Monday 24 November 2025

• 12:00 - Is China Building a Rival International Order and How Would We Know?
  Professor Matthew D. Stephen (Helmut Schmidt University)
  China Centre talks
• 13:30 - Anticipating Russia’s Next Moves: Strategic Foresight to Defend Ukraine and the West
  Victoria Podgorna, Oleksii Zhmerenetsky
• 16:00 - Resident Resistance: Denouncing Criminalized Groups in Rio de Janeiro
  Nicholas Barnes (St. Andrew's)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Speaking in tongues. The Soviet nationalities policy and minority protection in interwar Europe
  Dr Olena Palko (University of Basel)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - TITAN FORGE: NATO, the Russia-Ukraine War, and the Race for Machine Speed
  Expert Practitioners
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 12:30 - From Borderlands to Global Threats: How Illicit Flows Reshape Security
  Annette Idler (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:30 - How the global operating system is a sea-based phenomenon, ocean anarchy and why the sea matters to everyone
  Sean Andrews (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Student volunteering in historical perspective: debates and tensions in Israeli higher education
  Dr Adi Sapir (University of Haifa)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Breaking New Ground on the Global Stage: Memoirs of Kuwait's First Woman Ambassador
  Ambassador Nabeela Al Mulla (Author)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Democracy under siege
  Hybrid event
  A. C. Grayling (Principal of Northeastern University London), Dr Leor Zmigrod (Political Psychologist and Neuroscientist), Dr Julia Ebner (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Democratic resistance to illiberalism in Hungary and Serbia
  IN COOPERATION WITH SEESOX
  Eric Gordy (University College London), Jessie Barton Hronešová (University College London), Zoltán Ádám (ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest & Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Book launch - The End of Europe: A Global History of European Integration
  TBA
  TORCH Labour Network
• 17:30 - Decoding Democracy: Politics, Data and AI
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 26 November 2025

• 17:15 - Towards a Freer and more Open Indo-Pacific: The Takaichi Administration and its quest towards enhancing FOIP
  Kotaro Katsuki (Embassy of Japan to the United Kingdom)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 12:30 - The Politics of Deference by International Courts
  Theresa Squatrito (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 14:00 - An introduction to the UK Civil Service and routes from academia into science policy
  Dr Helena Dodd (FCDO, UK Government)
  Pandemic Sciences Institute seminar series
• 16:00 - Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID) Workshop
  Naji Safadi (University of Oxford), Joseph Ward (University of Oxford)
  Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID)
• 17:00 - After the Break: How Brexit Reshaped Britain’s Power and Prosperity
  Professor Anand Menon (King’s College London), John Springford (Centre for European Reform)
  Europeanist Society Oxford
• 18:00 - How to Pause AI Development
  Joseph Miller (University of Oxford, PauseAI)
  PauseAI Oxford

Friday 28 November 2025

• 13:00 - Regime Loyalty during Wartime: Evidence from Nazi Germany
  Sascha Riaz (EUI)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 19:30 - Lobito-Bound: the high-stakes story of Africa’s next geopolitical frontier
  Sam Williams (Wolfson College), Tulinabo Mushingi (U.S. Ambassador to Angola), Marcia Veiga (BBC World Service)

Saturday 29 November 2025

• 17:00 - Warfare and Solidarity: On the Frontline of Europe’s Defence in Ukraine
  EUSOC members only
  Jonas Ohman (Blue/Yellow)
  Europeanist Society Oxford

Monday 1 December 2025

• 16:00 - Strange Fruit in Comparative Perspective: Hierarchy and Ethnic Violence in India and Beyond
  Dan Naseemulah (University of Oxford)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Seize the city, undo the state: the inception of Russia’s war on Ukraine
  Professor Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor University)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:30 - Precision Warfare: AI, Genomics, and the Future of Biosecurity
  TBA
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 13:30 - NATO - Deterrence and peace in Europe through design or luck
  Angus MacIntyre (CCW & RAF)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:15 - The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity
  Dr Yair Wallach (SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Backlash against green energy infrastructure: Experimental survey evidence from France, Germany, Norway, and the UK
  Patrick Bayer (University of Glasgow)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:15 - Inaugural JRF in Peace Studies Seminar: Combatant Experiences in Multi-Ethnic Extremist Groups: Identity and Allegiance in Boko Haram
  Inaugural Seminar 5.00 for 5.15 pm in the Simpkins Lee Theatre at LMH, followed by a celebratory drinks reception in the Monson Room. The Levin Junior Research Fellowship in Peace Studies, the first Peace Studies post in the history of Oxford, is named in memory of Jerry and Sis Levin, who dedicated their lives to the search for peace following Jerry Levin’s kidnapping in Beirut in the 1980s while he was CNN’s bureau chief. Endowed by the Levins’ children, the Fellowship is intended to support the research aspirations of an outstanding early-career academic, while also strengthening connections between scholarship and the wider national and international community.
  Dr Makena Micheni (University of Oxford)
  OxPeace Events
• 20:30 - After Exit: Assessing the Consequences of the Withdrawal of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
  Dr Richard Caplan (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Strategic Studies Group Seminars

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 12:30 - GROW: Unlocking Innovation: Problem-Solution-Fit for STEM Ventures
  Various Speakers
• 17:15 - The loyalties of professionals: Black soldiers in the Rhodesian army, 1963-1981
  M T Howard (Independent Scholar)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 12:30 - Collective Reciprocity and the Failure of Climate Change Mitigation Treaties
  Sam Housekeeper (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Student and youth European activism in times of democratic backsliding and rising populism
  Valentin Dupouey-Sterdyniak (College of Europe)
  Europeanist Society Oxford

Monday 19 January 2025

• 17:00 - The logic of Russian disinformation narratives during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
  Prof Katri Pynnöniemi (Helsinki University)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Monday 26 January 2025

• 17:00 - Militarisation, patriotic mobilisation and the societal impact of war in Russia
  Dr Elena Racheva (University of Manchester)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Wednesday 28 January 2025

• 17:15 - A model occupation. German occupational policy in Brussels and its impact on the First World War - and beyond
  Samuël Kruizinga (UV Amsterdam)
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 2 February 2025

• 17:00 - From sovereigns to servants: how the war against Ukraine has reshaped Russia’s elite
  Dr Alexandra Prokopenko (ZOiS, Berlin)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Monday 9 February 2025

• 17:00 - Russian instrumental use of international law towards Ukraine and the wider post-Soviet region
  Prof Rilka Dragneva-Lewers (University of Birmingham)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Wednesday 11 February 2025

• 17:15 - Mercenaries for Peace: Masculinity, Internationalism, and Pleasure on the Front Lines of Peacekeeping
  Margot Tudor (City)
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 16 February 2025

• 17:00 - Navigating power shifts: Russia and the growing asymmetrical relationship with China
  Dr Marcin Kaczmarski (University of Glasgow)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Monday 23 February 2025

• 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

Wednesday 25 February 2025

• 17:15 - Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
  Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 2 March 2025

• 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

Monday 9 March 2025

• 17:00 - Audiences of repression: defiant dissent and public opinion in Russia
  Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya (Brasenose College)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Wednesday 11 March 2025

• 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