CCW Recommended Seminars
Talks:

Friday 5 December 2025

Institutions and individuals in the Russian foreign policy-making process
Date: 5 December 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Anton Barbashin (Editor, Riddle Russia)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Magdalena Leichtova (St Antony's College, Oxford), Dr Julie Newton (St Antony's College, Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

CANCELLED: Cooperating, Challenging, Communicating: Reflections on Five Years of Diplomacy in Beijing
Date: 5 December 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dame Caroline Wilson
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Monday 15 December 2025

MPLS Researcher Conference: AI & Ethics - January 15th 2026
Date: 15 December 2025, 17:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Professor Tom Stoneham (University of York), Dr Heloise Stevance (Schmidt AI in Science Fellow, University of Oxford), Professor Gemma Derrick (AI, Ethics & Research Culture, University of Bristol.), Dr Caroline Green (AI & Ethics Institute, Oxford.)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: On booking
Organisers: Natia Sopromadze (Research Culture Facilitator, University of Oxford), Professor Dimitra Rigopoulou (University of Oxford), Dr Justin Hutchence (MPLS Division)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 January 2025

The logic of Russian disinformation narratives during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Date: 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Katri Pynnöniemi (Helsinki University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 January 2025

Militarisation, patriotic mobilisation and the societal impact of war in Russia
Date: 26 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Elena Racheva (University of Manchester)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 January 2025

A model occupation. German occupational policy in Brussels and its impact on the First World War - and beyond
Date: 28 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Samuël Kruizinga (UV Amsterdam)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 February 2025

From sovereigns to servants: how the war against Ukraine has reshaped Russia’s elite
Date: 2 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Alexandra Prokopenko (ZOiS, Berlin)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 February 2025

Russian instrumental use of international law in its war against Ukraine and in the wider post-Soviet region
Date: 9 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Rilka Dragneva-Lewers (University of Birmingham)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 February 2025

Mercenaries for Peace: Masculinity, Internationalism, and Pleasure on the Front Lines of Peacekeeping
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Margot Tudor (City)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 February 2025

Navigating power shifts: Russia and the growing asymmetrical relationship with China
Date: 16 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Marcin Kaczmarski (University of Glasgow)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 February 2025

Politics in Ukraine: how resilient is Ukraine four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion?
Date: 23 February 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Andrew Wilson (UCL-SSEES)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organiser: Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 February 2025

Male bodies for the fatherland. Invalidity and self-mutilation in the eighteenth-century Habsburg monarchy
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Julia Heinemann (Antwerp)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 March 2025

Preferences over contested territory: evidence from a new survey experiment in Ukraine
Date: 2 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Dr Carl Müller-Crepon (LSE), Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2025

Audiences of repression: defiant dissent and public opinion in Russia
Date: 9 March 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya (Brasenose College)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Auditorium
Organisers: Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2025

Postgraduate Presentations
Date: 11 March 2026, 10:00 - 14:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Room 20.513, Schwarzman Centre, Oxford OX2 6GG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
China Centre Conversation series
China Centre talks
Cyber Strategy and Technology Studies Working Group
Cyber Strategy and Tech Statecraft
Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times
Europeanist Society Oxford
European Studies Seminar
Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series
Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
History of War
History of War Seminar Series
International Relations of China
IR Research Colloquium
Israel Studies Seminar
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
OSSG Weekly Talks
Oxford Conservative Thought Reading Group
Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
Oxford International Relations Society
Oxford Smart Space Series
Oxford Strategic Studies Group Seminars
Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar
Philosophy, AI, and Innovation Seminar
RESC Monday Seminar
RESC Monday Seminar, Hilary Term 2024
RESC Monday Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2023
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Sovereignty and its Discontents (SAID)
Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence
The 2022 Leverhulme Lectures - Civil Wars in Europe 1912-1949
The Present and Future of US Politics
Transformative Justice for the Post-COVID Transition: Insights from Leaders of Transitional Countries