Talks of interest to the Department of Politics and International Relations
Talks:

Tuesday 20 January 2025

Reimagining Race in the US Military: Culture, Communication, and the Making of the Miami Experiment
Date: 20 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Beth Bailey (University of Kansas)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sustainable development as a European project to remake the international order
Date: 20 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Sara Lorenzini (University of Trento), Chair: Paul Betts (St Antony's)
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

“The United Nations and the Information Society: The What, Why and How of a Major Intergovernmental Negotiation”
Date: 20 January 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr David Souter
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Venue Details: St Cross Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Jo Ashbourn (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 January 2025

From AI Sovereignty to AI Agency: assessing national capability, power, and strategic choices in a connected world
Date: 21 January 2026, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Rebecca Razavi (Oxford Internet Institute)
Venue Details: OII Lecture Theatre, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG
Organiser: Ellen Mobbs (Oxford Internet Institute)
Hosts: TBA

Spiritual Renewal Through Friendship at Pusey House and Keble College (Recollection Lecture)
Date: 21 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Ryan Blank (Oriel College)
Venue: Pusey House,
Venue Details: Ursell Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mobile manuscripts: Arabic learning across the Early Modern Western Indian Ocean
Date: 21 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Christopher Bahl (University of Durham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organiser: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 January 2025

Does Accommodating Radical Right Positions Help Social Democratic Parties?
Date: 22 January 2026, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker : Stuart Turnbull-Durgate (University of Southampton)
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: The Hub
Organiser: Sanne van Oosten (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Rise and Fall of the Konbini: Cold Chains, Retail Wars and Logistical Friction in Postwar Japan
Date: 22 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Paul Kreitman (Columbia University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 January 2025

The Renewal of Islam
Date: 23 January 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Fitzroy Morrissey (Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 23 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 January 2025

Tifa as Discursive Infrastructure: Silkroadism and the Commercialisation of Authoritarian Governance
Date: 26 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Giulia Sciorati (LSE)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 January 2025

The Logic of Provocative Propaganda in the Shadow of Democratic Uprisings: Evidence from Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement
Date: 27 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Eddy S. F. Yeung (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Frauds We Are Yet But in Sight Of': Fighting Civil War Pension Fraud in Gilded Age America, 1884-1897
Date: 27 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Rob Bates (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

When elections divide: Public reactions to electoral results in Spain
Date: 27 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Ignacio Jurado (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organisers: TBA
Host: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 28 January 2025

Jerusalem in Early Christian Hope (Recollection Lecture)
Date: 28 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:25
Speaker : Prof Markus Bockmuehl (Keble College)
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Islamophobia, antisemitism, and the struggle for recognition
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Tariq Modood (University of Bristol)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Steven Sarson (Université Jean Moulin - Lyon), Professor Patrick Griffin (University of Notre Dame)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

A model occupation. German occupational policy in Brussels and its impact on the First World War - and beyond
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Samuël Kruizinga (UV Amsterdam)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 January 2025

Soeda and the Making of Modern Japan
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Ian Neary (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 January 2025

Towards a Supernatural History of the British Empire
Date: 30 January 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : John Slight (Open University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 30 January 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 February 2025

Chinese Buddhist Ethics of Belief: An Introduction to Sanlun Philosophy
Date: 2 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Rafal K. Stepien (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor, turn left at top of stairs/coming out of lift)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Jessica Frazier (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 February 2025

From Americanism to Maga: redefining the bounds of citizenship
Date: 3 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Anthea Butler (University of Pennsylvania, and Oxford's Koch Centre)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Organizing across the imperial and global space. Women’s organizations and networks at the end of the French Empire
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Anna Nasser (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Natalya Vince (University College, Oxford))
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 February 2025

Trump 2.0 and Threats to American Democracy
Date: 4 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reading the Old Testament through the lens of the Icelandic Sagas (Recollection Lecture)
Date: 4 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:25
Speaker : Prof. Sian Gronlie (University of Oxford)
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Worlds of Islam: a global history
Date: 4 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : James McDougall (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 February 2025

Racism without racists: Colour-blind ideology in post-Brexit Britain
Date: 5 February 2026, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker : Maria Sobolewska (University of Manchester)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Sanne van Oosten (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Anarchist Association: Knowledge, Language, and the History of the Modern World
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Robert Kramm (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 February 2025

Bureaucracies of Violence: Asians leaving Uganda in 1972
Date: 6 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Ria Kapoor (QMUL)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 6 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 February 2025

The Mathematics of Card Shuffling: A Journey Towards Randomness
Date: 9 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Itay Glazer (Technion)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organiser: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 February 2025

Fellows’ Forum - Citizenship and Conquest: Hawaiʻi and the Architecture of U.S. Expansion
Date: 10 February 2026, 11:30 - 12:30
Speaker : Maye Henning (Suffolk University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Day 1: Conference - The Past and Future of Anglo-Catholic Socialism
Date: 10 February 2026, 15:30 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Catholicism and the Labour Party
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Jon Cruddas (former MP for Dagenham and Rainham)
Venue: Pusey House,
Venue Details: Ursell Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

In the Shadow of Diagnosis: Psychiatric Power and Queer Life
Date: 10 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Sink or swim? The EU in a zero-sum world
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Veronica Anghel (European University Institute), Richard Youngs (University of Warwick/Carnegie)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Dimitar Bechev (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 11 February 2025

Day 2: Conference - The Past and Future of Anglo-Catholic Socialism
Date: 11 February 2026, 7:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Hajj and the Art of Pilgrimage
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sir Nasser Khalili (Khalili Foundation)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Mercenaries for Peace: Masculinity, Internationalism, and Pleasure on the Front Lines of Peacekeeping
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Margot Tudor (City)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 February 2025

The Right-wing Shift towards Immigrant Exclusion in Japan and Beyond
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Hideki Tarumoto (Waseda University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 February 2025

Italian Fascism, the Holy See and the Nationalist Government During the First Apostolic Delegation to China (1922-1933)
Date: 13 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Chiara D'Auria (UNISA)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 13 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 February 2025

The Cultural Impact of Visits to the Roman Metropolis: Jews and the Big City
Date: 16 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Eyal Ben-Eliyahu (University of Haifa)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organiser: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 February 2025

Winant Lecture ni American Government: States and American Constitutional Development
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Emily Zackin (Johns Hopkins University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Governing a multi-ethnic state: Minority rights in early twentieth-century Baltics
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Timo Aava (St Antony’s College, Oxford)), Martin Conway (Balliol College, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Katherine Lebow (Christ Church, Oxford)

Wednesday 18 February 2025

Greece’s comeback: how a nation regained credibility
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Alex Patelis (Chief Economic Adviser to Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis (2019–2024),), Vicky Pryce (Economist & Business Consultant), Peter Sanfey (European Bank for Reconstuction and Development)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organisers: TBA
Host: Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford)

Imams and patrons: service provision by Islamic non-state actors
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Tugba Bozcaga (KCL)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 February 2025

Facts against femonationalism: how to stop radical right normalisation
Date: 19 February 2026, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker : Katharina Lawall (University of Reading)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Sanne van Oosten (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

REGNAT POPULUS IN ARKANSAS: The partnership to lead on state constitutional history
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Japan's Spongy-Middle Revolution
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor David Howell (Harvard University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 February 2025

'Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilty' (Faith in Public Life Lecture)
Date: 20 February 2026, 11:00 - 12:30
Speaker : Professor Nigel Biggar
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago: The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean
Date: 20 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : David Lambert (Warwick)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 20 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 February 2025

'Shepherding away from Home': The Role of the Prison Chaplain (Faith in Public Life Lecture)
Date: 23 February 2026, 18:15 - 19:30
Speaker s: Rosalind Lane, Paul Cowley
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 February 2025

Emotions in the Politics of Water: China–India Tensions over Tibetan Rivers
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Antonina Łuszczykiewicz-Mendis (Jagiellonian University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

High Tech Gays v. D.I.S.C.O: Challenging the Straight State in the Corporate Sphere
Date: 24 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Josh Hollands (UCL)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 February 2025

Day 1: Conference - Confession - The Church's Gift to the World?
Date: 25 February 2026, 14:30 - 17:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Dr. Pusey on the Effects of Absolution: Catholic but not Roman (Recollection Lecture)
Date: 25 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:25
Speaker : Ben Jefferies (Trinity Anglican Seminary)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

From divine sovereignty to national legitimacy: transformations in the theology of political Islam
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jocelyn Cesari (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2025

Day 2: Conference - Confession - The Church's Gift to the World?
Date: 26 February 2026, 9:30 - 10:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Valedictory Lecture: Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Governance: A Retrospective of 40 years
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Morale on the home fronts, 1914-1945: Its transnational construction and destruction
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Sheldon Garon (Princeton) (Princeton University)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Feeling Safe but Not Ready: Disaster Risk Perception and Urban Resilience in Baltic Capitals
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr. Didzis Kļaviņš (University of Latvia)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organisers: Emily Usherwood (Oxford Department of International Development), Jo Boyce (University of Oxford, Oxford Dept of International Development)
Host: Professor Corneliu Bjola (University of Oxford)

Friday 27 February 2025

Fascist India: Race, Caste and Hindutva [Book Talk]
Date: 27 February 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Luna Sabastian (Northeastern University London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 27 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2025

Midshipmen Moralists: Jimmy Carter, H. Ross Perot, and the Enduring Mugwump Tradition
Date: 3 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Bruce Schulman (Boston University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Mistakes were made: The EU’s relations with Russia and Turkey in the 1990s
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Ayşe Zarakol (Emmanual College, Cambridge)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Dimitar Bechev (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 March 2025

By the Power Vested in Me: How Experts Shape Same-Sex Marriage Debates
Date: 4 March 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Michael Stambolis-Ruhstorfer (University of Toulouse)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Minicolloquium: A Genealogy of Post-Liberalism
Date: 4 March 2026, 14:00 - 17:25
Speaker s: Professor John Milbank (Emeritus Professor, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Nottingham), Professor Paul Kelly (London School of Economics), Joao Pinheiro da Silva (St Andrew's), Jacob Williams (University of Oxford)
Venue: Pusey House,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Transnational ties of faith: Imdadullah’s letters and writings from the Hijaz during the late-19th century
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Moin Ahmad Nizami (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Can cultural life thrive under authoritarianism? Evidence from Greece, 1970-1973
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford), Foteini Dimirouli (Keble College, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: Seminar Room, European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HR
Organisers: TBA
Host: Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford)

Thursday 5 March 2025

Symposium: From Economic Security to Economic Statecraft: Insights from Japan, Europe, and the United States
Date: 5 March 2026, 9:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Kristi Govella (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Housing, childcare, and employment: How cumulative discrimination compounds inequality
Date: 5 March 2026, 15:45 - 17:00
Speaker s: Valentina Di Stasio (European University Institute), Stefanie Sprong (Universiteit Utrecht), Daniel Muir (Youth Futures Foundation), Katy Neep (Youth Futures Foundation)
Venue: Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road OX2 6PN
Venue Details: Mawby Room
Organiser: Sanne van Oosten (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Un-Americanism: A History of the Battle to Control an Idea
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : George Lewis (University of Leicester)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 March 2025

Hobbes the Egyptian: The Leviathan as Anti-Bible
Date: 6 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Robert Yelle (LMU Munich)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 6 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2025

"A Happy, Angry Man"? John Hope Franklin and the Dilemmas of Black History in Public
Date: 10 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Tom Cryer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Tom Arnold-Forster (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2025

Postgraduate Presentations
Date: 11 March 2026, 10:00 - 14:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.513, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Leviathan's health: state capacity and epidemics from the Black Death to Covid
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Prof Sheilagh Ogilvie (All Souls College, Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 March 2025

Reluctant Warriors No More? Japan and Germany Before and After Ukraine
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor Ellis Krauss (University of California San Diego)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building
Organisers: Dr Yosuke Buchmeier (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 March 2025

Students Against Apartheid: Collective Emotions and the Making of a Global Movement
Date: 13 March 2026, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Daniel Manulak (Toronto & Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 13 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 March 2025

America 250: What Makes A Revolution?
Date: 19 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Peter Mancall (University of Southern California)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 March 2025

America 250: The Declaration of Independence and American Identity at 250
Date: 20 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Main Seminar Room
Organiser: Professor Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire)
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
2019- Grand Challenges in Science
2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics
African History & Politics Seminars
Africans and war in Vietnam: global protest, liberation politics and transnational soldiers
African Studies Seminar Series
American History Research Seminar
American Politics Graduate Seminar
Annual Uehiro Lectures
Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2024
Aspects of Conservatism
Bingham Seminars in Constitutional Studies
Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
Bonavero Discussion Group
Bonavero Panel Series on the Past and Present of Slavery
Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2024: Clarendon and the Practice of Politics
Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Brasenose
Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
Centre for Women’s, Gender, and Queer History events (WGQ) [formerly known as CGIS].
Changing Character of War
Changing Character of Warfare: Tuesday Lunchtime Seminars
China Centre talks
COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research
Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
Contemporary South Asia Seminars
Contestations in Land and Agriculture: Historical and Geopolitical Case-Studies
Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
Dahrendorf Programme
Economics Research Jamboree
‘Encyclopédie Nouvelle’ Seminar
Endangered Tribal Languages in India
Environmental Change Institute
ESC Core Seminar Series
ESC Visiting Academics Lunchtime Seminar Series Hilary Term 2019
Europaeum: Before War, After War
European Studies Seminar
Future of the Left Seminar Series
Gender, Women and Culture
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Governance of AI Seminar Series
Governance of AI Seminar Series
Health: fresh perspectives
History of Gender Seminar
History of War Seminar Series
Human Dignity and Bureaucracy Seminars
Inequality
Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them
Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire
Israel Studies Seminar Michaelmas Term 2020
JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar
Kyoto Prize at Oxford
Massada Fellowship Programme seminars
Massada Public Seminars
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Media and Migration
Methods and Work in Progress Seminar in Practical and Medical Ethics
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Modern South Asia Seminar
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
OxCGRT Seminar Series
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford China Reading Group
Oxford Conservative Thought Reading Group
Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Shaping the future
Oxford Martin School Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion
Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity
Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
Oxford Political Review
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
Oxford University Economics Summer Schools
Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar
Oxford Women in Research (OxWiR) Seminar Series HT 2019
OxonCourts
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme
Politics Scriptorium
PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
Providing Health and Social Care for an Ageing Population: Challenges and Responses
Pusey House Lectures and Events
Reading Rorty
Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Michaelmas term 2020
Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series
Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War
Rothermere American Institute Events
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
St Hilda's College Feminist Salon
Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop
Technology and Mobilities in Africa
The D'Arcy Lectures 2021: Common Good: Theological, Philosophical, Political Aspects
The James Ford Lectures 2017 - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
The Politics of Immigration and Exclusion
The Present and Future of US Politics
The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series
Thinking Through Toxicity
TORCH Doctoral Network: Critical-Thinking Communities
Utopia Reading Group
Violence Studies Research Network
Women's Rights Research Seminar