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

Monday 16 March 2026

China–Russia Relations and Allies and Subsidized Capacity Building
Date: 16 March 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Oriana Skylar Mastro (Stanford 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)

Thursday 19 March 2026

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 2026

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

Thursday 16 April 2026

Conference: War and Citizenship
Date: 16 April 2026, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: The Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 4 May 2026

Islamic China: An Asian History
Date: 4 May 2026, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Rian Thum (University of Manchester)
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: Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 6 May 2026

Cultures of violence compared: France, Austria, Britain, Russia during the Napoleonic Wars
Date: 6 May 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Gundula Gahlen (FU Berlin)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 9 May 2026

Reading Tayeb Salih in the 21st Century
Date: 9 May 2026, 9:45 - 18:00
Speaker s: Professor Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford), Mohamed Khalaph, Amal Osman, Dr Apala Das (Bilkent University, Ankara), Timour Muhidine (INALCO, Paris), Dr Lemya Shammat (Kind Saud University, Jeddah), Adil Babikir (Translator, Abu Dhabi), Dr Abdelmagid Abdelrahman Awadelkarim (Majmaah University, Saudia Arabia), Dr Richard Barltrop (LSE Middle East Centre), Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (University of Oxford), Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (The Sudanese Programme), Middle East Centre
Hosts: Professor Laurent Mignon (University of Oxford), Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (Chair and Trustee, The Sudanese Programme)

Wednesday 20 May 2026

One success and one failure: The Battle of Schladming and the Siege of Radstadt during the Great German Peasants' War 1524-6
Date: 20 May 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Robert Rebitsch (Innsbruck)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 26 May 2026

Massada Annual Lecture 2026: Fania Oz Salzberger
Date: 26 May 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Fania Oz Salzberger (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

Wednesday 3 June 2026

A Precedent for Nuremberg (1945-6): The Trial of Peter von Hagenbach (1474), history's first "War Criminal"?
Date: 3 June 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Michael Depreter (Leuven)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 11 June 2026

Day 1 - Reimagining Humanism: Religious Humanisms as Frameworks for Building a Common Life in a Fractured World
Date: 11 June 2026, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Reimagining Humanism | McDonald Centre Annual Conference 2026
Date: 11 June 2026, 17:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford), Slavica Jakelić (Richard P. Baepler Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Valparaiso University), Randi Rashkover (Nathan and Sofia Gumenick Chair of Judaic Studies, William & Mary), Eric Gregory (Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Religion, Princeton University), Ufuk Topkara (Professor of Comparative Theology from an Islamic Perspective at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt University of Berlin), Professor Joshua Hordern, Aaron Stalnaker (Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University), Chammah Kaunda (Academic Dean at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS))
Venue: Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details: Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Rev. Canon Prof. Luke Bretherton (University of Oxford)

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)
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
Koch History Centre Seminars and Events
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 - Events
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 Justice in Muslim Societies
Thinking Through Toxicity
TORCH Doctoral Network: Critical-Thinking Communities
Utopia Reading Group
Violence Studies Research Network
WGQ "Care" series
WGQ Centre
Women's Rights Research Seminar