Saturday 15 November 2025

• 14:00 - Richard Holmes Memorial Lecture 2025: Atrocity, justice and reconciliation in the English Civil War
  Dr Ismini Pells (Oxford)

Monday 17 November 2025

• 11:30 - The Justice Trap: the politics of war crimes accountability in Uganda’s modern authoritarian regime
  Light lunch will be provided for those attending in person.
  Anna Macdonald (University of East Anglia)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Divided We Stand? Identity Strategies in the Wake of Conflict
  Ceren Lord (University of Oxford)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - To feed and to mobilize: land reform in early Soviet Uzbekistan
  Dr Beatrice Penati (University of Liverpool)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:30 - How LLMs Understand Text: Context and Meaning in the AI Age
  Dominik Lukeš (AI and ML Competency)
  Kellogg and AI Learning Lectures
• 17:30 - Globally Critical Infrastructure: Sovereignty, Security, and Emerging Fault Lines
  Zachary Kallenborn (KCL)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 13:30 - The End of Cybersecurity: An Optimist’s Guide to Fixing the Global Software Quality Problem
  Please note a change in venue: Now hosted in Pembroke College. All Welcome.
  Jen Easterly (former Director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA))
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Intersecting Penalties: Reproducing Inequality Among Palestinian Middle-Class Women
  Professor Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 16:00 - Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War
  Co-hosted with Maison Française d'Oxford - please note venue address below.
  Catherine Dom (Independent)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - Law Unbound? Asylum and migration law in the UK post-Brexit
  IN COOPERATION WITH THE REFUGEE STUDIES CENTRE
  Catherine Barnard (Trinity College, Cambridge), Cathryn Costello (University College Dublin), Fiona Costello (St Edmund’s College, Cambridge), Steve Peers (University of London)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Europe's Survival and the Politics of Zeitenwende
  Johannes Volkmann (German Parliament (Bundestag))
  Europeanist Society Oxford
• 17:30 - Military Innovation, Harsh Realities: Lessons from Recent Conflicts with Eitan Shamir
  Professor Eitan Shamir (Director, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 20:30 - Title TBC
  Tom Sharpe OBE (Royal Navy (Retd))
  Oxford Strategic Studies Group Seminars

Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 11:10 - Book Talk: 'Nationalism: A World History'
  Please note this seminar is in the Ruskin Room not the Kloppenburg Room
  Eric Storm (University of Leiden), Discussant: Faisal Devji (Balliol College, Oxford), Discussant: Abigail Green (Brasenose College, Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
• 14:00 - Spatial Ecology of War and Peace: Perspective of Global Networked Tipping Dynamics
  See more information at https://metrics-and-models.github.io/!
  Weisi Guo (Centre for Autonomous and Cyber-Physical Systems, Cranfield University)
  Metrics and Models
• 14:00 - War, Empire, and Displacement
  Megan Hamilton (King's College London), James Hua (University of Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Oxford Martin AI Govenance Initiative Annual Social
  Dr Robert Trager (University of Oxford), Fazl Barez (University of Oxford), Dr Marta Ziosi (Oxford Martin School), Rivka Mitchell (University of Oxford), Dr Toby Ord (University of Oxford), Dr Isaac Friend (University of Oxford), Nicholas Caputo (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Making Sense of the Fourth Plenum & China’s New Five-Year Plan
  Dr Yu Jie (Chatham House)
  China Centre talks
• 17:15 - Art in the Age of the Maxim Gun: The South African War (1899-1902) and the British Illustrated Press
  Sean Wilcox (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 12:30 - Norms, Practices, and Change in a Planetary Era
  Professor Inken Von Borzyskowski (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Mortality and Starvation in the Gaza Strip: Epidemiological Methods, Uncertainties, and Interpretations
  Hybrid
  Dr Zeina Jamaluddine (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  DSPI Michaelmas Term Seminar Series 2025

Friday 21 November 2025

• 12:00 - Beyond Rivalry: How Americans and Chinese View Global Justice
  Professor Xiaojun Li (The University of British Columbia)
  China Centre talks
• 13:00 - Book launch panel: United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism (Oxford University Press, 2025)
  Co-sponsors: IR Network (DPIR), OxPeace
  Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading), Birte Julia Gippert (University of Liverpool), Kseniya Oksamytna (City St. George's, University of Liverpool), Oisín Tansey (King's College, London), Chair: John Gledhill (Oxford Department of International Development)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 14:00 - Civil Wars and the End of the Cold War: Hypotheses for Global History
  Jeremy Adelman (Princeton & Cambridge)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar

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
• 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

• 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 - 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

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
• 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

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, Genomic Targeting, 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
• 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

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