Friday 21 February 2025

• 17:00 - The chaos (fawḍà) Bashshar al-Asad warned against – Damascus University 10th November 2005 – and present-day Syria
  Professor Johannes Waardenburg (IULM)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 24 February 2025

• 16:00 - The Axis of Resistance and the Collapse of the Unity of Fronts Strategy
  Liz Sly (former Washington Post Middle East bureau chief)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Trump vs Putin: Security in the Age of Populism
  Rt Hon Lord Bates ((Minister of State at the Department for International Development, 2016 – 2019, and Minister of State at the Home Office, 2015 – 2016)), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College), Edward Stringer ((Formerly Director General of the Defence Academy, Director General of Joint Force Development – Strategic Command, and Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff))
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
• 17:00 - Preventing the Use of AI Systems by Terrorist & Violent Extremists, Hostile Foreign States, and Organized Crime
  Broderick McDonald (Kings College London)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 13:30 - China's Private Security Sector at a Crossroads: From Pakistan to Myanmar.
  Dr Alessandro Arduino (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Roundtable discussion on pre-modern Chinese diplomacy
  Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Song-Chuan Chen (University of Warwick), Dr Thomas Barrett (University of Cambridge), Dr Jacob Fordham (LSE)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 17:00 - Women’s Religious Leadership in Morocco: A Catalyst for Mudawana Reform
  Dr Sawsene Nejjar (OSGA, University of Oxford)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars
• 17:30 - Bletchley Park Week: The Secret Lives of Women at Bletchley Park Lecture
  Various Speakers
• 17:30 - Bletchley Park Week: The Secret Lives of Women at Bletchley Park Lecture
  Paddy O’Connell, Mary Heneghan
• 20:30 - OSSG: The Black Brant Scare: Early Warning, Nuclear Alerts, and the 1995 Rocket Incident
  TBA
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 12:00 - Bletchley Park Week: Writing the 'Missing' History of Women in Intelligence
  Yasmin Khan (Kellogg College, Oxford), Dr Sarah-Louise Miller (Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of History), Dr Claire Hubbard-Hall (Professor of Modern History based at the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford)
• 12:45 - Spread the Word: Mass Media, Language and Propaganda in Fascist Italy
  Maxence Castiello (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 16:00 - Relational Dynamics of Liberation and Land in Sudan, Syria, and Palestine
  Registration required for this event. Please use the following teams form: https://forms.office.com/e/1Fzd0PBcp4
  Dr Ammar Azzouz, Dr Nisrin Elamin
  Geographies of Solidarity and Palestine
• 16:00 - The odds of a decision
  Professor Matteo Carandini (University College London)
• 17:00 - Towards re-decentralising the Web: an ethical web and data infrastructure
  Professor Ruben Verborgh (Ghent University), Sir Tim Berners-Lee (University of Oxford), Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:15 - What was Grand Strategy in World War II—a look at the US policy of "Germany First"
  Philips Payson O'Brien (St Andrews)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 10:30 - Opportunities and Challenges of Navigating Fieldwork as Insider and Outsider Fieldworkers
  Tsovinar Kuiumchian (University of Oxford), Professor Roger Goodman (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Guilherme Figueiredo (University of Oxford), Alaba Angole (University of Oxford), Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
  Social Sciences Division Trainng Workshops - Fieldwork Perspectives Series
• 15:00 - Title TBC
  Haydn Belfield (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Remorse-Proneness, AI Alignment, and Artificial Moral Psychology
  Places limited for in-person attendance. To register for in-person attendance, please contact pyi.kyaw@ames.ox.ac.uk. Online attendance via Teams. Meeting ID: 354 964 053 222 Passcode: 4Sm2zg66
  Charles Goodman (Binghamton University)
  Colloquium on Buddhism and AI
• 17:00 - The US-China Conflict and a Divided Southeast Asia: Implications for Taiwan
  Professor Thitinan Pongsudhirak (Chulalongkorn University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)
• 17:30 - Bletchley Park Week: The Truth Behind the Myths: Women and Bletchley Park
  Dr Sarah-Louise Miller (Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of History), Sir Dermot Turing (Kellogg College), Dr David Kenyon (Bletchley Park Trust), Michael Smith (Princeton University)

Friday 28 February 2025

• 17:00 - *CANCELLED* Public opinion in Palestine since 7 October
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Khalil Shikaki (Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 3 March 2025

• 16:00 - Rethinking Civil Wars in Light of the Syrian conflict
  Jerome Drevon (International Crisis Group)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 13:30 - The Impact of AI & Emerging Technologies on Future Defence Strategy
  Dr Robert Hercock (British Telecommunications Security Research Practice)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins
  Dr Max Gallien (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)
  Book Talks
• 20:30 - OSSG: Threats in Urban Environments Posed by the Proliferation of Modified Commercially Available UAVs by Asymmetrical Warfare Actors.
  TBA
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:15 - General Hastings ‘Pug’ Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat
  Sir John Kiszely
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 15:00 - The Ethics of AI for Intelligence
  Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford), Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 7 March 2025

• 17:00 - From Jihad to Politics: How Syrian Jihadis Embraced Politics
  Dr Jerome Drevon (Senior Analyst, Crisis Group)
  Book Talks

Monday 10 March 2025

• 16:00 - Local Security Provision and Return from Forced Displacement: Evidence from South Sudan
  Andrea Caflisch (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 13:30 - Cyber Sovereignty and the EU’s Securitisation
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Understanding Syria through Syrian Voices: Refugees’ Stories of Revolution, War, and the Struggle for Home
  Professor Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
  Book Talks
• 20:30 - OSSG: Seapower and Statecraft
  Dr Kevin Rowlands (Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre)
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 15:00 - Hacktivism? Predatory Sparrow and the Ambiguities of “Ethical” Cyber Operations
  After: Oxford Technology & Security Nexus End of Term Social
  Hannah Sophie-Weber (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 14 March 2025

• 17:00 - Do we really owe Arabs nothing?
  Professor Fouad Laroui (Professor of epistemology and writer)
  Friday Seminars

Saturday 15 March 2025

• 10:00 - The Roles of Women's and Civil Society Activism in Sudan and South Sudan
  Various Speakers

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2025:
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Christine Ahn (Women Cross DMZ), Dan Leaf (former United States Air Force officer)

Friday 9 May 2025

• 17:00 - After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
  Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)
  Friday Seminars