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

Friday 25 April 2025

Governing Digital China
Date: 25 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Consent, Survival, and the Lives of Enslaved and Free Black Women
Date: 25 April 2025, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Emily Owens (Brown University), Kaisha Esty (Wesleyan University)
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Age Sets, Accountability, and the Balance of Power: Evidence from Villages in Rural Congo
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

A Kerala Pilgrimage Approaches Its Centenary - why it matters for South India and the wider world
Date: 29 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Alex Gath (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

Sir John Elliott Lecture in Atlantic History
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Danielle Terrazas Williams (University of Leeds)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

European Defence: How can the EU best work with the UK and other non-EU states? And will it?
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:45
Speaker s: Brendan Devlin (European Commission), Luigi Scazzieri (Centre for European Reform)
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: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College)

Book launch: Matt Myers, The Halted March of the European Left: The Working Class in Britain, France, and Italy, 1968–1989 (OUP, 2025)
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Matt Myers (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Colin Matthew Room, and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Political Economy and Economic Institutions of the Ottoman Empire in Comparative Perspective
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Sevket Pamuk (Bogazici University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025

Social Entrepreneurship in Conflict & Post-Conflict Settings
Date: 2 May 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Marya Besharov (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Freshta Karim (Charmaghz), Alona Revko (Skoll Centre), Shoshana Stewart (Turquoise Mountain)
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1HP
Venue Details: The Nest, on the far right of reception area
Organiser: Skoll Centre (Said Business School)
Host: Menna Clarke (Skoll Centre)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)

Beyond Castes and Regions: The Socio-Economic Decline of Muslims in Contemporary India
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Christophe Jaffrelot (Kings College, London)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Thursday 8 May 2025

Radhakrishnan Lecture 1: Acceleration as a Riposte to Colonialism
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Afghanistan and the Concept of Asia: Intellectual Geographies in an Age of Reform
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Marya Hannun (University of Exeter)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Host: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)

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

Beyond Trump’s First 100 Days: What Comes Next Economically and Geopolitically?
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Robert Westcott (Former White House Special Assistant for Economic Policy)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Rich World, Poor World: The Struggle to Escape Poverty in Muslim Societies
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr Ali Allawi (Former Minister of Finance, Defense, and Trade of Iraq)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

I’ve Got a Story to Tell: Mary Lou Williams and the Re-Imagining of Jazz’s History
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tammy L. Kernodle (Miami University)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Thursday 15 May 2025

Radhakrishnan Lecture 2: Population as a Planetary Force
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

The Inclusion Trap: Evidence from Elite Civil Service
Date: 19 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Shaheen Naseer (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Labour as Method: Studying Technologies of the South
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Hemangini Gupta (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
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 Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Building State Capacity in Fragile States
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Michael Callen (London School of Economics)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

The Winant-Mellon Symposium Keynote Address: Taking Stock of the Administrative State
Date: 22 May 2025, 16:30 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: SCR
Organisers: Professor Kimberley Johnson (Winant Professor, RAI), Professor Des King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Radhakrishnan Lecture 3: The Freedom to Breathe
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Sunil Amrith (Yale University)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
Date: 26 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Designing with the Rohingya: Trauma, Resilience, Memory
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Professor Esther da Costa Meyer (Princeton University and Yale University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Host: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)

African Americans and the Photographic Seat of Honor
Date: 27 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Brenna Greer (Wellesley College)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Wednesday 28 May 2025

The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Blain Auer (University of Lausanne)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Ecologies of Caste and Waste: Dependence and Value Making at the Bhalswa Landfill in Delhi
Date: 3 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Aparna Agarwal (University of Lausanne)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Host: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)

The Trump Administration and the Separation of Powers
Date: 3 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Stuart Delery (Former White House Counsel)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Iran’s Crisis of Governance
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

The Origins of Trumpism and Paths to an Alternative Future
Date: 5 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Melinda Cooper (Australian National University), Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Calvin University), Joel Suarez (Harvard University), Noam Maggor (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Justine Shepperson (University of Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

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

Prosecuting the Powerful: book talk with Steve Crawshaw
Date: 9 June 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: Steve Crawshaw (Journalist and writer), David Isaac CBE
Venue: Worcester College, Walton Street OX1 2HB
Organiser: David Isaac CBE
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 June 2025

Al-Ghazālī and the Ideal of Godlikeness
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Sophia Vasalou (University of Birmingham)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Intentions are Good but Instrumental Variables is Better (in Real-World Randomised Trials)
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Josh Angrist (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
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

Wednesday 18 June 2025

A Bridge to the Sky: Science and Arts in the Age of Ibn Firnas (d. 887)
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Glaire Anderson (University of Edinburgh)
Venue: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

Esmond Harmsworth Lecture
Date: 19 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Natasha Trethewey (United States Poet Laureate (2012-2014)Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organiser: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)
Host: Daniel Rowe (Oxford)

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 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