Events this person is hosting:

Monday 17 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 25 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Tuesday 1 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Presidents, Politics and Military Strategy: Electoral Constraints during the Iraq War
  Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Events this person is organising:

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Clausewitz as an early theoretician of hybrid warfare
  Dr Andreas Herberg-Rothe (Huchschule Fulda)

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Marginality, (in)security and political participation in conflict and beyond
  Dr Daire McGill (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Why Counter-Insurgency Fails
  Professor Azar Gat (Tel Aviv University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Military Adaptation &Convergence in War: Insurgent and International Forces in Afghanistan, 2006-2014
  Professor Theo Farrell (Wollongong University)

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Moshe Dayan: the influential strategist
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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
• 17:00 - Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists
  Wine will be served in the foyer
  Professor Audrey Kurth Cronin (American University)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - The Demos at War: lessons on democratic warfare from Thucydides and Machiavelli
  Erica Benner
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Is forecasting political violence feasible? Experiences from the ViEWS project.
  Håvard Hegre (Uppsala University)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Maritime power in British strategy, 1945 to the present
  Dr Tim Benbow (KCL)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Julian Corbett and the battle for British strategy - 1914-15
  Professor Andrew Lambert (King’s College London)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Maritime Strike Warfare: Grey zone to Combat
  Commodore Steve Moorhouse, Rear Admiral Mike Utley
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 19 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Cruising for a Bruising: Maritime Competition in an Anti-Access Age
  Jonathan D. Caverley (United States Naval War College)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Forward or Persistent Presence
  Conor O'Neil (Royal Navy)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 23 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - The Maritime Rung on the Escalation Ladder: Naval Blockades in a US-China Conflict
  Fiona Cunningham (George Washington University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Advantage at Sea A discussion on the recently released Tri-Service Maritime Strategy by the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Coast Guard
  Rear Admiral James Bynum
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Tuesday 27 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - The Royal Navy in the Indo-Pacific: Why small is sometimes better
  René Balletta (Royal Navy)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 4 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Subversive Economics: Pervasive, Dangerous and Largely Invisible
  Elisabeth Braw (American Enterprise Institute (AEI))
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - PRC Gray Zone Operations in the South China Sea
  Andrew Erikson (US Naval War College)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 18 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 12 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The Integrated Review, the fall of Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific "tilt"
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Reconceptualizing Grand Strategy: A Comparative and Relational Framework 
  Thierry Balzacq (Sciences Po)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 9 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Strategy in practice: The 2021 Integrated Review
  Ashlee Godwin (UK Parliament)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - CCW 2021 Annual Lecture: British Defence Policy: Reviews and Redirections
  Peter Watkins (Chatham House)

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Monday 17 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 25 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Tuesday 1 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Presidents, Politics and Military Strategy: Electoral Constraints during the Iraq War
  Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Tuesday 26 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - CCW Annual Lecture: Indo-Pacific Cohesion: AUKUS and Australian National Security Strategy in the 2020s
  The Hon George Brandis QC (Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom)

Tuesday 3 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Tuesday 10 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Tuesday 17 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 12 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Anglo-American clandestine cooperation: the past, present and future of the Special Intelligence Relationship
  Dr David Gioe (King's College London), Thomas Maguire (Leiden)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 25 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - The United States, the United Kingdom and the international financial system since 1945
  Professor Michael Hopkins (Liverpool)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - An Exceptional Relationship? US nuclear strategy and the US-UK Nuclear Relationship
  This seminar take place on 9th November as originally planned.
  Dr Suzanne Doyle (East Anglia)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Tipping Points: Post-War Postures in US-UK Environmental and Climate Heritage
  Dr Kristin Cook (SOAS)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Wednesday 18 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Declinism in Postwar Britain and the United States
  Dr Robert Ralston (University of Birmingham)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 24 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Neural & Cognitive Warfare: Technology, Operations, and Strategy
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Wednesday 1 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - The Post-Cold War Anglo-American military relationship
  Professor Wyn Rees (University of Nottingham)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 7 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Bioinformatics & Big Data: Government and Military Applications
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Regional cooperation: US-UK relations and strategic dilemmas following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979-1989
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 21 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Human-Machine Teams: From Sensor to Shooter Across the Domains
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Jordan and Kuwait: US-UK relations in the aftermath of Suez
  Dr Louise Kettle (University of Nottingham)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 7 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Genomics & Bioengineering: Securing Advantage in the Biological Domain
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Wednesday 26 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - American Neutrality and the Anglo-American Crisis of 1916
  Dr Andrew Gawthorpe (Leiden University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 2 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Tuesday 9 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - From Integrated Deterrence to Integrated Defense
  Professor Antulio Echevarria (CCW & US Army War College)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Joint Strike Fighter and Transatlantic Defence Procurement
  Emma Salisbury (Birbeck, University of London)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:15 - Space & Counterspace: Disruptive Technologies from Launch to Orbital Strike
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 16 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Tuesday 23 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Wednesday 24 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Brusa - Wartime Conception and Formative Conduct, 1940-1943
  Unfortunately this seminar is cancelled.
  Dr John Jenner (KCL)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 30 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Tuesday 6 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Multinational Coalition Warfare and the Anglo-American Experiment in the Mediterranean, 1942–43
  Carson Teuscher (Ohio State University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Changing the Climate of War: From Weather Modification to Biological Security
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 13 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 1
  Various Speakers
  Cyber Strategy and Technology Studies Working Group
• 17:15 - Out of the Shadows: The Shock of Non-Hybrid War
  Patrick Porter (Birmingham)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 17 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Technology, Great Power Competition, and Track II Dialogues
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Russo-Ukraine War, Deep Strike, & Escalation
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - PRC Influence, Technology Theft, and Insider Threats
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 31 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Deepfakes and Disinformation II
  Cassidy Bereskin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Cognitive Warfare, Theory, Practice, & Legalities
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Monday 6 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 5 - Fireside Chat with Adam McCauley
  Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk for attendance information. Due to demand, this event may be capped.
  Adam McCauley (Department of National Defense, Government of Canada)
  Cyber Strategy and Technology Studies Working Group
• 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: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Terrorism, Prediction, and Emerging Technologies
  Discussion Group, Joshua Stewart (Oxford)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 14 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Intelligence Services and Artificial Intelligence
  Carla Zoe Cremer (Human Information Processing Lab)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Monday 20 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cyber Deception
  Rob Black (Wilton Park)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 28 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Cyber capacity and strategic advantage: resilience, influence, and control
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Current Issues in Educating Public Officials about Emerging Technologies
  Followed by a pub social
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Tuesday 16 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Compute as a Critical Resource
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 1 - Compute as a Critical Resource
  Please contact elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk for attendance info.
  Various Speakers
  Cyber Strategy and Technology Studies Working Group
• 17:15 - Mass and Multipolarity: Qualitative and Quantitative Balancing after Western Hegemony
  Dr David Blagden (University of Exeter)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Russo‐Ukrainian War: The Private Sector & Emerging Technologies
  Dr Hugo Rosemont (KCL)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 23 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Military AI & Nuclear Security
  Noah Greene (Center for a New American Security)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Defense Innovation: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, & Finance
  James Galkowski (Silicon Valley Defense Group)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Democratization of AI & Global Equity in Technology
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:15 - Closed Deal: Private Authority of Companies in Cyber Conflict and Crises
  Louise Marie Hurel (London School of Economics and RUSI)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - AUKUS Advanced Cyber Capabilities, Strategy, and Integration
  Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 6 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Tracing transformation in Intelligence: Open-Source Intelligence and AI
  Angeliki Martinou (Brunel Center for Intelligence and Security Studies)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - U.S.‐China Competition, Emerging Technologies, and Alliances
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 13 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 5 - Supply Chain Politics for Emerging Technologies
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 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: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 20 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 6 - Mapping the State of Judicial Technology & Policy in China
  Lujain Ibrahim (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Ukraine War Two Years On: Lessons for Technology & Autonomy
  Rob Rider, CBE (UK Defence Attaché to Germany (2015-20))
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - “Explainable AI” & Black Boxes within Black Boxes
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 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: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Simulation/Wargame: Indo‐Pacific Crisis, Insider Threat, & Cyber‐Space Escalation
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 5 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - AI and Machine Learning in OSINT (Open Source Intelligence)
  Sam Pearce (Fivecast)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 22 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Emerging Threats and Technology Group: Annual Threats Report & Journal Launch
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Changing Character of War Centre Seminar
  Prof. Kumar Ramakrishna (RSIS Singapore)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Economic statecraft from the perspective of systemic influence
  Maria de Goeij (CCW)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Mythbusting the Politics of War: How Presidents Manage the Political Costs of Civilian Control
  Dr Andrew Payne (UCL)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Changing Character of War Centre Seminar
  Brigadier Paul Tedman (CCW and RAF)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:30 - Rare Earths, Meteorites and Magnets
  Prof. Lindsay Greer (Cambridge)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - It's Time to Take Culture Seriously: Lessons from Small States' Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War
  Bethan Winter (Magdalen College)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar