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

Monday 17 February 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 17 February 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Hye Young You (Princeton University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 February 2025

The "Care" Series - ‘Gender and the Caring Dimension of Welfare States: Toward Inclusive Citizenship’
Date: 18 February 2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker : Rossella Ciccia
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Organisers: Sarah Knott (St John's College, Oxford), Lucile Richard (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt
Date: 18 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Jayaseelan Raj (King's College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Commodity Price Shocks and Quality of Employment in Peru
Date: 18 February 2025, 16:10 - 17:10
Speaker : Beatriz Jambrina (OPHI)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room 2
Organiser: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Hosts: TBA

Genocide in Gaza
Date: 18 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Winant Lecture: The End of Black Politics
Date: 18 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kimberley Johnson (New York University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 February 2025

Pathways to Conflict in the South China Sea
Date: 19 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor David A. Welch (University of Waterloo)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Economic Diversification, State Fragility, and Development in Muslim Societies
Date: 19 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Adnan Khan (FCDO)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘Reconnecting with the Sacred in a Technology-Driven World’ - Saïd Business School's annual Rewley Lecture
Date: 19 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Biz Stone (Twitter, Jelly), Evan Sharp (Pinterest)
Venue: Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ
Organiser: Freya Stear (Saïd Business School)
Hosts: TBA

Provost’s Talk with Scarlett Maguire: How We Called a Trump Win
Date: 19 February 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Lord Mendoza (Oriel College, University of Oxford), Scarlett Maguire (JL Partners)
Venue Details: Enter via Oriel Street
Organiser: Rebecca Bricklebank (Oriel College)
Host: Lord Mendoza (Oriel College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2025

The Peter Tatchell Archive: Peter Tatchell in Conversation about his Bodleian Collection
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 20 February 2025, 11:45 - 13:15
Speaker : Peter Tatchell
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: 21 St Giles
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Silicon Valley in Context: Technology Corporations as Political Actors
Date: 20 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Alina Utrata (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Feminism in International Security Discourses - How we argue for participation matters
Date: 20 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Karolin Tuncel (Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 1
Organiser: Emily Usherwood (Oxford Department of International Development)
Host: Dr Joerg Friedrichs (Associate Professor of Politics, Oxford Department of International Development, and St Cross College, Oxford)

Friday 21 February 2025

The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
Date: 21 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria
Date: 21 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Johannes Waardenburg (IULM)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Mori Nao Divorces Her Samurai Husband and His Family Puts Him in a Cage
Date: 21 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Luke Roberts (UC Santa Barbara)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 February 2025

Paying Not to Know: News Avoidance in Times of War
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 24 February 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Moses Shayo (Hebrew University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 24 February 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Raúl Sanchez de la Sierra (University of Chicago)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Trump vs Putin: Security in the Age of Populism
Date: 24 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Rt Hon Lord Bates ((Minister of State at the Department for International Development, 2016 – 2019, and Minister of State at the Home Office, 2015 – 2016)), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 February 2025

Between Nation and Community. Muslim Universities and Indian Politics after Partition (1947-1990s)
Date: 25 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Laurence Gautier (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
Date: 25 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Poverty and its many faces: An analytical framework for deprivation interlinkages
Date: 25 February 2025, 16:10 - 17:10
Speaker : Dr Nicolai Suppa (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room 2
Organiser: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Hosts: TBA

Famine in the Spanish Civil War: Propaganda and communication
Date: 25 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Ainhoa Campos Posada (Ramón Areces Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford), Tom Buchanan (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: European Studies Centre Seminar Room
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Women’s Religious Leadership in Morocco: A Catalyst for Mudawana Reform
Date: 25 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Sawsene Nejjar (OSGA, University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Against Ideology: Multi-Text Based Discourse as a Tool for Subverting Dogmatic Thinking
Date: 25 February 2025, 19:00 - 21:00
Speaker : SHIUR @ OxMEND
Venue Details: Accessible hall
Organiser: OxMEND (Oxford Middle Eastern Narratives and Discourse)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 February 2025

Mecca in Morocco: Studying the Socio-Cultural Embeddedness of Pilgrimage in Muslim Everyday Life
Date: 26 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Kholoud al-Ajarma (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Coinage of Mughal South Asia and the Muslim Chain of Being
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Azfar Moin (University of Texas, Austin)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Montenegro's path to EU membership: A catalyst for Western Balkan integration?
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker : Jakov Milatović (President of Montenegro)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: European Studies Centre Seminar Room
Organiser: Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College)
Host: Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford)

What was Grand Strategy in World War II—a look at the US policy of "Germany First"
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Philips Payson O'Brien (St Andrews)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 February 2025

Queer Scholarship on Shakespeare and its Public: Will Tosh and Emma Smith in Conversation
Date: 27 February 2025, 11:45 - 13:15
Speaker s: Will Tosh (Globe Theatre), Emma Smith (Oxford)
Venue Details: Reception Room, Garden Quad, St John's College (5 minutes' walk from main college entrance, ask for directions at the Porter's Lodge. When you get to Garden Quad, you will see us in the Reception Room)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 27 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Haydn Belfield (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence)
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

“God Will Not Stay Silent”: Gershom Scholem, Zionism, Messianism, and Binational Thinking
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Professor Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organiser: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 February 2025

Symposium: Healthcare delivery in crisis? The Potential for Mutual Learning between Japan and the UK
Date: 28 February 2025, 8:30 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: 27 Winchester Road, 27 Winchester Road OX2 6NA
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
Date: 28 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

*CANCELLED* Public opinion in Palestine since 7 October
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 28 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Khalil Shikaki (Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Hostile | Film Screening plus Q&A with the Director, Sonita Gale
Date: 28 February 2025, 17:30 - 19:45
Speaker : Sonita Gale (Film maker)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 March 2025

Extreme Weather Events and the Support for Democracy
Date: 3 March 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Nicolas Cerkez (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Multilateralism in the age of populism: what future for the Bretton Woods Institutions. 
Date: 3 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Lord Malloch Brown ((Former Deputy Secretary-General of the UN)), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 March 2025

The "Care" Series - Reading: '“They Would Plant the Rose Garden Themselves”: Femme, Complicity, Solidarity, and the Rewiring of the Sensuous’
Date: 4 March 2025, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker : Sneha Krishnan
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Larkin Room
Organisers: Sarah Knott (St John's College, Oxford), Lucile Richard (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

‘Mao-Lana’ of Asia: Bhashani, Black Maoism, and Islamic Socialism in the 1960s
Date: 4 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
Date: 4 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Multidimensional deprivation among Italian youth
Date: 4 March 2025, 16:10 - 17:10
Speaker s: Elisabetta Segre (Italian Statistics Agency), Alessandra Tinto (Italian Statistics Agency)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room 2
Organiser: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Hosts: TBA

Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins
Date: 4 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Max Gallien (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Michael Willis (St Antony's College)

Defining diversity in global higher education: To whom does it refer and why does it matter?
Date: 4 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Sonia Giebel (St Antony's College, Oxford), Dr David Johnson (University of Oxford, Dept of Education)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: European Studies Centre Seminar Room
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Campion Lecture, Hilary Term 2025: ‘Stability, Security and Solidarity Stretched Thin: Reflections on “Social Cohesion” in Lebanon’
Date: 4 March 2025, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Cory Rodgers (University of Oxford)
Venue: Campion Hall, Brewer Street OX1 1QS
Organiser: Campion Hall
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 March 2025

How to Study Arabic and Islamic Philosophy? Once Again about al-Ghazali and Descartes
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Frank Griffel (University of Oxford)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The Politics of Immigration and the Politics of Identity | The Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2025
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Kenan Malik (Writer, lecturer and broadcaster)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Grove Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Brasenose Women in the Media, Business and Finance
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 March 2025

Queer history and art history: making and curating; a conversation with Leah DeVun, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, & Nancy Thebaut
Date: 6 March 2025, 11:45 - 13:15
Speaker s: Leah deVun (Rutgers), Gemma Rolls-Bentley (Oxford), Nancy Thebaut (Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: 21 St Giles
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Creating Hope: open discussion with Palestinian and Israeli peace activists.
Date: 6 March 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Hamze Awawde, Magen Inon
Organiser: OxMEND (Oxford Middle Eastern Narratives and Discourse)
Hosts: TBA

The Ethics of AI for Intelligence
Date: 6 March 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford), Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Can Dialogue Bridge Divides? ‘Talking Peace’ with Palestinian & Israeli Peace Activists
Date: 6 March 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Mira Awad, Hamze Awawde, Magen Inon
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Venue Details: Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre
Organiser: Dr Naomi Rokotnitz (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 March 2025

From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
Date: 7 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jerome Drevon (Senior Analyst, Crisis Group)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
Date: 7 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Associate Dean (Global Engagement) and Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

The Future of EU Enlargement
Date: 7 March 2025, 18:00 - 20:00
Speaker s: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Jacek Czaputowicz (Former Foreign Minister, Poland), Ditmir Bushati (Former Foreign Minister, Albania), Vuk Jeremić (Former Foreign Minister, Serbia)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: TBD
Organiser: Finlay Jones (Hertford College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 10 March 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Nancy Qian (Northwestern University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Communication in the age of populism.
Date: 10 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Alison Phillips ((Editor-in-Chief for the Daily Mirror, 2018 – 2024)), Tim Montgomerie ((Co-founder of the Centre for Social Justice))
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 March 2025

From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
Date: 11 March 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Lizhi Liu (Georgetown 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)

‘Home’ in Sikh Polity: Understandings of mīrī pīrī in contemporary Britain
Date: 11 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Jaskiran Kaur Bhogal (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

An Exceptional Identity: The Role of US History Education in (Re)Producing American Exceptionalism
Date: 11 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Emma Hall (University of Warwick)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 11 March 2025, 16:10 - 17:10
Speaker
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Meeting Room 2
Organiser: Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Hosts: TBA

Understanding Syria through Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home
Date: 11 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)

The End of Engagement: America's China Experts and US Strategy Since 1989
Date: 11 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
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)

Book talk: The Home I Worked to Make: Voices from the New Syrian Diaspora
Date: 11 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The transition away from fossil fuels in Europe: Geopolitical and practical implications
Date: 11 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Brendan Devlin (EU Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford), Anthony Calacino (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: European Studies Centre Seminar Room
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: TBC

Wednesday 12 March 2025

Reflections on the War in Sudan
Date: 12 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dame Rosalind Marsden (RIIA)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Trump's second term: Implications for the Balkans
Date: 12 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Daniel Dombey (Financial Times), Joan Hoey (Economist Intelligence Unit), Oana Lungescu (NATO)
Venue: St Antony's College - North Site,
Venue Details: European Studies Centre Seminar Room
Organiser: Julie Adams (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Thursday 13 March 2025

Forced reproduction and the ‘value’ of enslaved women and girls in the antebellum US South, 1812-1865
Date: 13 March 2025, 11:45 - 13:15
Speaker : Aisha Djelid (RAI, Oxford)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: 21 St Giles
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Hacktivism? Predatory Sparrow and the Ambiguities of “Ethical” Cyber Operations
Date: 13 March 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Hannah Sophie-Weber (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 March 2025

Do we really owe Arabs nothing?
Date: 14 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Fouad Laroui (Professor of epistemology and writer)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Michael Willis (St Antony's College)

Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific: From Vision to Reality
Date: 14 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Eva Pejsova (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 15 March 2025

The Roles of Women's and Civil Society Activism in Sudan and South Sudan
Date: 15 March 2025, 10:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Antony's College - Main Site, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: The Sudanese Programme
Hosts: The Sudanese Programme, Middle East Centre

Monday 17 March 2025

Relationships & Responsibility
Date: 17 March 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Laura Boudreau (Columbia Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Title TBC
Date: 29 April 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Women and the Unions - Challenging Inequality
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford)
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Shaheen Nasser (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Principal's Conversation with The Guardian reporter, Amelia Gentleman
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford)
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025

Competition, Cooperation, and Social Perceptions
Date: 2 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Rachel Kranton (Duke University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Losing Their Religion: State Banning of Religion, Social Norms, and Female Participation
Date: 9 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Shqiponja Telhaj (University of Sussex)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Narrative Entanglement: The Case of Climate Policy
Date: 16 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Luis Garicano (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
2019- Grand Challenges in Science
2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics
3-Day International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures
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, Identity, and Queer History events (WGIQ)[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
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 Gender: Pasts Presents Futures
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
Israel Studies Seminar Michaelmas Term 2020
JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar
Kyoto Prize at Oxford
Massada Fellowship Programme 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 History Research Seminar
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 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
Political Economy Seminar
Politics Scriptorium
PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
Providing Health and Social Care for an Ageing Population: Challenges and Responses
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 Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
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 Present and Future of US Politics
The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series
Thinking Through Toxicity
TORCH Doctoral Network: Critical-Thinking Communities
Violence Studies Research Network
Women's Rights Research Seminar