discussion Group, Virginia Nizza (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:15 - Assessing the Bear: Overestimating the Russian Military
  Dr Andrew Bowen (Congressional Research Service)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 12:30 - Governing Market Access: Local Currency, Sovereign Debt, and the Gatekeeping Power of Index Providers
  Nataliya Naqvi (LSE), Ben Cormier (Strathclyde)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 24 November 2023

• 13:00 - Political Lotteries in Constituent Assemblies
  Brenda van Coppenolle (SciencesPo)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 13:30 - Political ethnography reading and seminar group
  Various Speakers
  Political ethnography reading and seminar group

Monday 27 November 2023

• 17:00 - Grand Strategy & Great Power Technology Competition
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 13:00 - Cyber capacity and strategic advantage: resilience, influence, and control
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Imagining a Renewed United Nations
  Prof. Vesselin Popovski (O.P. Jindal Global University), Professor Richard Caplan (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 13:00 - Behind the scenes on ‘Inside the Iranian uprising’
  Sasha Joelle Achilli
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Forced Displacement, Community Composition, and Trust in Neighbors and the State
  Abbey Steele (University of Amsterdam)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 15:00 - Current Issues in Educating Public Officials about Emerging Technologies
  Followed by a pub social
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 12:30 - Governing Market Access: How Index Providers Gatekeep Local Currency Sovereign Debt
  Natalya Naqvi (LSE), Ben Cormier (Strathclyde)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Bricks, Mortar, and Beyond: Addressing the UK's Housing Crisis
  Professor Ben Ansell (University of Oxford), Professor John Muellbauer (Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School), Vicky Spratt (Journalist and documentary maker), Richard Donnell (Executive Director at Houseful)

Friday 1 December 2023

• 13:00 - The Politics of Using AI in Policy Implementation: Evidence from a Field Experiment
  Yotam Margalit (King's College London)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 4 December 2023

• 16:00 - Shabbiha: Assad’s Militias and Mass Violence in Syria
  Uğur Ümit Üngör (University of Amsterdam)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Wednesday 6 December 2023

• 13:00 - Exploring RSF’s new AI charter for journalism
  Arthur Grimonpont
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Wednesday 10 January 2024

• 14:30 - How to use satire to disrupt corruption
  Chip Tsao (Author & Satirist)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 13:30 - Welding Alliances: How Allied Warship Production Could Transform the Indo-Pacific
  Please note new venue for Hilary term
  Commander Douglas Robb (US Navy)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 January 2024

• 13:00 - That's just not cricket: sports journalism that challenges the status quo
  Sharda Ugra (Sports journalist)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 15:00 - Compute as a Critical Resource
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:15 - Mass and Multipolarity: Qualitative and Quantitative Balancing after Western Hegemony
  Dr David Blagden (University of Exeter)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 12:30 - Digital Sovereignty, Economic Ideas, and the Struggle over the Digital Markets
  A light lunch will be served
  Frederic Merand (Universite de Montreal)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 19 January 2024

• 13:00 - Industrialization and Assimiliation: Explaining Ethnic Change in the Modern World
  Elliott Green (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:30 - Towards Effective Regulation: AI, Misinformation, and Democratic Challenges
  Online attendance is open to all, In person to University members only. Following the discussion, a drinks reception will be held.
  Professor Helen Margetts (University of Oxford), Dr Zeynep Pamuk (University of Oxford), Sylvain Viguier (Director of AI at Graphcore)

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 13:30 - (Re)shaping Ukrainian Identity Through Linguistic Choices During Full-Scale Russo-Ukrainian War
  Dr Iryna Halasa (West Ukrainian National University and KCL)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 13:00 - SOWT: an Arab podcasting movement
  Ramsey Tesdell (Sowt)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 15:00 - Military AI & Nuclear Security
  Noah Greene (Center for a New American Security)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights
  Lara Montesinos Coleman (University of Sussex)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 12:30 - Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy
  A light lunch will be served
  Dr Jordan Tama (American University (Washington DC))
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 26 January 2024

• 13:00 - Someone like me? Disability identity and representation perceptions
  Stefanie Reher (University of Strathclyde), Elizabeth Evans (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Busting the Hype: Emerging Technology Expectations and International Security Realities
  Dominika Kunertova (ETH)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 13:30 - How Worlds Collapse: What History, Systems, and Complexity can Teach Us About Our Modern World and Fragile Nature
  Paul Larcey (Princeton University)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 10:00 - Why you should be paying attention to the the Indonesian election
  Sana Jaffrey (Australian National University's Department of Political and Social Change)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 15:00 - Democratization of AI & Global Equity in Technology
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:30 - Reflections on Italy - Roundtable and Panel Discussion hosted by Lord Patten
  Bill Emmott (Author and adviser), Lord Chris Patten (Chancellor, University of Oxford), Chiara Albanese (Bloomberg correspondent in Rome), Natalia Augias (UK Correspondent for RAI), Giovanna Pancheri (reporter for Sky TG24), Lucia Annunziata (Radio 24 Italy), Beppe Severgnini (Corriere della Sera), Prof Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford), Prof Giovanni Orsina (Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome)

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 12:30 - “Public Concern for Reallocation Aid in the Presence of Alternative Donors
  A light lunch will be served
  Prof Matthew S. Winters (University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 2 February 2024

• 13:00 - Perceptual Accuracy and Issue Saliency
  Zeynep Somer-Topcu (University of Texas-Austin)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 13:30 - Defence-Economic Aspects of Russia’s Involvement in the War in Ukraine: War Economy, International Economic Relationships, Economic Warfare, and Economic Costs
  Professor Christopher Davis (Oxford Institute of Population Aging)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income
  Anton Jäger (University of Oxford)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 13:00 - Fear is just a word: journalistic challenges in Latin America
  Elda Cantú (New York Times), Azam Ahmed (New York Times)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 15:00 - Tracing transformation in Intelligence: Open-Source Intelligence and AI
  Angeliki Martinou (Brunel Center for Intelligence and Security Studies)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 12:30 - How Does Earmarked Foreign Aid Affect Recipient-Country Ownership?
  A light lunch will be served
  Dr Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Glasgow)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 9 February 2024

• 13:00 - State Action and Moral Attitudes Toward Sexual Consent
  Oyvind Skorge (University of Oslo)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 13:30 - Military Peacekeeping Mediation: A First-Hand Account from Mali
  Lt. Gen. (ret.) Dr Dennis Gyllensporre (Swedish Defence University and CCW Visiting Fellow)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 13:00 - Methodologies for tracking and reporting AI
  Hilke Schellman (University of New York)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 5 - Supply Chain Politics for Emerging Technologies
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - “The China Syndrome”: Imagining Western Decline in the Age of “The Rise of China”
  Jana Cattien (University of Amsterdam)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:15 - 'Bury them deep in the ground'; The disastrous legacies of 'expeditionary warfare', 'intervention', and 'counterinsurgency'
  Frank Ledwidge (University of Portsmouth)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 12:30 - When Facts Polarize: Russian Information Operations and Polarization through Factual Content
  A light lunch will be served
  Zenobia Chan (Princeton University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 16 February 2024

• 13:00 - How erroneous beliefs cause authoritarian collapse: The case of Tunisia, January 14, 2011
  Anne Wolf (All Souls)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Coercion or consent: Local support for armed groups’ informal rule in post-conflict Northern Ireland
  Kristin Bakke (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Monday 19 February 2024

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Queer Conflict Research
  Samuel Ritholtz (Oxford), Jamie J Hagen (Queen's University Belfast), Andrew Delatolla (University of Leeds), Prof Leigh Payne (Oxford), Qais Munhazim (Thomas Jefferson University)

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 13:30 - The Russian Challenge to Europe’s Gas Supplies this Winter and Beyond
  Dr Sidharth Kaushal (RUSI)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 13:00 - Two years gone: Lessons from Ukraine coverage
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:00 - Race, Dissociated Labour, and Social Reproduction in the Shadow of Amazon
  Paul Apostolidis (LSE)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 23 February 2024

• 12:30 - IR Theory for the 21st Century (Or How to Take Nature Seriously
  NOTE DIFFERENT TIME & LOCATION A light lunch will be served
  Prof Ayse Zarakol (Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 13:00 - Tax Earmarking and Political Participation: Theory and Evidence from Ghana
  Mats-Philip Ahrenshop (Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Inside IS's Virtual Ecosystem: An Ethnographic Study of Sympathizers' Online Training Roadmap
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Maarouf Mohammed (Chouaib Doukkali University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 13:30 - Book Launch: British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony
  Dr William D. James (KCL and CCW)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 13:00 - Six years of #MeToo journalism: what have we learnt?
  Rosamund Urwin (Sunday Times)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 15:00 - “Explainable AI” & Black Boxes within Black Boxes
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Politics as Indebtedness
  Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:15 - Strategic Wishes and What Happens Next: Assessing the UK's Integrated Reviews
  Maeve Ryan (Kings College London), Jamie Gaskarth (Open University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 12:30 - Expert Preferences for Carbon Pricing in the Developing World
  A light lunch will be served
  Dr Federica Genovese (Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 1 March 2024

• 13:00 - Migration Policy Preferences and Forms of Trust in Contexts of Limited State Capacity
  William Allen (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 13:00 - Politics & data in India's general election
  Gilles Vernier (Centre for Policy Research)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 13:30 - AI and Machine Learning in OSINT (Open Source Intelligence)
  Sam Pearce (Fivecast)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - How (Not) to Decolonize Marx/ism
  Terrell Carver (University of Bristol)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 15:00 - Lessons from a Case Study of Social Media Disinformation
  Discussion Group, Rutendo Chabikwa (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 12:30 - The Concept and Reality of Norms in International Relations
  A light lunch will be served
  Dr Anette Stimmer (University of St Andrews)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 8 March 2024

• 13:00 - Does Training Public Employees in Ethics Enhance Integrity in Government? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bangladesh
  Jan Meyer-Sahling (University of Nottingham), Kim Sass Mikkelsen (Roskilde University), Christian Schuster (UCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - The Martyrs of Palestinian Islamic Jihad
  Erik Skare (University of Oslo)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Monday 11 March 2024

• 16:00 - The Racial Geography of U.S. Public Opinion at the Punitive Turn
  Adriane Fresh (Duke University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Wednesday 13 March 2024

• 13:00 - Identifying Africa's untold climate change stories
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 14 March 2024

• 09:30 - Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide - Network Launch Conference
  Various Speakers
• 09:30 - Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide - Network Launch Conference
  Dr Eli Gateva (Oxford), Dr Julia Rone (Cambridge), Dr Emilija Tudzarovska (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Friday 15 March 2024

• 15:30 - Multiplicity: Take Two
  Professor Justin Rosenberg (University of Sussex)

Friday 19 April 2024

• 09:30 - Multi-level Mediation, Negotiation and Diplomacy: Training Workshop
  This Workshop is now full, and you will be put on a waiting list. Please note it occupies two full days, Friday 19 and Saturday 20 April, ending 17.30 on 20 April.
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 13:30 - Some new insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts
  Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 April 2024

• 17:15 - Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar
  Claas Mertens (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Friday 26 April 2024

• 13:00 - What Explains the Shrinking Gender Gap in Internationalism?
  Nina Obermeier (KCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 13:30 - “Out of the Blue”: The mirroring fallacy and the navies of today
  Lt Cdr Andrew Ward (CCW & Royal Navy)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Women and Ukraine’s Economies of War and Peace
  Dr Jenny Mathers (Aberystwyth University), Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR & OSGA, Nuffield & St. Anthony’s College)
  Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 May 2024

• 13:00 - Press under pressure: Argentina’s multi-faceted journalism crises
  Hugo Alconada Mon (La Nacion)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Friday 3 May 2024

• 13:00 - Eye, Robot: A Generative AI Approach to Measuring Subjective Assessments from Street View Images at Scale
  Melissa Sands (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Inside IS's Virtual Ecosystem: An Ethnographic Study of Sympathizers' Online Training Roadmap
  Maarouf Mohammed (Chouaib Doukkali University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 13:30 - The Shifting Global Terrorism and Extremism Landscape: A View from Southeast Asia
  Prof. Kumar Ramakrishna (RSIS Singapore)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Depletion and Economies of War and Peace
  Dr. Shirin Rai FBA (SOAS), Salma Daoudi, DPhil (DPIR & Somerville College)
  Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 13:00 - Poutiaki: how to move your newsroom from a Eurocentric to a multi-lens approach
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - Economic statecraft from the perspective of systemic influence
  This will be a hybrid meeting, Teams link below
  Maria de Goeij Reid (CCW)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 12:30 - World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order
  Michael Williams (University of Ottawa), Rita Abrahamsen (University of Ottawa)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 10 May 2024

• 13:00 - Negotiating the Recovery and Resilience Facility: The Emergence of Coordinative Conditionality
  Stella Ladi (Queen Mary University)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Repression in the Digital Age
  Anita Gohdes (Hertie)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Monday 13 May 2024

• 17:00 - Book talk: Sam Bagg, ‘The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy’
  Ẹniọlá Ṣóyẹmí, Jasper Friedrich, Samuel Bagg (Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 13:30 - Open-Source Intelligence: what is it for, where did it come from and what is standing in its way?
  TBA
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Settler Colonialism in India: Temsula Ao’s Writings and the Politics of Intervention in the 'Northeast'
  Dr. Nivi Manchanda (Queen Mary University), Dr. Asma Abdi (University of Warwick)
  Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 13:00 - Who will rule? The significance of South Africa’s upcoming election
  Adriaan Basson (News24)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 12:30 - Market Integration and Governance: How Globalization Spurred a Backlash Against Itself
  Judy Goldstein (Stanford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - The Idea of 'System' in International Thought
  Professor William Bain (National University of Singapore)

Friday 17 May 2024

• 13:00 - Public perceptions and the future of social protection in the United Kingdom: Insights from the OECD Risks that Matter survey
  Valerie Frey (OECD)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Publicized Repression
  Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Saturday 18 May 2024

• 09:00 - New Actors and the Changing Field of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
  Arrivals from 09.00, Conference starts 09.20. Coffee breaks and sandwich lunch provided. You are invited to contribute on the door - £5 for students/unwaged. others £10. Cash is preferred. Bank details will be available. Cheques accepted! Walk-ins on the day are welcome but to assist organisation please register:
  Various Speakers
  OxPeace Events

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 13:30 - Spy and Tell: Why are governments publicly sharing more intelligence secrets than ever before
  Dr David Gioe (King's College London), Thomas Maguire (Leiden)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Decentering Gangs: Comparative Ethnographic Insights from Nicaragua and South Africa
  Background paper available on request.
  Prof. Dennis Rodgers (Geneva Graduate Institute), Prof. Jonny Steinberg (Yale University)
  Political ethnography reading and seminar group
• 17:00 - Feminist Political Economy of Peace and Decoloniality
  Dr. Elena Stavrevska (University of Bristol), Oksana Potapova, PhD student (London School of Economics)
  Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 13:00 - Truth or dare: navigating misinformation in EU elections
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - Mythbusting the Politics of War: How Presidents Manage the Political Costs of Civilian Control
  Dr Andrew Payne (City, University of London)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 16:30 - Book Panel: Intervention before Interventionism by Patrick Quinton-Brown
  Patrick Quinton-Brown (Singapore Management University), Neta Crawford (University of Oxford), Evelyn Goh (Australian National University), Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)

Friday 24 May 2024

• 13:00 - Unequal Treatment, Fairness Perceptions, and the Rural Backlash Against Carbon Taxation
  David Hope (KCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Localized Coercive Control in Northern Irish Paramilitarism
  John Morrison (Maynooth University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Monday 27 May 2024

• 17:00 - Book talk: Ida Danewid, ‘Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal'
  Miyo Peck-Suzuki, Caine Lewin-Turner
  Critical Theory Seminar

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 09:00 - Comparative Perspectives on Migration Attitudes and Behaviours: Causes, Consequences, Interventions
  Lenka Dražanová (European University Institute), Mollie Gerver (King's College London), Jane Green (University of Oxford and Nuffield Politics Research Centre), Mark Hugo López (Pew Research Centre)
• 13:30 - Inter-alliance Security Dilemmas: Korean Counterforce Systems and Their Effect on the Sino- American Nuclear Competition
  Change to termcard
  Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Neoliberal (and) Feminist Encounters of State-Building in Kosovo
  Dr. Vjosa Musliu (Vrije Brussels), Ana Vilhelmina Verndik, DPhil (DPIR & St. Anthony’s College)
  Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 13:00 - Unpacking practical AI applications in news
  Professor Bahareh Heravi (Univeristy of Surrey)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Friday 31 May 2024

• 13:00 - Measuring Rules - Insights from Legal Philosophy
  Marcin Matczak (Warsaw University)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Communal Conflict Research and Event Data Bias
  Jana Krause (University of Oslo)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 13:30 - Rare Earths, Meteorites and Magnets
  Prof. Lindsay Greer (Cambridge)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Women and Democratic Change: The Longest Global Revolution
  Dr. Jacqui True FASSA FAIA (Monash University), Carina Uchida, DPhil (DPIR & Pembroke College), Humeyra Biricik, DPhil (DPIR & Pembroke College)
  Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 June 2024

• 17:15 - Cultural Bridges and Cold War Alliances: Lessons from the GDR’s Diplomatic Dance with Japan
  Bethan Winter (Magdalen College)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 6 June 2024

• 17:00 - “The China Syndrome”: Imagining Western Decline in the Age of “The Rise of China”
  Jana Cattien
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 7 June 2024

• 13:00 - Who Needs To Be Seen To Be Green? How Reputational Pressure Affects Responses To Climate Change
  Hayley Pring (Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 13:30 - Small States at the heart of the EU: The case of Andorra
  Professor Juli Minoves-Triquell (University of La Verne, California)

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 14:30 - Book launch - Fueling Sovereignty
  Naosuke Mukoyama (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 13:00 - New tech collabs for electoral accountability - the Meedan story
  Dima Saber (Meedan)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Friday 14 June 2024

• 10:00 - A conversation with Professor Jean-Marie Guéhenno
  To register, email alumni.relations@linacre.ox.ac.uk.
  Jean-Marie Guéhenno (Kent Global Leadership Program)
• 13:00 - Indentured Migration, Caste and Electoral Competition in Colonial India
  Pavithra Suryanarayan (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Ignoring the Threat: Government responses to armed rebellion
  Corinna Jentsch (Leiden University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Fulbright Lecture 2024: Towards a Post-American International Order
  Sold out, but waitlist places available
  Dr Fareed Zakaria (Washington Post columnist and CNN host)

Tuesday 18 June 2024

• 16:00 - Ukraine to Yemen, via Gaza and Mosul: Revolution in Nonstate Military Effectiveness?
  Omar Ashour (Doha Institute)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Wednesday 19 June 2024

• 13:00 - DPIR BA Postdoctoral Fellowships Webinar
  Simon Vitting (DPIR Research Manager)
• 16:00 - Lessons in innovative Olympic data journalism ahead of Paris 2024
  Alberto Cairo (The Data Journalism Podcast), Simon Rogers (The Data Journalism Podcast)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Wednesday 26 June 2024

• 14:00 - The great American vote: Insights into the U.S. elections from Politico
  Alex Burns (Politico)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Friday 6 September 2024

• 09:00 - Post-war recovery in Europe: current and historic experience. International conference
  Please use the booking link below only for attending the conference. For submitting presentations and participating as speakers contact organisers directly.
  Various Speakers

Saturday 21 September 2024

• 11:00 - Advanced Social Science Research Methods in the Age of Big Data
  This event is part of the Meeting Minds Alumni Weekend and so is open to Oxford University alumni only.
  Ben Ansell (University of Oxford), Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford), Séverine Toussaert (University of Oxford), Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford)
• 14:30 - Why Politics Fails
  This event is part of the Meeting Minds Alumni Weekend and so is open to Oxford University alumni only.
  Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)

Friday 27 September 2024

• 08:30 - Oxford Replication Games
  Open to graduate students, staff, or independent researchers. Participants will need at least basic knowledge of either: R, Stata, or Python.
  TBA

Monday 14 October 2024

• 16:00 - The Political Legacy of Elite Repression
  Leonid Peisakhin (New York University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Book Discussion: The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation
  Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 13:30 - "Slow Slicing" - How China's asymmetric tactics build the Great Rejuvenation
  Dr Sari Arho Harvén (Business Finland)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Location and Rebellion: Rethinking the Relationship between Revolution and State Capacity
  Mark Beissinger (Princeton)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 18:00 - Careers in the United Nations
  Limited space available
  Tomoko Nishimoto (formerly with UNICEF), Sam Daws (Senior Practitioner Associate at DPIR), Stephen Rudgard (formerly with the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO))

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 17:15 - Strategic Leadership through the prisms of the UK Defence-UK Science-UK Industry relationship, the SDR & AUKUS
  Dr Carl Hunter (Coltraco Ultrasonics)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 12:30 - Postliberalism and its discontents: responding to the liberal regime's new right-wing critics
  Jacob Williams (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 12:30 - Sanction Spillover and Trade Diversification
  Christina L. Davis (Harvard)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Expanding the Community of Fate by Expanding the Community of Care
  Margaret Levi (Stanford), Jonathan Herring (Oxford Law)
  Philosophy, Law & Politics (PLP) Colloquium and Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Fireside Chat with Lord Peter Mandelson
  Lord Peter Mandelson (Global Counsel)

Monday 21 October 2024

• 16:00 - Rise or Decline? How Measurement Problems in Terrorism Data Lead to Different Conclusions About the Same Phenomenon
  Jacob Ravndal (University of Oslo)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 13:30 - Strategic Defence Review
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 17:15 - Fireside Chat with Lord William Hague
  Lord William Hague

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 12:30 - Identity and the Social Construction of Reputation in World Politics
  Jonathan Renshon (UW-Madison)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - The Political Economy of Worker Retraining in the Age of AI
  Julian Jacobs (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 25 October 2024

• 12:30 - Do Political Identities Matter at Work? The Politics of Workplace Cooperation
  Luis Cornago Bonal (Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 28 October 2024

• 16:00 - Civil War Participation and the Development of Post-Conflict Partisan Identity: Evidence from Lebanon
  Christiana Parreira (Geneva Graduate Institute)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Making Equality Strange: Reflections on the History of an Elusive Idea
  Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 09:00 - Workshop on Global Interpolity Relations, 1500-1800
  Various Speakers
• 13:30 - Dams, Canals, and Elephants in the Room: Threats of Water Conflict in Central Asia
  Sophie Ibbotson (World Bank)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 17:15 - Leading AUKUS: the UK perspective on the Australian, UK, United States strategic alignment for Indo-Pacific Defence and Security
  Anne-Marie Trevelyan
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 12:30 - Money Flows: The Political Consequences of Migrant Remittances
  Catherine De Vries (Bocconi University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Understanding the Geoeconomics of Data Centres and the Cloud
  Abid Abdurrahman Adonis (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Monday 4 November 2024

• 16:00 - Hierarchies of Victimhood in War-to-Peace Transition: Gendered Innocence and Perceptions of Deservingness for Justice and Reparations
  Dr Milli Lake (LSE)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 13:30 - Israel’s flawed strategy in the war in Gaza
  Online talk
  Dr Ehud Eilam
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 12:30 - Infrastructural Vanguards and the Problem of Connectivity Under Anarchy
  Andrew Dougall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Content Moderation, Platform Governance, and Legitimacy
  Diyi Liu (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 8 November 2024

• 13:00 - Elite Affective Polarization and Coalition Formation
  Royce Carroll (University of Essex)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 11 November 2024

• 16:00 - The politics of bureaucratic purges in revolutionary Iran (1978-1982)
  Guillaume Beaud (Sciences Po)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - A new European Defence Union? Capabilities, coordination, and the quest for strategic autonomy
  Please subscribe to the mailing list on our website to receive information on all our upcoming sessions.
  Nick Witney (European Council on Foreign Relations)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 17:00 - Bernard Mandeville’s Critique of Epicurus and the ‘Easie Divines’ of the Church of England, 1705–1732
  Jacob Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 13:30 - Implementing AI systems in Government
  Julian von Nehammer (LILT)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Conflict Mediation in a Turbulent International Environment
  Dr Paul Dziatkowiec (Geneva Centre for Security Policy)

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Deborah Haynes (Sky News)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance
• 17:30 - PPE Centenary Lecture: Economic Diplomacy and Balance of Power
  In person tickets have sold out!
  Christina L. Davis (Harvard)

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 12:30 - Credibility of Issue Linkage: How Treaty Recognition Unites Firms and Activists in Promoting Trade Liberalization
  Boram Lee (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Compute North vs. Compute South: The Uneven Possibilities of Compute-based AI Governance Around the Globe
  Boxi Wu (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Fireside Chat with Margaret Casely-Hayford: Face Into the Darkness in Our History
  This event is open to all students, staff, and alumni of the University of Oxford. Pre-registration on Eventbrite is strongly recommended.
  TBA

Friday 15 November 2024

• 13:00 - Message Testing and Targeting in Political Campaigns
  Miriam Sorace (Kent University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 18 November 2024

• 16:00 - Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
  Eugene Finkel (John Hopkins)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Insider Threats & Foreign Malign Influence, from Detection to Elimination
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 13:30 - CANCELLED: Integrated Deterrence
  Seminar cancelled
  Nicholas Taylor (DSTL)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 17:00 - Against Treason: An Argument from Political Obligation
  Cecile Fabre (University of Oxford), Juliet Paiva (University of Oxford), Felix Westeren (LSE)
  Philosophy, Law & Politics (PLP) Colloquium and Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Untold Story: 140 Years of Ukrainian Women's Movement
  Dasha Nepochatova (University of Oxford)

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 12:30 - Revisiting Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals: A Process-Based Approach
  Prof Larry Helfer will be joining online
  Başak Çalı (University of Oxford), Laurence Helfer (Duke)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Turning the Tide: Government Action to Counter Ransomware
  Dr Roxana Radu (SNSF Postdoctoral Researcher)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 22 November 2024

• 13:00 - Age Gaps Between Political Leaders and the Public Can Undermine Satisfaction with Democracy
  Scott Williamson (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 25 November 2024

• 16:00 - Reaching the Converted: Understanding the Informant Enrollment Methods of the East German Stasi
  Barbara Piotrowska (King's College London)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 16:30 - Developing Leadership: Insights from Ten Years of Practice
  Dr Marianne Camerer (University of Cape Town)
  Oxford Character Project
• 17:00 - Soft Power in a Digital Age: Competition, Collaboration, Transformative Dynamics
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 17:30 - Photographing War & Peace
  Carlos Saavedra (Documentary Photographer), Dr. Samuel Ritholtz (University of Oxford), Dr. Milli Lake (LSE)
  Art & Peace Seminar

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 13:30 - Drones in Ukraine and beyond – A revolution in warfare?
  Ulrike Franke (ECFR)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 17:00 - Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism, and Kant’s Justification of Territorial Rights
  Lea Ypi (LSE)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:15 - Rethinking Non-State Armed Groups: Youth, Agency, and Pathways to Sustainable Peace
  Yosuke Nagai (Accept International)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 12:30 - The Paradox of International Adjudication
  Geraldo Vidigal (Amsterdam)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - AI Governance & U.S.-China Track II Diplomacy
  Kayla Blomquist (The Oxford Internet Institute), Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 29 November 2024

• 13:00 - Ideology, Idiosyncrasy, and Instability in the American Electorate
  Ben Lauderdale (UCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 2 December 2024

• 16:00 - Do Sanctions on Terrorist Groups Work? Financial Adaptability, U.S. Sanctions, and Terrorist Attacks
  Brian J. Phillips (University of Essex)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Rights in Roman Republican Thought
  Valentina Arena (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Autonomous Defense: Countering Emerging Threats at Machine Speed
  Please note change of venue to Manor Road Building
  Matthew Wright (Delian Alliance Industries)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 19:00 - Making Sense of the Civil War in Sudan: A Discussion w/ Matthew Sterling Benson
  Organized by Oxford University International Relations Society, this event is open to all members of the University. YOU MUST REGISTER BEFOREHAND IN ORDER TO ATTEND THIS EVENT.
  Matthew Sterling Benson (London School of Economics)

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 13:30 - The threat posed by commercial UAVs modified by asymmetrical warfare actors
  Dr Chris Lavers (University of Lincoln)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - CSIS-ASPI Session on AUKUS and Emerging Technology Alliances
  Successful registration required to attend.
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 17:00 - Berlin Lectures Discussion
  Melissa Lane (Princeton)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 12:30 - Diplomatic Pressure, Policy Autonomy, and Human Rights Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment at the United Nations
  Avery Schmidt (Brown)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Rethinking Military AI Governance: From Principles to Practice
  After: OTSN Social (all welcome) Location The Oxford Retreat — Pub within short walk of Nuffield
  Brianna Rosen (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 6 December 2024

• 13:00 - Hate-Crime, Co-Ethnicity, and Law Enforcement: Evidence from Caste-Segregated Police Stations in India
  Nirvikar Jassal (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Thursday 9 January 2025

• 07:00 - The China Question 2: US-China Relations and the Implications of Trump 2.0
  Made possible by UK PolSoc Partnership, this event is open to the general public. We ask that interested participants register via the link provided.
  Dr Maria Adele Carrai (NYU Shanghai)

Monday 20 January 2025

• 17:00 - Carl Schmitt and the History of the First World War: State Composition and the Collapse of the Second Reich (1934)
  Dr Samuel Zeitlin (UCL)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Geopolitics of the Arctic: Competition and Collaboration
  Nicolas Jouan (RAND)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 13:30 - Under the Radar: NATO staff in the strategy formation process
  Leanne Iorio (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Charting Ukraine's Future with Sir Lawrence Freedman: Ceasefire Scenarios and Security Frameworks
  Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman (King's College London)

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:15 - Trump, Putin, NATO and the Defence of Europe: The role of public policy
  Viktorija Starych-Samuolienė (Council on Geostrategy), James Rogers (Council on Geostrategy)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Friday 24 January 2025

• 13:00 - Measurement, Intervention, and Simulation: Three Uses of Generative AI for Social Science Research
  Dr. Mitchell Bosley (University of Toronto)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 27 January 2025

• 16:00 - Strong Bonds, Weak Bridges: Network Dynamics and Revolutionary Mobilization in the Syrian Uprising
  Kevin Mazur (KCL), Motasem Abuzaid (University of Oxford)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Beyond Antagonism: Converging Radicalisms in the 1930s Caribbean
  Dr Leslie James (Queen Mary University)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 13:30 - Artificial Intelligence: Recent developments and the implications for defence and security
  Al Brown
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 17:00 - Palestinians and Native Peoples are Comrades: The Political Economy of Oil and Indigenous/Palestinian Solidarity
  Dr Glen Coulthard (University of British Columbia)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 31 January 2025

• 13:00 - Green industrial policy in the voting booth: The electoral effects of the Inflation Reduction Act
  Professor Jared J. Finnegan (University College London)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 3 February 2025

• 16:00 - Egyptian International Relations in the Late Bronze Age (13th C BCE)
  Roland Enmarch (Liverpool)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 18:00 - Redefining Power: U.S. National Security Strategy in a New Era, Fireside Talk with fmr White House NSC Director
  Alexander B Gray (White House National Security Council (NSC) Chief of Staff & Director (2018-2021); Chief Executive Officer, American Global Strategies)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 13:30 - A New Axis of Upheaval? North Korea, Russia, China, and others—why we should care
  Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 16:00 - An Info Session feat. Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
  This event is open to the public and registration is not required. Simply show up at the door to be admitted!
  Doug (Umberger)

Friday 7 February 2025

• 13:00 - The Normative Foundations of (Non-)State Violence: Evidence from Nigeria on the legitimation logics of state and non-state security provision
  Professor Tore Wig (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 10 February 2025

• 16:00 - Community Protection from Populist Violence: The Catholic Church and the Philippine Drug War
  Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The Divorce Tracts and Milton's Radical Affections
  Dr Michal Zechariah (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 13:30 - The development of sea power thought in the early to mid Cold War
  Andrew Livsey (Kings College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:00 - Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel
  Dr Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 14 February 2025

• 13:00 - Tending the Grassroots: How Local Institutions Impact National Elections
  Professor Tine Nansen Paulsen (University of Zurich)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 17 February 2025

• 16:00 - Nationalism in Times of War and the Unpopularity of Territorial Trade-off
  Kathrin Bachleitner (Salzburg & Ca' Foscari)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Kashmir Without History: Sheikh Abdullah, Jinnah and Indian Political Thought
  Dr Amar Sohal (KCL)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Beyond The Global War on Terror: The Role of Special Operations Forces in the Changing Security Landscape
  Dr. Hans Breede (Royal Military College, Canada), Dr. Kevin Stringer (Military Academy of Lithuania)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 13:30 - AI in strategic decision-making
  Dr Kenneth Payne (King's College, London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 13:30 - Integrated Deterrence
  Professor Antulio Echevarria (CCW & US Army War College)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance
• 17:00 - Fireside Chat with Prof Graham Allison: Revisiting the Thucydides Trap
  Graham Allison (Harvard Kennedy School)

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 15:00 - How should we REALLY think about security?
  Professor David A. Welch (Waterloo University)

Friday 21 February 2025

• 13:00 - To Have and to Hold: The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance
  Dr Tessa Devereaux Evans (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 24 February 2025

• 16:00 - The Axis of Resistance and the Collapse of the Unity of Fronts Strategy
  Liz Sly (former Washington Post Middle East bureau chief)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Book Presentation: Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
  Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 13:30 - China's Private Security Sector at a Crossroads: From Pakistan to Myanmar.
  Dr Alessandro Arduino (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 17:00 - Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)

Friday 28 February 2025

• 13:00 - Interethnic variation in support for authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Russia
  Professor Kyle Lohse Marquardt (University of Bergen)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 3 March 2025

• 16:00 - Rethinking Civil Wars in Light of the Syrian conflict
  Jerome Drevon (International Crisis Group)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 13:30 - The Impact of AI & Emerging Technologies on Future Defence Strategy
  Dr Robert Hercock (British Telecommunications Security Research Practice)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:15 - General Hastings ‘Pug’ Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat
  Sir John Kiszely
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Friday 7 March 2025

• 13:00 - Why do “Ethnically Included” Groups Rebel? The Limits of Nominal Ethnic Inclusion
  Dr Kevin Mazur (King's College London)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 10 March 2025

• 16:00 - Local Security Provision and Return from Forced Displacement: Evidence from South Sudan
  Andrea Caflisch (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 13:30 - Cyber Sovereignty and the EU’s Securitisation
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Brooke Ackerly (Vanderbilt University)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 14 March 2025

• 13:00 - American Economic Coercion and Elite Re-Globalization
  Dr Lorenzo Crippa (University of Strathclyde)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Thursday 20 March 2025

• 09:30 - Negotiating with Difficult Actors: International Negotiation, Mediation and Diplomacy. Day 1 (of 2) Intensive Training Workshop
  Applications: For details on how to apply, please email Assistant Organiser Devika Manish Kumar devika.manishkumar@sant.ox.ac.uk Places will be limited, and the current deadline for applications is 28 February 2025. Early applications are encouraged!
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Friday 21 March 2025

• 09:30 - Negotiating with Difficult Actors: International Negotiation, Mediation and Diplomacy, Day 2 (of 2) Intensive Training Workshop
  Applications: For details on how to apply, please email Assistant Organiser Devika Manish Kumar devika.manishkumar@sant.ox.ac.uk Places will be limited, and the current deadline for applications is 28 February 2025. Early applications are encouraged!
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Monday 31 March 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods 2025
  Various Speakers

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2025:
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Christine Ahn (Women Cross DMZ), Dan Leaf (former United States Air Force officer)