Department: Oxford Department of International Development
Talks:

Tuesday 21 October 2025

The Political Economy of Syria Post-Assad
Date: 21 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Political Economy of Syria Post-Assad
Date: 21 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Karam Shaar
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Legacy of Mass Atrocities and its Influence on Electoral Behaviors in Zimbabwe
Date: 21 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Bright Chimedza
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 October 2025

Introduction to the series 'How can we respond to this systemic crisis?'
Date: 22 October 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Displacement, solidarity, counter-government
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor David Owen (University of Southampton)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organisers: Professor Catherine Briddick (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Professor Tom Scott-Smith (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 October 2025

State Absence and Everyday Transformation in Unity’s Oil Fields (South Sudan)
Date: 28 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Matai Muon (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 October 2025

Human rights elites at the United Nations: Felix Ermacora and the first human rights fact finding missions (1967-1993)
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Alvina Hoffman (SOAS University of London)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organisers: Professor Catherine Briddick (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Professor Tom Scott-Smith (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Transnational Revolutionary Networks and the Global Cold War: The African National Congress, the Irish Republican Army, and the Palestine Liberation Organisation, 1969-2005
Date: 4 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
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Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room A
Organiser: Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 November 2025

Fighting inequality and mass deforestation in Brazil
Date: 5 November 2025, 15:00 - 16:05
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Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Organiser: Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Migration and displacement: My grandmother, Lausanne, and some lessons for the present
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Lea Ypi (LSE)
Organisers: Professor Catherine Briddick (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Professor Tom Scott-Smith (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Gendering History, State-Making and the Politics of Land in Mozambique, 1977-1986
Date: 11 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Title TBC
Date: 18 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Johanna Wetzel (Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room A
Organiser: Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 November 2025

Defending the rights of nature in Ecuador
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Josefina Lehnen (RIFS, Germany), Elena Galvez (FLACSO-Ecuador)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Organiser: Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Navigating Manhood in Zambia’s Livingstone and the Copperbelt during the ‘Golden Era of Modern Manhood’ (mid-1940s–late-1970s)
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Kazmel Hamweemba (University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Uncertain State: Uncertainty as everyday experience and mode of governmentality in contemporary India
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Geert de Neve (University of Sussex)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organisers: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Prof Nandini Gooptu (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Roundtable discussion
Date: 2 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Ila Axelrod (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 December 2025

Roundtable: How people keep democracy alive in Latin America
Date: 3 December 2025, 15:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Organiser: Professor Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA