Monday 5 May 2025

• 16:00 - Redistribution after War: Evidence from the US Reconstruction
  Megan Stewart (Michigan)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Russia and the changing character of conflict
  Professor Tracey German (Kings College London)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 13:30 - Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
  Jonathan Carroll (Sandhurst)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Love, Pride, Fear, and Happiness: Zionism as a Case Study for 'National Emotions'
  Dr Yair Berlin (University of Cambridge)
  Israel Studies Seminar Trinity Term 2025
• 16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Inquiry Complex
  Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 17:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran (University of Cambridge)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Research Ethics and the Study of Armed Actors
  Joint Event, OxPeace with DPIR. Followed by drinks reception
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Christine Cheng (KCL), Dr Ibrahim Bangura (University of Oxford), Dr Gloriana Rodriguez (KCL), Prof. Niloufer Siddiqui (SUNY-Albany)
  OxPeace Events
• 17:00 - The Long Disenchantment: Reassessing UK-EU Relations from Accession to Brexit
  Ilaria Poggiolini (Università di Pavia), Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Research Ethics and the Study of Armed Actors
  Dr Ibrahim Bangura (Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone), Dr Christine Cheng (Department of War Studies, King's College London), Dr John Gledhill (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 17:00 - "AI and Peacemaking: Rethinking Conflict Resolution in the Digital Age" Discussion Panel
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - The EU in the Age of Trump: Evolution, Expansion, and the UK’s Diminishing Role?
  Jonathan Freedland (Columnist for The Guardian newspaper)
  Europeanist Society Oxford
• 17:15 - Swiss Mercenaries in the Dutch East Indies: A Trans-imperial History of Military Labour, 1848–1914
  Philipp Krauer (Cantonal Archives Schwyz)
  History of War
• 17:30 - Book Launch and Panel Discussion - Every Monument Will Fall: A story of remembering and forgetting
  Dan Hicks (Oxford), Chair: John Schofield (York)

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 15:00 - Emergent Prestige and Status-Seeking Dynamics in International AI Competition
  Kayla Blomquist (The Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, the Secret Police, and Social Order in Cold War Europe
  Henry Thomson (Arizona State)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2025: 'How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding'
  Christine Ahn (Institute for Policy Studies), Lt Gen (Ret) Dan Leaf (US Air Force)

Friday 9 May 2025

• 14:00 - The Problem of Nationalism
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 15:00 - Toward an Inclusive Archaeological and Historical Narrative of Palestine
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Singapore’s cybersecurity playbook
  This is a hybrid event
  David Koh (Singapore Commissioner of Cybersecurity), Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government)

Saturday 10 May 2025

• 08:30 - The Oxford AI Forum
  Various Speakers

Monday 12 May 2025

• 16:00 - Elite Rivalry, Mass Killing and Genocide in Authoritarian Regimes: Why Autocrats Kill
  Eelco van der Maat (Leiden)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Russia, China and the 'Global South'
  Dr Natasha Kuhrt (King's College London)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Privacy and the Future of AI
  Professor Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell), Carina Peng (Apple)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 17:00 - Sacrificial Intimacies: The Value of Life, Labor, and Desire in Queer Kurdish Worlds
  Dr Emrah Karakuş (LSE)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 17:15 - Scaling Innovation in Defence – an agile approach
  Blythe Crawford (RAF & CCW)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 15:00 - AI Safety in Practice: Safeguarding Against Real-World Misuse and Near-Term Harms
  Broderick McDonald (Kings College London)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
  Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Friday 16 May 2025

• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Philip Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 19 May 2025

• 16:00 - Consociationalism: from democracy to ethnoi-cracy?
  Nenad Stojanovic (Geneva)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Explaining Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine
  Dr Elias Götz (Royal Danish Defence College)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 13:30 - Hybrid Warfare
  Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Decentralization in Science & AI
  Vincent Weisser (Prime Intellect)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 17:00 - The World After Gaza
  Pankaj Mishra
  Book Talks

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:15 - Environmental and Medical Legacies of the East Asian War of 1592-1598
  Duan Baihui (Lancaster)
  History of War

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 15:00 - Strategic Instability: A Practitioner’s Perspective on Narratives Fueling the Conventional and Emerging Tech
  Karuna Nandkumar (Oxford China Policy Lab)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 23 May 2025

• 17:00 - The Devaki Jain Lecture
  Rana Husseini (author, journalist and activist)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 26 May 2025

• 16:00 - Bringing War Back In
  Luis Schenoni (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Russia's relations with the USA
  Dr Ruth Deyermond (King's College London)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 13:30 - African Military Thought
  Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: Collective Intelligence
  Ivan Vendrov (Midjourney)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 17:00 - Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
  Dr Haroon Bashir (Markfield Institute of Higher Education)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 17:00 - NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out
  This will be a hybrid event with attendance in person and online. To attend online, please complete the booking form to receive the Zoom link.
  Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University), Soheir Asaad (Palestinian lawyer and activist)
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 29 May 2025

• 15:00 - Security Profile of Network Infrastructure in the High North and the Baltic Sea – Prospects for continued NATO-EU collaboration
  Anniki Mikelsaar (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Bridging the gap between research and policy in international affairs: A practitioner’s perspective
  Giulio Venneri (Luiss School of Government)
  European Studies Seminar

Friday 30 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Samer Abdelnour (University of Edinburgh Business School)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 2 June 2025

• 16:00 - Perpetrators of Mass Violence: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?
  Alette Smeulers (Amsterdam)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Russia and ASEAN in the Indo-Pacific
  Dr Paradorn Rangsimaporn (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Thailand)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: The Habermas Machine
  Professor Chris Summerfield (University of Oxford), Michael Henry Tessler (Google Deepmind)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 17:00 - States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
  Professor Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 17:15 - Empires in Flux: The Global Impact of the Napoleonic Wars
  Alexander Mikaberidze (Louisiana State University Shreveport)
  History of War

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 15:00 - The Securitisation of AI Safety Institutes
  Renan Araujo (Institute for AI Policy and Strategy)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 16:00 - Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar: AI and Human Autonomy
  Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Dr Bethanie Drake-Maples (Stanford HAI)
  Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
• 17:00 - Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar
  Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network), Professor Jeroen Gunning (King's College London)

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 15:00 - Budgeting for AI: Towards a Systematic Understanding of the Impact of Public Budgeting on Public Sector AI Adoption
  Chloe Chadwick (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)

Monday 16 June 2025

• 16:00 - Organized Political Violence in Greece, 2003-2019: Comparing the Far Right and the Far Left
  Lamprini Rori (Athens)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series