Thursday 19 February 2026

• 12:30 - The Rise of the Cultural Treaty
  Benjamin Martin (University of Uppsala)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 13:30 - Italy as Bellwether: Politics, Culture, and Europe’s Futures
  Professor Guido Bonsaver, Prof Charlotte Ross (University of Oxford), Prof Felia Allum (University of Bath), Prof John Harper (Johns Hopkins), Prof David Ellwood (Johns Hopkins), Prof Erik Jones (EUI), Prof Federica Genovese (University of Oxford), Prof Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Politics in the Peripheries: The Spatial and Relational Dimensions of China’s ‘Democratic Parties and Groups'
  Dr Henrike Rudolph (University of Göttingen)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Mines, Minds, and Machines: The Race To Dominate the 4th Industrial Age
  Joseph Rooke
• 17:30 - France, Middle Powers and the Quest for a New Global Order
  Tristan Aureau (Director, Centre for Analysis, Planning and Strategy, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, France), David Behar (Deputy Director of the Centre for Analysis, Planning and Strategy, French Foreign Ministry, France)

Friday 20 February 2026

• 14:00 - Campaigning and Counter-Insurgency in the Creole Archipelago: The British Struggle in the Revolutionary Caribbean
  David Lambert (Warwick)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 15:30 - The secrets of John le Carré’s archive
  Richard Ovenden (Bodley's Librarian and Helen Hamlyn Director of the University Libraries, and Head of Gardens and Museums at the University of Oxford), Adam Sisman (Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews)
  John le Carré talks

Monday 23 February 2026

• 11:30 - International Sanctions & Coups d’État
  Pascal Langer (Trier University)
  Political Economy Workshop
• 12:00 - Briefing on Scholarship Opportunities Offered by ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of Education
  Mr Marc Tsou (Taipei Representative Office in the UK), Ms Virginia Galgani (Taipei Representative Office in the UK), Ms Estey Chen (University of Oxford), Ms Issy Wells (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Documentation and Denial: Contestation over Evidence of Mass Atrocities
  Kate Cronin-Furman (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Politics in Ukraine: how resilient is Ukraine four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion?
  Prof Andrew Wilson (UCL-SSEES)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - How will AI affect defence, foreign and security policy?
  The Rt Hon. the Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG, Dr Patricia Lewis, Associate Professor Lucas Kello
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
• 17:00 - Documentary Screening with the Director – Taiwan Undaunted: In Search of the Nation That Cannot Call Itself a Nation
  Neal E. Robbins (Film Director)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Dark Shipping, Dirty Minerals: Geoeconomics and the Practice of Economic Statecraft
  Various Speakers
  Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 24 February 2026

• 11:00 - AI Workers, Geopolitics, and Algorithmic Collective Action
  Sydney Reis (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 12:00 - Emotions in the Politics of Water: China–India Tensions over Tibetan Rivers
  Dr Antonina Łuszczykiewicz-Mendis (Jagiellonian University)
  China Centre talks
• 12:00 - Women at Bletchley: A Wren's Story and a Researcher's Reflection
  Sir Dermot Turing (Kellogg College), Mary Stewart
• 13:00 - GROW: Rapid Design Thinking using AI
  Bring a challenge from your research area or related field (e.g., reducing plastic waste in labs) and discover how refining the problem statement can unlock new possibilities. If you don’t have a problem in mind, we’ll provide one for you.
  Sally Charles (University of Oxford)
• 16:15 - Naval Strategy in the Pacific: Balancing not Challenging China
  Please note the slightly later start time and change of room within the Manor Road Building
  Lt Cdr Andrew Ward (CCW & Royal Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Running From Office: A Fireside Chat with Eoghan Murphy
  Michael McMahon (University of Oxford), David Doyle (University of Oxford), Eoghan Murphy
• 17:15 - A Land for All: Two States. One Homeland.
  Dr Yasmeen Abu Fraiha, Professor Oren Yiftachel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
  Massada Public Seminars
• 17:30 - Meet Jacqueline de Rojas, Chair of Bletchley Park Trust
  Jacqueline de Rojas (Chair of the Bletchley Park Trust)
• 18:30 - Reading Group - Palestine(s): Rethinking Politics of Fragmentations (Focus: Politics)
  TBA
  PalSoc Events
• 20:30 - Title TBC
  Dr Seyithan Ates (Ankara University of Social Sciences)
  Oxford Strategic Studies Group Seminars

Wednesday 25 February 2026

• 13:30 - A Democratic View on Trustworthy AI: From Worrying About Fabrications to Looking at Vulnerability
  Dr Eugenia Stamboliev (University of Vienna)
• 16:00 - Decolonising approaches to Peacebuilding & Transitional Justice
  Ufra Mir (Psychosocial Support), Dr Farah Mihlar (Oxford Brookes), Ravaal Singh Bains (Peace Direct)
  OxPeace Events
• 17:00 - One History or Many? Transitional Justice Theory and the Politics of Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
  Professor Louise Mallinder (QUB)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:15 - Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
  Please note this session is in the Old Library, All Souls College
  Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 26 February 2026

• 12:00 - Why water risks are becoming a material risk for companies - and the challenges of assessing exposure correctly
  Jennifer Moeller-Gulland (Water Security Collective)
  Oxford Water Network HT 2026
• 12:30 - Individuals and Informal Control in IOs
  Sarah von Billerbeck (Reading)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 14:00 - What Economists Really Do - Pressure Points: How Sanctions Reshape Trade, Finance, and Firm Behaviour
  Beata Javorcik (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Morale on the home front, 1914-1945: Its transnational construction and destruction
  Annual OCEH Lecture, co-sponsored by the Oxford Centre for Global History
  Sheldon Garon (Princeton) (Princeton University)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:30 - The deconstruction of our society and the end of enlightenment – can we save Western democracy?
  Andreas Zivy (President of the Swiss Democracy Foundation)
  Europeanist Society Oxford

Monday 2 March 2026

• 16:00 - Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed
  Killian Clark (Georgetown)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Preferences over contested territory: evidence from a new survey experiment in Ukraine
  Dr Carl Müller-Crepon (LSE), Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - How are governments going to pay to make 19th century institutions fit to deal with 21st century problems?
  Professor Paul Johnson (University of Oxford), The Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court, Michael McMahon (University of Oxford)
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 3 March 2026

• 11:00 - Between Sovereignty and Interdependence: India and South Africa’s AI development strategies
  Ayantola Alayande (Oxford Department of International Development)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - Societal Resilience: Our communities know their strengths, do you?
  Dr Rowena Hill (Nottingham Trent University)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Mistakes were made: The EU’s relations with Russia and Turkey in the 1990s
  Ayşe Zarakol (Emmanual College, Cambridge), Roy Allison (St Antony’s)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:30 - Panel Discussion: Perspectives on Automation in Defence
  Various Speakers
  Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Thursday 5 March 2026

• 12:30 - Legacies of Globalization and the Role of the State in the AI Economy
  Leonardo Baccini (McGill)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:30 - How Wars End: Military Scenarios for Peace in Russia´s War Against Ukraine
  The event is followed by a drinks reception
  Captain Dmytro Donskoi (Armed Forces of Ukraine), Vice-Admiral Luc Raynal (French Armed Forces), LtCol Nadir Attar (German Armed Forces), Col Wolfgang Weichselberger (Austrian Armed Forces)
  Europeanist Society Oxford

Monday 9 March 2026

• 16:00 - Beyond the Threshold: Enemies, Tricksters, and the Temporality of Revolutions
  Rosario Forlenza (LUIS)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Audiences of repression: defiant dissent and public opinion in Russia
  Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya (Brasenose College)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - Is the changed relationship between voters and legislators due to the development of the Internet a boon for good decision-making - or a challenge?
  Nusrat Ghani, Professor Ignacio Cofone (University of Oxford)
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
• 17:30 - Senior U.S. Defense Leader Fireside Chat, Social Event
  Various Speakers
  Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 10 March 2026

• 14:00 - Title TBC
  Kerstin Jorna (Managing Director at the European Commission)
  Europeanist Society Oxford
• 16:00 - How to End a Nuclear War: Deterrence and Provocation in War Termination
  Lauren Sukin (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 18:30 - Reading Group - Palestine(s): Rethinking Politics of Fragmentations (Focus: Religion)
  TBA
  PalSoc Events
• 20:30 - Title TBC
  Bennett Freeman (Chatham House)
  Oxford Strategic Studies Group Seminars

Wednesday 11 March 2026

• 10:00 - Postgraduate Presentations
  Please note these presentations will take place in the Schwarzman Centre, from 10:00-14:30
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 12 March 2026

• 12:00 - Ideology Without Unity: The Logic of Xi Jinping Thought
  Professor Chris Mittelstaedt (University of Zurich)
  China Centre talks
• 12:30 - Growth Models in the Global South: Maintenance and Dysfunction
  Nikhil Kalyanpur (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 18:00 - Will Orbán win? National Elections in Hungary and the Future of Europe
  Miklós Hajnal (Member of Parliament of Hungary), Zsolt Enyedi (Professor of Political Science at Central European University, Visiting Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford), Dr Dimitar Bechev (University of Oxford)
  Europeanist Society Oxford

Thursday 23 April 2026

• 09:00 - Multi-level Negotiation, Mediation and Diplomacy: ‘Negotiating with difficult actors’ , OxPeace Training Workshop 23-24 April 2026
  Note that this is a TWO-DAY workshop, over two full days Thurs 23 and Fri 24 April, 09.30-17.30. . The venue is now confirmed as the Pavilion Room in St Antony's College, Oxford University. See the Abstract for application details.
  Martin Albani, Dr Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events