Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 17:15 - New Work in Progress Workshop: Modern
  Louis Halewood, Jack Doyle, Jon Askonas
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 May 2016

• 17:15 - Gender and the History of War (Joint Session with the Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity)
  Karen Hagermann (UNC Chapell Hill/ Netherland Institute for Advanced Study)
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 23 May 2016

• 17:00 - Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics
  Professor Joseph Sassoon (Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University)

Wednesday 1 June 2016

• 17:15 - "Come forward and help us in this emergency": The response of the British Red Cross to Conscription and the Battle of the Somme
  Rosemary Wall (Hull University)
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 June 2016

• 17:15 - New Work in Progress Workshop: Early Modern: The "Artillery Revolution" in the Burgundian Low Countries. Artillery in the Early Modern Anglo-Scottish Border Region. Confession in the Armies of the Thirty Years War. Religion in the Late Stuart Army
  Michael Depreter, Tom Boyd, Ryan Crimmins, Liao Ping
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• 17:15 - Is it Gucci? What Mundane Technologies tell us about Military Innovation and the Balance of Power in the Military Industrial Complex
  Matthew Ford (Sussex)
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 November 2016

• 17:15 - New approaches to early modern warfare
  Lucia Staiano-Daniels (UCLA), Adam Storring (Cambridge), Andrew Tzavaras (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The New Turkey and its Discontents
  A drinks reception will follow the talk
  Emre Caliskan (St Antony's College, Oxford), Simon A. Waldman (King’s College London)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - Violence in the Russian Civil War 1918-21
  Stephen Smith (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 November 2016

• 17:15 - War Elephants and Tanks: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient and Modern Warfare
  Alaric Searle (Salford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• 17:15 - The Culture of Naval Warfare c.1845-1945
  Nicholas Rodger (University of Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 February 2017

• 17:15 - 1. Making the System Work: Incorporating Cultural Values in the formation of Roman Auxiliary Cavalry/ 2. “Not only in Judaea”: Josephus on Roman civil war in the Jewish War/ 3. Conscription and Marriage in the Army of Joseph II
  Haley Flagg (St Andrews), Ursula Westwood (University of Oxford), Ilya Berkovich (Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich)
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 17:15 - From Defeat to Triumph and then Oblivion: Free French Forces at Stake during World War II
  Guillaume Piketty (Sciences Po)
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 March 2017

• 17:15 - Military History and Teaching War
  Jennie Kiesling (US Military Academy, West Point)
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 May 2017

• 17:15 - Armies and Communities in England 1660-1714
  Hannah Smith (University of Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 13:00 - 'Russia's views on and adaptation to the Changing Character of War'
  Dr Katazyna Zysk
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 May 2017

• 17:15 - New Work in Progress: Military-Civil Relations 1800-1918
  Vittoria Princi (University of Oxford), Terrance Cudbird (University of Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 12:00 - 'Brand Warfare and the Demobilization of FARC Rebels in Colombia'
  Dr Alex Fattal (Penn State)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 31 May 2017

• 17:15 - Networks of Knowledge Exchange in the Eighteenth Century British Army
  Huw Davies (King’s College London)
  History of War Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 17:15 - British Naval Contracting 1815-1860: from Contractor State to Laissez-Faire State?
  Martin Wilcox (University of Hull)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 13 October 2017

• 17:00 - Israel under Siege: The politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right
  Raffaella Del Sarto (SAIS)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 17:15 - The British Fiasco in Norway 1940
  Sir John Kiszely
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 20 October 2017

• 17:00 - The Islamic Enlightenment: The Modern Struggle between Faith and Reason
  Christopher de Bellaigue
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 17:15 - Capital connections: The Dutch fiscal-naval state in comparative perspective (17th-18th centuries)
  Pepijn Brandon (International Institute of Social History, NL)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 3 November 2017

• 17:00 - Governing Divided Egypt
  Robert Springborg (King's College, London)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 10 November 2017

• 17:00 - Martial Arts in the Middle East
  Hatsuki Aishima (National Museum of Ethnology, Japan)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 17:15 - Occupation and Empire: The Global Dynamics of the Illiberal Wartime State during the First World War
  John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 17 November 2017

• 17:00 - Yemen in Crisis: Autocracy, Neo-Liberalism and the Disintegration of a State
  Helen Lackner (London Middle East Institute)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Friday 24 November 2017

• 17:00 - Are Algerian politics exhausted?
  Hugh Roberts (Tufts University)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 November 2017

• 17:15 - Rebuilding Landscapes, Reconstructing Lives: Brandenburg after the Thirty Years War
  Mary Lindemann (Miami)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 1 December 2017

• 17:00 - The policy implications of President Rouhani 's second term
  Roham Alvandi (LSE), Amir Paivar (BBC)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 24 January 2018

• 17:15 - The Ancient Face of Battle
  Please be aware, this paper will include video clips depicting violent acts, both simulated and actual
  Adrastos Omissi (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Monday 29 January 2018

• 13:00 - The Mladić Case before the ICTY – an Insider’s Perspective
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Jonas Nilsson (International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY))
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 12:30 - A Theory of Treatymaking
  A sandwich lunch is booked according to numbers. Please email andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk if you would like to be included in the sandwich order.
  James Morrow (University of Michigan)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 5 February 2018

• 13:00 - The Right to Life, UN Rules of Engagement and Use of Deadly Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Professor Siobhán Wills (Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - "It Stays With You: Use of Force by UN Peacekeepers in Haiti" Film Screening and Discussion
  All attendees are invited to a drinks reception
  Professor Siobhán Wills (Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 17:15 - U.S. Armor Doctrine in World War II
  Bradley Thayer (Tallinn)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 12:30 - Religion Within Global International Society
  (Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
  Andrew Hurrell (Balliol College)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 12 February 2018

• 13:00 - The UN in Kosovo: Building the Rule of Law and Respect for Human Rights, a Very Mixed Record
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Bill O’Neill (UN Mission in Kosovo)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 February 2018

• 12:30 - “Delayed Disclosure”: National Security, Whistle-blowers and the Crisis of Secrecy
  Richard J. Aldrich (University of Warwick), Christopher R. Moran (University of Warwick)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 12:30 - Winning or Losing in Investor-to-State Dispute Resolution: The Role of Arbitrator Bias and Experience
  The sandwich lunch is booked according to numbers. Please write to andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk by 10am on Tuesday 13 January if you’d like to be included in the sandwich order.
  Eric Neumayer (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 19 February 2018

• 13:00 - Genocide on Trial. Witnessing and Evidence at Rwanda's Gacaca Courts and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Dr Julia Viebach (Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 February 2018

• 17:00 - "No Place for a Rebel": Film Screening and Discussion
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 17:15 - War and the British Warfare State in the Twentieth Century
  David Edgerton (KCL)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 12:30 - How Legislatures Discuss Violence: The Case of Nigeria
  The sandwich lunch is booked according to numbers. Please email andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk by noon on Tuesday 20 January if you’d like to be included in the sandwich order.
  Kazuhiro Obayashi (Hitotsubashi University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 26 February 2018

• 13:00 - Voice, Agency and Responsibility in Northern Ireland
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm.
  Dr Cheryl Lawther (Queen’s University Belfast)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 February 2018

• 12:30 - From ICBMs to Instagram: The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Nuclear Escalation and Arms Control
  Heather Williams (King’s College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 12:30 - From Claims to Violence: Signaling, Outbidding and Escalation in Ethnic Conflict
  Sandwiches will be available at the session!
  Manuel Vogt (UCL)
  IR Research Colloquium

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 17:15 - "We feared only that they might run away" - Three Failed Assaults in the Russian Conquest of Central Asia, 1852 - 1879
  Alexander Morrison (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 12:30 - Our Weapons, Our Problem: Civil Society, Domestic Policy and Arms Exports in the UK
  Sandwiches will be available at the session!
  Rodrigo Moraes (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 24 April 2018

• 13:00 - Artificial intelligence, Robotics and Conflict
  Al Brown (US Ministry of Defence)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 12:30 - “Filthy Lapdogs”, “Stooges” and “Little Rocket Man”: Making Sense of International Insults
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Stephane J. Baele (University of Exeter)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 30 April 2018

• 13:00 - European Union and Democratisation: Backsliding in Tow of Unsuccessful Conditionality?
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Dr Katarína Šipulová (Judicial Studies Institute, Masaryk University Brno)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 May 2018

• 13:00 - Cyber Strategy: The Evolution of Cyber Power and Coercion
  Dr Brandon Valeriano (Marine Corps University)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Lecture: Arab Media in the New Age
  George Hawatmeh ((Jordan Radio and Television Corporation))

Wednesday 2 May 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Mercenaries, Militiamen, and Modernity: the Rhetoric of Military Reform in Nassau c. 1580-1620’ & 'Another Attempt at Greatness: Swedish finances and administration in occupied Poland (1655-1657)’
  Louis Morris (Oxford), Alex Turchyn (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 3 May 2018

• 12:30 - Islamic Law and International Law: Peaceful Resolution of Disputes
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Emilia Justyna Powell (University of Notre Dame)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Film screening: Nasser's Republic, The making of Modern Egypt
  Michal Goldman (Director)

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 13:00 - Offensive Cyber, Ecology and the Competition for Security in Cyberspace: The United Kingdom’s Approach
  Graham Fairclough (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 13:00 - International Criminal Law and Border Control: The Expressive Role of the Deportation and Extradition of Rwandan Citizens
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Dr Nicola Palmer (King's College London)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Friday 11 May 2018

• 17:00 - Film screening: 1948
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Monday 14 May 2018

• 13:00 - Book colloquium: Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Gwen Burnyeat (University College London), Dr Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 May 2018

• 13:00 - North Korea's Hidden Revolution
  Jieun Baek (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Forged Through Fire: War and the Democratic Bargain?’
  Frances McCall Rosenbluth (Yale)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 17 May 2018

• 12:30 - Throwing Back the Boomerang? Norm Diffusion, Social Opprobrium, and Great Power Behaviour in the United Nations
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Carlotta Minnella (University of Oxford), Swapna Pathak (Oberlin College)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 18 May 2018

• 17:00 - Film Screening: Through Ottoman Eyes
  Umran Safter (Director)

Monday 21 May 2018

• 13:00 - Amnesties and Inclusive Political Settlements
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Professor Louise Mallinder (Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 May 2018

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar: The Archaeology of Experience of Domestic Violence against women in Iran
  Shahla Tizro (York St John University)

Thursday 24 May 2018

• 12:30 - The Nature of Realism
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Patrick James (University of Southern California)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 28 May 2018

• 13:00 - A Glimpse Into Contested Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in Peru: The Forced Sterilization of Indigenous Women
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
  Dr Ñusta Carranza Ko (Ohio Northern University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 May 2018

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar: Tale of two Omani women
  Deena Al Asfoor (St Catherine's College)
• 17:15 - ‘Glamping with Guns: Louis XIV, the Camp of Compiègne and the Origins of the Modern Military Exercise’
  Guy Rowlands (St Andrews)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 31 May 2018

• 12:30 - The UN and its Discontents: The Sociology of an International Organisation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  David M. Malone (Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations & Rector of the UN University), Rupert Burridge (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Thursday 7 June 2018

• 12:30 - Breaking Deadlock? Efforts to Meet Half-way in Norm Contestation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Anette Stimmer (University of Oxford), Samuel Ramani (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Moncef Marzouki (Former President of Tunisia)

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 14:00 - Lecture-The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary
  Ella Shohat (New York University)
• 17:00 - Book Event: On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements
  Ella Shohat (New York University)
• 17:15 - ‘Royal Engineers, Railways, and the Retreat: Longmoor's Role in Delaying the Japanese Advance through Burma in 1942’
  Michael Charney (SOAS)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 14 June 2018

• 12:30 - Prisoners of the Past: A Narrative Theory of International Cooperation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Mareike Kleine (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 14:30 - Workshop: Memory, Memoirs, and History
  Ella Shohat (New York University), Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)

Monday 8 October 2018

• 13:00 - The ICC Rohingya Case: Radical or Routine?
  The talk will begin at 13:15, light sandwich lunch will be served from 13:00
  Prof Payam Akhavan (McGill University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 October 2018

• 13:00 - Introducing the Changing Character of Conflict Platform Project: New approach to quantitative analysis of protracted conflicts
  Dr Katerina Tkacova (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 11 October 2018

• 12:30 - Trusting Enemies: Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Nick Wheeler (University of Birmingham)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 15 October 2018

• 13:00 - Keynote Seminar: Judge Flavia Lattanzi at OTJR
  The talk will begin at 13:15, light sandwich lunch will be served from 13:00
  Prof Flavia Lattanzi
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 October 2018

• 13:00 - From “All Art is Propaganda” to All Propaganda is Marketing
  Alexander Fattal (University of Pennsylvania)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Remembering and Forgetting Mirambo: Histories of Pre-Colonial War in Modern Africa’
  Richard Reid (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 12:30 - AI Governance: A Research Agenda
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Allan Dafoe (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 19 October 2018

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Lords of the Desert: Britain’s struggle with America to dominate the Middle East
  James Barr ((King's College London))
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 22 October 2018

• 13:00 - ‘Battling for (In)justice: Resurgent Authoritarianism, Ongoing Conflict, and Transitional Justice in the Arab Region’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Dr Noha Aboueldahab (Brookings Doha Center)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 13:00 - The Changing Character of Conflict and the Work of the United Nations on Terrorism
  Elizabeth Joyce (United Nations)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book launch: Khalil Maleki -The Human Face of Iranian Socialism
  Homa Katouzian (Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St Antony's)

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar- Between Love and Lineage: Elopement, Rights and Violence in an Afghan Valley
  Naysan Adlparvar (Yale University)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar

Thursday 25 October 2018

• 12:30 - Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia: How Trade Makes the State
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Christine Cheng (Kings College London)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 26 October 2018

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Preventing Palestine: A political history from Camp David to Oslo
  Seth Anziska (Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 29 October 2018

• 13:00 - ‘Colombian Outcast Youths and the Broken Promises of Transformative Justice’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Elena Butti (CSLS, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 13:00 - Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict: Fighting Impunity in DRC
  Chloe Lewis (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Christian Martyrs under Islam
  Christian C. Sahner (Associate Professor of Islamic History, Faculty of Oriental Studies)

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Testing the “Laws of War”: The Russian Army’s Conduct on the Danube Front in the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War’.
  Peter Holquist (University of Pennsylvania)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 1 November 2018

• 12:30 - The Logic of Illicit Flows in Armed Conflict: Explaining Variation in Violent Non-State Group Interactions
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Annette Idler (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 2 November 2018

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Iraq after the elections: A new beginning? (Panel discussion)
  Renad Mansour (Chatham House), Harith Hasan (Central European University), Hayder al-Khoei (University of Exeter)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 5 November 2018

• 13:00 - Book Launch: ‘When Political Transitions Work: Reconciliation as Interdependence’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Fanie du Toit (UNDP Iraq)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 November 2018

• 13:00 - Gender, State-collapse, Conflict and State-building: Recent Research from the Somali Context
  Change to original programme
  Judith Gardner
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 8 November 2018

• 12:30 - Gunboat Diplomacy: Power and Profit at Sea in the Making of the International System
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jason Sharman (University of Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 9 November 2018

• 17:00 - Film screening and book discussion - Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Fabulous Life and Thought of Ahmad Fardid
  Ali Mirsepassi (Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 12 November 2018

• 13:00 - ‘Reparation for Victims of Mass Atrocities: Reflections on Key Challenges’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Professor Clara Sandoval (University of Essex )
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Between Conservatism and Pragmatism: Crafting a human rights-based approach to HIV/AIDS related services for women in the Middle East
  Dr Kamiar Alaei (Co-president, Institute for International Health and Education)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar

Tuesday 13 November 2018

• 13:00 - Rebel Diplomacy: Territoriality, Identity and the ‘Foreign’ Affairs of Non-State Armed Groups
  Dr David Brenner (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 17:15 - Russian navy 1900-17 & Republican Chinese navy
  Benjamin Eacott (Oxford), Woody Di Wu (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 15 November 2018

• 12:30 - Prohibition, Preference and Prediction: Public Opinion on the Use of Force and Nuclear Weapons
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Scott Sagan (Stanford University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 16 November 2018

• 17:00 - And then God created the Middle East and said let there be breaking news
  Karl Sharro (Architect, satirist and Middle East commentator)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 19 November 2018

• 13:00 - ‘The Legality of Rebel Courts during Non-International Armed Conflicts’
  The talk will commence at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch is served from 13:00.
  Dr Mark Klamberg (Stockholm University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 November 2018

• 13:00 - The law and practice of cross-border humanitarian relief operations: Syria as a case study
  Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Emanuela-Chiara Gilliard (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 22 November 2018

• 12:30 - Compliance and Resistance: Understanding the Agency of Rising Powers
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 23 November 2018

• 17:00 - The future of Israel, its Arab minority and implication for Palestine
  Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera/St Antony's College)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 26 November 2018

• 14:00 - 'The Death of the ICC? The Politics of International Criminal Justice in Africa'
  NB: Please note the time/venue change! Due to increased demand, the event will take place at 2-4pm in The Cube seminar room. Discussants: Prof Payam Akhavan (McGill) and Dr Holly Porter (LSE) Co-hosted with the Oxford Central Africa Forum * A light sandwich lunch is served from 2pm outside of The Cube*
  Dr Phil Clark (SOAS), Prof Payam Akhavan (McGill University), Dr Holly Porter (LSE)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 November 2018

• 13:00 - The Constitution of Illicit Orders: Contested Sovereignty in Territorial Domains
  Dr Christopher Lilyblad (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 17:00 - Sheikh Zayed Book Award: Contemporary Arab Fiction - Event cancelled
  Khalil Sweileh, Abdel Rasheed Mahmoudi
• 17:15 - ‘The Legacy of War: Transitional Justice in Early Modern France’
  David van der Linden (Groningen)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 29 November 2018

• 12:30 - The Art of Diplomacy in an Age of Real-Time Governance
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jennifer Cassidy (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 30 November 2018

• 17:00 - Exhibition and Panel Discussion: The Palestinian History Tapestry
  Shelagh Weir (Former Curator, British Museum), Jan.Lady Chalmers (Palestinian History Tapestry), Doaa Hammoudeh (St Antony’s College), Karl Sabbagh (Documentary maker and writer)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 14 January 2019

• 13:00 - Journalism and Transitional Justice: Seminar + Workshop
  NB: The presentation will be followed by an editorial and publishing workshop given by Mr. Cruvellier. The workshop will commence after a short break at 3pm. Light refreshments will be provided.
  Thierry Cruvellier (JusticeInfo.net and Fondation Hirondelle)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 January 2019

• 13:00 - Why the Responses to Address Intrastate Armed Conflicts fail?
  Michael von der Schulenburg (United Nations)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Israel Studies Seminar - When Climate Takes Command: Jewish-Zionist Scientific Approaches to Climate in Palestine
  Ms. Netta Cohen ((Oxford))
  Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019

Thursday 17 January 2019

• 12:30 - Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  TV Paul (McGill)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 18 January 2019

• 12:00 - The Historical Roots of Political Violence: Revolutionary Terrorism in Affluent Countries
  Ignacio Sanchez Cuenca (Carlos III)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Applying shari'a in modern times: Some reflections from 19th century Egypt
  Khaled Fahmy (Cambridge University)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 21 January 2019

• 13:00 - Film Screening: ‘The Faces We Lost’: A Memorial Landscape of Contemporary Rwanda
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Piotr Cieplak (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 January 2019

• 13:00 - Gaming Integrated Deterrence and Defence in Europe in an Era of Strategic Competition
  Ivanka Barzashka (Kings College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 17:15 - ‘Globalising WWII’ - Joint Session with the Oxford Centre for Global History
  Andrew Buchanan (University of Vermont)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 24 January 2019

• 12:30 - The Death of this Norm is Greatly Exaggerated: What Really Happens with Norm Erosion
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Sarah Percy (Queensland)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 25 January 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - The Middle East: Should We Give Up?
  Joost Hiltermann (International Crisis Group)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019
• 17:30 - Title TBC
  Andreas Wimmer (Columbia)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence

Monday 28 January 2019

• 13:00 - ‘But what about men?’: Gender Discomfort in International Criminal Justice
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 13:00 - The Consequences of Refugee Repatriation for Stayees: A Threat to Stability and Sustainable Development?
  Dr Isabel Ruiz (University of Oxford), Carlos Vargas-Silva (COMPAS, University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - MEC Seminar - The Rise of the Egyptian Middle Class: Socio-Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
  Relli Shechter (St Antony’s College)

Thursday 31 January 2019

• 12:30 - Rise and Fall of Political Orders
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Richard Ned Lebow (KCL)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 1 February 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - European policy on the Middle East: Making a difference?
  Nick Westcott (Director, Royal African Society)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 4 February 2019

• 13:00 - Witness Testimony and the Negotiation of 'Culture' at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Nigel Eltringham (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 February 2019

• 13:00 - The Russian Way of War
  Chuck Bartles (US Foreign Military Studies Office)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• 17:15 - Money and the First World War
  Jonathan Boff (Birmingham)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 7 February 2019

• 12:30 - ‘Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall’: Self-Legitimation by International Organizations
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 8 February 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - The Iraq War Inquiry: a study in contemporary political, diplomatic, military and reconstruction history
  Sir John Chilcot
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 11 February 2019

• 13:00 - Book Launch: 'Apartheid Guns and Money' - Exposing a Global Network of Profit
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Hennie van Vuuren (Open Secrets and Institute for Security Studies)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 13:00 - Moscow's Syrian Campaign: Change and Continuity in Russian Strategic Culture
  Dmitry Adamsky (IDC Herzliya)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 14 February 2019

• 12:30 - Humanitarian Club
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Michael Barnett (George Washington)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 15 February 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - title tbc
  Abbas Kadhim (Atlantic Council)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 18 February 2019

• 13:00 - Panel Discussion: Prospects for Meaningful Accountability for Rights Violations in Sri Lanka
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Kiran Grewal (Goldsmiths, University of London), Farzana Haniffa (University of Cambridge and University of Colombo), Gehan Gunatilleke (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 February 2019

• 13:00 - Military Intelligence in the Era of Great Power War
  Rose Keravuori (ROSE women LLC)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 14:00 - Women's Rights Research Seminar - From Kurdistan to Europe: Kurdish Literary, Artistic and Cultural Activism by Kurdish Women Intellectuals
  Dr Özlem Belçim Galip (Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, The School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - Bernhard of Weimar as military enterpriser
  Astrid Ackermann (Jena)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 21 February 2019

• 12:30 - Who Fights for Reputation? The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Keren Yarhi-Milo (Princeton)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 22 February 2019

• 16:00 - Cross-Cutting Cleavages and Communal Riots in India
  Zeynep Bulutgil (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Struggles for Justice during the Arab Uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia
  Heba Morayef (Amnesty International)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 25 February 2019

• 13:00 - Un-Becoming a Victim: Between Historic Reminder and Hallucination, Geographical Document and Childhood Memory, Collective Tragedy and Personal Healing
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Saša Rajšić (Independent Artist and Researcher)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 February 2019

• 13:00 - The Changing Character of the Mexican War on Drugs: State Building Process, Bureaucracy and U.S. Policy (1940-1980)
  Carlos Pérez-Ricart (St. Antony’s College)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Resilient Communities: Non-violence and Civilian Agency in Communal War
  Jana Krause (University of Amsterdam)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence

Thursday 28 February 2019

• 12:30 - The Financial Statecraft of Debtors: The Political Economy of External Finance in Africa
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Alexandra Zeitz (University of Oxford )
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - MEC Seminar - Revolution in Iran 1978-1979: Assessments and Reassessments upon the Fortieth Anniversary
  Touraj Atabaki (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam), Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford), Siavush Ranjbar Daemi (University of St Andrews)

Friday 1 March 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Lebanon and the twenty-first century: populism, neoliberalism, and their discontents
  Andrew Arsan (University of Cambridge)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Tuesday 5 March 2019

• 13:00 - A Westphalia for the Middle East?
  Dr Patrick Milton (University of Cambridge)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Liberal Internationalism at the Crossroads of Empire and Westphalia
  John Ikenberry (Princeton University)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - MEC Seminar: Iran and sanctions
  Zep Kalb (UCLA), James Landale (BBC)

Wednesday 6 March 2019

• 14:00 - Graduate students’ presentations and workshop
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 12:30 - The Liberal International Order Was Never Popular: The Merging Contestation in the Non- West and the West
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 8 March 2019

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Seminar - Inside Tunisia’s al-Nahda: Between Politics and Preaching
  Rory McCarthy (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday seminars Hilary Term 2019

Monday 11 March 2019

• 09:30 - OxPeace Negotiation Training Workshop
  Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio), Douglas Carpenter (EEAS), Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford), Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 April 2019

• 13:00 - Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective: Book Launch of ‘Justice framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice’
  The discussion will begin at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch will be served at 13:00.
  Marcos Zunino (British Institute of International and Comparative Law)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 April 2019

• 13:00 - From Borders to Borderlands: Lessons learnt from the Danish Demining Group Border Security Management experience in East Africa, Sahel and North Africa
  Natasha Leite (Danish Refugee Council)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 2 May 2019

• 12:30 - Gender, Community and Religion in Cameroon: Living in the Midst of Multiple "Crises"
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Cecelia Lynch (UC Irvine), Yang Han (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 7 May 2019

• 12:30 - Book Launch: 'The Trial of the Kaiser'
  Professor William A. Schabas (Middlesex University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Continuities in Russian Foreign Policy Goals in the Post-Soviet Period
  Dr Dmitry Gorenburg, (Harvard)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 May 2019

• 17:15 - 'Theory and Practice of the Laws of War in Seventeenth-Century Europe: The Case of the Desolation of the Palatinate (1688-9)'
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Emilie Dosquet (Strasbourg)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 9 May 2019

• 12:30 - Regimes of Difference: Culture and Order in World Politics
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Christian Reus-Smit (Queensland), Eric Haney (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 13 May 2019

• 13:00 - Leila Sadat Lecture
  Leila Sadat (Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 13:00 - Conflict and Social Cohesion
  Professor Frances Stewart (University of Oxford), Arnim Langer (Ku Leuven)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 May 2019

• 14:00 - Trafficking and slavery under ISIS: Trauma and rehabilitation of Yezidi female survivors
  Behnaz Hosseini (University of Vienna)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar

Thursday 16 May 2019

• 12:30 - Islamic Law States and the International Order
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Emilia Justyna Powell (University of Notre Dame), Katharine Brooks (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 20 May 2019

• 13:00 - Panel Discussion: Transitional Justice in Colombia - New Challenges
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1pm.
  Juanita Leon (La Silla Vacia), Andrei Gomez-Suarez (University of Bristol and UCL), Miguel La Rota (Colombian Prosecution Office), Annelen Micus (Bonavero Institute of Human Rights)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 May 2019

• 13:00 - Information-psychological warfare in Russian security strategy
  Katri Pynnöniemi (University of Helsinki)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 May 2019

• 17:15 - ‘Irregular or Insurgent? Constructing a New Face of Battle for America’s Civil War’
  Joint Session with the Rothermere American Institute
  Susan-Mary Grant (University of Newcastle)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 23 May 2019

• 12:30 - “Globalization in the First Person”: Political Risk and the Study of International Relations
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Nigel Gould-Davies (Mahidol & Chatham House)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 24 May 2019

• 14:00 - Film screening: The Eastern
  TBA
• 17:00 - Situating the Study of Islam in Global Intellectual History: Toshihiko Izutsu's Middle-Earth
  TBA

Saturday 25 May 2019

• 09:30 - Workshop -Neither Near Nor Far: Encounters and Exchanges between Japan and the Middle East
  TBA

Friday 31 May 2019

• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture: The 1953 Roots of 1979
  Ervand Abrahamian

Wednesday 5 June 2019

• 14:00 - Women's Football and Futsal in Iran - their challenges and struggles
  Tomoko Yamagishi (St Antony's College)
  Women's Rights Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Forewarned? British Intelligence Assessments of the Communist Threat to Greece, 1944-45’
  Christina Goulter (KCL)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 14 June 2019

• 17:00 - Lecture and Book Launch- The politics of family law reform in Jordan and Morocco: Two seemingly similar monarchies, two different approaches
  Dr Dörthe Engelcke (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg)

Wednesday 19 June 2019

• 13:00 - Conference: Justice for Transnational Human Rights Violations - At the Crossroads of Litigation, Policy and Scholarship
  TBA
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:15 - ‘The Production of Military Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’
  Klára Andresova (Prague)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 20 June 2019

• 17:00 - George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Dr Saeb Erekat (Palestine Liberation Organization Negotiation Affairs Department)

Monday 14 October 2019

• 13:00 - Documenting Crimes in Syria and Iraq: ISIS and the Crimes Against the Yazidis
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Sareta Ashraph (Garden Court Chambers; Visiting Fellow of Practice, Programme on International Peace and Security, ELAC, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 13:00 - The Changing Grammar of War: Countering Hybrid and Grey Zone Coercion at the Strategic Level
  Dr Rob Johnson (Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Why Are Journalists Killed in Democracies?
  Anita Gohdes (Hertie)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 12:30 - Where is Conflict Research? Geographic Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Brian Phillips (Essex)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 18 October 2019

• 17:00 - Martyrs and Tricksters: An Ethnography of the Egyptian Revolution
  Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
  MEC Friday Seminar Series

Monday 21 October 2019

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Book Launch: Transforming Rwanda – Challenges on the Road to Reconstruction
  This event stands cancelled. Due to a health emergency, the speaker has been advised not to travel.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Jean-Paul Kimonyo (Senior Adviser, Office of the President of Rwanda; Fellow, Rift Valley Institute)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 13:00 - Goliath: Why the West Isn't Winning. And What We Must Do About It
  Dr Sean McFate (Atlantic Council)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Investigating Crime Patterns at the International Criminal Court
  Xabier Agirre (ICC)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 17:15 - Decolonization’s New Wars: Revisiting the Violent Collapse of Empire
  Martin Thomas (Exeter)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 12:30 - Civil Wars and State (Un)Making
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Dr Adrian Florea (Glasgow)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 28 October 2019

• 13:00 - Measuring Peace: Local Participation and Perspectives in Peacebuilding
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Anupah Makoond (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 13:00 - How AI could change the foundational assumptions of international relations
  Dr Stuart Armstrong (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 12:30 - Incumbents Beware: The Impact of Offshoring on Elections
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Stephanie Rickard (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 4 November 2019

• 13:00 - Colombia's Special Jurisdiction for Peace: Are There Reasons for Hope?
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Julieta Lemaitre (Colombian Special Jurisdiction for Peace)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 13:00 - Coercion without war? Chinese maritime paramilitary and constabulary activities and the fallacy of the grey zone
  Dr Alessio Patalano
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Making Sense of Violence in Eastern DRC: Problematizing the Political vs. Criminal Violence Divide
  Judith Verweijen (Sheffield)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 17:15 - Professional, Regimented and Aggressive: British paratroopers and the 1982 Falklands
  Helen Parr (Keele)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 12:30 - The Logic of Strategic Assets
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Allan Defoe (University of Oxford), Jeff Ding (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 11 November 2019

• 13:00 - Breaking Legal Ground: ICC Investigations in Palestine
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Dr Mishana Hosseinioun (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford), Rodney Dixon QC (Temple Garden Chambers)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 13:00 - Grey Zone Conflict and Hybrid Threats: An Era of Legal Competition
  Dr Aurel Sari (University of Exeter)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Troubled Peace: Pathways to Violence After War
  Francesca Grandi (IISS)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 12:30 - Launderers Anonymous: Two Global Field Experiments on Regulatory Compliance in the Finance Industry
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Mike Findley (University of Texas at Austin)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 18 November 2019

• 13:00 - For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq
  A light sandwich lunch will be served from 1PM.
  Dr Ayca Çubukçu (LSE Human Rights, London School of Economics)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 13:00 - Understanding the China Threat
  Bradley Thayer (University of Texas San Antonio), Lianchao Han (Understanding the China Threat)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Rebel Group Engagement with Local Politics: The Role of Ideology, Opportunity and Transaction Costs
  Marine Gassier (Sciences Po)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 17:15 - The Human Costs of the Civil Wars in England and Wales, 1642-1710
  Andrew Hopper (Leicester)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 12:30 - The Hirschman Effect in Latin America’s Relations with the United States
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Tom Long (Warwick)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 25 November 2019

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Libya: Finding Routes to Justice Amidst Conflict
  In light of the UCU strike, this event has been postponed.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Elham Saudi (Lawyers for Justice in Libya)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 13:00 - Marginality, (in)security and political participation in conflict and beyond
  Cancelled! Rescheduled to Thursday 5 December, 12pm.
  Dr Daire McGill (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Civilians’ Inducement of Restraint on Jihadi Violence in Northern Mali
  Yvan Guichaoua (Kent)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 12:30 - Territorial Self-Governance and Ethnic Conflict Management
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Natascha Neudorfer (Birmnigham)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 2 December 2019

• 13:00 - CANCELLED - Cultural Restitution in the Transitional Justice Context: A Discussion of African and Asian Cases
  In light of the UCU strike, this event has been postponed.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Phyllis Ferguson (Oxford Transitional Justice Research), Prof Dan Hicks (Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum; School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 December 2019

• 13:00 - ISIS versus the West: Narrative War for the 21st Century. The Case of positive disinformation
  David Patrikarakos
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Everyday War: Cyclical Insecurity and the Fragmentation of Violence in Low Intensity Armed Conflict
  Mili Lake (LSE)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 17:15 - Ethiopia and the Cry Against Gas: Representing and Reacting to Chemical Weapons in the Mid-1930s
  Susan Grayzel (Utah State)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 12:30 - The Politics of Legal Pluralism: Why Does the Chechen Government Promote Customary Law and Sharia
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Egor Lazarev (Harvard)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 13:00 - Libya and Challenges for International conflict resolution
  Christopher Thornton (Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 January 2020

• 16:00 - Between the Moral and Market Economy: Rebel Taxation as a Technology of Governance
  Please note day and room change
  Zach Mampilly (Vassar)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence
• 17:15 - Children Writing War in the Nineteenth
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Emma Butcher (Leicester)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 23 January 2020

• 12:30 - Freedom by Force: Why Foreign-Imposed Democracies Succeed or Fail
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jonathan Monten (University College London)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 27 January 2020

• 13:15 - Libya: Finding Routes to Justice Amidst Conflict
  Elham Saudi (Lawyers for Justice in Libya)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 13:00 - The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace
  Dr Oscar Jonsson (Stockholm Free World Forum)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - War, Inter-war, and Everyday Violence: Insights from Chad
  Marielle Debos (Paris-Nanterre)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence

Wednesday 29 January 2020

• 17:15 - Why Counter-Insurgency Fails
  Professor Azar Gat (Tel Aviv University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 12:30 - Dispute Inflation: Intangible Stakes and the Intensification of Preferences
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 3 February 2020

• 13:15 - Cultural Restitution in the Transitional Justice Context: A Discussion of African and Asian Cases
  Phyllis Ferguson (Oxford Transitional Justice Research), Prof Dan Hicks (Curator of World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum; School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Military Adaptation &Convergence in War: Insurgent and International Forces in Afghanistan, 2006-2014
  Professor Theo Farrell (Wollongong University)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 13:00 - China's Good War: How Memory of the World War II past is shaping a nationalist future
  Professor Rana Mitter
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Big Data Ethics Forum: Fake news? Epistemic and ethical challenges for synthetic datasets
  Ben Cairns (University of Oxford), Angeliki Kerasidou (University of Oxford)
  Ethox Centre Seminars

Wednesday 5 February 2020

• 11:00 - WEH/Ethox Seminar: Artificial Intelligence: Some Likely Developments and Foreseeable Challenges
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Luciano Floridi (Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, University of Oxford))
  Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and Ethox Centre
• 17:00 - DOES FASTING AFFECT SUPPORT FOR ISLAMIST POLITICAL PARTIES? EVIDENCE FROM RAMADAN
  Ozan Aksoy (UCL)
  Nuffield College Sociology Seminars
• 17:15 - Moshe Dayan: the influential strategist
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
• 17:30 - The Soleimani strike: What is the future of targeted killing?
  Various Speakers

Thursday 6 February 2020

• 10:00 - Engaging with Public Policy: An Introduction for Researchers
  William Pryor (University of Oxford), Eleanor Bayley (University of Oxford)
• 12:30 - Comparing National Power in an Age of Transition
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 18:00 - Globalisation and the grabbed commons: new insights on the Water Wars myth
  Assistant Professor Jampel Dell’Angelo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  Green Templeton Lectures series 2020

Friday 7 February 2020

• 17:00 - Book launch - Palestinian Refugees in International Law | Middle East Centre and Refugee Studies Centre event
  Lex Takkenberg ((Former chief of the Ethics Office at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees)), Francesca Albanese ((The Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM),Georgetown University))
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures

Monday 10 February 2020

• 13:15 - Justice and (Self) Protection in Camp Settings: Findings from South Sudan and CAR
  Dr Rebecca Sutton (Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - New Kremlinology: The Challenge of Understanding and Studying Elite Politics in Russia
  Alex Baturo (Dublin City University)
  Russian and East European Politics
• 17:00 - Another War: China’s Struggle for Financial Aid during WWII
  Lin Ma (Oxford)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 13:00 - Trojan Horse, Copycat, or Scapegoat? Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus
  Dr Sara Polo (University of Essex)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Quagmire in Civil War
  Speaker: Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl (Leiden)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence
• 16:15 - Balancing Power: Strategy, Law, and British Maintenance of Dutch and Spanish Neutrality during the Seven Years War
  Anna Brinkman (Warwick)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Power to the People: How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists
  Wine will be served in the foyer
  Professor Audrey Kurth Cronin (American University)
• 20:30 - Trump, Europe and NATO: Back to the Future
  Dr Seth Johnston (Harvard)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 12 February 2020

• 14:00 - Notes from the frontline: Misinformation and propaganda wars in Ukraine and Russia
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 15:00 - Does U.S. public opinion follow the leader or follow the crowd? Evidence from experimental surveys involving cyber-attack vignettes
  Joshua Goldstein (St. Hilda's)
  American Politics Graduate Seminar
• 17:00 - Energy dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean: Cooperation or conflict?
  Bill Kappis (University of Buckingham), Okan Yardimci (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - All the Tsar's Virile Men: Sexuality and Masculinity in the Late Imperial Russian Military
  Siobhán Hearne (Durham)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 13 February 2020

• 12:30 - World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Emanuel Adler (Toronto)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - The Biography of President Virgilio Barco: Reflections on the Study of Colombian Politics
  Malcolm Deas (Oxford)
  Latin American Centre Seminars and Events

Friday 14 February 2020

• 12:15 - Legacies of the Third Reich: Concentration Camps and Out-group Intolerance
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  Jonathan Homola (Rice University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 17 February 2020

• 13:15 - Transformative Theory of Justice
  Prof Roman David (Lingnan University; Academic Visitor, Nuffield College, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 13:00 - Uncertainty and Mutual Recognition in Colombia - the Study of the Nature of Armed Non-State Actors in the Colombian Conflict
  Dr Jan Boesten (CCW, Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - To Claim or Not to Claim… Sovereignty in Outer Space
  Pablo Zambrano (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 16:00 - The Organizational Logic of Insurgent Ideology: A Comparative Analysis
  Luis Fernando Medina (Carlos III)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence
• 20:30 - The Utilities and Challenges of Western Security Force Assistance
  Major Ivor Wiltenburg (Changing Character of War Centre Visiting Fellow)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 19 February 2020

• 17:00 - How to restart the normalisation of Serbia-Kosovo relations?
  Ian Bancroft (Writer & diplomat; former OSCE), James Ker-Lindsay (LSE)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - The Demos at War: lessons on democratic warfare from Thucydides and Machiavelli
  Erica Benner
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 20 February 2020

• 17:15 - Lincoln Leads 2020: Can Diplomacy Ignore the Past?
  Dr. Jody LaPorte (University of Oxford), David Goodban (Head of CYPP, Mental Health Foundation), Heather McTaggart (Lincoln College)
  Lincoln Leads Seminar Series 2020

Monday 24 February 2020

• 17:00 - Party People: Electoral Candidates, Party Change and Party System Evolution in Central and Eastern Europe
  Allan Sikk (UCL)
  Russian and East European Politics
• 17:00 - Peace and public authority: contesting power by making peace in Gogrial and Leer (South Sudan)
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Naomi Pendle (LSE)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 13:00 - Conflict and Wellbeing Deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Toward a Theoretical Framework of External Involvement in Civil Wars
  Francesco Belcastro (Derby)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence
• 20:30 - Security in East Asia
  Sir Tim Hitchens (University of Oxford)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 26 February 2020

• 17:15 - Foreign war and civil war: France in 1652 and the costs of early-modern conflict
  David Parrott (University of Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Book launch - Exit from Hegemony: The Unravelling of the American Global Order
  Alexander Cooley (Harriman Institute, Columbia University), Daniel Nexon (Georgetown University)

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 11:00 - The Problem with the ‘Home Front’: Rethinking a Conceptual Category in 20th-Century Europe and its Empires
  In conjunction with the Women, Gender and Culture Seminar; and the Modern British History Seminar
  Sue Grayzel (Utah State)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Constitution-Making in a Post-Conflict Environment: A Socio-Legal Perspective of the Libyan Process
  Felix-Anselm van Lier (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 12:30 - Climate Change, the Illusion of Separation, and the Date-of-Last Opportunity
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Henry Shue (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:30 - Dr Merze Tate on IR: Prof Cecelia Lynch
  Prof Cecelia Lynch (University of California, Irvine)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Friday 28 February 2020

• 17:00 - Latin America in an Era of Discontent
  Michael Reid (The Economist)
  LAC Main Seminar Series

Monday 2 March 2020

• 13:15 - Intimacies of Violence: Conflict, Rape and Sexual Desire
  Dr Jelke Boesten (Department of International Development, King’s College London)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Reaching the Converted: Understanding the Methods of Informant Enrolment in East Germany
  Dr Barbara Piotrowska (University of Oxford )
  Russian and East European Politics
• 17:00 - Violence and the Enlightenment
  Philip Dwyer (University of Newcastle, Australia/All Souls College)
  Enlightenment Workshop
• 17:00 - Antisemitism in Europe
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 10:00 - Engaging with Public Policy: An Introduction for Researchers
  William Pryor (University of Oxford), Eleanor Bayley (University of Oxford)
• 12:30 - VIGILANTES BEYOND BORDERS: NGOS, ORGANIZATIONAL ECOLOGY, AND ENFORCING INTERNATIONAL LAW
  Jason Sharman (University of Cambridge)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Examination of the Causes of Persecution
  Mohammad Didarul Islam (University of Leeds), Ayesha Siddikha (University of Dhaka)
  Refugee Studies Centre Work-in-Progress seminar series
• 13:00 - Terrorism and recent developments in Human Rights
  Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The Logic of Settler Colonialism: Evidence from West Papua and Papua New Guinea
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Lachlan McNamee (EUI/UCLA)
  T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - “We wanted to show that we were capable like our grandfathers.” Soviet-Afghan War veterans, political socialisation and the Great Patriotic War cult in Brezhnev-era Tajikistan
  Markus Göransson (Swedish Defence University)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia (TOSCCA)
• 17:15 - The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West
  A wine reception will follow the talk
  David Kilcullen (University of New South Wales, Canberra)
• 20:30 - ’Whitehall Warriors’ National Security & Defence Policy & Operations: A Beginners’ Guide
  Commander Damian Exworthy (Changing Character of War Centre Visiting Fellow)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 4 March 2020

• 17:00 - 'Anglicans in Arms: The First World War'
  Canon Prof Michael Snape (Durham University)
  Hensley Henson Lectures - 'A Church Militant: Anglicans and the Armed Forces in Great Britain and the United States from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War'
• 17:00 - South East Europe in Russia’s geopolitical objectives
  Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College), Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Andreja Bogdanovski (University of Buckingham)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 5 March 2020

• 17:00 - Foreign Policy in a Fracturing World
  The Rt Hon Jack Straw (Foreign Secretary, 2001-2006)

Friday 6 March 2020

• 17:00 - Book Launch - “Deep States and Deep Troubles in the MENA,” Palestinian multilingualism: A perfectly normal adaptation to colonialism, conflict and late capitalism
  Professor Robert Springborg ((Kings College London))

Monday 9 March 2020

• 13:15 - The Nature of Women, Peace and Security: Lessons from Colombia
  Dr Keina Yoshida (Doughty Street Chambers; Centre for Women, Peace and Security, London School of Economics)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 13:00 - Is forecasting political violence feasible? Experiences from the ViEWS project.
  Håvard Hegre (Uppsala University)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The Impact of the U.S.-China Trade War on Profitability and Investment
  David Weinstein (Columbia University)
  International Trade Seminar
• 20:30 - Islam in a Changing World: Reform and the Battle of Narratives
  Ed Husain (Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars; Quilliam; Civitas)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 11 March 2020

• 17:00 - 'Soldiering On? Anglicans, Communism and the Cold War'
  Canon Prof Michael Snape (Durham University)
  Hensley Henson Lectures - 'A Church Militant: Anglicans and the Armed Forces in Great Britain and the United States from Queen Victoria to the Vietnam War'
• 17:00 - China in South East Europe: Economic or political interests?
  Jens Bastian (ELIAMEP)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - PGT and PGR workshop
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 12:30 - Secrets in Global Governance: Disclosure Dilemmas and the Challenge of International Cooperation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Austin Carson (Chicago)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:30 - “Evolution and Violence: Is Humanity Wired for War or Peace?”
  Dr Celia Deane-Drummond (Campion Hall)
  Evolution and Human Origins: Theological and Philosophical Reflections - Aquinas Seminar Series Hilary Term 2020

Friday 13 March 2020

• 10:00 - Global and Imperial History graduate students research presentations
  Postponed to Trinity Term
  Various Speakers
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 10:00 - Women, War, and Work: Experiences of World War II in Colonial South Asia
  Urvi Khaitan
  History of the Gendered Body

Monday 16 March 2020

• 09:00 - OxPeace Negotiation and Mediation Training Workshop
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio), Douglas Carpenter (EEAS), Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)

Monday 27 April 2020

• 13:15 - ONLINE SEMINAR: The Guidelines on Investigating Violations of International Humanitarian Law
  Please note that due to the unprecedented circumstances, OTJR's seminar series will relocate online (via live conference with the speakers) until further notice. Please register below.
  Claire Simmons (School of Law, University of Essex)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 April 2020

• 17:00 - What's Preventing Prevention?
  Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College), Teohna Williams (Business Plan for Peace)

Thursday 30 April 2020

• 11:00 - Visualizing International Relations
  Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
  William A.Callahan (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 4 May 2020

• 15:15 - ONLINE SEMINAR: Out of Bounds - Can Transitional Justice Address Transnational Human Rights Violations?
  Please note that due to the unprecedented circumstances, OTJR's seminar series will relocate online (via live conference with the speakers) until further notice. Please register below.
  Dr Francesca Lessa (Latin American Centre, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 6 May 2020

• 16:00 - Sri Lanka: Dr Vinya Ariyaratne
  Delivered via Zoom
  Dr Vinya Ariyaratne
  Transformative Justice for the Post-COVID Transition: Insights from Leaders of Transitional Countries

Thursday 7 May 2020

• 11:00 - The International Peace and Counter-Peace Architecture
  Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
  Oliver Richmond (Manchester)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 11 May 2020

• 13:00 - Colonial Contradictions: Wartime Refugees in Neutral Hong Kong and Macau, 1937-1945
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing mark.baker@history.ox.ac.uk
  Helena F. S. Lopes (University of Bristol)
  International History of East Asia Seminar

Wednesday 13 May 2020

• 16:00 - Transitional Leadership Insights from Iraq: Dr. Bakhtiar Amin
  Delivered via Zoom
  Dr Bakhtiar Amin
  Transformative Justice for the Post-COVID Transition: Insights from Leaders of Transitional Countries

Thursday 14 May 2020

• 14:30 - Of Two Minds? Rationalism and Psychology in International Relations
  Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
  Paola Solimena (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Saturday 16 May 2020

• 09:00 - OxPeace Conference: Women, Peace and Security: Policy, Practice, Research
  Various Speakers

Monday 18 May 2020

• 09:30 - Hegemonic Narratives: Global, national and local dynamics of memory politics in (post)conflict societies
  Various Speakers
  ODID Conferences and Workshops
• 13:15 - ONLINE SEMINAR: On the Thunder Road to Reconciliation - Ukraine’s Transitional Justice Policy
  Please note that due to the unprecedented circumstances, OTJR's seminar series will relocate online (via live conference with the speakers) until further notice. Please register below.
  Dr Kateryna Busol (Chatham House, Robert Bosch Stiftung Academy Fellow)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 May 2020

• 16:00 - Transitional Leadership Insights from Afghanistan: Dr. Sima Samar
  Delivered via Zoom
  Dr Sima Samar
  Transformative Justice for the Post-COVID Transition: Insights from Leaders of Transitional Countries

Thursday 21 May 2020

• 14:30 - Calling it Peace: Liberal Order and Liberal Nostalgia
  Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
  Patrick Porter (Birmingham)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 22 May 2020

• 12:15 - Terrorism, Trust, and Ethnic Identification: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nigeria
  Delivered via Zoom
  Dr Robin Harding (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 27 May 2020

• 16:00 - Transitional Leadership Insights from The United Nations: Youssef Mahmoud
  Delivered via Zoom
  Youssef Mahmoud
  Transformative Justice for the Post-COVID Transition: Insights from Leaders of Transitional Countries

Thursday 8 October 2020

• 16:00 - Conflict and Human Rights in Colombia: The Role of the Ombudsman’s Office
  ---This is a public event--- ---The event will be held in Spanish--- Event to be hosted on Zoom. Please register below, and arrive online 5 minutes before the start of the event.
  Carlos Alfonso Negret Mosquera

Tuesday 13 October 2020

• 13:00 - The Power of Uncertainty: How Change in Conflict Influences Security
  Annette Idler (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Emptied Lands: A Legal Geography of Bedouin Rights in the Negev
  Professor Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar (Haifa University)
  Israel Studies Seminar Michaelmas Term 2020
• 19:00 - Spacepower and its Impact on Global Strategy
  Dr Michael Martindale (US Space Force Association)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 14 October 2020

• 16:00 - Social Media and Xenophobia: Evidence from Russia
  This workshop will be held using Zoom. Details will be sent once registered.
  Maria Petrova (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  CSAE Development Economics Webinar Series
• 17:15 - Maritime power in British strategy, 1945 to the present
  Dr Tim Benbow (KCL)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 15 October 2020

• 15:00 - Public Diplomacy in Times of Crisis & Citizens' Attitudes
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Farsan Ghassim (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Special Seminar: Saudi Arabia and the rise and fall of Political Islam
  Special Seminars are held on Thursdays at 17:00
  Professor Bernard Haykel (Princeton)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Friday 16 October 2020

• 17:00 - The Dictatorship Syndrome (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Alaa Al Aswany

Monday 19 October 2020

• 16:30 - Transnational archives: Power, voice and archival violence in transnational justice
  Dr Julia Viebach (African Studies Centre, Oxford)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 October 2020

• 13:00 - CANCELLED: Russia’s Intelligence and Security Agencies in the Current Time of Troubles
  Cancelled. Apologies for the inconvenience.
  Dr Andrew Foxall
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Kicking Down: How Status Threat Shapes Exclusionary Attitudes Towards Disadvantaged Groups
  Sign-up at https://cess-nuffield.nuff.ox.ac.uk/events/colloquium/daniel-mcarthur-university-of-oxford/
  Dr. Daniel McArthur (University of Oxford)
  CESS Colloquium Series
• 14:00 - Social Groups and Experiences of the Holocaust
  N/A
  Oxford Holocaust Studies Reading Group
• 19:00 - Far Right Terrorism in 2020: Threats, Drivers, and Responses
  Javed Ali (Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 17:00 - Conversation: The Ethics of Writing Modern War
  **FULLY BOOKED**
  Kim Wagner (Queen Mary), Richard Reid (Oxford), Priya Atwal (independent historian and author)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Islamist transformations after the Arab Uprisings: Tunisia’s Ennahda Movement
  Dr Rory McCarthy (Durham)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Deporting Extremists: A Qualified Defence
  Rutger Birnie (European University Institute)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 2 'Artificial Intelligence & Social Justice' Professor Meredith Broussard
  Professor Meredith Broussard (Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University)

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 15:00 - The Suffragist Peace
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Joslyn Barnhart (UC Santa Barbara)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 23 October 2020

• 10:00 - Band of brothers? Manhood and the German Peasants’ War 1524-5
  Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History (University of Oxford)
  History of the Gendered Body
• 12:30 - Laws, liberties and the will of the people (right and wrong): political thought in the wars of religion
  Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 14:30 - War and Peace in Premodern Islam(s) and Western Christianity.
  PLEASE NOTE: ALL SESSIONS WILL BE HELD VIA ZOOM. PROF. ABULAFIA WILL SEND OUT THE CORRECT ZOOM LINK TO EVERYONE WHO IS ALREADY REGISTERED FOR THE SEMINAR. PLEASE LET HER KNOW IF YOU WISH TO BE ADDED TO THE SEMINAR LIST
  PROF. PHILIPPE BUC (UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA)
  INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH SEMINAR IN THE STUDY OF RELIGIONS, ‘VIOLENCE AND ITS JUSTIFICATION IN RELIGION’: MICHAELMAS 2020
• 16:00 - Escaping the Global Event: India, Islam and the Great War
  Professor Faisal Devji (St Antony's, Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Authoritarian or Revolutionary? Reflections on the Nature of the State in the Islamic Republic of Iran (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Maryam Alemzadeh ((Princeton)), Siavush Randjbar-Daemi ((St Andrews))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 October 2020

• 10:00 - How Gunpowder Artillery Shaped Early Modern States: Military Technology, Political Culture, and State Development in the Low Countries, France, and England
  Dr Michael Depreter
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 13:00 - Strategic Instincts: The Adaptive Advantages of Cognitive Biases in International Politics
  Professor Dominic Johnson (Alastair Buchan Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Great Power Competition and Conflict: The Effect of Technological Change
  Lieutenant General Michael Nagata (US Army)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 28 October 2020

• 14:00 - Challenging the Limited View - The Case of the Women in Mosques Movement (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dr Yildirim
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - OII’s Wednesday Webinar Week 3 ‘Data, Governance and Geopolitics’
  Pari Esfandiari (Global TechnoPolitics Forum), Greg Treverton (lobal TechnoPolitics Forum)
• 17:15 - Julian Corbett and the battle for British strategy - 1914-15
  Professor Andrew Lambert (King’s College London)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 29 October 2020

• 15:00 - Elite Misperceptions and the Domestic Politics of Conflict
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Joshua Kertzer (Harvard University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Tertulia at the Latin American History Seminar Cuba in the Caribbean Cold War: Exiles, Revolutionarias and Tyrants, 1952-1959
  Online event. Please check: https://www.lac.ox.ac.uk/home to register
  Nicolás Prados (Oxford), Laurence Whitehead (Oxford)
  Latin American Centre Seminars and Events

Friday 30 October 2020

• 17:00 - Illiberal Liberals and the Future of Dictatorship in Egypt (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dalia Fahmy ((Long Island University)), Daanish Faruqi ((Duke))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 November 2020

• 13:00 - War by Others’ Means: Delivering Effective Partner Force Capacity Building
  Dr Jack Watling (RUSI)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 19:00 - European Defence in a Time of Global Change
  Dr Daniel Fiott (EUISS)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 4 November 2020

• 17:00 - Conversation: Artillery, Warfare and the Early Modern State
  All those interested in attending should pre-register by emailing briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk
  Michael Depreter (Oxford), Guy Rowlands (St Andrews)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 15:00 - China's Changing National Security Doctrine under Xi Jinping
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Sheena Greitens (University of Texas at Austin), Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 6 November 2020

• 17:00 - The New Populist nationalism in Saudi Arabia (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Madawi Al-Rasheed ((KCL and LSE)), Ben Hubbard ((The New York Times))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 November 2020

• 13:00 - Russian Military Modernisation: Progress and Ambitions
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 19:00 - How Public Opinion Reflects Policy Across Europe
  Dr Susi Dennison (Director of European Power Program)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 11 November 2020

• 17:15 - Naval Operations
  Captain Chris O'Flaherty
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 12 November 2020

• 15:00 - Defining Statehood: Exclusion from Universal Organizations
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Christina Davis (Havard University), Cecilia Corsini
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 13 November 2020

• 17:30 - The Trajectory of the Tunisian Revolution: between Continuities and Disjunctures (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Professor Sami Zemni ((Ghent))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 November 2020

• 13:00 - Campaign Without End? The Future of Western Overseas Counter-Terrorism Intervention
  William Evans (Foreign Office)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Journalism and Pandemics in an Era of Media Distrust
  Helene Cooper (New York Times Pentagon Correspondent)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 17:00 - Conversation: Reflections on the WWI Centenary
  All those interested in attending should pre-register by emailing briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 15:00 - Natural Resources and Territorial Sovereignty: The Separate Independence of Oil-Rich Protectorates
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Naosuke Mukoyama (University of Oxford), Hussam Hussein
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 20 November 2020

• 14:00 - Riskier than you think: Crisis instability between the US and China in maritime Asia
  Professor Jonathan D. Caverley (US Naval War College), Dr Peter Dombrowski (US Naval War College)
• 17:00 - Apocalymbo: Trickster Politics in the Age of the Pandemic (and Other Crises) (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Dr Walter Armbrust (MEC Albert Hourani Fellow)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 13:00 - Rethinking Western Strategy and the Character of War in the Twenty-First Century
  Dr Jonathan Boff (University of Birmingham)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 25 November 2020

• 17:15 - Maritime Strike Warfare: Grey zone to Combat
  Commodore Steve Moorhouse, Rear Admiral Mike Utley
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 26 November 2020

• 15:00 - Shaping States into Nations: The Effects of Ethnic Geography on State Borders
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Carl Mueller-Crepon (University of Oxford), Kan Li
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 27 November 2020

• 17:00 - Why Syria Still Matters and Why Assad is Still There
  Dr Lina Khatib ((Chatham)), Jeremy Bowen ((BBC News))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 December 2020

• 13:00 - Repeating past mistakes? The British withdrawal and return ‘East of Suez’
  Dr William James (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 19:00 - The Effects of Political Polarization on Democratic Erosion
  Dr Robert Blair (Director of Democratic Erosion Consortium)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 2 December 2020

• 17:00 - Conversation: The Religious Politics of Military Recruitment in Early Modern Europe
  All those interested in attending should pre-register by emailing briony.truscott@history.ox.ac.uk
  Various Speakers
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 15:00 - Quantum Theory as Critical Theory: Entanglement, Alienation, and the Politics of Social Physics
  Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
  Alexander Wendt (Ohio State University), John de Bhal
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 4 December 2020

• 17:00 - The logic of chaos: The pattern of dictatorships (REGISTRATION ESSENTIAL)
  Ece Temelkuran
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 January 2021

• 13:00 - Interstate Influence Operations and International Security Studies
  Josh A Goldstein (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 19:00 - The Case for a National Cyber Security Director
  Former Congressman Mike Rogers
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Thursday 21 January 2021

• 15:00 - Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Patricia Owens (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 22 January 2021

• 17:00 - Algeria and Sudan: A Late Spring or an Early Summer?
  Mohanad Hashim (BBC), Dalia Ghanem (Carnegie)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 13:00 - All Domain Operations
  Oliver Lewis (Rebellion Defence)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Can a Dictatorship be a Member of the EU?
  Professor Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 17:00 - Conversation: ‘Britain and Empire in World War II’
  Ashley Jackson (King’s College, London), Iain Johnston-White (Groningen)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 28 January 2021

• 15:00 - It's the Politics, Stupid: Explaining US-Iranian Relations Since the Revolution
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 29 January 2021

• 14:00 - Few Strings Attached: Why Countries Join the Belt and Road Initiative
  Professor M Taylor Fravel (MIT)
  International Relations of China
• 17:00 - Iraq and Lebanon – Revolt Against Sectarianism?
  Maha Yahya ((Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Centre)), Maysoun Pachachi ((Film Director))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 13:00 - Military Medicine and the Changing Costs of War
  Professor Tanisha Fazal (University of Minnesota)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 19:00 - The Strategic Importance of GPS
  Kishan Patel (US Space Force)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 3 February 2021

• 14:00 - Qatari Women and the Labour Market- Towards an Empowering Alternative
  Dr. Mawahib Abubakr (Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:15 - Cruising for a Bruising: Maritime Competition in an Anti-Access Age
  Jonathan D. Caverley (United States Naval War College)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 15:00 - Before Defeat: The Rise and Decline of World Orders
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 5 February 2021

• 17:00 - The Place of Religion After the Uprisings
  Shadi Hamid (Brookings), Nadia Oweidat (University of Kansa)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 13:00 - Artificial Intelligence and National Security Decision-making
  Dr Erik Lin-Greenberg (MIT)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Arab and the Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
  Bashir Bashir (Open University of Israel), Leila Farsakh (University of Massachusetts Boston), Amal Ghazal (Simon Fraser University), Brian Klug (Universiy of Oxford), Hadeel Abu Hussein (University of Oxford)
• 19:00 - Security: What's Climate Change Got to Do with It?
  Dr Geoffrey D Dabelko (Ohio University)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 17:00 - Jan van Werth as military enterpriser
  Michael Kaiser (Max Weber Stiftung)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 15:00 - The Tension Within Norms: Agency and Risks in Pursuit of Global Climate Justice
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Carlotta Minnella (Duke), Swapna Pathak (Oberlin College), Marco Scauso (Quinnipiac)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 12 February 2021

• 14:00 - Leveraging Money and Politics: The Rise of China’s Sovereign 'Leveraged' Funds and China’s Financial Statecraft
  Dr Zongyuan Zoe Liu (Texas A&M)
  International Relations of China
• 17:00 - Libya: Past, Present and Future
  Anas al-Gomati (Sadeq Institute), Mary Fitzgerald (King's College London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 15 February 2021

• 10:00 - Book Launch: The Justice of Visual Art - Creative State-Building in Times of Transition
  Dr Eliza Garnsey (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations, University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 13:00 - Cyber Law and Norms: Why they fail us
  Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Xenowar: Computational Clausewitz, the PRC/CCP Cryptosphere and Strategic Society Mechanisms for a Planetary Era
  Tom Sear (University of New South Wales)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 17:15 - Forward or Persistent Presence
  Conor O'Neil (Royal Navy)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 18 February 2021

• 15:00 - Orchestration around the Governor’s Dilemma: G7/G20 Governance of Financial Stability and Market Integrity
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins
  David Hagebölling (Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 19 February 2021

• 17:00 - Russia and the Arab Uprisings
  Vitaly Naumkin (Russian Academy of Sciences), Alexey Vasiliev (Russian Academy of Sciences)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 22 February 2021

• 13:00 - Invoking 'Transitional Justice' without a Transition: Reflections on Sri Lanka's Transitional Justice Programme, 2015-2019
  Kumaravadivel Guruparan (Attorney-at-Law, Sri Lanka)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 09:00 - Western Intervention in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: Political Containment, Neoliberalism, and Imperial Legacies
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Russia's Use of the Wagner Group 'Private' Military Company
  Professor Kimberly Martin (Columbia University)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Why Nations Rise
  Professor Manjari Chatterjee Miller (Boston University)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 24 February 2021

• 14:00 - Debating the Law, Creating Gender
  Professor Irene Schneider ((Georg-August-Universität Göttingen))
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:15 - The Maritime Rung on the Escalation Ladder: Naval Blockades in a US-China Conflict
  Fiona Cunningham (George Washington University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 15:00 - Power in IR: Matching Empirical Uses to Theoretical Advances’
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Karolina Milewicz (Oxford), Duncan Snidal (University of Oxford), Kenneth Stiller (Oxford), Jacklyn Majnemer (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 26 February 2021

• 14:00 - A World Safe for Autocracy? The Domestic Politics of China’s Foreign Policy
  Professor Jessica Chen Weiss (Cornell University)
  International Relations of China
• 17:00 - Tunisia – Unfinished Revolutions (Held jointly with the British-Tunisian Society)
  Hela Ammar, Mohamed Kerrou (University of Tunis El Manar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 1 March 2021

• 13:00 - Kashmir and the State of Exception
  Habeel Iqbal (Legal Consultant, Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, Kashmir)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 13:00 - Black Gold and Blackmail: Oil and Great Power Politics
  Rosemary Kelanic (University of Notre Dame)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 19:00 - Bringing Defence into the 21st Century
  Dr Will Roper (US Air Force)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 3 March 2021

• 17:15 - Advantage at Sea A discussion on the recently released Tri-Service Maritime Strategy by the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Coast Guard
  Rear Admiral James Bynum
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 4 March 2021

• 15:00 - Thanks For Your Service: What Drives Public Confidence in the U.S. Military and Why it Matters
  Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Peter Feaver (Duke University), Jim Golby (UT-Austin)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 5 March 2021

• 17:00 - Counter-Revolutions Vs. Counter-Marginalization Movements: (Re)Visiting the Online Tug-of-War a Decade After the Arab Spring
  Dr. Marc Owen Jones ((Hamad Bin Khalifa University)), Dr Sahar Mohamed Khamis ((University of Maryland))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 8 March 2021

• 13:00 - Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan: National Mechanisms, Positive Complementarity and Command Responsibility
  Douglas Guilfoyle (Associate Professor of International and Security Law, UNSW Canberra)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 13:00 - How distance constrains US grand strategy in an era of military-technological innovation
  Paul van Hooft (The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Insecurities, Uncertainty, and Human Rights: A Conversation with the Colombian Ombudsman
  Due to unforeseen urgent changes in the schedule of the Ombudsman, this event has been postponed (new date tbc)
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Carlos Ernesto Camargo Assis (Ombudsman of Colombia), Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government)
  CONPEACE Webinar Series
• 19:00 - Key Policy Challenges Facing Biden in his First Year
  Dr Lindsay Newman (IHS Markit)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 17:00 - Managing British convoys, 1803-15: The Admiralty and Lloyd's
  Roger Knight (Greenwich)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 14:00 - Reconstructing International Political Economy: A Deweyan Approach
  Note earlier time of 2pm-3.30pm GMT. Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
  Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 12 March 2021

• 14:00 - Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy
  Dr Andrea Ghiselli (Fudan University)
  International Relations of China
• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture - Iran and the Arab Uprisings: Opportunity Grasped or Squandered?
  Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 26 April 2021

• 13:00 - Warm Bonds or Functional Transactions? Being Neighbours During Ethnic Pogroms in India
  Raheel Dhattiwala (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 April 2021

• 13:00 - China’s Military Strategy in the New Era
  Professor M Taylor Fravel (MIT)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 April 2021

• 17:15 - The Royal Navy in the Indo-Pacific: Why small is sometimes better
  René Balletta (Royal Navy)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 29 April 2021

• 15:00 - The Power of the Weak: How Informal Power-Sharing Shapes the Work of the United Nations Security Council
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Christoph Mikulaschek (Harvard)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 30 April 2021

• 17:00 - Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book:The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad
  Hamid Dabashi ((Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 4 May 2021

• 13:00 - Subversive Economics: Pervasive, Dangerous and Largely Invisible
  Elisabeth Braw (American Enterprise Institute (AEI))
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 17:00 - Gettysburg, Race and Civil War Memory
  Adam Smith (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 6 May 2021

• 15:00 - Disentangling Norms, Morality and Modes of Reasoning: The September 2019 Brexit Rebellion
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Jess Gliserman (University of Oxford), Anette Stimmer (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 10 May 2021

• 13:00 - Screening and Discussion: 'Right Now I Want To Scream - Police and Army Killings in Rio'
  Register before 12.30pm on Monday, 10 May to receive the streaming link to watch the documentary film 'Right Now I Want To Scream'.
  Cahal McLaughlin (Queen's University Belfast), Siobhán Wills (Ulster University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 10:00 - Orchestration: China’s Economic Statecraft across Asia and Europe
  Professor James Reilly (University of Sydney)
  International Relations of China
• 13:00 - Protean War: Embracing Complexity in International Relations
  Dr Emily Whalen (University of Texas)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 May 2021

• 14:00 - Women's Rights on The Altar of a Strategic Stake: The New Population Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
  Professor Marie Ladier-Fouladi ((CNRS)/CETOBaC)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:15 - PRC Gray Zone Operations in the South China Sea
  Andrew Erikson (US Naval War College)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 13 May 2021

• 15:00 - The Power of Money in World Politics: The Ford Foundation and the Inter-American Human Rights Regime
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 14 May 2021

• 17:00 - Embrace Dialogue Academia Seminar 7: A New Cycle of War in Colombia?
  Prof Francisco Gutierrez (IEPRI, Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Prof Jenny Pearce (LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre)
  Embrace Dialogue Academia Seminars

Monday 17 May 2021

• 15:00 - A War with England is Like a Civil War.' Arbitration and the Monroe Doctrine in the 1895 Venezuela Dispute
  Neil Suchak
  American History Graduate Seminar

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 10:00 - The First World War and the Russian Revolution
  Professor Robert Service
  Europaeum MA Seminar
• 13:00 - Why the U.S. Military Forgets What It Learns in War
  Jon Askonas
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 May 2021

• 17:00 - "War and Violence: Understanding Soldiers" Experiences of Combat
  Mark Hewitson (UCL)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 20 May 2021

• 15:00 - Public Opinion and Foreign Electoral Intervention
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Jessica Weeks (Wisconsin-Madison)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 21 May 2021

• 15:00 - Mixed Signalling in Chinese Foreign Policy
  Professor Xiaoyu Pu (University of Nevada, Reno)
  International Relations of China
• 17:00 - War on Bodies: Moral Immunity and the Psychopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Iran
  Dr Orkideh Behrouzan (SOAS University of London), Dr Maziyar Ghiabi (Wellcome Trust Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

Saturday 22 May 2021

• 16:00 - The Sudanese Programme - Youth, Inclusivity and Participation in Politics, the Economy and Society
  Various Speakers

Thursday 27 May 2021

• 19:00 - Oxford Syria Society Event with Dr. Sami Moubayed and Dr. Eugene Rogan: On the Syrian National Congress of 1919
  Various Speakers

Monday 31 May 2021

• 13:00 - Book Discussion - The Rohingya, Justice and International Law
  Kriangsak Kittichaisaree (International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea), Stephen Rapp (Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict), Priya Pillai (Asia Justice Coalition)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series

Wednesday 2 June 2021

• 14:00 - Negotiating Respectability between the Space of the Prison and the Place of Woman, Egypt 1946-1965.
  Dr Hannah Elsisi (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)
• 17:00 - Consenting to Serve the Sovereign: Military Impressment as Contract Formation, 1625-1649
  Sonia Tycko (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 4 June 2021

• 14:00 - Killing Chickens, Scaring Monkeys: The Demonstration Effects of China’s Economic Coercion and their Limits
  Professor Ja Ian Chong (National University of Singapore)
  International Relations of China

Wednesday 16 June 2021

• 17:00 - A Global Approach to Transnational War Volunteering after 1945
  Enrico Acciai (Copenhagen)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 18 June 2021

• 14:00 - International Law as Driver of Confrontation: UNCLOS and China’s Policy in the South China Sea
  Dr Andrew Chubb (Lancaster University)
  International Relations of China

Monday 11 October 2021

• 12:30 - Revolution and Social Development in Iran
  Prof Ali Kadivar (Boston College)
  Department of Sociology Seminar
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives - Opening session
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Cyrus Schayegh, Stephanie Cronin (University of Oxford)
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 13:00 - The Operational Application of Offensive Cyber: Challenges and Opportunities
  Conrad Prince (RUSI)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War 
  Prof Shay Hazkani (University of Maryland)
  Israel Studies Seminar - Oct 2017 – Mar 2023
• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism
  Limited Capacity - pre booking required - email asian@sant.ox.ac.uk
  Suzanne Schneider (Deputy Director of the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research)
• 19:00 - The Catastrophe in Afghanistan, Competition with China, and the Need to Rebuild Strategic Competence
  HR McMaster
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 13 October 2021

• 17:15 - The Integrated Review, the fall of Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific "tilt"
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 14 October 2021

• 15:00 - The Politics of Emotion in International Relations: Who Gets to Feel What and Whose Emotions Matter
  If joining by Zoom, please log on 5 minutes before start of talk.
  Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Performing Putin
  Elizabeth Wood (MIT)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Martial Culture and Martial Practice in early modern London
  Dr Ian Archer (Keble College)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 15 October 2021

• 17:00 - Roundtable: The Environment and the Middle East
  Various Speakers

Monday 18 October 2021

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Transnationalism in the Middle East
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Marral Shamshiri-Fard, Jeremy Randall, Fadi Kafeety, Dr Toby Matthiesen (LSE), Golnar Nikpour
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 19 October 2021

• 12:00 - Cyber Due Diligence report launch
  Talita de Souza Dias (University of Oxford), Antonio Coco (Departmental Lecturer in Law, University of Essex; Visiting Scholar, Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Professor Duncan Hollis (Temple University)
• 12:30 - The Normalization of Stigmatized Political Symbols
  Zoom and in-person seminar // Join Zoom Meeting https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09 Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066 Passcode: 322203
  Vicente Valentim (Nuffield College)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq
  Brigadier (rtd) Ben Barry (OBE (IISS))
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:15 - Pathways toward a Jewish Israeli restorative ethics
  Prof Atalia Omer (University of Notre Dame)
  Israel Studies Seminar - Oct 2017 – Mar 2023

Wednesday 20 October 2021

• 17:00 - South East Asia and World War II
  Gregg Huff (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 15:00 - International Authority and Institutionalized Inequalities
  Prof Michael Zurn (Free University Berlin)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 22 October 2021

• 14:00 - Influences, Unintended Consequences and Ripple Effects: Conceptualizing the Presence of China in Southeast Asia
  Professor Enze Han (University of Hong Kong)
  International Relations of China
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - Dr Hussam Hussein - The politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan
  Registration is essential
  Dr. Hussam Hussein, Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 25 October 2021

• 15:00 - Book Discussion: Transitional Justice in Peacebuilding - Actor-Contingent and Malleable Justice
  This event will run as a Zoom meeting. To attend, register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqdu2gqj8pGtBl4rzGa-HaUkPeau3u51VO
  Dr Djeyhoun Ostowar
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - A Global Palestine
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Sune Haugbolle, Pelle Valentin Olsen, Sorcha Thomson, Ilan Pappé
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 13:00 - Integration – the Goldilocks factor 
  Lt. Col. Al Brown (British Army)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 20:00 - Russia and its Armed Forces: A view from the British Embassy
  Captain Chris Connolly OBE
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 27 October 2021

• 17:15 - Reconceptualizing Grand Strategy: A Comparative and Relational Framework 
  Thierry Balzacq (Sciences Po)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 28 October 2021

• 15:00 - When is it “ok” to leave? U.S. public opinion toward withdrawal from international organizations
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Dr Inken von Borzyskowski (UCL)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 29 October 2021

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its Afterlives
  Registration essential.
  Dr. Jamie Furniss, Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (Tunis)/Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 1 November 2021

• 13:00 - Book Discussion: Dealing with the Authoritarian Past in Brazil - From Cardoso to Rousseff
  This event will run as a Zoom meeting. To attend, register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkd-qtpj8qGt3NlpB95QdsDnhoESuAy-hA
  Dr Gisele Iecker de Almeida (Cardiff University)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Maoism in the Middle East and North Africa
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Jiayi Zhu, William Figueroa, Leonard Michael, Idriss Jebari, Afshin Matin-Asgari
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 2 November 2021

• 13:00 - Triple Axis: Iran's relations with Russia and China
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 November 2021

• 13:00 - DPIR Alumni Career Conversations: International Organisations and Think Tanks
  Richard Ponzio (Stimson Center), Frances Z. Brown (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), David Malone (United Nations University)
  DPIR Alumni Career Conversations
• 17:00 - Small-unit leadership on the Eastern Front during the First World War in the mirror of Alexander Watson’s work on the Western Front
  Roger Reese (Texas A&M)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 15:00 - Military Policing Exacerbates Crime and Human Rights Abuses: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Cali, Colombia
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Robert Blair (Brown University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 20:00 - How ISIS Fights: present and future of nonstate combat effectiveness
  Dr Omar Ashour
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Friday 5 November 2021

• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series -Environment Discounted: Energy and Economic Diversification Plans in the Gulf
  Dr. Manal Shehabi, Academic Visitor, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford; Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 8 November 2021

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Late Pahlavi Iran
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Ali Mirsepassi, Arash Azizi, Siavush Ranjbar Daemi, Edmund Herzig
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 13:00 - Dispute Inflation
  Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 18:00 - UK-France Security and Defence Cooperation in a Post-Brexit World
  Dr Alice Pannier, Admiral Luc Pagès, Dr Benedict Wilkinson
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 10 November 2021

• 17:00 - The Tunisian Political Crisis; the end of Democracy?
  Registration essential
  Youssef Cherif (Director, Columbia Global Centers|Tunis), Dr Anne Wolf (Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - Strategy in practice: The 2021 Integrated Review
  Ashlee Godwin (UK Parliament)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 15:00 - Mapping the global international system of the nineteenth century (1815-1914)
  This session is now taking place online only. Please join the call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Edward Keene (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 12 November 2021

• 17:00 - Air Pollution, Toxicity, and Environmental Politics in the History of Iranian Oil Nationalisation
  Registration essential
  Dr Mattin Biglari (SOAS London)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 15 November 2021

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Lebanon
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Nathaniel George, Yvonne Albers, Zeina Maasri, Fadi Bardawil
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 12:30 - Economic Lawfare: The Geopolitics of Corporate Justice
  Speaker joining online, Clay Room, Nuffield College // Join Zoom Meeting https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09 Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066 Passcode: 322203
  Cornelia Woll (Sciences Po)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 12:30 - Where is the UK National Interest in our Economic Relationship with China?
  John Edwards (Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for China)
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series
• 13:00 - The Central role of Space Domain Awareness in future military conflicts
  Stuart Eves (SJE Space Ltd)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - On Commemoration
  Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 14:15 - Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War
  Please note that capacity is limited in the venue. As pre-booking arrangements have proved ineffective, we now intend to offer the 10 available seats on a first come, first served basis. Once capacity is reached, additional people will be turned away. Please arrive early to secure your place. All attendees must scan in using the NHS QR code provided by the college. COVID-19 Safety Information: If you have symptoms of COVID-19 or have been in contact with someone with COVID-19, please do not attend this event. We encourage attendees to wear a face covering at all indoor OSGA events unless exempt. We encourage attendees to respect social spacing, by leaving the seat next to them free, where possible and to use handwashing and hand sanitisation facilities regularly. We request that attendees, particularly those who are not double vaccinated, perform LFD tests before attending OSGA events. All attendees at St Antony's College events must: Take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event - if positive, stay at home; Stay home if you feel unwell; Wear a face covering where indicated; Be considerate of other people’s space; Wash your hands regularly with soap or sanitiser. The latest University guidance on the use of face coverings should be checked and followed: unless exempt, you are asked wear one while moving around indoor spaces, and where possible, while seated, particularly during larger events. Attendees are asked to use the official NHS QR code posters displayed throughout the College site. College general COVID guidance can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/staff-update. Attendees need to have one of: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination status; Registration (via NHS app) of a negative Lateral Flow Device test (LFD test) taken in the last 48 hours; or Proof of natural immunity via a positive PCR test taken within 180 days of the event, but following the 10-day isolation period.
  Dr Amnon Aran (City University)
  Israel Studies Seminar - Oct 2017 – Mar 2023
• 19:00 - The American War in Afghanistan: Why We Failed
  Dr Carter Malkasian
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 16:00 - Social Change through Presence: White Marriage in Iran
  Dr Maral Sahebjame (Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Mapping the impact of the Thirty Years War in Central Europe
  Note this seminar is not in-person but will be held on Zoom, for which please register at the link below
  Peter H Wilson (Oxford), Katerina Tkacova (Oxford), Thomas Pert (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967-1974
  Hybrid event - Live and online
  Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford), Foteini Dimirouli (Keble College, Oxford), Kostis Kornetis (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Katerina Lagos (California State University, Sacramento)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 15:00 - From Pluribus to Unum? The Civil War and Imagined Sovereignty in 19th Century America
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Melissa Lee (Princeton University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 18:00 - "These are not ordinary women": Empire, Famine, and Labour in WW2 India
  Urvi Khaitan (University of Oxford)
  Uncomfortable Oxford Project

Friday 19 November 2021

• 14:00 - The Role of Practice Diffusion in China’s Engagement in Global Standardization
  Professor Dr Sarah Eaton (Humboldt University Berlin)
  International Relations of China
• 17:00 - Failing Flows: The Politics of Water Management in Southern Iraq
  Registration essential
  Dr Michael Mason (Director of the Middle East Centre, London School of Economics and Political Science)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 22 November 2021

• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - The Developmental State
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Touraj Atabaki, Max Ajl, Philip Marfleet, Cyrus Schayegh
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 13:00 - New technology in War
  Dr Olivier Schmitt (University of Southern Denmark)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - "No time [should] be lost in procuring the performers": The Recruitment and Training of Military Musicians, 1793-1815
  Eamonn O’Keeffe (Merton)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - ADDITIONAL SEMINAR: Global-European Civil Wars
  Places are limited and registration is essential: contact global@history.ox.ac.uk
  Robert Gerwarth (Leverhulme Visiting Professor Oxford 2021-22; UCD), Rana Mitter (Oxford), Discussant: Martin Conway, Chair: Professor Patricia Clavin
  Modern European History Seminar
• 20:00 - Scottish Foreign and Defence Policy and the Implications of Scottish Independence
  Dame Mariot Leslie DCMG
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Thursday 25 November 2021

• 15:00 - Competing memories of conflict
  If joining online, please join Zoom call 5 minutes before start of the talk.
  Dr Kathrin Bachleitner (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Disarming bodies and souls: gun control and state monopoly on violence in Europe, 1919-1948
  Marco Aterrano (Messina)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Peace in the City: War, Peace, Commerce and the Treaty of London
  Dr Alexandra Gajda (Jesus College, Oxford University)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Afghanistan and the Middle East
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University), Kate Clark (Journalist)

Friday 26 November 2021

• 14:30 - Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order
  Professor Yeling Tan (University of Oregon)
  International Relations of China
• 17:00 - Climate, Colonialism, and Zionism in Palestine (1882-1948): New Historiographical Perspectives
  Dr Netta Cohen (Christ Church, Oxford University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 18:00 - Syria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refuge State - Oxford Syria Society Talk with Professor Dawn Chatty
  Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 November 2021

• 16:00 - The Option of Nonviolence
  Dr Humeira Iqtidar (King's College London)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
• 17:00 - The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives Webinar Series - Gender in the Global Middle East and North Africa
  Full conference agenda can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/webinar_series_programme_0.pdf
  Faika Çelik, Aliye Gamze Sarıtunalı, Amy Kallander, Hannah Elsisi Ashmawi, Laleh Khalili
  The Middle East c.1960-1980 Global and Transnational Perspectives

Tuesday 30 November 2021

• 13:00 - Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO
  Professor Janne Matlary (University of Oslo)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 20:00 - Overseas Counter-Terrorism - how does the West defeat Al-Qaida and Islamic State?
  Will Evans OBE
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 1 December 2021

• 17:00 - Military Welfare in early modern Europe
  Ismini Pells (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 2 December 2021

• 10:00 - The Politics of Nuclear Commemoration in Asia: The China Case
  Nicola Leveringhaus (King's College London)
  International Relations of China
• 15:00 - Digital Counterterrorism: Why Combatting Online Extremism is So Hard – And What Can Be Done About It
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Prof Tamar Mitts (Columbia University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 3 December 2021

• 17:00 - What does political ecology tell us about the environmental crises in the Middle East
  Registration essential
  Dr Christian Henderson, Assistant Professor at Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 January 2022

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Caliphate
  Hüseyin Yilmaz (George Mason University), Elizabeth Alexandrin (University of Manitoba)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 13:00 - On Russian strategy in the social media battlefield
  Dr David Gioe (King's College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 January 2022

• 17:00 - Missionaries, Civil Servants, and Military Officers: Competition and Entanglements in East and Southeast Asia
  Dong-Yu (Donny) Lin (National Taiwan Normal University), Sebestyén Hompot (University of Vienna)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - It’s grand, but is it strategy? The origins of ‘grand strategy’ revisited
  Please note that the venue has been changed to the Manor Road Building.
  Dr. David Morgan-Owen (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 20 January 2022

• 13:00 - Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin’s Russia
  Online via Zoom
  Timothy Frye (Columbia University)
  REES Authors Meet Critics Seminar Series
• 15:00 - ‘Right-Peopling’ the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1885-2020
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Carl Mueller-Crepon (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - ROUNDTABLE - Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial war, 1931-1945
  NOTE: This seminar has had to move entirely online - please email patricia.clavin@history.ox.ac.uk to receive the link
  Richard Overy (Exeter), Discussant: John Darwin (Oxford), Discussant: Rana Mitter (Oxford)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 21 January 2022

• 17:00 - Book launch: Islam and the Arab Revolutions
  Usaama Al-Azami (St.Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 January 2022

• 13:00 - Illusions of Autonomy: Why Europe Cannot Provide for Its Security If the United States Pulls Back
  Dr Hugo Meijer (Sciences Po)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 January 2022

• 12:00 - Why onset matters: warfare, severity, and duration in civil war
  Benoit Siberdt (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Social Cohesion as a Humanitarian Objective?
  Cory Rodgers (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Religion
  Madawi al-Rasheed (LSE), Pascal Menoret (Brandeis University)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Typologies of Resistance: a global approach to anticolonial rebellion in the First World War
  Jonathan Krause (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - What are we speaking about when we speak of China?
  Professor Biao Xiang (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology), Dr Yangyang Cheng (Yale University), Dr Rachel Leow (University of Cambridge)
  China Centre Conversation series
• 17:00 - A Very British Conflict? The Ulster Imperial Guards and the British Army in Belfast, 1921-1922
  Dr Edward Burke (University of Nottingham)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 18:00 - Postcolonial Racisms: National sovereignty and the making of new global apartheids
  Professor Nandita Sharma (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 27 January 2022

• 13:00 - Cold War Correspondent
  Online with Zoom.
  TBA
  REES Authors Meet Critics Seminar Series
• 15:00 - The Legalization of Global Economic Governance: Contracting or Multilateralism?
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Karen Alter (Northwestern University), Timothy Meyer
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Joint Event with the Ethics in AI Institute at Oxford - 'System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How to Reboot' with authors Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy Weinstein.
  Rob Reich (Stanford), Jeremy Weinstein (Stanford), Mehran Sahami (Stanford)
  Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium
• 17:30 - Germany, the Holocaust and the postcolonial challenge
  Professor Norbert Frei (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)

Friday 28 January 2022

• 14:00 - Translation Matters: Problems of Inference in Assessments of China's Intentions
  Professor Alastair Iain Johnston (Harvard University)
  International Relations of China
• 15:00 - Tajikistan: Politics After Civil War
  Suzanne Levi-Sanchez (Non-Resident Fellow, School of International Service, American University, Retired (Tenured) Associate Professor, US Naval War College), Edward Lemon (Research Assistant Professor, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University), Muhiddin Kabiri (chairman of NAT (National Alliance of Tajikistan) and chairman of the IRPT (Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan)), Alim Sherzamonov (Politician in Tajikistan)
• 16:00 - Circumstantial Liberals: Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Jan Rovny (Sciences Po Paris)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
  Dr Neil Ketchley (Associate Professor in Politics, St Antony’s College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 31 January 2022

• 17:00 - Securing Peace, Prosperity, and Population Growth in Scotland, 1745-1767
  Conor Bollins (Queen Mary University of London)
  Enlightenment Workshop

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 13:00 - Copenhagen 1807: A British War of prevention and pre-emption?
  Professor Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Tacky’s Revolt: the story of an Atlantic slave war
  Vincent Brown (Harvard)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The economic consequences of the Opium War
  Carol Shiue (University of Colorado-Boulder)
  Economic and Social History Seminar

Wednesday 2 February 2022

• 17:00 - Informal Unions in MENASA: A New Form of Cohabitation?
  Janet Afary (Mellichamp Chair, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California Santa Barbara), Roger Friedland (Dept of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:15 - Presidents, Politics and Military Strategy: Electoral Constraints during the Iraq War
  Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 15:00 - NATO After 9/11: Counterterrorism, Organized Violence and the Transnational Remaking of the Euro-Atlantic Security
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Julien Pomarede (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Replacing Europe? The Importance of India, Violence and Global Political Thought
  Please note this seminar has moved online - please register at the link below
  Shruti Kapila (Cambridge)
  Modern History Research Seminar

Friday 4 February 2022

• 16:00 - The most illuminating thing I have ever seen’: Photography, Violence and the Bud Dajo Massacre of 1906
  Dr Kim Wagner (QMUL)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt
  Dr Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 8 February 2022

• 13:00 - Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
  Please use this link to join the meeting: https://jh.zoom.us/j/97354488555?pwd=emRsbWU1TEx0Z3A0VG0vWEU5VTdFQT09
  Professor Mary Sarotte (Johns Hopkins)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 20:30 - Human Rights at Sea: Problems and Prospects
  Professor Steven Haines
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 9 February 2022

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Sovereignty
  Neguin Yavari (University of Leipzig), Samy Ayoub (University of Texas-Austin)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - The First World War and the making of the modern Mediterranean
  Heather Jones (UCL)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 10 February 2022

• 15:00 - Virtual Territories
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Jordan Branch (Claremont McKenna College)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 11 February 2022

• 10:00 - Chinese Scholars and the Studies of Chinese Foreign Policy
  Professor Kai He (Griffith University)
  International Relations of China
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Book Launch: Uncoupling Language and Religion: An Exploration into the Margins of Turkish Literature
  Laurent Mignon (St. Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 19:00 - The Twitter War for Nagorno-Karabakh
  Major Bruce Gudmunsson
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Tuesday 15 February 2022

• 13:00 - Maritime Strategy: Using the Other 71%
  Captain Brent Spillner (US Navy), Commander Andrew Livsey (Royal Navy and CCW Visiting Research Fellow)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 20:30 - Machine Intelligence and the Changing Keys to Power
  Lt Col Al Brown (Visting Fellow Oxford University and CCW)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 16 February 2022

• 14:30 - Supply chain risk surveillance
  Edward Kosasih (University of Cambridge)
• 17:00 - A New Cold War in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)?
  Dr Guy Burton (Adjunct Professor, Brussels School of Governance), Dr Christopher M. Davidson (Associate fellow, RUSI), Dr Diana Galeeva (Academic Visitor to St. Antony’s College, Oxford University), Dr Michael Willis (St. Antony's College, Oxford University)
• 17:15 - Cyber Capabilities and Decision Making - if we are being out thought, will we always be outfought?
  Sally Walker
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 15:00 - The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Inevitability
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Yuna Han (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 18 February 2022

• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond
  Raphael Lefevre (St.Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 10:00 - New Intellectual Histories of the Global South
  Milinda Banerjee (St Andrews), Zobia Haq (Oxford), Emma Hunter (Edinburgh), Miles Larmer (Oxford), Adrita Mitra (Oxford), Faridah Zaman (Oxford)
• 13:00 - People’s Liberation Army Modernisation: from drivers of change to strengths and weaknesses
  Meia Nouwens (The International Institute for Strategic Studies)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - China-India Relations and the Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific
  Commodore Abhay Kumar Singh
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar
• 17:00 - Solferino 21: Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty-first Century
  Chair: Professor Dapo Akande (Oxford), Dr Hugo Slim (Oxford), Sorcha O’Callaghan (ODI), Professor David Whetham (KCL)
  Blavatnik School of Government Events

Wednesday 23 February 2022

• 15:00 - Exposure to Violence and the Prospects for Reconciliation: Evidence from Syria and Iraq
  Professor Kristin Fabbe (Harvard Business School)
  Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Violence
  Murad Idris (University of Michigan), Nesrine Badawi (American University in Cairo)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Threatened motherhood in the Israeli welfare state: The discourse and the practice behind the disqualification of disadvantaged women's motherhood
  Prof. Esther Hertzog (Social Anthropologist, Zefat Academic College)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Managing Habsburg battlefield medicine during the Ottoman wars, 1717-1792
  Sabine Jesner (Graz)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Bosnia and Herzegovina: Has the international community lost interest?
  This is a Zoom webinar
  Jelena Dzankic (European University Institute, Florence), Jasmin Hasic (Humanity in Action (BiH)), Nebojsa Vladisavljevic (University of Belgrade)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Reflections on the Arab Spring Ten Years On
  Sir Geoffrey Adams KCMG (British Ambassador to Egypt (2018-2021))
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 15:00 - Institutional Racism in International Relations
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Phillip Lipscy (University of Toronto), Jiajia Zhou
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - (Film showing) 'Lebanon. Explosion of Anger' film by Krzysztof Dzięciołowski
  Michael Willis (St. Antony's College), Raphaël Lefèvre (Department of Politics and International Relations), Krzysztof Dzięciołowski
• 19:00 - Journalism in the 21st Century: In Conversation With Frank Gardner
  Frank Gardner (BBC's Security Correspondent)
  Oxford International Relations Society Events

Friday 25 February 2022

• 14:00 - Politics of AI in China
  Professor Jinghan Zen (Lancaster University)
  International Relations of China
• 16:00 - Conflict Shapes in Flux: A Typology of Spatial Change in Armed Conflict
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Kate Tcakova (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty
  Joseph Sassoon (Director of the Centre for Contemporary Arab Studies and Professor of History and Political Economy at Georgetown University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 12:30 - The Structural Underpinnings of Affective Polarization in Western Democracies
  Join Zoom Meeting: https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09 Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066 Passcode: 322203
  Noam Gidron (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - The Indo-Pacific Tilt, Geopolitics and International Law - Issues and Challenges
  Captain Ian Park (Royal Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Selling the enemy’s atrocity: the “Vietnam Syndrome” and popular understandings of American warfare after the Cold War
  Sandra Scanlon (University College Dublin)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Fragments of Insanity – shattered lives after genocide
  Meryem Kalayci (Oxford)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory
• 20:30 - Major Ideas and Ideologies in Far Right Movements
  Professor Peter Neumann
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 2 March 2022

• 12:30 - AI-tocracy
  This seminar will be online and in person. If you wish to sign up for online attendance, please use your institution email address. Booking is not required for in-person attendance.
  Noam Yuchtman (University of Oxford)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:00 - Insights from Bellingcat on Russia's Ukraine ambitions with Christo Grozev
  Christo Grozev
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - The Strategies of Small States: Safeguarding Autonomy and Influencing Great Powers
  Dr Hillary Briffa (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 3 March 2022

• 15:00 - Making an Underworld: Internationalism and Moral Panics
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Jeanne Morefield (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 4 March 2022

• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Panel Discussion – The Future of Syria
  Ms Waad Alkhatib (Film Maker, For Sama)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 7 March 2022

• 17:00 - The Future of Religious Competition in the 21st century.
  This seminar is an open dialogue with seminar attendees.
  Paul Seabright (University of Toulouse & All Souls College Oxford)
  Rivalry Within and Between Religions: Past, Present and Future
• 17:00 - Calvinist scholasticism and the just war in the seventeenth century
  Ian Campbell (Queen's University Belfast)
  Early Modern Politics and Religion Workshop

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 13:00 - ‘War’ vs ‘Conflict’: changing Russian perceptions between the military and the civilian security establishment
  Mark Galeotti (UCL)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 20:30 - Decentring EU Foreign Policy
  Dr Sarah Wolff
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 9 March 2022

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Law
  Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Carceral Geographies, Racial Violence: The contested Mediterranean borderzone
  Dr Maurice Stierl (University of Sheffield)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 15:00 - Can a leopard change its spots? Implicit theories and signaling in international politics
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Paola Solimena (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 11 March 2022

• 14:30 - Making China Great Again? China’s 'Green' and 'Digital' Belt and Road Initiative
  Dr Yuka Kobayashi (SOAS)
  International Relations of China
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Yemen’s Enduring Crisis
  TBA
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - How to Overcome Global Crises: Climate Change and Pandemics
  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (Nelson Mandela Fellow)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars

Monday 14 March 2022

• 09:30 - OxPeace 3 Day Training Workshop in Mediation and Negotiation
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events
• 15:30 - Transition to Policy: Roles in the Public Sector and Think Tanks
  Various Speakers
  Careers Conference for Researchers 2022

Wednesday 23 March 2022

• 09:30 - 'Energy and Net Zero in the UK' - 10th Oxford Energy Day
  This is an 'in person' event. If you sign up for the conference, a streaming link will be included in the circulation sent out on Monday, 21 March.
  Mike Thompson (Committee for Climate Change), Pete Sudbury (Oxfordshire County Council)
  Oxford Energy Seminars 2021-2022

Wednesday 20 April 2022

• 13:00 - Why journalism needs information security
  Philip Di Salvo (London School of Economics)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Monday 25 April 2022

• 17:00 - Inaugural Lecture: The American Civil War as a Conservative Revolution
  Professor Adam Smith (Rothermere American Institute)

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 13:00 - International Law, Politics and Ethics of Humanitarian Military Intervention
  Dr Iacovos Kareklas (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Europe s Age of Civil Wars? On the dynamics of violence, 1912-1949
  Places are limited, so please confirm your attendance by emailing martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Robert Gerwarth (UCD)
  The 2022 Leverhulme Lectures - Civil Wars in Europe 1912-1949
• 17:00 - What can we learn from the past when trying to make sense of the Chinese Communist Party today?
  Professor Jeff Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine), Professor Diana Fu (University of Toronto), Ian Johnson (The Council on Foreign Relations)
  China Centre Conversation series
• 20:30 - 30th Anniversary of the Collapse of the USSR: the Rapid Demise and Long-term Consequences
  Kataryna Wolczuk (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 27 April 2022

• 12:00 - Tech policy from ground zero to today: a regulator’s view from the frontlines to the future of online safety
  Julie Inman Grant (Australia’s eSafety Commissioner), Professor Victoria Nash (Oxford Internet Institute)
• 14:00 - Participation yielding stigmatization? Demobilized rebels’ involvement during Colombia’s Paro Nacional
  Christoph Sponsel (University of Oxford)
  CESS Colloquium Series
• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 1 - EMPIRE
  Janet O’Brien, The Courtauld, Azfar Moin, University of Texas-Austin
• 17:00 - Panel discussion: The Irish Civil War: New Perspectives
  Professor Anne Dolan (Trinity College, Dublin), Dr Lia Brazil (Nuffield College, Oxford), Professor Robert Gerwarth (University College Dublin), Dr Bill Kissane (LSE)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar

Thursday 28 April 2022

• 14:00 - Europe in a Changing World: 13th Annual Dahrendorf Colloquium
  Various Speakers
  Dahrendorf Programme - events
• 15:00 - Why Ordinary People Care About International Law
  Janina Dill (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 29 April 2022

• 15:00 - Future of space tech: supply chains, SMEs and SDGs
  Professor Anu Ojha OBE (Director of UK's National Space Academy), Sam Adlen (Chief Strategy Officer at Satellite Applications Catapult), Arnab Dutt OBE (SME Panel Member at UK Cabinet Office)
  Oxford Smart Space Series
• 17:00 - BOOK LAUNCH 'Algiers’ lynching, 1956. A social history of colonial racism'
  Andrea Brazzoduro (MFO/Turin), James McDougall (Trinity)

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 13:00 - Responsible Stakeholder or Challenger? Assessing India’s Foreign Policy Orientation via Leadership Travel
  Dr Walter Ladwig III (King's College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - ‘British Bolé Baap Re Baap’ - World War II and the Prospect of ‘Quit India’ in Bengal: ‘War’ Rumours and ‘Revolutionary’ Parties
  Anwesha Roy (Oxford)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - From Archangel to Athens: Civil Wars and International Mobility
  Places are limited, so please confirm your attendance by emailing martin.conway@history.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Robert Gerwarth (UCD)
  The 2022 Leverhulme Lectures - Civil Wars in Europe 1912-1949
• 17:00 - The Bride: An Illustrated History of Palestine, 1850-1948
  Roger Hardy (Former Middle East analyst with the BBC World Service)
• 17:00 - The Future is Female
  Alison Brysk (UC Santa Barbara), Andrea den Boer (University of Kent)
  Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
• 20:30 - Psycho-Social Perspectives Missing from Discussions about the War on Ukraine
  Dr Sarah Wolff
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 17:00 - The king’s war at sea: armees and maritime service in fourteenth-century England
  This talk is via Zoom and registration is required
  Andrew Ayton (Keele)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The siege of Constantinople in 717-718: the embarrassing memory of a triumph
  Marie-France Auzépy (emerita, Université Paris 8)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Thursday 5 May 2022

• 15:00 - Binding international law without ratification: delegation in environmental treaties
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Jon Pevehouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 6 May 2022

• 14:00 - The Future of PLA Strategy and Operations Concerning Taiwan
  Dr Joel Wuthnow (National Defense University)
  International Relations of China
• 15:00 - The War in Ukraine: Political Geography Roundtable Discussion
  Dr Ian Klinke (University of Oxford), Dr Patricia Daley (University of Oxford), Professor Judith Pallot (School of Geography and the Environment), Dr. Vlad Mykhnenko (University of Oxford)
  Political Worlds Webinar Series: Power and Political Lives in Geography

Saturday 7 May 2022

• 09:00 - ‘Who builds Peace? The relationships between international, national, regional and local levels in peacebuilding.’ Fourteenth Annual OxPeace Day-Conference
  Zoom is sold out but in-person registration is still open, and the Conference will now also be live-streamed on YouTube, at this link which will become live on Saturday when sessions are being streamed: Here the youtube link: https://youtu.be/nBt2QjvPS98 This Conference is in-person, with an online option in partnership with Rodeemos el Dialogo/Embrace Dialogue, based in Colombia. The speakers are planning to be present in reality in Oxford and you are warmly encouraged to join them! Coffee, sandwich lunch and tea are included. Walk-ins on the day are probably possible, but registration will help with planning the catering! .
  Various Speakers
  OxPeace Events

Monday 9 May 2022

• 17:00 - 2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (Lecture 1/3)
  These lectures may be attended in-person (booking via Bookwhen) or online (register in advance on Zoom). Booking/registration details for each lecture are on our website.
  Professor Peter Railton (Michigan)
  2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 11:00 - Perfect Imbalance: China and Russia
  Dr Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova (Riga Stradins University)
• 13:00 - Reflexive Control Theory: a Soviet perspective on influence and why it matters in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
  Maria de Goeij (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Future of Accountability
  Alison Brysk (UC Santa Barbara), Neil Mitchell (UCL), Yuna Han (Oxford)
  Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
• 20:30 - Is The Russian Army Rotten?
  Shashank Joshi (The Economist)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 11 May 2022

• 13:00 - Media survival in Ukraine
  Jakub Parusinski (Kyiv Indy)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 14:00 - HYBRID EVENT - The Right to Move: Gender and Space in Iranian Cinema
  Various Speakers

Thursday 12 May 2022

• 15:00 - Plans are Worthless, But Planning is Everything: A Resurrection of the Study of Grand Strategic Planning
  Nina Silove (ETH Zurich)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 16 May 2022

• 17:00 - 2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence (Lecture 2/3)
  These lectures may be attended in-person (booking via Bookwhen) or online (register in advance on Zoom). Booking/registration details for each lecture are on our website.
  Professor Peter Railton (Michigan)
  2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics

Tuesday 17 May 2022

• 13:00 - Nation-Building in the Borderlands of a Borderland: A Cartographical Examination of the Russia-Ukraine War
  This event will now be on Teams as well as in person. Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Yjg4ZjgwMTUtODc2MS00ZWE1LTg3OWItMWYyMjU3YzVkZjZm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22a4e7f38d-7c83-4a62-a150-818baca67a19%22%7d
  Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The future of European security after the war in Ukraine
  ESC and SEESOX Annual lecture
  The Rt. Hon. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT, GCMG, hon FRSE, PC (Former NATO Secretary General) (House of Lords)
• 17:00 - Communicating Human Rights
  Alison Brysk (UC Santa Barbara), Todd Landman (Nottingham)
  Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
• 20:30 - American Grand Strategy After Ukraine
  Dr Peter Feaver
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 18 May 2022

• 16:00 - Ireland without Partition: Counterfactual Histories
  Professor Alvin Jackson, Dr Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid, Professor Charles Townshend
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:15 - Russian Invasion and the Struggle for Ukrainian Identity - Eastern Galicia, 1914
  Alexander Watson (Goldsmiths)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 19 May 2022

• 15:00 - Theory of Linkage Politics
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Kennedy Mbeva (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Authenticity and Sincerity in Premodern China
  Professor Xiaofei Tian (Harvard University), Professor Antje Richter (University of Colorado Boulder), Dr Christopher J Foster (SOAS)
  China Centre Conversation series

Friday 20 May 2022

• 14:00 - Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media
  Dr Michael Masterson (Missouri State)
  International Relations of China
• 17:00 - The Dacre Lecture 2022 - ‘Stalin’s War on Ukraine and Putin’s War on Ukraine: What we Know Now, and Why it Matters’
  Anne Applebaum

Saturday 21 May 2022

• 09:00 - Hybrid Saïd Rhodes Forum on Syria, Jordan, Lebanon & Palestine (SJLP)
  Register here - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/said-rhodes-forum-on-syria-jordan-lebanon-palestine-sjlp-tickets-199238717367
  Various Speakers
  Saïd Rhodes Forum on Syria, Jordan, Lebanon & Palestine (SJLP)

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 17:00 - The Ambiguities of Kurdish “Nationalism”
  Dr. Djene Rhys Bajalan
• 17:00 - Human Rights and The Future of Migration
  Alison Brysk (UC Santa Barbara), Stephen Meili (Minnesota/Oxford), Loren Landau (Oxford)
  Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
• 20:30 - Russkiy Mir Expansionism, Ukraine's Military Successes, and Russian Failures
  Aurimas Navys
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 25 May 2022

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 2 - ARAB SPRING
  Maria Malmström, Lund University, Usaama al-Azami, University of Oxford

Thursday 26 May 2022

• 17:00 - Translation
  Professor Nicholas Williams (Arizona State University), Dr Paul Bevan (University if Oxford), Dr Ewan Macdonald (University of Oxford)
  China Centre Conversation series

Friday 27 May 2022

• 14:00 - Political Demonstration Effects: Authoritarian Informational Statecraft and Public Support for Democracy
  Professor Audrye Wong
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 31 May 2022

• 17:00 - Human Rights and The Future of Global Governance
  Alison Brysk (UC Santa Barbara), Leigh Payne (Oxford), Pilar Elizalde (LSE)
  Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 17:15 - International Law and Wars of Liberation: Rethinking Human Rights at the End of Empire
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Andrew Thompson (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 3 June 2022

• 17:00 - The Potential Impact of European Aids on National Curriculum in Emerging Entities Under and Post-Conflicts: Palestine As a Case
  Haya Fayyad Abu Hussein (Birzeit University/ Palestine)

Tuesday 7 June 2022

• 20:30 - UK Space Command, A Year On
  Air Vice-Marshal Paul Godfrey (UK Space Command)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 8 June 2022

• 10:00 - The West, China and 'Systemic Rivalry' – Coalitions and Counter-coalitions
  Andrew Small (German Marshall Fund)
  International Relations of China

Thursday 9 June 2022

• 15:00 - How Childhood Exposure to the Eritrean-Ethiopian War Affected Intimate Partner Violence
  Drummond Orr (University of Oxford)
  Novel Ideas: MPhil Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 15:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 3 - RELIGION
  Rushain Abbasi, Stanford University, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University
• 17:15 - The future is certain, it’s the past that keeps changing’: The change of Soviet propaganda during WWII
  Gerald Mako (Cambridge)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 16 June 2022

• 17:00 - *Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture* - The Enduring Legacy of Oslo
  Diana Buttu (IMEU Communications Director, DAWN Fellow)

Wednesday 22 June 2022

• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Oxford Political Thought Seminar Series - Seminar 4 - MARXISM
  Fadi Bardawil, Duke University, Nadia Bou Ali, American University of Beirut

Friday 1 July 2022

• 15:00 - Ready for take-off? Small businesses in the UK space economy
  Prof Tim Vorley (Oxford Brookes Business School), Shirley Harrison (Company Engagement Manager, AMRC), Colin Baldwin (Head of Policy at UKspace), Andrew Butt (Business Manager - Aerospace Defence & Space at Reliance Precision Limited)
  Oxford Smart Space Series

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 17:00 - Understanding Right-Wing Populism And What To Do About It
  Dr Tim Vlandas (University of Oxford), Prof Daphne Halikiopoulou (University of Reading), Prof Lenka Bustikova (University of Oxford), Dr Anja Giudici (Newcastle University)
• 17:00 - Iran Protests: A Panel Discussion
  Walking vigil 3pm from Bonn Square to St Antony’s College directly preceding this event.
  Edmund Herzig (Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies), Maryam Alemzadeh (Associate Professor in History and Politics of Iran), Zuzanna Olszewska (Associate Professor in the Social Anthropology of the Middle East)
• 20:00 - Putin's War: Narratives, Mobilisation, and Perceptions
  Arkady Ostrovsky (The Economist)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 12 October 2022

• 17:00 - Community and Change in US Strategy toward the Middle East and the Islamic World
  Professor Vali Nasr (John Hopkins University)
• 17:15 - Anglo-American clandestine cooperation: the past, present and future of the Special Intelligence Relationship
  Dr David Gioe (King's College London), Thomas Maguire (Leiden)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
• 17:30 - Q&A with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook concerning the podcast 'The Rest is History'
  Tom Holland (Independent Scholar), Dominic Sandbrook (Visiting Professor, KCL)
  Macintyre Society - the Magdalen History Society

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 17:00 - Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire after 1945
  Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's, Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar

Friday 14 October 2022

• 17:00 - Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism
  Professor Mohammad Khalil (Michigan State University, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 18 October 2022

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Making of the Modern Middle East
  Jeremy Bowen (BBC)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 20:30 - Tracing Dirty Russian Money and Getting the World to React + 'Follow the Money' Workshop
  Šarūnas Černiauskas (Siena.It)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 16:00 - Oxford Political Though Seminar: Dissent
  This series is online only, registration essential to receive your personal ZOOM link https://tinyurl.com/ywpewudw
  Professor Valerie Hoffman (University of Illinois)
  Political Thought
• 17:15 - Paper Victories: The Battle of Britain in Nazi Propaganda
  Victoria Taylor (Independent Scholar)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 16:00 - The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions - Book Talk and Round-table
  Neta Crawford (University of Oxford), Oliver Belcher (Durham University), Jan Selby (Sheffield University)

Friday 21 October 2022

• 15:15 - Words to sow: Language, violence, and peacemaking in Ukraine
  Deborah Jones (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
• 17:00 - Resurrecting the Caliphate: The Creed of Abraham and ISIS’s Hermeneutics of Power
  Professor Asma Afsaruddin (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 13:00 - The Face of Peace: Government pedagogy amid disinformation in Colombia
  Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Purging to Transform the Post-Colonial State: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
  Neil Ketchley (Oxford)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - All Necessary Measures? The United Nations and International Intervention in Libya
  No registration needed; just turn up; all welcome
  Ian (Martin)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 20:30 - Russia's Information Warfare in Theory and Practice [on Zoom]
  Dr. Bilyana Lilly (Krebs Stamos Group)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 26 October 2022

• 17:00 - Shadow of a Taxman: How, and by Whom, was the Republican Government Financed in the Irish War of Independence (1919-21)?
  Dr Robin Adams (Queen's University, Belfast)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:00 - Online Book Launch: In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the 20th-Century Middle East
  This event is online
  Dr Aaron Rock-Singer (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:15 - The United States, the United Kingdom and the international financial system since 1945
  Professor Michael Hopkins (Liverpool)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 27 October 2022

• 17:00 - Fighting Imperialism – Forging Solidarity: Africa in PRC Visual Propaganda, 1950s to 1980s
  Dr Thoralf Klein (Loughborough University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 28 October 2022

• 17:00 - The Evolution of Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?
  This is an in-person and online event. To attend online (via Zoom), registration is required
  Professor David Shambaugh (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - The struggle for Salafism in Egypt’s post-revolutionary period
  Stéphane Lacroix (Sciences Po, Paris, France)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 16:00 - Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia
  John Sidel (LSE)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 16:30 - Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict
  Huss Banai (Indiana University, Bloomington), Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Yemen, poverty and conflict
  Helen Lackner (SOAS, University of London)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 20:30 - Lessons from Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
  Dr Jack Watling (RUSI)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 2 November 2022

• 17:15 - The American Scientific-Military State in the Early Nineteenth Century
  Sveinn Jóhannesson (Edinburgh)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 4 November 2022

• 13:00 - The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation
  Sandwich Lunch Available
  Dr Rachel Bernhard (Nuffield College)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 14:00 - OxCRG MT4: Hong Kong in the Cold War
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilization and Nation
  Associate Professor Katerina Dalacoura (London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:30 - Regression and Resistance: The Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan
  Various Speakers
• 19:00 - Xi’s Third Term and the Future of China
  Rosemary Foot (St Antony's College), Cindy Yu (The Spectator)
  Oxford Political Review

Saturday 5 November 2022

• 09:00 - The Sudanese Programme 1-Day Conference: Ecological Impacts of Proposed Jonglei Canal, National Identity Crisis, Communal Conflicts and the Peace in South Sudan
  This is a hybrid event, please join us in person if you can. Otherwise you can link in through ZOOM. To receive your personal ZOOM link please visit our website and register through there, https://www.sudaneseprogramme.org
  David S. Bassiouni (The Bassiouni Group), Abraham A. Awolich (People’s Coalition for Civil Actions), Laura Nunu Numirano (Medical Director and Researcher in Health Education), Rachel Ayrton (University of Birmingham), Tag Elkhazin (Carleton University), Yien Matthew Chol (Linguist, Literati and Human Rights Activist), Rita M. Lopidia (Eve Organization for Women Development, South Sudan and Uganda)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Monday 7 November 2022

• 17:00 - Book Launch: Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa. The National Peace Accord 1991-1994
  Joint event, DPIR and OxPeace (Oxford Network of Peace Studies)
  Rev Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford), William Beinart (University of Oxford), Felicity Steadman (independent mediator and peace facilitator), Professor Richard Caplan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 13:00 - Know your enemy: Empathy and imagination in strategy
  Dr Kenneth Payne (King's College, London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 13:15 - Introduction to Careers in International Development
  TBA
• 14:00 - Coercion and Compromise: Militarism and Informality in Everyday Policing
  Dr Zoha Waseem (University of Warwick)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Ageing: Approaches from Psychology
  Please note that this is a Hybrid event. We welcome colleagues to 66 Banbury Road or on line via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82046083367
  Professor Jennifer Wild (Associate Professor in Experimental Psychology & Consultant Clinical Psychologist)
  Michaelmas 2022 Seminar Series - Ageing Post Trauma
• 16:00 - Looking for the Enemy: Mullah Omar and the Unknown Taliban
  Bette Dam (Sciences Po)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Inside Qatar: hidden stories from the one of the richest nations on earth
  Dr John McManus (British Institute at Ankara)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Wednesday 9 November 2022

• 08:30 - South China Sea Contemporary Issues Workshop
  Registration closes at 12noon on Tue 8 November, for both online and in person attendence.
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - World Safe for Autocracy? The Domestic Politics of China's Foreign Policy
  Professor Jessica Chen Weiss (Cornell University)
• 17:15 - An Exceptional Relationship? US nuclear strategy and the US-UK Nuclear Relationship
  This seminar take place on 9th November as originally planned.
  Dr Suzanne Doyle (East Anglia)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 10 November 2022

• 17:00 - David A. Simon: Cyber Warfare, and the Evolving Cyber Threat Landscape
  TBA

Friday 11 November 2022

• 13:00 - Purging to Transform the Post-Colonial State: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
  Sandwich Lunch Available
  Dr Neil Ketchley (Associate Professor in Politics, St Antony’s College)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - The Reception of Sayyid Qutb’s Controversial Ideas Among Jordanian Muslim Brothers
  Professor Joas Wagemakers (Utrecht University & Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (NISIS))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - Ethics in AI Colloquium | Algorethics: Thinking about the Techno-Human Condition
  YOUTUBE JOINING LINK HAS CHANGED - UPDATED LINK NOW ADDED IN VENUE DETAILS
  Paolo Benanti, Baroness Onora O'Neill, Professor John Finnis

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 16:00 - Victimization and Punishment Violence in Latin America
  Enzo Nussio (Zurich)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Deserts Are Not Empty
  3 of the 4 guest speakers joining online - 1 will join us in the lecture theatre. Audience will gather in the lecture theatre.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dala Musaed Alsayer (Kuwait University), Samia Henni (Cornell University), Menna Agha (Carelton University), Ariella Aisha Azoulay (Brown University)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 17:00 - Question Time: The Current State of UK Politics Home and Abroad
  Baroness (Arminka) Helić, Lord (Jonny) Oates, Lord (Paul) Boateng, Baroness (Kate) Fall
  Visiting Parliamentary Fellows Programme
• 17:00 - The Geopolitics of Cybersecurity: Old Problems, New Trends
  Mr Viljar Lubi (Embassy of Estonia) (Estonian Ambassador to the United Kingdom), Edward Lucas (Oxford), Vili Lehdonvirta (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
• 20:30 - The New Cold War: Winners and Losers
  Edward Lucas (The Economist)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 13:00 - Where Will We Be in A Hundred Years?
  Dr Elise Bohan (University of Oxford)
  Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:15 - Russian High Command and the Entente Military Strategy, 1914-1917
  Sofiya Anisimova (St Andrews)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 16:30 - Life, Death, and the Western Way of War
  Lorenzo Zambernardi (University of Bologna)
• 16:30 - Germany, Ukraine and the Future of Europe and Global Order
  Sold out. Registration is now closed.
  Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony's College), Gwendolyn Sasse (ZOiS, Berlin), Peter Wittig (Schaeffler AG, Berlin), Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  Oxford in Berlin

Friday 18 November 2022

• 10:00 - War and the Future of Ukraine - Conference
  SOLD OUT - REGISTRATION CLOSED Co-convened by the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies; St. Antony’s College, Oxford (Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre and European Studies Centre); the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna; Centre for East European and International Studies, Berlin.
  Various Speakers
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Thinking beyond the Islamic state versus modern liberalism: Islamism, non-Muslims, and communitarian citizenship
  Professor Rachel Scott (Virginia Tech, USA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 13:00 - Provocative presence: Strategic ambiguity and naval options in a restive world
  Captain Brent Spillner (US Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Book Launch: Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective
  Hicham Alaoui (Hicham Alaoui Foundation)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 20:30 - The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War
  Neta Crawford
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 11:05 - Russian Townspeople and Militia Mobilisations during the Napoleonic Wars: Duty and the Emergence of the Concept of Citizenship
  Mikhail Belan (St Antony's)
  Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar
• 13:00 - Marshalling the troops: how Ukraine's biggest newsroom stayed afloat in the war
  Sevgil Musaieva (Ukrainska Pravda)
• 13:00 - Artificial Agency
  Dr Patrick Butlin (University of Oxford)
  Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:15 - Tipping Points: Post-War Postures in US-UK Environmental and Climate Heritage
  Dr Kristin Cook (SOAS)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Friday 25 November 2022

• 17:00 - Shi‘i visions of Muslim unity in contemporary Britain
  Cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Monday 28 November 2022

• 17:00 - Book launch — The Face of Peace: Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia
  Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford), David Gellner (All Souls College, Oxford), Eduardo Posada-Carbó (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Panel Discussion 'The age of the strongman: populism and authoritarianism in global politics'
  In-person attendance is fully booked. Online attendance available.
  The Rt Hon, the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH PC Chancellor (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret MacMillan (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Gideon Rachman (Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Tuesday 29 November 2022

• 13:30 - Interview & Presentation Skills for Researchers
  TBA
• 16:00 - The Moral Hazard of Military Automation: From Boots on the Ground to Drones in the Air
  Anna Getmansky (LSE)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Annual Lecture: Centres, Peripheries and New Histories of the Left in Iran
  Rasmus Christian Elling (University of Copenhagen)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
• 20:30 - Russia's Defence Industry Under Sanctions
  Dr Richard Connolly (Royal United Services Institute)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 30 November 2022

• 16:00 - Secularity
  This is an online ZOOM webinar, please register through the Middle East Centre events webpages to receive your personal ZOOM link
  Provost Professor Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (Indiana University Bloomington), Professor Armando Salvatore (McGill University)
  Political Thought

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 13:00 - Securing an Internship as a postgraduate student or a researcher
  TBA
• 14:00 - Older people, War and Renewal
  Please note that this is a Hybrid event. We welcome colleagues to 66 Banbury Road or on line via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82046083367
  Laura Mills (Amnesty International)
  Michaelmas 2022 Seminar Series - Ageing Post Trauma
• 17:00 - Istanbul Remembered: An Essay on Women, Memory and War in 20th century Turkey
  Suzan Meryem Rosita Kalayci (Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:15 - Global History and the Great War: Concepts, Methods, Arguments
  Due to unforeseen circumstances, this seminar has had to be postponed to 1 December
  John Horne (Trinity College Dublin)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 2 December 2022

• 14:00 - OxCRG MT8: Chinese Nationalism
  Various Speakers
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 15:00 - BOOK LAUNCH: China's Cold War Science Diplomacy by Gordon Barrett
  N/A
• 17:00 - Contesting Muslim Legal Sovereignty in Colonial India
  With sincere apologies, this event is Cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Associate Professor Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown University in Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022

Tuesday 6 December 2022

• 16:00 - The Violent bias in the Study of Civil War
  Ana Arjona (Northwestern)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Friday 9 December 2022

• 16:00 - Major Power Competition and Internal Politics in Modern Asia
  Paul Staniland (Chicago)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Monday 16 January 2023

• 17:00 - The impact of the full-scale invasion on journalism in Ukraine
  Olga Tokariuk (RISJ & CEPA)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 14:00 - Empty Cradles: Israel’s Disappeared Children
  Dr James Eastwood (Queen Mary)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 16:00 - Institutionalizing Violence: Strategies of Jihad in Egypt
  Jerome Drevon (International Crisis Group)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - *EPHF* Bhutan: human flourishing at the confluence of old and modern meanings of life
  Dr David Johnson (University of Oxford, Dept of Education)
  Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times
• 18:00 - Peruvian Political Crisis: What's Next?
  Laurence Whitehead (Nuffield College, Oxford), Gonzalo Banda, Denisse Rodriguez Olivari (European University Institute), Natalia Sobrevilla (University of Kent), Martín Tanaka (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)
• 20:30 - Russia's Air War in Ukraine
  Justin Bronk (RUSI)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 18 January 2023

• 12:30 - Explanation and Power: Governing Well with Algorithms
  Dr Zeynep Pamuk (LSE)
  Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:15 - Declinism in Postwar Britain and the United States
  Dr Robert Ralston (University of Birmingham)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 19 January 2023

• 15:00 - Purchasing Prestige or Seeking Security? Military Procurement Choices Between the Dual Pressures of Status Loss and Military Threats
  Sam Seitz (University of Oxford), Patrick Gill-Tiney (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 20 January 2023

• 16:00 - Blood, Patriots and Tyrants: Countering Violent Far-Right Extremism in America
  Bruce Hoffman (Georgetown University)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - IRAQ: The Political Economy of Institutional Decay and Government Dysfunction
  Dr Ali Allawi (Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Republic of Iraq and author of The Occupation of Iraq (2007))
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 23 January 2023

• 17:00 - Identity and citizenship from the bottom up in Crimea and Moldova
  Dr Eleanor Knott (LSE)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 13:00 - The Difficulty of Innovation in Defence
  Oliver Lewis (Rebellion Defence), Bob Daigle (Rebellion Defence)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Invisible Settles: Resettling Palestinian Collaborators in Israel
  Prof. Menachem Hofnung (Hebrew University)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 14:30 - Defections from Covenants in Conflict: Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Punishment
  Noah Bacine (University of Oxford), Mirko Reul (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva)
  CESS Colloquium Series
• 16:00 - Roadblock Politics: Τhe Deep History of Trade Routes as a Frontline of State-building and Resistance
  Peer Schouten (Danish Institute for International Studies)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - *EPHF* ‘Lebanon: on the importance of social and emotional learning in conflict settings’
  Dr Garene Kaloustian (World Learning)
  Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times
• 18:30 - PPE CENTENARY LECTURE: The Power of Narratives in Nation Building
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
  PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
• 20:30 - Russia's Arms Industry Under Sanctions
  Richard Connolly (RUSI)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 25 January 2023

• 17:00 - Was there a ‘silence’ about the Irish Civil War?
  Dr Síobhra Aiken (QUB)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:15 - Rumours of bio-wars: Typhoid and terrorism in Palestine in 1948
  Roderick Bailey (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 14:30 - CANCELLED - The Republic of South Sudan: Coming out of the Peace Process and the Path to Economic Development
  His Excellency Honourable Minister Puot Kang Chol, Minister of Petroleum for the Republic of South Sudan
• 15:00 - A Qualitative Analysis of International Governance Approaches to Powerful Technologies
  Robert Trager (UCLA), Chris Morris (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Neural & Cognitive Warfare: Technology, Operations, and Strategy
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Friday 27 January 2023

• 17:00 - Clerics in the time of Tishreen: The evolution of religion-civil society relations in post-2003 Iraq
  Marsin Alshamary, Research Fellow with the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - China and the UK in 2023, is there a Progressive Way Forward?
  Catherine West (MP)
  China Centre talks

Monday 30 January 2023

• 17:00 - Roundtable on Paul Tucker’s Global Discord (Princeton University Press, 2022) - FULL. Please write to cecile.fabre@all-souls.ox.ac.uk if you wish to be on the waiting list.
  Andrew Hurrell (Balliol College), Professor Nicholas Barber (Faculty of Law), Duncan Snidal (University of Oxford), Damian Cueni (Faculty of Law)
• 17:00 - The Kazakh Spring and waves of mobilization in Kazakhstan
  Dr Diana Kudaibergenova (Cambridge)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 16:00 - Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence
  Iva Vukušić (Utrecht)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 16:00 - Book Talk: 'Peacebuilding Legacy: Programming for Change and Young People's Attitudes to Peace'
  Sukanya Podder (Reader in Post-war Reconstruction and Peacebuilding, King's College London)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Power/knowledge
  Sohaira Siddiqui (Georgetown), Ovamir Anjum (Toledo)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Book Launch Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak
  Dr Michael Willis (St Antony's College)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
• 17:00 - *EPHF* ‘Central Asia: culture and community in teaching and learning’
  Dr Andrew Cunningham (Aga Khan Foundation)
  Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times
• 20:30 - Can Espionage be Ethical?
  Professor Cecile Fabre (Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 1 February 2023

• 17:15 - The Post-Cold War Anglo-American military relationship
  Professor Wyn Rees (University of Nottingham)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 15:00 - Rethinking “middle powers” as a category of practice
  John de Bhal (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Roadblock politics: mapping trade-based conflict economies
  Peer Schouten (Danish Institute for International Studies)
  ExLegi Seminar Series

Friday 3 February 2023

• 17:00 - Tracing Fragments: Art, Youth and Feminist Activism in Iraqi Kurdistan
  Houzan Mahmoud, Feminist Activist, Writer, and founder of Culture Project, Isabel Käser, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern & Visiting Fellow at the Middle East Centre, LSE
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 6 February 2023

• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Translation as a Political Gesture in Ukraine
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - Has the Russian invasion finished off the Ukrainian oligarchy?
  Dr Dave Dalton (Independent Scholar)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 13:00 - Evolution of far-right ideologies
  Professor Peter Neumann (King's College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 15:00 - The Fusion of Zionism and Science: The First Two Decades—And the Present Day?
  Professor Amos Morris- Reich (Tel Aviv)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 16:00 - Instability and Conflict in 19th Century Spain
  Ignacio Sanchez Cuenca (Carlos III)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 16:00 - The Rise (and Fall) of “Government through Reflection and Choice”
  Nicholas Cole (Oxford)
  American History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - *EPHF* Portugal: reflections on new and old challenges for education
  Professor João Costa (Education Minister, Portugal)
  Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times
• 20:30 - European Security and the Global Markets: Estonia's Outlook
  Mr Viljar Lubi (Embassy of Estonia) (Estonian Ambassador to the United Kingdom)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 12:00 - The Risk of Conflict in the Taiwan Strait: Strategy, Technology and Deterrence
  Dr James Lee (Academia Sinica)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Ottomans
  Helen Pfeifer (Cambridge), Andrew Hammond (Oxford)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - Social cohesion and integration of minorities in post-conflict Muslim societies
  Salma Mousa (Yale University)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Civilians and non-combatants during war and conflict in modern East Asia
  This talk will occur in-person and also be available online - If you would like to attend online, please register here: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/G96VzPWXk0-0uv5ouFLPkQ,mGpyTF6qF0KqX_vIaXUDJA,CQdGCXSjFUKM4Hng2DOiiQ,oAzvs5OpnkKn_Q2s9wA5fg,7DeXDCVKBkCwS-a4UBIjUg,Ww6rLjhisEy2NLVQ5-swHg?mode=read&tenantId=cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
  Federica Cicci (Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Heidelberg University), Dr. Danny Orbach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - Mercenaries, Modernity, and the International: Re-evaluating the 19th century 'shift away from mercenary use'
  Malte Riemann (Reading/Sandhurst)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 15:00 - Don't blame it on the Blob
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Andy Payne (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Bioinformatics & Big Data: Government and Military Applications
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Friday 10 February 2023

• 17:00 - The Iraq Invasion and Transnational Jihadism
  Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 13 February 2023

• 17:00 - Trust, political participation, and the stability of Russia's regime
  Dr Danielle Lussier (Grinnell College, USA)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - Women and Warfare in 1640s Ireland
  Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College, Dublin)
  Britain in Revolution, 1637-1660

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 12:30 - Civilian Signalling on Social Media During Civil War
  Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
  Anita Gohdes (Hertie School)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 14:00 - The Political Fairy Tale: The Case of Little Red Riding Hood in Palestine
  Loaay Wattad (Tel Aviv)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 17:00 - *EPHF* ‘Colombia: faith and education after forced displacement’
  Dr Christopher Hays (Biblical Seminary of Colombia)
  Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 14:30 - Unethical Behaviour and Competition
  Alizee Cambier (Loughborough University)
  CESS Colloquium Series
• 15:00 - China’s Ambitions to Explore the Moon and the Prospects for Lunar Governance
  Prof Martin Elvis (Harvard University), Dr Alanna Krolikowski (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Russian colonialism and the Ismailis: The exploration and annexation of the Pamirs, 1879 - 1905
  Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Regional cooperation: US-UK relations and strategic dilemmas following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979-1989
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
• 17:30 - Baroness Catherine Ashton in conversation with Professor Ngaire Woods
  Baroness Catherine Ashton, Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 16 February 2023

• 15:00 - Quechua and Aymara Revolution in International Legal Thought: An Initial Exploration
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - The Politics of Exit: Emigration, Collective Action, and Agrarian Change in Mexico
  Emily Sellars (Yale)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - From the Cyber Battlefield to the Boardroom: Technology Leadership in Government and the Private Sector
  David Simon (Mayer Brown), Bethany De Lude (Carlyle Group)

Friday 17 February 2023

• 13:00 - Studying High Politics in Contemporary China
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State
  Dr. Inna Rudolf, Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at the War Studies Department of King’s College London and Partner at the Candid Foundation.
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 20 February 2023

• 10:00 - Enigma Machine Demonstration
  Bletchley Park representative (Bletchley Park)
  Bletchley Park Week
• 16:00 - Workshop: War, Peace and world order in the "Long" 20th Century: Challenges and Perspectives
  Patrick O Cohrs, Edward Keene
• 17:00 - Political effects of natural resources and pro-authoritarianism
  Dr Danielle Lussier (Kings College London)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - MEC & OSGA present - Women, Protests, Revolutions: Iran Uprising after Five Months.
  Dr. Sahar Maranlou. Lecturer in Law and Socio- Legal Studies. Essex School of Law, Dr. Naghmeh Sohrabi. Charles (Corky) Goodman professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, Dr. Pardis Asadi Zeidabadi. Researcher and Visiting Lecturer at City, University of London
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 11:00 - Demonstration of a Homemade Enigma Machine
  Dr Reuben Binns (Kellogg College)
  Bletchley Park Week
• 13:00 - The follower map: Towards a theory of the roots of cultural variations in leadership ideals
  Venue Change: Seminar will now take place in Pembroke College. Sandwiches will not be available this week
  Professor Mark van Vugt (Vrije Universiteit), Dr Sirio Lonati (Neoma Business School)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - The Israel Supreme Court Religion and the Relationship of State and Religion in Israel
  Professor Anat Scolnicov (Winchester)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 16:15 - "A Great War for the Empire"? The French Colonial Empire and the Seven Years War
  Francois-Joseph Ruggiu (Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Maison française d’Oxford)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Book Launch “Locked Out of Development: Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism”
  Steffen Hertog (Associate professor of comparative politics, Department of Government, LSE)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
• 17:00 - The Columbian Exchange and Conflict in Asia
  James Fenske (University of Warwick)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - *EPHF* 'South Africa: on the importance of history education post colonialism’
  Dr Natasha Robinson (University of Oxford)
  Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times
• 17:45 - The Bletchley Park Codebreakers: In their own words' Book Launch
  TBA
  Bletchley Park Week
• 20:30 - China's "No Limits" Ties with Russia: the View from Beijing
  James Miles (China writer-at-large, the Economist)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 13:00 - The Prince's secrets: behind the podcast exposing China's leader
  Sue-Lin Wong (The Economist)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 16:00 - Engineering Peace: Technology and the End of Politics in the American Nineteenth Century
  This event has been cancelled
  Gordon Fraser (Manchester)
  Rothermere American Institute Events
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Constitutionalism
  Gianluca Parolin (Aga Khan University), Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 16:00 - Political Economy of Violent Conflicts: Facts (Part 1 of 2)
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
  PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
• 16:15 - CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN WEST AFRICA: GHANA’S ROLE IN REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
  Please register for the event at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/challenges-to-democracy-in-west-africa-ghanas-role-tickets-536012456687
  Albert Kan-Dapaah (Hon. Minister of National Security)
• 17:15 - Russian sieges of Kars in the 19th century
  Candan Badem (Uppsala), Alexander Morrison (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - ‘Nice girls’ and ‘Professor-Types’
  Dr David Kenyon (Bletchley Park Trust)
  Bletchley Park Week

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 15:00 - Beyond the Blob: The Politics of Restraint in the Middle East
  Ebenezer Azamati (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Ethics in AI Colloquium - Generative Ethics and the New Bing
  TITLE AND ABSTRACT CHANGE - The event topic was recently changed in response to the latest developments in generative AI.
  Seth Lazar (ANU), Dr Charlotte Unruh (University of Oxford), Dr Jeff Howard (UCL), Professor John Tasioulas (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Human-Machine Teams: From Sensor to Shooter Across the Domains
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Friday 24 February 2023

• 13:30 - Enigma Machine Demonstration
  Bletchley Park representative (Bletchley Park)
  Bletchley Park Week
• 15:30 - Oxford's War: County, City, and University, 1939-45
  Ashley Jackson (King’s College, London)
  Bletchley Park Week
• 17:00 - Cheaters Dilemma: Iraq, WMD and the path to the 2003 war
  The Chicken Farm problem: Iraqi WMD disclosures and the 2003 war
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Enigma Machine Demonstration
  Bletchley Park representative (Bletchley Park)
  Bletchley Park Week

Monday 27 February 2023

• 17:00 - The New Roundheads: Politics and the Misuse of History
  Jonathan Sumption (All Souls), John Simpson (BBC)

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 14:00 - Rituals of Loyalty: When Israeli Journalists Face Digital Hate
  Ayala Panievsky (Cambridge)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 17:00 - The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War
  Alexander Field (Santa Clara University)
  Economic and Social History Seminar
• 17:00 - *EPHF* ‘Kenya: indigenous knowledge systems for peace and flourishing in Kenya's North Rift’
  Dr Susan Kilonzo (Maseno University)
  Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times
• 20:30 - The Challenge of Democracy Promotion
  Congressman David Price (US House of Representatives)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 12:00 - Jihadist Mobilisation in Divided Contexts: Cleavages, Collaboration and Resistance
  Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
  Natasja Rupesinghe (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 12:30 - AI Through the Looking Glass: Intelligence and the Ethics of Existential Risk
  Shannon Vallor (Edinburgh)
  Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
• 16:00 - Book launch & discussion: Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War
  Hybrid event: Please contact organiser for log in details.
  Sarah Vaughan (Edinburgh), Martin Plaut (ICwS), Eyob B Gebremariam (University of Bristol)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 16:00 - Political Economy of Violent Conflicts: Causes (Part 2 of 2)
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
  PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
• 17:15 - Jordan and Kuwait: US-UK relations in the aftermath of Suez
  Dr Louise Kettle (University of Nottingham)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 14:00 - Workshop: A strategy for Europe
  Various Speakers
• 15:00 - Legitimacy in IR
  Lora Viola (Free University of Berlin), Alexandra Stafford (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Societies under Siege: Experiencing States of Emergency in the Long Twentieth Century
  Stefanie Middendorf (Jena)
  Modern History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Anglo-Venetian views on cross-confessional alliances during the Thirty Years War
  Please note this seminar is in the Hovenden Room
  Professor Filippo de Vivo (Oxford)
  Early Modern Intellectual History
• 17:00 - The Geopolitics of a Post-Western World
  Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
  Allama Iqbal Lecture

Friday 3 March 2023

• 13:00 - Uncivil society in eastern Europe
  Sandwich Lunch provided
  Prof Lenka Bustikova (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Iraq 2018-2019: The Rule of Law: a perspective
  The Rt Hon Sir Peter Gross, Formerly Lead Judge for International Relations
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Saturday 4 March 2023

• 10:30 - Understanding Ukraine: past, present, and the Orthodox Church
  Dr Nadiya Ivanenko (University of Oxford) (University of Oxford), Fr Oleksandr Nosenko

Monday 6 March 2023

• 13:00 - One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
  Online seminar, which can be viewed at the China Centre
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Political effects of natural resources and petro-authoritarianism
  Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu (LSE)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 13:00 - NATO's Nordic Neophytes: How Sweden & Finland's Accession to NATO Alters the Military Balance in Northeast Europe
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Settler Colonial Studies, Secessions of Colonialism, and Ethnonationalism: An Edward Saidian Consideration?
  Dr Moshe Behar (Manchester)
  Israel Studies Seminar Series Hilary Term 2023
• 16:00 - Elite Murder and Popular Resistance: Evidence from Post–World War II Poland
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Krzysztof Krakowski (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - *EPHF* ‘Jordan: on the practice of Istijarah for human flourishing’
  Dr Abdullah Awad (The Institute for Critical Thought)
  Education, Purpose and Human Flourishing in Uncertain Times
• 20:30 - Geopolitics of Belarus in Ukraine Context
  Laurynas Jonavičius (Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania)
  Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 13:00 - Will AR and VR change war reporting forever?
  Khalil Ashawi (Focus), Hail Khalaf (Focus)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 15:00 - *Global Public Seminars in CIE* From Perpetrator to Peacebuilder: Rethinking Education in Conflict-Affected Societies
  Professor Tejendra Pherali (University College London)
  Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought Seminar - Politics
  Hussein Omar (University College Dublin), Susanna Ferguson (Smith College)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
• 17:00 - West, anti-West and the geopolitical balancing: Deciphering Turkey’s Russia policy
  In person and online. Booking required for online attendance only.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Galip Dalay (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 15:00 - White supremacy in the United States during the post-Cold War and War on Terror eras
  Anna Meier (Nottingham), Alejandro Posada Téllez (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Genomics & Bioengineering: Securing Advantage in the Biological Domain
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Friday 10 March 2023

• 17:00 - 'The Transformation of Iraq since the 2003 Invasion: From "The Dodgy Dossier", to Human Security, Gender, and the Nation's Future in the Face of Climate Change'
  Ibrahim al-Marashi, Associate Professor at California State University, San Marcos
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 17:00 - The Meaning of War - How do we define war and its meaning in society, both past and present?
  Sir Hew Strachan (All Souls College), Gregory A. Daddis (Fulbright Visiting Fellow)
  Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
• 17:00 - 'Where are we with the war on Ukraine?' Q & A event with The Rt. Hon. Lord Robertson (Former NATO Secretary General)
  The Rt. Hon. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen KT, GCMG, hon FRSE, PC (Former NATO Secretary General) (House of Lords), Lord Jonathan Oates (House of Lords), Baroness Arminka Helic (House of Lords)

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 12:00 - The US‒Japan Alliance and Taiwan
  Professor Adam P Liff (Indiana University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:45 - Systemic Trends in Warfare: Beyond the Decline-of-War Debate
  Bear Braumoeller (Ohio State)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 16:00 - Economics Development in the Shadow of Conflicts
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
  PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
• 17:00 - “They Didn't Understand Anything, Just Spoiled People's Lives": Brutality, Incompetence and Historical Echoes in Russian-occupied Ukraine
  Anne Applebaum
• 17:15 - American Neutrality and the Anglo-American Crisis of 1916
  Dr Andrew Gawthorpe (Leiden University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 15:00 - Weaponized Interdependence: Global Monopolies as the Sources of Power
  Claas Mertens (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:30 - Coding with AI: Experiments with GPT-4
  Dr. Russ Poldrack (Stanford University)

Friday 28 April 2023

• 17:00 - Book Launch - Russia and the GCC 'The Case of Tatarstan’s Paradiplomacy'
  The person who asks the best question from the audience during the audience Q&A will be gifted a copy of the book from the author
  Dr Diana Galeeva (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Saturday 29 April 2023

• 10:00 - Exhibition: Identity, Belonging, and Change: A Historical Portrait of Everyday Life in Sudan
  N/A
  Humanities Cultural Programme

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 13:30 - The Contribution of (Military) Psychology to the Operational Readiness of the Swiss Armed Forces
  Please note the later start time
  Professor Hubert Annen (CCW & Swiss Military Academy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Elite Murder and Popular Resistance: Evidence from Post–World War II Poland
  Krzysztof Krakowski, (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - The Culture of War - How does war influence a nation’s popular and political cultures?
  Gregory A. Daddis (Fulbright Visiting Fellow), Susan L. Carruthers (University of Warwick)
  Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
• 17:00 - Remembering and Forgetting Pivotal Moments in Modern Chinese History
  Hybrid event. Can be attended in person at the China Centre (no registration required) or online via Zoom (registration required)
  Professor Jeff Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine), Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
  China Centre Conversation series
• 17:00 - Israel's Covert Diplomacy in the Middle East
  Professor Elie Podeh (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 12:00 - China’s Path to Global Influence
  Prof. Richard Carney (China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai)
  China Centre talks
• 16:00 - Challenges and Prospects for "Total Peace" in Colombia
  Prof Jenny Pearce (LSE Latin America and Caribbean Centre), Andrei Gomez-Suarez (University of Winchester), Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford), Dr Jeremy Hobbs (Research Analyst on Latin America, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office), Ivan Briscoe (International Crisis Group, Latin America Director)
• 16:00 - Sudan’s Crisis: Origins, Triggers & Prospects
  Online panel discussion (Zoom): Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82648963957?pwd=ZHFzSmdxdTFyTlZCU0ZJRmVscGRBUT09 | Meeting ID: 826 4896 3957 | Passcode: 337458
  Mai Hassan (MIT), Harry Verhoeven (SIPA, Columbia University), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Sharath Srinivasan (Cambridge)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:15 - International Law and Wars of Liberation: Rethinking Human Rights at the End of Empire
  Andrew Thompson (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 4 May 2023

• 15:00 - Global consultocracy? The politics of layering modes of global governance
  Professor Vincent Pouliot (McGill University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Revolution as Praxis: The Rise of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps
  Maryam Alemzadeh, (University of Oxford)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - Ethics in AI Colloquium | AI in the Law or AI in the Place of Law?
  Tickets have now sold out for this event, but we encourage you to attend virtually via the link listed here
  Professor Gerald Postema (UNC), Professor Sarah Green (Law Commission), Dr Natalie Byrom (Justice Lab), Professor Timothy Endicott (Oxford Law Faculty)

Friday 5 May 2023

• 11:00 - Identity and the Transnational Reverberations of Conflict
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 16:00 - Near-Real Time Analysis of War and Economic Activity during Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
  Prof Yuri M. Zhukov (University of Michigan)
• 17:00 - War, Identity, and Legitimacy
  Andreas Wimmer (Columbia)
• 17:00 - Shi‘a visions of Muslim unity in contemporary Britain
  Dr Elvire Corboz (University of Edinburgh)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 13:00 - From Integrated Deterrence to Integrated Defense
  Professor Antulio Echevarria (CCW & US Army War College)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
  Andrew B Liu (Villanova University)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 16:00 - Conflict and the Making and Remaking of Identities
  Ceren Lord (University of Oxford)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 17:00 - The Limits of War - Why does war seemingly not always deliver what it promises?
  Gregory A. Daddis (Fulbright Visiting Fellow), Patrick Porter (Birmingham)
  Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
• 17:00 - Palestinian Women on Demonic Grounds? When Gender is Undone by the German Security Discourse
  Dr Sultan Doughan (University of London), Dr Sultan Doughan (University of London)
  Women's Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 10 May 2023

• 16:00 - Towards a Constitution of Peace in Ethiopia: Issues of Process and Substance
  Hybrid event: please register using the link below.
  Berihun Adugna Gebeye (UCL)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:15 - Joint Strike Fighter and Transatlantic Defence Procurement
  Emma Salisbury (Birbeck, University of London)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 15:00 - Quechua and Aymara Revolution in International Thought: An Initial Exploration
  Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:15 - Space & Counterspace: Disruptive Technologies from Launch to Orbital Strike
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 17:15 - CCW Annual Lecture: Peace is Poor Reading: The Postwar Army Experience
  Brian Linn (Texas A&M)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Friday 12 May 2023

• 17:30 - The Conflict in Syria, A Personal Story
  Dr Haytham Alhamwi (Syrian British Consortium), Dr Husam Haj Omar (University of Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 15 May 2023

• 12:30 - 2nd Session: Reading Group - War and Peace: Literary Responses
  N/A
  TORCH Doctoral Network: Critical-Thinking Communities
• 16:30 - Technology Politics Today: Injustice, Deepfakes, and a Race to the Bottom”
  Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Cassidy Bereskin (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 13:00 - Disinformation and Hybrid Threats – The Singapore Perspective
  Dr Shashi Jayakumar (S.Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Consequences of War - What are the lasting social, cultural, and political effects of war?
  Gregory A. Daddis (Fulbright Visiting Fellow), Andrew Preson (Cambridge)
  Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
• 17:00 - Nuclear Terrorism: What is the Threat? (Oxford Cyril Foster Lecture 2023)
  Professor Jessica Stern (Boston University)

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 11:00 - Irish Entanglements on the Eastern Front and in the Russian Civil Wars, 1915-21
  Anna Lively (Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar
• 12:30 - The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act and the Protection of Fundamental Rights: Insights from the former President of the European Court of Human Rights
  Professor Robert Spano (Oxford Law)
  Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - The Asymmetry of Obstacles to Peace in Israel and Palestine
  Prof. James Friedberg (West Virginia University)
• 14:15 - Do offensive wars make states?
  Seunghoon Chae (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Oxford Political Thought - Revolution
  Please register online at https://tinyurl.com/38rwa4ba or through our Centre webpage https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/oxford-political-thought-seminar-revolution to receive your personal ZOOM link.
  Professor Roxanne Euben (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  Political Thought
• 17:15 - Beyond Richelieu's Army: perspectives on army, state and society in France, 1620-1660
  David Parrott (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - The Sir Joseph Hotung Memorial Lecture: Human rights, China and the international order
  Lord Chris Patten (Chancellor, University of Oxford and Patron of the ESC)
  Mansfield Public Talks

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 11:00 - Towards a Post Middle East international politics?
  Professor Yaacov Yadgar, Professor Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford ), Thomas Hegghammer (University of Oxford)
• 15:00 - Military Medicine and Military Effectiveness
  Professor Tanisha Fazal (University of Minnesota)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - AI Systems, Impacts, and Accountability
  Gretchen Kreuger (Open AI), Elizabeth Renieris (Harvard), Dr Carina Prunkl (Philosophy, Oxford), Michael Cheng (Magdalen College, Oxford)

Friday 19 May 2023

• 17:00 - Book Launch, The Caliph and the Imam: The Making of Sunnism and Shiism
  Copies of Toby's book will be on sale at the event at a 30% discount, £17.50 (RRP £25). Payment by card only please, we are not able to accept cash payments on this occasion.
  Dr Toby Matthiesen (Ca’ Foscari University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 13:00 - Raising McCAIN: Challenges and Opportunities in Returning a “Mishap Ship” to Warfighting Readiness
  Captain Ryan Easterday (CCW & US Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Contextualizing Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU). A Religiously Grounded State-Sponsored Paramilitary
  Inna Rudolf (King's College London)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 16:30 - The Technological Space Race: Space Resources, Space Exploitation, and International Competition
  Please contact julia.carver@politics.ox.ac.uk or elisabeth.siegel@univ.ox.ac.uk to RSVP and for the Microsoft Teams details.
  TBA
  Cyber Strategy and Tech Statecraft
• 17:30 - Nuclear Risk - and how we can work to reduce it
  Peter Collecott, David A Ellwood

Wednesday 24 May 2023

• 11:00 - Military orientalism and the public sphere in the colonial Turkestan
  Roman Osharov (Oxford)
  Long Nineteenth-Century Seminar
• 16:00 - Policies for Peace
  Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
  PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
• 17:00 - Reconciliation by Stealth: How People Talk About War Crimes
  In person and online. Please register if you wish to join online.
  Denisa Kostovicova (LSE), Jessie Barton Hronesova (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Ca’ Foscari University in Venice), John Gledhill (Oxford Department of International Development)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Brusa - Wartime Conception and Formative Conduct, 1940-1943
  Unfortunately this seminar is cancelled.
  Dr John Jenner (KCL)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 25 May 2023

• 17:00 - Accelerating Combat: Hypersonics, Directed Energy, and Autonomous Systems
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Saturday 27 May 2023

• 10:30 - War Graves Week is coming to Oxford
  Tour Guide: Dick Richards (Volunteer for the CWGC)

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 13:00 - Support the Troops: Military Obligation, Gender, and the Making of Political Community
  Dr Katharine Millar (LSE)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - The Bin Laden Papers
  Nelly Lahoud (US Army War College)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 16:30 - Disinformation, deepfakes, and image provenance
  Please contact julia.carver@politics.ox.ac.uk or elisabeth.siegel@univ.ox.ac.uk to RSVP and for the Microsoft Teams details.
  TBA
  Cyber Strategy and Tech Statecraft
• 17:00 - Singapore: New (and Old) Challenges for the Little Red Dot
  Dr Shashi Jayakumar (Nanyang Technological University Singapore)
• 17:00 - Women’s movements and citizenship in the Middle East
  Dr Roel Meijer (Radboud Universiteit, The Netherlands), Professor Marilyn Booth (Discussant) (University of Oxford)
  Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Power and progress: our 1000-year struggle over technology and prosperity
  Prof Simon Johnson (MIT)

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 14:00 - Peacekeeping Exits and Statebuilding Legacies: Improving UN Transitions Based on Empirical Evidence?
  Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Maline Meiske (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - China's Deepfake Regulations: navigating security, misinformation and innovation
  Professor Mimi Zou (University of Exeter)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:15 - Warfare and European expansion in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1450-1850
  Please note this seminar is on Thursday in the Old Library
  Louis Sicking (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/Leiden)
  History of War Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 June 2023

• 13:00 - North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order: When Bad Behaviour Pays
  Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Boko Haram in the Lake Chad Basin: The Bakura Faction and its Resistance to the Rationalisation of Jihad
  Vincent Foucher (CNRS)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
• 16:30 - The UK National Cyber Force and Cognitive Effect
  Please contact julia.carver@politics.ox.ac.uk or elisabeth.siegel@univ.ox.ac.uk to RSVP and for the Microsoft Teams details.
  TBA
  Cyber Strategy and Tech Statecraft
• 17:00 - Opportunities and challenges facing Ukraine's democratic transition
  In person and online. Registration required for attending online.
  Marcin Walecki (University of Oxford), Caroline Baylon (Future Generations in the UK Parliament), Marnie Howlett (University of Oxford), Prof Lenka Bustikova (University of Oxford)
  European Studies Seminar

Wednesday 7 June 2023

• 13:00 - Geopolitics of AI and Digital Innovation
  Michael Kratsios (Scale AI), Keegan McBride (The Oxford Internet Institute)
• 16:30 - Risk, security and democracy: A public conversation
  Professor Charles Vincent (University of Oxford), Greta Krippner (University of Michigan), Émile P. Torres (Leibniz University Hannover), Professor Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen), Dr Suzanne Schneider (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research), Professor Andrew Stirling (University of Sussex)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 16:45 - Memorial Event: Derek Hopwood OBE, Emeritus Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies (1933-2020) & Celia Kerslake, Emeritus Fellow in Turkish (1946-2023)
  Various Speakers
• 17:15 - Multinational Coalition Warfare and the Anglo-American Experiment in the Mediterranean, 1942–43
  Carson Teuscher (Ohio State University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 8 June 2023

• 17:00 - Sino-US Relations: A Historical Perspective from the Pearl River Delta
  Professor John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Changing the Climate of War: From Weather Modification to Biological Security
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Friday 9 June 2023

• 17:00 - OSGA Annual Lecture: Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism
  Professor Lucan Way (University of Toronto)
• 18:00 - Interpersonal Interaction and Trust-Building in Adversarial Relationships in International Relations
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  Great Thinkers lecture series

Saturday 10 June 2023

• 10:00 - Economic, Political and Social Consequences of the Military Confrontation in Sudan
  Various Speakers

Monday 12 June 2023

• 16:00 - Type of Violence and Ingroup Identity: Evidence from the Spanish Civil War
  Sergi D. Martínez Soler (Princeton)
  T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Tuesday 13 June 2023

• 13:00 - Black Swans: Do we have the Culture and Will to Adapt Rapidly to Unforeseen and Potentially Catastrophic Events?
  Dr Kevin Rowlands (Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Letters, Larceny and Leaks: Diplomatic Mailbags and Political Communication During the Thirty Years War
  Filippo de Vivo (Oxford)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 16:30 - Cognitive Science and AI
  Please contact julia.carver@politics.ox.ac.uk or elisabeth.siegel@univ.ox.ac.uk to RSVP and for the Microsoft Teams details.
  TBA
  Cyber Strategy and Tech Statecraft

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 16:00 - Oxford Political Though - Heresy
  Registration essential to receive your personal ZOOM link
  Teena Purohit (Boston University), Zaki Rehman (University of Oxford)
  Political Thought
• 17:00 - Borderlands and Soviets: PRC Nationalities Policy and Nuclear Deterrence
  Duanyi Yi (University of Glasgow), Chendong Pi (University of California, Davis)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - IR Alchemists and the History Trap
  Brian Linn (Texas A&M)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 17:00 - Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture 2023: Zionism and the Jews of Iraq: A Personal Perspective
  Copies of the book will be on sale at the event (cash only). Please aim to arrive in good time to be assured a seat.
  Emeritus Professor Avi Shlaim (University of Oxford)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: China’s Law of the Sea
  This talk has been postponed until further notice
  Dr Isaac B Kardon (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 16 June 2023

• 14:00 - Chinese Foreign Policy (II)
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group

Wednesday 28 June 2023

• 15:30 - The A.I. Dilemma: Growth versus Existential Risk
  Prof. Charles I. Jones (Stanford University)

Tuesday 15 August 2023

• 01:00 - Prospects for Democracy and the Muslim Subject: Reflecting on the Raba'a Massacre Ten Years On - 2-day Online-Only Conference
  Registration essential, to receive your personal ZOOM link add your details at: https://tinyurl.com/MEC2023Aug
  TBA

Friday 6 October 2023

• 12:00 - Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
  Ian Johnson
  China Centre talks

Monday 9 October 2023

• 17:00 - Against the liberal order: the Soviet Union, Turkey, and statist internationalism, 1919-1939
  Dr Sam Hirst (Bilkent University)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2023
• 17:00 - Adama Dieng & Prof Andrew Thompson in conversation: 'The United Nations and the prevention of mass atrocities in the 21st Century: some challenges and opportunities'
  Adama Dieng (Former UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide), Professor Andrew Thompson (Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 12:30 - Allies for Sale? Chinese Economic Statecraft, Military Diplomacy, and Alliance Formation in Southeast Asia
  In person and zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 (Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070)
  Zenobia Chan (Nuffield College)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Contemporary Mental Health and Illness in the UKAF
  Surg. Cdr. Charlotte Evans (Royal Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:30 - A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
  Nathan Thrall (Author and Journalist)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 1
  Various Speakers
  Cyber Strategy and Technology Studies Working Group
• 15:00 - Smart Cities, Surveillance, and Human Data
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:00 - Screening: Chocolate of Peace
  Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford), Eben Kirksey (University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum & the structural legacies of colonial military divide & rule: 1924-present
  Hybrid event. Register to join online: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/9b57c8db-1a90-4e6a-ae47-15f9761d0bb2@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
  Willow Berridge (Newcastle)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:15 - Out of the Shadows: The Shock of Non-Hybrid War
  Patrick Porter (Birmingham)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
• 18:00 - In Discussion: Ali Maisam Nazary, National Resistance Front of Afghanistan
  Ali Maisam Nazary

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 12:30 - The past, present, and potential of economic security
  Mona Paulsen (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 13 October 2023

• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Jewish images of Sultanic power in the 18th and 19th centuries in Palestine, Syria and Iraq
  Professor Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 16 October 2023

• 16:00 - How the Treasury Saved Britain: nationalism, liberalism and “high technology” in the post-war era
  Dr Thomas Kelsey (Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for the History of Science Medicine & Technology (OCHSMT) Seminars and Events
• 16:00 - Legitimacy, Capacity, and International Mediation in Africa
  Duursma Allard (ETH Zurich)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Arrested development: the Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968
  Dr Alessandro Iandolo (UCL-SSEES)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2023

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 13:00 - Thanks for your Service: The Causes & Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military
  Peter Feaver (Duke University)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - Stories to Connect: The Reza Hosseini Memorial Lecture Series on the past and present of the Middle East
  Ghassan Salamé (Professor of International Relations at Sciences-Po)

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 12:00 - Xi Jinping: The Hidden Agendas of China's Ruler for Life
  Dr Willy Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks
• 13:00 - "Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology" by Prof Anu Bradford
  Prof Anu Bradford (Columbia Law School)
• 14:00 - Allies of the Weak: La Résistance and Jews in the Holocaust
  Kasia Nalewajko (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 15:00 - Technology, Great Power Competition, and Track II Dialogues
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Book Launch - War on the Ballot: How the Election Cycle Shapes Presidential Decision-Making in War
  Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - From Pariahs to Influencers: Foreigners in the Russo-Ukrainian War
  Kacper Rekawek ((International Centre for Counter Terrorism (ICCT) – the Hague))
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 12:30 - Opening Up By Cracking Down
  Adam Dean (George Washington University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Russo-Ukraine War, Deep Strike, & Escalation
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Friday 20 October 2023

• 14:00 - Reappraising the Sino-Soviet Split
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Arabic Literature in a Posthuman Age
  Dr Teresa Pepe (University of Oslo, Norway)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 23 October 2023

• 16:00 - Living to Fight Each Other Another Day: Armed Group Relationships in Multiparty Civil Wars
  Regine Schwab (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Cold War correspondents: Soviet and American reporters on the ideological frontlines
  Dr Dina Fainberg (City, University of London)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2023
• 17:00 - PRC Influence, Technology Theft, and Insider Threats
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 13:00 - Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits
  Fully Booked
  Dr Rob Geist-Pinfold (Kings College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - WRRS AND MENA POLITICS JOINT EVENT - Women and electoral politics in Iran and Turkey: Undemocratic structures and feminist resistance
  Mona Tajali, Associate Professor (Agnes Scott College)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Rising Powers and the Politics of Status: China and India in the Liberal International Order
  Dr Rohan Mukherjee (LSE)
• 20:30 - Mexican Geopolitics and Security
  TBA

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 15:00 - Deepfakes and Disinformation I
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:30 - The Ethics of Countering Disinformation: Navigating Normative Ideals in the Age of Fake News
  The talk will be followed by a reception in the Main Hall
  Alicia Fjällhed (Department of Strategic Communication, Lund University)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
• 17:15 - Strategy, Surprise and False Futurism
  Professor Alexander Evans (London School of Economics)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 09:00 - Searching for a Place at the Table: What is The Role of the United Kingdom in the Development and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence?
  Keegan McBride (The Oxford Internet Institute), Professor Helen Margetts (University of Oxford), Kayla Blomquist (The Oxford Internet Institute), Jennifer Beroshi (Google DeepMind)
• 12:30 - Noblesse Oblige: Status Motivations and Public Support for Foreign Aid
  Marina Duque (UCL)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 27 October 2023

• 17:00 - The World is not a Place of Dwelling: Spiritual Creativity in the Arts of Contemporary Islam
  Professor Noah Saloman (Irfan and Noreen Galaria Research Chair and Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Saturday 28 October 2023

• 14:00 - Rethinking Colonialism: The Southern Sudanese Liberation Struggle and the Challenge to Decolonisation
  Dr Yaniv Voller (School of Politics and International Relations, Keynes College, University of Kent), Dr Richard Barltrop (Trustee, The Sudanese Programme), Mr Elhag Paul (Journalist and Activist)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series

Monday 30 October 2023

• 16:00 - Communities of Violence: Summary Executions in Germany 1945
  Bastiaan Willems (Lancaster University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - ’We know what war is’: soldiers and veterans in the Soviet ‘fight for peace’, c. 1955-65
  Dr Claire McCallum (University of Exeter)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2023

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 11:00 - Finnish Ambassador to the UK: Finland's Accession to NATO
  TBA
• 13:00 - When Does the Great Game End? Long Term Geostrategic Trajectories of the Russian War Against Ukraine
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Sheikh Zayed Book Award Lecture Identity and history: The story of Ibn Tulun's demolished City
  Reem Bassiouney (The American University of Cairo)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 11:00 - Consolidating an Autocracy: The effect of state media on electoral outcomes in Chávez's Venezuela / The consequences of a trade collapse: Economics and politics in Weimar Germany
  Abelardo De Anda Casas (University of Oxford), Björn Brey (University of Oxford)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 12:30 - Blavatnik Book Talks: The Godless Crusade
  The event is open to University of Oxford members only. Please use your university email address to register.
  Dr Tobias Cremer (Pembroke College and DPIR, University of Oxford), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Maya Tudor (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 14:00 - International Law, Humanitarianism, and Colonial Violence
  Boyd van Dijk (University of Oxford), Ian Caistor-Parker (Warwick University)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 14:00 - Identity Entrepreneurship and Ethnic Defection: The Social Identity Aspect of Pro-Government Militias
  Dr Yaniv Voller (School of Politics and International Relations, Keynes College, University of Kent)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 15:00 - Deepfakes and Disinformation II
  Cassidy Bereskin (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - Contested waters: negotiating multiple actors on the Rufiji basin – Tanzania, 1960 to the Present
  Hybrid event: to attend via the webinar, please register using the booking link below.
  MJ Chuhila (University of Dar es Salaam)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - Shehan Hettiaratchy: Bringing a knife to a gunfight... a surgeon’s view of war and conflict
  Shehan Hettiaratchy
• 17:00 - Pioneers of Peace? Civil servants, covert channels and negotiating with the Provisional IRA, 1985 to 1998
  Dr Eleanor Williams (Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:15 - Military Reform and the Movement of Ideas to and from the British Dominions, 1898-1914
  Doug Delaney (Canadian Royal Military College)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Why the old Cold War ended when it did, and a new Cold War began
  Archie Brown
  Macintyre Society - the Magdalen History Society

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 15:00 - Cognitive Warfare, Theory, Practice, & Legalities
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 17:00 - From a ‘Sea of Peace’ to a ‘NATO lake’? Security imaginaries of the Baltic Sea from the Second World War to the Present
  Juhana Aunesluoma (Helsinki)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:00 - Prof. Neta Crawford's Inaugural Lecture as the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations: The 'Fierce Urgency of Now': war, climate, and change in the deep time of world politics
  Neta Crawford

Friday 3 November 2023

• 12:30 - How America Weaponized the World Economy
  Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins), Abraham Newman (Georgetown)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 14:00 - Chinese Grand Strategy?
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 14:45 - Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies
  Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford), Isabela Mares (Yale), Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins University), Susan Stokes (Chicago), Andres Uribe (Stanford), Ipek Cinar (Chicago), Lautaro Cella (Chicago), Melis Laebens (Central European University), Marcin Slarzynski (Polish Academy of Sciences), David Bateman (Cornell), Laura Jakli (Harvard), Vicente Valentim (University of Oxford), Jason Wittenberg (Berkeley), Antonis Ellinas (University of Cyprus), Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin), Michael Biggs (University of Oxford), Mihail Chiru (University of Oxford), Martin Conway (University of Oxford), Nicholas Dickinson (University of Oxford), David Doyle (University of Oxford), Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford ), Desmond King (University of Oxford), Alex Kuo (University of Oxford), Marek Naczyk (University of Oxford), Adam Smith (University of Oxford), Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford)
  "Advances in the analysis of democratic backsliding"
• 17:00 - Zanzibar's Liberation between the "Global 60s" and Local Politics
  Dr Amal Ghazal (Doha Institute, Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Human security versus national security: have we lost our capacity for collective action?
  Achim Steiner (United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)), Baroness Valerie Amos (University College, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events

Saturday 4 November 2023

• 17:30 - Space
  Stuart Eves (SJE Space Ltd)
  The Oxford Diplomatic Society

Monday 6 November 2023

• 16:00 - The Price of Certainty: Artificial Intelligence, Decision-Making, and the Future of Conflict
  Adam McCauley (Department of National Defense, Government of Canada)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Solidarity as pain: Soviet documentary film and the Vietnam war
  Dr Kristin Roth-Ey (UCL-SSEES)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2023
• 17:00 - Artificial Intelligence, Decision-Making, and the Future of Conflict
  Discussion Group, Adam McCauley (Department of National Defense, Government of Canada)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 13:00 - The Pendulum of War: Lanchester Models of Combat
  Dr Stephen Coulson
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - CANCELLED DUE TO TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS - ‘Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba’
  TBA
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 14:00 - Do Wars Make States?
  For those attending in-person, the entrance to CESS is located at George Street Mews and you will need to ring the bell when you have arrived so a CESS member can let you into the building
  Seunghoon Chae (University of Oxford)
  CESS Colloquium Series
• 15:00 - Implications for Artificial Intelligence on Military and Political Decision-Making
  Adam McCauley (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 5 - Fireside Chat with Adam McCauley
  Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk for attendance information. Due to demand, this event may be capped.
  Adam McCauley (Department of National Defense, Government of Canada)
  Cyber Strategy and Technology Studies Working Group
• 17:00 - Stalin: winning the war, losing the peace?
  Professor Stephen Kotkin (Princeton)
• 17:00 - Power, Knowledge, and the Illusion of Control: Western Counterinsurgency in the Muslim World 1954-2014
  Dr Christian Tripodi (King's College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Fashions and Fallacies in Contemporary Strategic Thought 
  Dr Chiara Libiseller (Leiden University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 12:30 - Women’s Prewar Social Leadership and Collective Action After War: Evidence from Nepal
  Emily Myers (Duke)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Making Peace with the Devil: The Problem of Ending Just Wars
  Dr Elisabeth Forster (University of Southampton), Dr Isaac Taylor (Stockholm University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Little cities: Experiencing and imagining the early modern military camp
  Dr Emily Rowe (KCL and Bodleian Library, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar

Friday 10 November 2023

• 17:00 - Floating Weeds: Water Hyacinth and the Egyptian Anthropocene
  Professor Pascal Menoret (Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation (Cairo); Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Saturday 11 November 2023

• 09:00 - 2023 Rhodes Forum on Technology & Society
  Various Speakers
• 17:30 - NATO Partners
  Renata Zaleska (NATO's Operations Division)
  The Oxford Diplomatic Society

Monday 13 November 2023

• 17:00 - Soviet gender policies: from the past to future repercussions
  Professor Dalia Leinartė (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2023
• 17:00 - Terrorism, Prediction, and Emerging Technologies
  Discussion Group, Joshua Stewart (Oxford)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 17:00 - Post Taiwan New Cinema Era: The Auteurs and the Industry
  Dr Pin-chuan Chen (Taipei Representative Office in the UK)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 13:00 - Economics and National Security
  Dr Jason Shepherd (RUSI)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Deviant women: citizenship, political participation, and incarceration of the secular left in post-revolutionary Iran (1979-1990)
  Rosa Rahimi (University of Oxford, Magdalene College)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 11:15 - Globalizing East-Central Europe from the Ground Up: Minerals, Metals, and Mountains
  Suzanna Ivanic (Kent), Chair: Natalia Nowakowska
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 12:30 - Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of AI
  Jackie Kay (UCL)
  Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
• 15:00 - Intelligence Services and Artificial Intelligence
  Carla Zoe Cremer (Human Information Processing Lab)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Book launch - 'Uncivil War: The British Army and the Troubles, 1966–1975' (Cambridge University Press)
  Dr Huw Bennett (Cardiff University)
  Oxford Irish History Seminar
• 17:00 - The return of geopolitics in East Asia: Japan’s responses to regional uncertainty
  Mr Koichiro Matsumoto (Director of Research at the Japan Institute of International Affairs)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
• 17:15 - Caring Across Battlefields: Mapping Humanitarian Networks during the Global First World War
  Marina Perez de Arcos (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 16 November 2023

• 12:30 - Making Sense of How We Make Sense of Chinese Foreign Policy
  Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Standing on the Edge of Error: Science in the Age of AI
  Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt
  Sir Charles Sherrington Prize Lecture Series
• 17:00 - Ethics in AI Colloquium - 'Why Do We Expect More of Machines Than We Do of Ourselves?'
  This event is now in-person only and will not be livestreamed, please book to attend via Eventbrite. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
  Mr Justice Fraser, Dr Caroline Green (Oxford), Dr Linda Eggert (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Conflict, Welfare and Memory: Outcomes of the Civil War Petitions Project
  Professor Andrew Hopper and Dr Ismini Pells (Kellogg College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 18:00 - Historicism and foreign policy: the impact of shared history on Israel’s relations with Poland
  Professor Joanna Dyduch
  OCHJS: David Patterson Lectures

Friday 17 November 2023

• 17:00 - Single Motherhood, Celebrities, and Popular Culture in Egypt
  Dr Hanan Hammad (Professor of History and Chair of Women & Gender Studies at Texas Christian University)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 20 November 2023

• 17:00 - The British and the Bolsheviks in Transcaspia: nomad-state relations in comparative perspective
  Professor Alun Thomas (Staffordshire University)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2023
• 17:00 - Great Power Competition and Disinformation in Africa
  Discussion Group, Caroline Baylon (Future Generations in the UK Parliament)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 12:30 - Book talk: 'The power of platforms: shaping media and society'
  Professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 13:00 - Cyber Deception
  Rob Black (Wilton Park)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - How civil society supports peacebuilding: the case of Colombia
  Dr. Andrei Gómez-Suárez (University of Winchester / Rodeemos el Diálogo), Laura Acosta (University of Bristol / Rodeemos el Diálogo), Alejandro Posada Tellez (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Rethinking the Eastern Mediterranean in a volatile world
  In person and online. To attend online, please register with Zoom. Booking not required if attending in person.
  Alexander Clarkson (King's College London), Constantinos Filis (American College of Greece), Manal Shehabi (Faculty of Middle Eastern Studies, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 11:15 - The German Peasants’ War (1524–1526): Facts, Reception History and New Approaches
  Thomas Müller (Wittenberg), Chair: Lyndal Roper
  Early Modern World Seminar
• 12:00 - Trustworthiness as Reputation in International Cooperation-building: Implications for US–China Relations
  Professor Shiping Tang (Fudan University)
  China Centre talks
• 15:00 - The Technology Private Sector as a site of US-China Competition
  Discussion Group, Virginia Nizza (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:15 - Assessing the Bear: Overestimating the Russian Military
  Dr Andrew Bowen (Congressional Research Service)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 12:30 - Governing Market Access: Local Currency, Sovereign Debt, and the Gatekeeping Power of Index Providers
  Nataliya Naqvi (LSE), Ben Cormier (Strathclyde)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Post-war amputations and implants of Kharkiv in the 19th and 20th centuries
  TBA
  SoGE Economy and Society Cluster Events
• 17:30 - Peace Processes of the Future Speaker Series: Women, Conflict, and the Future of Peacemaking
  NneNne Lwuji-Eme (British High Commissioner to the Republic of Mozambique), Lieutenant General Richard Nugee (Non-Executive Director for Climate Change and Sustainability)

Friday 24 November 2023

• 14:00 - The Constitution of China
  https://unioxfordnexus-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/magd4621_ox_ac_uk/EeZxy2xxhXFMgCcmA6nUHikBK18lmmeXN9tA7Tkbq4J4MA?e=1B5mIQ for termcard.
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - What have the Arab Uprisings done to “Contemporary Arab Thought”?
  Professor Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Final competition
  N/A
  The Oxford Diplomatic Society

Monday 27 November 2023

• 12:45 - Collective Protest and Elite Colleges: The U.S. Anti-War Movement in the 1960s
  Dr Michael Biggs (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
• 17:00 - The politics of nyet: how the Soviet state reformed transnational migration, 1960-1990
  Dr Irina Nicorici (New Europe College)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Michaelmas Term 2023
• 17:00 - Modern Arab Kingship – Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East
  Adam Mestyan (Duke University)
  Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
• 17:00 - Grand Strategy & Great Power Technology Competition
  Discussion Group
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 12:30 - Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
  In person and zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 (Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070)
  Luis Schenoni (UCL)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Cyber capacity and strategic advantage: resilience, influence, and control
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:15 - “An army marches on its stomach,” yet it is hungry: Surgeons, Soldiers, and Supply in Napoleon’s Grande Armée, 1806-1807
  Calum Johnson (Durham)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850
• 17:00 - Mirjana Spoljaric: From Ukraine to Syria – the challenges of humanitarian action in today’s intractable conflicts
  Mirjana Spoljaric (International Committee of the Red Cross)
• 17:00 - Imagining a Renewed United Nations
  Prof. Vesselin Popovski (O.P. Jindal Global University), Professor Richard Caplan (Department of Politics and International Relations)
• 17:00 - The curse of Empire: Russia’s war against Ukraine
  Martin Schulze Wessel (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich), Gwendolyn Sasse (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  ESC Core Seminar Series
• 20:30 - Mental Health and the Moral Component of Warfighting
  Attendees are also invited to join a wine reception starting at 8pm.
  TBA

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 14:00 - Forced Displacement, Community Composition, and Trust in Neighbors and the State
  Abbey Steele (University of Amsterdam)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 15:00 - Current Issues in Educating Public Officials about Emerging Technologies
  Followed by a pub social
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:15 - The Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS: in lockstep for Hitler?
  Ben Shepherd (Glasgow)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 30 November 2023

• 12:30 - Governing Market Access: How Index Providers Gatekeep Local Currency Sovereign Debt
  Natalya Naqvi (LSE), Ben Cormier (Strathclyde)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders
  This seminar will be held on Thursday, 30 November
  Prof Ayse Zarakol (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Race for ‘Frozen Garlic’: Assessing Taiwan’s 2024 Elections
  Prof Todd Hall (University of Oxford), Dr Jonathan Sullivan (University of Nottingham), Ms Mariah Thornton (LSE), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Friday 1 December 2023

• 14:00 - The PRC and the South China Sea in the 2010s and 2020s
  https://unioxfordnexus-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/magd4621_ox_ac_uk/EeZxy2xxhXFMgCcmA6nUHikBK18lmmeXN9tA7Tkbq4J4MA?e=1B5mIQ for termcard.
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 17:00 - Reconsidering the 60s generation in the Arab world and beyond
  Professor Yoav di Capua (The University of Texas at Austin)
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Monday 4 December 2023

• 16:00 - Shabbiha: Assad’s Militias and Mass Violence in Syria
  Uğur Ümit Üngör (University of Amsterdam)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Monday 15 January 2024

• 17:00 - If you do not change your behaviour: preventive repression in Lithuania under Soviet rule
  Dr Zhenia Nazrullaeva (LSE)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Hilary Term 2024
• 17:00 - Considering the Political Options in Gaza After Three Months of War
  Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony’s College), Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford), Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - US–China Competition: Risks without Rewards?
  Professor Ashley J. Tellis (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 13:30 - Welding Alliances: How Allied Warship Production Could Transform the Indo-Pacific
  Please note new venue for Hilary term
  Commander Douglas Robb (US Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Professor Philip Howard - 'AI and the Global Information Environment'
  Professor Philip Howard (University of Oxford)
• 20:30 - The Balancing Act: Defence sustainability versus the Sustainability of Defence
  TBA

Wednesday 17 January 2024

• 12:30 - Introducing the work of Professor Philip Torr
  Professor Philip Torr (Engineering Science, Oxford)
  Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
• 15:00 - Compute as a Critical Resource
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 1 - Compute as a Critical Resource
  Please contact elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk for attendance info.
  Various Speakers
  Cyber Strategy and Technology Studies Working Group
• 17:00 - Civilian Casualties in War
  Professor Neta Crawford (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Mass and Multipolarity: Qualitative and Quantitative Balancing after Western Hegemony
  Dr David Blagden (University of Exeter)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
• 18:00 - Moral Uncertainty in Autonomous Agents
  This is a hybrid meeting. Please find the Teams link in the Abstract.
  Jázon Szabó (KCL)
  Oxford Cross-Disciplinary Machine Learning (OxfordXML) Research Cluster Seminar Series

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 12:30 - Digital Sovereignty, Economic Ideas, and the Struggle over the Digital Markets
  A light lunch will be served
  Frederic Merand (Universite de Montreal)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Mexico and the Spanish Civil War
  Alan Knight (Latin American Centre, Oxford)
  Latin American History Seminar
• 17:00 - Xi Jinping and Time
  Dr Jean Christopher (Chris) Mittelstaedt (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 18:00 - China in the Middle East: A New Regional Superpower?
  Professor William Hurst (University of Cambridge), Mr. Ahmed Aboudouh (Chatham House, Atlantic Council)
• 18:00 - China in the Middle East: A New Regional Superpower?
  Professor William Hurst (University of Cambridge), Mr. Ahmed Aboudouh (Chatham House, Atlantic Council)
  Oxford International Relations Society Events

Friday 19 January 2024

• 14:00 - Free-Form: Unpacking the Taiwan Election
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group (OxCRG)
• 15:00 - Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah: Regionalism and Conflict in West Africa
  TBA
• 15:00 - Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah: Regionalism and Conflict in West Africa
  Ambassador Abdel-Fatau Musah (Economic Community of West African States)
  Oxford International Relations Society Events
• 17:30 - Towards Effective Regulation: AI, Misinformation, and Democratic Challenges
  Online attendance is open to all, In person to University members only. Following the discussion, a drinks reception will be held.
  Professor Helen Margetts (University of Oxford), Dr Zeynep Pamuk (University of Oxford), Sylvain Viguier (Director of AI at Graphcore)

Monday 22 January 2024

• 17:00 - The Authoritarian International
  Dr Stephen Hall (University of Bath)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Hilary Term 2024
• 17:00 - Israeli Public Opinion and Political Options after 7 October
  Professor Yuli Tamir (Beit Berl College)
• 17:00 - Russo‐Ukrainian War: The Private Sector & Emerging Technologies
  Dr Hugo Rosemont (KCL)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 13:30 - (Re)shaping Ukrainian Identity Through Linguistic Choices During Full-Scale Russo-Ukrainian War
  Dr Iryna Halasa (West Ukrainian National University and KCL)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Propaganda against the Co-Religionist: Ottoman-Afghan Diplomatic and Military Encounters in the 1720s
  Dr Habib Saçmali (Marmara University)
  Early Modern Diplomacy c.1400-1800
• 18:00 - Sourcing Water: The 'who's and 'how's of managing water across the globe and in the UK
  Dr Kevin Greksch (School of Geography and the Environment)

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 15:00 - Military AI & Nuclear Security
  Noah Greene (Center for a New American Security)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 2 - Military AI & Nuclear Security
  Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk to be able to attend.
  Noah Greene (Center for a New American Security)
  Cyber Strategy and Technology Studies Working Group
• 17:15 - Leuthen: Legacy and Myth
  Thomas G Otte (UEA)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 12:30 - Bipartisanship and US Foreign Policy
  A light lunch will be served
  Dr Jordan Tama (American University (Washington DC))
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Film Screening and Discussion: SPACES OF EXCEPTION dir. Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, 2019 United States/Lebanon
  Malek Rasamny (Documentary Filmmaker)
• 17:00 - Post-Election Analysis of Taiwan’s 2024 Elections
  Dr Monique Chu (University of Southampton), Dr Michael Reilly (University of Nottingham), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Friday 26 January 2024

• 16:00 - Busting the Hype: Emerging Technology Expectations and International Security Realities
  Dominika Kunertova (ETH)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Monday 29 January 2024

• 17:00 - (No)where to return: Ukrainian forced migrants in Romania
  Dr Volodymyr Artiukh (COMPAS, Oxford)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Hilary Term 2024
• 17:00 - The Settler Movement, Political Impasses, and Beyond
  Prof Hagar Kotef (SOAS University of London)
• 17:00 - Defense Innovation: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, & Finance
  James Galkowski (Silicon Valley Defense Group)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 13:30 - How Worlds Collapse: What History, Systems, and Complexity can Teach Us About Our Modern World and Fragile Nature
  Paul Larcey (Princeton University)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Conscience and Honour
  Dr Paul Seaward
  Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2024: Clarendon and the Practice of Politics

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 12:30 - AI and the Military: Beyond Autonomous Weapons to Strategic Enterprise Transformation
  Dr David Barnes
  Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
• 15:00 - Democratization of AI & Global Equity in Technology
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:00 - Adapting the University (of Lviv) in time of war
  Professor Roman Gladyshevskii (University of Lviv)
  Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International Education
• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 3 - Democratization of AI & Global Equity in Technology
  Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk to be able to attend.
  Various Speakers
  Cyber Strategy and Technology Studies Working Group
• 17:00 - Multi-Agent Security
  This is a hybrid meeting. Please find the Teams link in the abstract.
  Dr. Christian Schroeder de Witt (Oxford (TVG))
  Oxford Cross-Disciplinary Machine Learning (OxfordXML) Research Cluster Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Closed Deal: Private Authority of Companies in Cyber Conflict and Crises
  Louise Marie Hurel (London School of Economics and RUSI)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 12:30 - “Public Concern for Reallocation Aid in the Presence of Alternative Donors
  A light lunch will be served
  Prof Matthew S. Winters (University of Illinois Urbana-Campaign)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Armed Citizen and Citizens in Arms: The Military and the Creation of the State in Peru (1800-1860)
  Natalia Sobrevilla Perea (University of Kent)
  Latin American History Seminar

Monday 5 February 2024

• 17:00 - Professional indulgences: British service providers, postcommunist elites, and the enabling of kleptocracy
  Professor John Heathershaw (University of Exeter)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Hilary Term 2024
• 17:00 - Genocide and Accountability in Gaza: The Limits and Potential of International Law
  Prof Noura Erakat (Rutgers)
• 17:00 - AUKUS Advanced Cyber Capabilities, Strategy, and Integration
  Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 13:30 - Defence-Economic Aspects of Russia’s Involvement in the War in Ukraine: War Economy, International Economic Relationships, Economic Warfare, and Economic Costs
  Professor Christopher Davis (Oxford Institute of Population Aging)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Agent-based modelling in public health: from playground to planet
  Professor Joshua M. Epstein (New York University)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Feminist activism under Russian political repression
  Teams link for any last minute interest!: https://rb.gy/tzkxr5
  Daria Apakhonchich (Russian feminist activist)
• 17:00 - The 'Strategic Partnership' between China and the European Union after Twenty Years: Drivers of Change and Continuity
  John Farnell (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 14:30 - Briefing on Scholarship Opportunities Offered by ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of Education
  Mr Marc Tsou (Taipei Representative Office in the UK), Ms Virginia Galgani (Taipei Representative Office in the UK)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Tracing transformation in Intelligence: Open-Source Intelligence and AI
  Angeliki Martinou (Brunel Center for Intelligence and Security Studies)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 4 - Open-Source Intelligence and AI
  Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk to be able to attend.
  Angeliki Martinou (Brunel Center for Intelligence and Security Studies)
  Cyber Strategy and Technology Studies Working Group
• 17:15 - The Experiences of Refugees during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
  Thomas Pert (Warwick)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 12:30 - How Does Earmarked Foreign Aid Affect Recipient-Country Ownership?
  A light lunch will be served
  Dr Bernhard Reinsberg (University of Glasgow)
  IR Research Colloquium

Saturday 10 February 2024

• 10:00 - Sudanese Diaspora: Their Role in Sudan and South Sudan
  Professor Munzoul Abdalla Assal (Bergen University), Dr Eva Khair (University of Cambridge), Dr Salma Abdalla (Raad Peace Research Institute, Amman, Jordan), Iman Federico Awi (University of Leeds), Cllr Muna Adam (Labour Councillor for Royal Borough of Chelsea and Kensington, London; & Founder & Director of Shaman PR), Mr Elhag Paul (Activist, Journalist and Trustee, The Sudanese Programme), Ms Abiol Lual Deng (Political Scientist and International Relations expert), Mr Hashim Mohammed Ahmed (Civil Engineering Consultant; President of the Sudanese Engineers Trade Union in the UK & Ireland), Nadia Awad (Reporter, Radio Dabanga)
  Middle East Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Annual Johannes Lähnemann Interfaith Education and Peacebuilding Lecture 'Building Effective Resilience in Troubled Times: Interfaith Women Peacebuilders'
  Dr Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum), Professor Julian Stern (Bishop Grosseteste University), Professor Azza Karam (Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam), Professor Johannes Lähnemann (Professor Emeritus and Chair for Religious Education at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
  Peacebuilding in Interfaith Contexts

Monday 12 February 2024

• 16:30 - The Besieged Court. Ruling Women as Military Defenders in Scandinavia and Beyond
  Cathleen Sarti (Balliol College, Oxford)
  Court Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The estate origins of democracy in Russia: from imperial bourgeoisie to post-communist middle class
  Professor Tomila Lankina (LSE)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Hilary Term 2024
• 17:00 - MEC X ESC Panel Discussion: The Debate on Recognition of Palestine
  Chris Doyle (CAABU), Alon Liel (Policy Working Group), Haizam Amirah Fernández (Elcano Royal Institute)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES
• 17:00 - Recognizing Palestinian Statehood: European views
  IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE MIDDLE EAST CENTRE
  Chris Doyle (Council for Arab-British Understanding), Alon Liel (Policy Working Group - Israel), Haizam Amirah Fernández (Elcano Royal Institute)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - U.S.‐China Competition, Emerging Technologies, and Alliances
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 13:00 - Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Seminar : The Psychology of Global Catastrophic Risk & the Unilateralist's Curse
  Lucius Caviola (Oxford Global Priorities Institute)
  Department of Experimental Psychology - Cognitive & Behavioural Neuroscience Seminar series (BEACON)
• 13:30 - Military Peacekeeping Mediation: A First-Hand Account from Mali
  Lt. Gen. (ret.) Dr Dennis Gyllensporre (Swedish Defence University and CCW Visiting Fellow)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Coping with Crisis – rescuing academics in the 21st century
  Stephen Wordsworth (Executive Director, Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA))
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - The Gender Effect in Intra-Party Meritocracy (with Rabia Kutlu).
  Dr Tugba Bozcaga (EIS)
  JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 13:00 - Methodologies for tracking and reporting AI
  Hilke Schellman (University of New York)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 14:00 - Credible Forgiveness: When do states apologize for wartime crimes?
  For those attending in-person, the entrance to CESS is located at George Street Mews and you will need to ring the bell when you have arrived.
  Gabriel Fung (University of Oxford)
  CESS Colloquium Series
• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 5 - Supply Chain Politics for Emerging Technologies
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - The Promise and Peril of AI in Criminal Justice
  Lisa O. Monaco (U.S. Deputy Attorney General)
• 17:00 - “The China Syndrome”: Imagining Western Decline in the Age of “The Rise of China”
  Jana Cattien (University of Amsterdam)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:15 - 'Bury them deep in the ground'; The disastrous legacies of 'expeditionary warfare', 'intervention', and 'counterinsurgency'
  Frank Ledwidge (University of Portsmouth)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 12:30 - When Facts Polarize: Russian Information Operations and Polarization through Factual Content
  A light lunch will be served
  Zenobia Chan (Princeton University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - China's Economic Diplomacy in an Age of 'Derisking'
  TALK CANCELLED
  Dr Lucie Qian Xia (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 16 February 2024

• 16:00 - Coercion or consent: Local support for armed groups’ informal rule in post-conflict Northern Ireland
  Kristin Bakke (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Monday 19 February 2024

• 12:45 - Towards hybrid human-AI learning technologies
  Dr Inge Molenaar (Radbound University Nijmegen)
• 17:00 - Mobilizing in uncertainty: collective identities and war in Abkhazia
  Professor Anastasia Shesterinina (University of York)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Hilary Term 2024
• 17:00 - Is a Binational State Possible After 7 October?
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow), Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter)
• 17:00 - Re-examining the role of inter-faith rivalry as the main driver of conflict in the Middle East at the time of the Crusades
  Nicholas Morton (Nottingham Trent)
  Medieval History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Receptivity to Different Types of Migrants in Taiwan: Civic Behavior and Support for Same-sex Marriage as Novel Correlates
  Dr Hsin-Chieh Chang (Fudan University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 12:05 - The Upside of US‒Chinese Strategic Competition: Institutional Balancing and Order Transition in the Asia Pacific
  Professor Kai He (Griffith University)
  China Centre talks
• 13:30 - The Russian Challenge to Europe’s Gas Supplies this Winter and Beyond
  Dr Sidharth Kaushal (RUSI)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 13:00 - Valleys of Fear: Mapping agrarian unrest in Ireland, ca. 1830-1880
  Constantin Torve (Queen's University, Belfast)
  Economic and Social History Graduate Seminar
• 13:00 - Two years gone: Lessons from Ukraine coverage
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 14:00 - War, Anti-Fascism and Transnational Justice
  Adrian Pole (University of Chester), Lena Christophe (University of Vienna)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 15:00 - Cyber Strategy & Technology Studies Working Group: Week 6 - Mapping the State of Judicial Technology & Policy in China
  Lujain Ibrahim (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:15 - Culpability and conscience in civil war: A new history of armed treason in England, 1199-1352
  Sophie Ambler (Lancaster)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 23 February 2024

• 12:30 - IR Theory for the 21st Century (Or How to Take Nature Seriously
  NOTE DIFFERENT TIME & LOCATION A light lunch will be served
  Prof Ayse Zarakol (Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - Inside IS's Virtual Ecosystem: An Ethnographic Study of Sympathizers' Online Training Roadmap
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Maarouf Mohammed (Chouaib Doukkali University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The Violence of Fascism and Its Legacies
  Professor Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford)
  Historical approaches to political analysis

Monday 26 February 2024

• 17:00 - Domestic violence in Russia: shocks or historical legacies?
  Dr Ekaterina Borisova (University of Lille)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Hilary Term 2024
• 17:00 - Rebuilding From the Rubble Yet Again: Whither the Fourth Phase of Palestinian Collective Action?
  Prof Beshara Doumani (Brown University)
• 17:00 - The Ukraine War Two Years On: Lessons for Technology & Autonomy
  Rob Rider, CBE (UK Defence Attaché to Germany (2015-20))
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 18:00 - The New Era of Digital Diplomacy: The Future of AI and the Metaverse for International Relations
  This is a hybrid event - with the speaker attending in-person and viewable online. Those attending in-person should use the entrance on Jowett Walk, which will be open from 17:50-18:00. Those attending online should email mscggd-admin@qeh.ox.ac.uk for the meeting link.
  Dr. Martin Waehlisch (United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 13:30 - Book Launch: British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony
  Dr William D. James (KCL and CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 12:30 - Humanitarian AI
  Dr Daphné Richemond Barak (Reichman University)
  Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
• 15:00 - “Explainable AI” & Black Boxes within Black Boxes
  Discussion Group
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Radicalisation and Violent Extremism: Drivers, Trends, Solutions
  Dr Julia Ebner (University of Oxford)
  Calleva Seminar
• 17:15 - Strategic Wishes and What Happens Next: Assessing the UK's Integrated Reviews
  Maeve Ryan (Kings College London), Jamie Gaskarth (Open University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 12:30 - Expert Preferences for Carbon Pricing in the Developing World
  A light lunch will be served
  Dr Federica Genovese (Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 14:00 - The Crimean War in Victorian Religious Thought and Intellectual Culture
  Petros Spanou (Oxford)
  Modern British History Seminar (in collaboration with the Oxford Centre for European History)
• 17:00 - Colonizing Palestine: the Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba’
  Dr. Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Friday 1 March 2024

• 14:15 - Over- and Underreaction to Information
  Aislinn Bohren (University of Pennsylvania)
  Nuffield Economic Theory Seminar
• 17:30 - Ukraine: From Russian colony to European identity
  Żanna Słoniowska
  Mansfield Public Talks

Saturday 2 March 2024

• 12:00 - Legacy, Jeopardy and Opportunity: The Challenges Facing the West
  Rev Dr Michael Nazir-Ali (Oxford Centre for Training, Research Advocacy and Dialogue)
  Taunton Talks

Monday 4 March 2024

• 12:30 - Webs of oppression’ in everyday organizing in Palestine: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis
  Lunch will be provided for this session
  Amal W Nazzal (Assistant Professor at Birzeit University, Palestine)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Putin and ideology
  Professor Neil Robinson (University of Limerick)
  RESC Monday Seminar, Hilary Term 2024
• 17:00 - After Gaza: The Promise and Peril of Pax Americana
  Marwan Bishara (Al Jazeera)
• 17:00 - Simulation/Wargame: Indo‐Pacific Crisis, Insider Threat, & Cyber‐Space Escalation
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 17:00 - Where next for the Anglo-American 'Special Relationship'?
  Open only to University members- Registration required!
  Deputy Chief of Mission Matthew Palmer (U.S. Embassy and Consulates in The United Kingdom)
• 17:00 - Inside the Global Supply Chain: Transnational Migrant Labor, Commodity Circulation, and Digitized Economies across Taiwan
  Dr Beatrice Zani (French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS))
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 13:30 - AI and Machine Learning in OSINT (Open Source Intelligence)
  Sam Pearce (Fivecast)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - MEC BOOK TALK - Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt
  Prof. Atef Said (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 15:00 - Lessons from a Case Study of Social Media Disinformation
  Discussion Group, Rutendo Chabikwa (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - NATO 75th Anniversary: Time to retire or strengthen?
  Dr Seth Johnston (Harvard), Patrick Porter (Birmingham), Jonathan Shaw CBE
• 17:00 - The British China Story
  Professor Kerry Brown (King's College London)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Prayers and Stories of Peace - Religious Imaginaries & Victimhood Narratives in Colombia’s Road to Peace
  A joint Las Casas Institute – Rodeemos el Diálogo (ReD) event in-person and online.
  Alejandro Posada-Téllez (St Antony’s College), Eduardo F. Gutiérrez (Blackfriars), Dr Maria Power (Blackfriars)

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 12:30 - The Concept and Reality of Norms in International Relations
  A light lunch will be served
  Dr Anette Stimmer (University of St Andrews)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 8 March 2024

• 16:00 - The Martyrs of Palestinian Islamic Jihad
  Erik Skare (University of Oslo)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Monday 11 March 2024

• 16:00 - The Racial Geography of U.S. Public Opinion at the Punitive Turn
  Adriane Fresh (Duke University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Wednesday 13 March 2024

• 12:00 - Human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory
  Francesca P Albanese (United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - From Space Internet to Cloud Computing: the future of big tech is in infrastructure
  Dr Corinne Cath (Delft University of Technology), Luc Rocher (University of Oxford), Yung Au (Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University), Dr Ashwin Mathew (Kings College London)
• 17:00 - Blavatnik Election Briefings: Russia Votes - Examining the impact of another Putin presidency
  Sergei Guriev (SciencesPo), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Tuesday 19 March 2024

• 10:00 - ORA collection on AI & Machine Learning launch event
  Various Speakers

Monday 22 April 2024

• 17:00 - Sung-Yoon Lee: North Korean leadership and the situation in the DPRK
  Dr Sung-Yoon Lee (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
• 17:00 - Emerging Threats and Technology Group: Annual Threats Report & Journal Launch
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 13:30 - Some new insights into the psychology of individuals and large groups in a world of changing conflicts
  Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea
  Jatin Dua (University of Michigan)
  Indian Ocean in the Age of Empire
• 17:00 - A look behind the curtain of the Soviet dictatorship: a study of oral testimonies and documents by the former chairman of the KGB (1961-1967) Vladimir Semichastnyi
  Dr Tomas Sniegon (Lund University)

Wednesday 24 April 2024

• 13:00 - Refusing AI: How Journalists Avoid Falling for AI’s Hype
  Dr Tomás Dodds (Leiden University)
• 15:00 - Healthcare within a humanitarian crisis: experiences from Gaza
  Guests can attend in person or online.
  Mr Khaled Dawas (University College London), Dr Jane Crawley (University of Oxford)
  Translational Health Sciences
• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — AI in the Workplace and Employment Power Dynamics
  Nikki Sun (Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Crisis in the Sahel: Causes and Consequences for Africa, Europe and the Muslim World
  Dr Jonathan Guiffard (Institute Montaigne)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar
  Claas Mertens (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Friday 26 April 2024

• 10:00 - Workshop - “Domicide”: State violence and the destruction of home in the Middle East and China
  Ammar Azzouz, Alex Vasudevan, Jennifer Altehenger, Margaret Hillenbrand, Salwa Ismail, Farida Makar
  Oxford Centre for Global History events

Monday 29 April 2024

• 12:45 - From Outsiders to Heroes: Army Veterans, Patriotic Values and the Militarisation of Russia, 1991-2022
  Dr Elena Racheva (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
• 17:00 - The United Nations and the Question of Palestine
  Change of venue: Now in the Investcorp Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road (NOT MEC Boardroom at 68 Woodstock Road as originally planned) | Copies of Professor Imseis's book can be purchased direct from Cambridge University Press website, use IMSEIS23 at checkout for 20% discount.
  Dr Adri Imseis (Queen's University)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES
• 17:00 - Israel‐Hamas War: Intelligence, Technology, & Asymmetric Warfare
  Andrew Badger (Defense SME)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 13:30 - “Out of the Blue”: The mirroring fallacy and the navies of today
  Lt Cdr Andrew Ward (CCW & Royal Navy)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Blavatnik Book Talks: J L Austin — Philosopher and D-Day Intelligence officer
  Mark Rowe (Author and Researcher), Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 17:00 - Women and Ukraine’s Economies of War and Peace
  Dr Jenny Mathers (Aberystwyth University), Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR & OSGA, Nuffield & St. Anthony’s College)
  Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series

Wednesday 1 May 2024

• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — China's AI Posture and Capabilities
  Sihao Huang (University of Oxford Department of Politics and International Relations)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - The Promise and Perils of China’s Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
  Prof Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
• 17:15 - Local Authority and Private Enterprise: Provisioning the Habsburg Army from the Seven Years War
  William Godsey (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 2 May 2024

• 12:30 - Book Launch: Tabernacles in the Wilderness: The US Christian Commission on the Civil War Battlefront
  Dr Rachel Williams (University of Hull)

Friday 3 May 2024

• 15:15 - A gap in the law for ethical acts: Russian theories and practice of illiberal modern life
  Xenia Cherkaev (Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
• 16:00 - Inside IS's Virtual Ecosystem: An Ethnographic Study of Sympathizers' Online Training Roadmap
  Maarouf Mohammed (Chouaib Doukkali University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Josep Borrell Fontelles 'Europe faced with two wars'
  Due to technical issues, this event will not be livestreamed.
  Josep Borrell (High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy)
• 17:15 - Humanitarian Aid in Autocracies: the risk of Compromised Neutrality
  Inaugural Seminar for Dr Sauter as Levin Junior Research Fellow in Peace Studies at LMH, celebrating the first post in Peace Studies at Oxford. Followed by drinks.
  Dr Melanie Sauter (University of Oxford)
  OxPeace Events

Monday 6 May 2024

• 17:00 - Does Competition Change Character? Left of War in the Maritime Domain
  Captain Sean Andrews (Royal Navy, & CCW Fellow (2023-24))
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 13:30 - The Shifting Global Terrorism and Extremism Landscape: A View from Southeast Asia
  Prof. Kumar Ramakrishna (RSIS Singapore)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Performing Sovereign Aspirations: Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka
  Bart Klem (Gothenburg University, Sweden)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Reflections on Tunisian Women’s Continued Fight for Respect, Dignity and Rights - Focus on Women in the Labour Movement
  Dr Heba El-Shazli (George Mason University)
  MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
• 17:00 - Islam and Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge and Common Sense
  Dr Mazhar Ali Bari (Ghulam Bari Foundation and Cognovation), Dr Biliana Popova (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
  Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies (STEMS)
• 17:00 - Depletion and Economies of War and Peace
  Dr. Shirin Rai FBA (SOAS), Salma Daoudi, DPhil (DPIR & Somerville College)
  Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Ethics of Economic Sanctions with Professor Cécile Fabre
  Cecile Fabre (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus - Taiwan's satellite production & geopolitics
  Yi-Ting Chang (University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - British politics - what just happened and what’s next?
  Stephen Fisher (Associate Professor of Political Sociology, Trinity College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - The Damascus Events Book Launch
  Book copies will be on sale at the discounted price of £20 - cash only please | Drinks reception will follow the book signing
  Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, Oxford)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES
• 17:15 - Economic statecraft from the perspective of systemic influence
  This will be a hybrid meeting, Teams link below
  Maria de Goeij Reid (CCW)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 12:30 - World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and Global Order
  Michael Williams (University of Ottawa), Rita Abrahamsen (University of Ottawa)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 10 May 2024

• 14:00 - Collaboration during the Second Sino-Japanese War
  TBA
  Oxford China Reading Group
• 16:00 - Repression in the Digital Age
  Anita Gohdes (Hertie)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Monday 13 May 2024

• 14:00 - Higher Education in Conflict-Affected Areas
  Ahmad Akkad (University of Oxford), Dr Nadiya Ivanenko (University of Oxford) (University of Oxford), Lamma Mansour (University of Oxford), Nawreen Hena (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Three Frontiers to one Boundary: The Making of the Ottoman-Iranian Boundary
  Please note change of venue to the MEC Boardroom (from the Investcorp Lecture Theatre)
  Professor Sabri Ates (Southern Methodist University)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES
• 17:00 - Naval competition in the Red Sea and Broader Middle East
  Lt Cdr Andrew Ward (CCW & Royal Navy)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 13:30 - Open-Source Intelligence: what is it for, where did it come from and what is standing in its way?
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Settler Colonialism in India: Temsula Ao’s Writings and the Politics of Intervention in the 'Northeast'
  Dr. Nivi Manchanda (Queen Mary University), Dr. Asma Abdi (University of Warwick)
  Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series
• 20:30 - OSSG: A War's Correspondent's Perspective on the War in Ukraine (Tim Judah)
  TBA
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — Political and Environmental Impact of AI Supply Chains
  Ana Valdivia (The Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:00 - Can research partnerships with policymakers change the world?
  Various Speakers
  OPEN Learning Opportunities Event Series
• 17:30 - 500 years on: Why you should care about the German Peasants’ War of 1524-5
  Professor Lyndal Roper
  Macintyre Society - the Magdalen History Society

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 12:30 - Market Integration and Governance: How Globalization Spurred a Backlash Against Itself
  Judy Goldstein (Stanford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - AI and the Challenge of Human Cooperation
  TBA

Friday 17 May 2024

• 08:00 - ‘Challenges for surgeons during humanitarian deployments’ and 'Gaza: Children's surgery'
  Dr Harald Veen (WHO EMRO (Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean)), Mr Wajid Jawaid (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
  Surgical Grand Rounds
• 11:00 - Redesigning AI
  Fully booked
  Professor Daron Acemoğlu (MIT), Professor Isabelle Ferreras (University of Louvain), Professor Jeremias Adams-Prassl (Oxford), Dr Daniel Susskind (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 16:00 - Publicized Repression
  Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Saturday 18 May 2024

• 09:00 - New Actors and the Changing Field of Peacemaking and Peacebuilding
  Arrivals from 09.00, Conference starts 09.20. Coffee breaks and sandwich lunch provided. You are invited to contribute on the door - £5 for students/unwaged. others £10. Cash is preferred. Bank details will be available. Cheques accepted! Walk-ins on the day are welcome but to assist organisation please register:
  Various Speakers
  OxPeace Events

Monday 20 May 2024

• 16:00 - Artificial Intelligence: Present & Future Use by the Intelligence Community
  Sir David Omand, GCB (Former Director of GCHQ (1996-97))
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 16:00 - “Frontier settlement” as Transnational Colonisation: The Thailand-Israel connection
  Matan Kaminer (Queen Mary University of London)
  Social Life of Work Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 13:00 - Does Artificial Intelligence reason?
  Prof Christopher Yau (University of Oxford)
• 13:30 - Spy and Tell: Why are governments publicly sharing more intelligence secrets than ever before
  Dr David Gioe (King's College London), Thomas Maguire (Leiden)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Ali Mirsepassi will be in conversation with Stephanie Cronin about his new book "The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran".
  Ali Mirsepassi (NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES
• 17:00 - Countering Convergent Threats? Colombian South-South Security Cooperation in Latin America
  Markus Hochmüller (University of Oxford), Markus-Michael Müller (Roskilde University)
  Latin American Centre (LAC) Main Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Feminist Political Economy of Peace and Decoloniality
  Dr. Elena Stavrevska (University of Bristol), Oksana Potapova, PhD student (London School of Economics)
  Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The fall of dictatorship in Spain, Portugal and Greece: 50 years on
  IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE ESC
  Harris Mylonas (George Washington University), Joao Carlos Espada (Catolica, Lisbon), Ainhoa Campos Posada (Ramón Areces Visiting Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 20:30 - OSSG: The Lessons of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine for Air and Ground-Based EW systems and Tactics (Thomas Withington)
  TBA
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 11:00 - Political Trenches: War, Partisanship, and Polarization
  Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 13:00 - Truth or dare: navigating misinformation in EU elections
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 13:00 - How is AI shaping the future of Digital Democracy?
  Elaine Ford (Oxford Internet Institute)
• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — "Cloud empires’ physical footprint: How trade and security politics shape the global expansion of U.S. and Chinese data centre infrastructures"
  Please email elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk to be able to attend.
  Vili Lehdonvirta (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Boxi Wu (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - Borderlands in focus: insights & reflections on the Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia borderlands through the lens of a peace & stability programme
  Hybrid event: to join the webinar, please register using the link below.
  Martine Zeuthen (RUSI/UCL)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:15 - Mythbusting the Politics of War: How Presidents Manage the Political Costs of Civilian Control
  Dr Andrew Payne (City, University of London)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 09:30 - Day 1 - 2-Day Conference: 'The India-China Dispute: History, Politics and Law'
  Various Speakers
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 16:30 - Book Panel: Intervention before Interventionism by Patrick Quinton-Brown
  Patrick Quinton-Brown (Singapore Management University), Neta Crawford (University of Oxford), Evelyn Goh (Australian National University), Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Rearmament and Security: “Europe, where are you sailing?”
  Marek Misak (COMECE), Jacob Oakes (CBCEW)
• 17:15 - Technology and Power
  Dr Abubakr Muhammad (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  Human-Water Systems: Lessons For and From River Basins of the Muslim World
• 17:30 - Can China and India live in harmony?
  Professor Kishore Mahbubani (National University of Singapore)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 18:00 - Poetry & War
  Charlotte Shevchenko Knight (Jonathan Cape), Ivan Krastev (ESC Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford), Yousif M Qasmiyeh (Refugee Hosts’ Writer-in-Residence and poet)

Friday 24 May 2024

• 09:00 - Day 2 - 2-Day Conference: 'The India-China Dispute: History, Politics and Law'
  Various Speakers
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 15:15 - Value and violence in the making of Ukraine’s war economy
  Taras Fedirko (University of Glasgow)
  Anthropology Departmental Seminar Series: Trinity 2024
• 16:00 - Localized Coercive Control in Northern Irish Paramilitarism
  John Morrison (Maynooth University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Monday 27 May 2024

• 17:00 - Chinese Businessmen and the Economic Roots of American Cold War Power, 1938‒1955
  Professor Judd Kinzley (University of Wisconsin-Maddison)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Emerging Threats and Technology Group
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 13:30 - Inter-alliance Security Dilemmas: Korean Counterforce Systems and Their Effect on the Sino- American Nuclear Competition
  Change to termcard
  Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Towards atomic scales analytical tomography - and the art of the possible today
  Professor Simon Ringer (Pro VC for Research and Infrastructure - University of Sydney)
• 17:00 - Neoliberal (and) Feminist Encounters of State-Building in Kosovo
  Dr. Vjosa Musliu (Vrije Brussels), Ana Vilhelmina Verndik, DPhil (DPIR & St. Anthony’s College)
  Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Economic Diversification and Climate Change in the Middle East
  Associate Professor Dr Sarah Bush (University of Pennsylvania)
  Middle East Politics and WRRS joint series
• 20:30 - OSSG: Reflexive Control: Influencing Strategic Behaviour
  Maria de Goeij (CCW)
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 13:00 - Unpacking practical AI applications in news
  Professor Bahareh Heravi (Univeristy of Surrey)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:00 - Securing cyberspace - A Conversation with Dean Bobby Chesney and Professor Ciaran Martin
  This is a hybrid event.
  Professor Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Robert Chesney (University of Texas at Austin)
• 17:15 - At the origins of raw materials diplomacy. Saltpeter trade in Renaissance Italy
  Fabrizio Ansani (Exeter)
  History of War Seminar Series

Friday 31 May 2024

• 16:00 - Communal Conflict Research and Event Data Bias
  Jana Krause (University of Oslo)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa
  All welcome, no registration necessary, arrive early to secure your seat: Our MEC Boardroom in the Kirdar Building at 68 Woodstock Road has limited seating capacity.
  Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
  Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme

Monday 3 June 2024

• 15:00 - How have North Koreans settled in South Korea? A roundtable discussion
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Minho Cho (Korea Hana Foundation), Young-hee Kim (Korea Hana Foundation), Seunghoon Chae (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture: "Can International Law make a Difference in Time of War?"
  Sir Christopher Greenwood (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Events
• 17:00 - Documentary film screening: Antoine the Fortunate (WWI in the Ottoman Empire)
  Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Associate Professor Nefin Dinc (James Madison University)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES
• 17:00 - QUANTUM FURY Wargame, Cyber Cup Rematch
  TBA
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 13:30 - Rare Earths, Meteorites and Magnets
  Prof. Lindsay Greer (Cambridge)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Women and Democratic Change: The Longest Global Revolution
  Dr. Jacqui True FASSA FAIA (Monash University), Carina Uchida, DPhil (DPIR & Pembroke College), Humeyra Biricik, DPhil (DPIR & Pembroke College)
  Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Fight, Flight, Mimic: Identity Mimicry in Conflict (book launch)
  Jason Burke (The Guardian), Dr Anna Wilson (IMCC, University of Oxford), Vera Mironova (Harvard University), Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Diego Gambetta (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
• 20:30 - OSSG: A War's Correspondent's Perspective on the War in Ukraine (Tim Judah)
  TBA
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 5 June 2024

• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus: Multilateral Institutions & AI governance
  Sam Daws (University of Oxford )
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - The Fall of Kabul: Why It Happened and Why It Matters?
  Sir Laurie Bristow (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Cultural Bridges and Cold War Alliances: Lessons from the GDR’s Diplomatic Dance with Japan
  Bethan Winter (Magdalen College)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 6 June 2024

• 17:00 - “The China Syndrome”: Imagining Western Decline in the Age of “The Rise of China”
  Jana Cattien
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 7 June 2024

• 13:30 - Small States at the heart of the EU: The case of Andorra
  Professor Juli Minoves-Triquell (University of La Verne, California)

Monday 10 June 2024

• 15:30 - Transitional Justice and the Rio Negro Community in Guatemala
  Anna-Sophia (Richard), Joaquin (Ruano)
  Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Emerging Threats and Technology Group
  Chris Morris (University of Oxford)
  CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 17:00 - Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis of Taiwan and the South China Sea
  Diren Doğan (Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Fall of the Machines: Why Simple Models Work (Disappointingly) Well, and What to Do About It in Politics
  Professor Arthur Spirling (Princeton University), Dr Nicholas Cole
• 17:00 - Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis on Taiwan and the South China Sea
  Diren Doğan (Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 14:00 - Echoes of violence in the halls of academia: Palestinian Arab Israeli students during the May 2021 events and beyond
  Dr Lamma Mansour
• 16:00 - OPTS: Ideology
  Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College), Andrew March (University of Massachusetts)
  Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Online Lecture: 'A New Age of Global Disorder?'
  Professor Andrew Hurrell (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 10:00 - Approaching Raw Wounds: The Rhetoric of Trauma in Palestinian and Northern Irish Fiction Writing
  Various Speakers
• 14:00 - Feeding the Tigers: Remittances and Conflict in Sri Lanka
  Dominic Rohner (University of Lausanne)
  Political Economy Seminar
• 15:00 - Oxford Technology & Security Nexus — Space Policy, Data Centres on the Moon, and New Colonialism
  Yung Au (Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - Book launch & discussion: The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia
  Hybrid event: to join the webinar, please register using the link below.
  Tom Gardner (Economist), Terje Østebø (University of Florida)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - Iran’s Revolutionary Guards: A History
  Professor Maryam Alemzadeh (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - Reassessing Republican China and the Taiwan Strait Crises
  Yi-Chuan (Nicholas) Chiu (University of Oxford), Qiang Zhang (University of Nottingham)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - Compulsion, Compliance and Combat: New Perspectives on Napoleonic Conscription
  Graeme Callister (York St Johns)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 13 June 2024

• 17:00 - The 46th Annual George Antonius Memorial Lecture
  Professor Amaney Jamal (Princeton University)

Friday 14 June 2024

• 09:00 - Religion, Race, and Concepts of Difference in the Modern Middle East
  The deadline for all proposals is 7 March 2024
  TBA
• 16:00 - Ignoring the Threat: Government responses to armed rebellion
  Corinna Jentsch (Leiden University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Book launch - Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911
  Professor Janet Afary (University of California)
  MEC SEMINAR SERIES

Tuesday 18 June 2024

• 16:00 - Ukraine to Yemen, via Gaza and Mosul: Revolution in Nonstate Military Effectiveness?
  Omar Ashour (Doha Institute)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Thursday 20 June 2024

• 12:00 - China’s Military Rise: Two decades of catch up with the USA
  Professor Peter Robertson (University of Western Australia)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - The Lyceum Project
  Professor John Tasioulas (University of Oxford), Professor Josiah Ober (Stanford), Dr Linda Arnellou (NCSR-Demokritos), Professor Fotini Christia (MIT), Professor Costis Daskalakis (MIT), Mr Brendan McCord (Cosmos Institute, St Catherine's College (Oxford)), Professor Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Professor Yuval Shany (Hebrew University), Mr. Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Greek Prime Minister)

Monday 14 October 2024

• 16:00 - The Political Legacy of Elite Repression
  Leonid Peisakhin (New York University)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 13:30 - "Slow Slicing" - How China's asymmetric tactics build the Great Rejuvenation
  Dr Sari Arho Harvén (Business Finland)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Location and Rebellion: Rethinking the Relationship between Revolution and State Capacity
  Mark Beissinger (Princeton)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:15 - The New Spirit of Islamism: Interactions between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood
  Dr Ezgi Başaran (University of Oxford)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Foreign Policy
  Peter Feaver (Duke University)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 17:15 - Strategic Leadership through the prisms of the UK Defence-UK Science-UK Industry relationship, the SDR & AUKUS
  Dr Carl Hunter (Coltraco Ultrasonics)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 12:30 - Sanction Spillover and Trade Diversification
  Christina L. Davis (Harvard)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - Negotiating with the Devil? Insights from the World of Conflict Mediation
  Pierre Hazan, Claire Hajaj, Richard Barltrop

Friday 18 October 2024

• 17:00 - Colonial subjects and the right to have rights: Algeria, 1834
  Professor Charles Kurzman (University of North Carolina)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 21 October 2024

• 16:00 - Rise or Decline? How Measurement Problems in Terrorism Data Lead to Different Conclusions About the Same Phenomenon
  Jacob Ravndal (University of Oslo)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The challenges of writing Middle East history after 7 October: from Gaza to the climate crisis
  Dr Ibrahim al-Marashi (California State University)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Inaugural Lecture of the Professor of Modern History: European Security in Modern Times
  Professor Patricia Clavin (Worcester College, Oxford)

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 13:30 - Strategic Defence Review
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: What next for the Democratic Party?
  Rob Saldin (University of Montana)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 14:00 - Military Medicine and Imperial Ecology
  Ben Rymer (Oxford), Dr Hohee Cho (Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 16:00 - Yesterday’s Forgotten Crises
  Professor Michael Scott (Blackfriars Hall), Fanta Aw (NAFSA), Louis Goodman (American University), Anne Lonsdale (Cambridge), Sanford J. Ungar (Goucher College), Lord Jonathan Oates (House of Lords)
• 16:00 - Political fragmentation in the Horn of Africa: Jubbaland and the transborder Ogaden region
  Hybrid event: please use registration link below.
  Nisar Majid (LSE/PeaceRep), Khalif Abdirahman (LSE/PeaceRep)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - On Genocide: Then and Now
  Professor Phillipe Sands (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - After violence: Russia's Beslan school massacre and the peace that followed
  Professor Debra Javeline (Notre Dame, Indiana)
• 17:15 - The Shadow of the Apocalypse? In Search of a New History of the Second World War
  Jonathan Fennell (KCL)
  History of War Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Fireside Chat with Lord William Hague
  Lord William Hague

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 12:30 - Identity and the Social Construction of Reputation in World Politics
  Jonathan Renshon (UW-Madison)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - The Political Economy of Worker Retraining in the Age of AI
  Julian Jacobs (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 25 October 2024

• 16:00 - Writing the Indian Army and the Second World War
  David Omissi (Hull)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 17:00 - From the cradle to the street: family and the 1979 Revolution in Iran
  Professor Naghmeh Sohrabi (Brandeis University)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 28 October 2024

• 16:00 - Civil War Participation and the Development of Post-Conflict Partisan Identity: Evidence from Lebanon
  Christiana Parreira (Geneva Graduate Institute)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - A people’s census: Soviet war crimes documentation and the history of information
  Dr Paula Chan (All Souls)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 09:00 - Workshop on Global Interpolity Relations, 1500-1800
  Various Speakers
• 13:30 - Dams, Canals, and Elephants in the Room: Threats of Water Conflict in Central Asia
  Sophie Ibbotson (World Bank)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Tahrir, Gaza, and beyond: revolution, liberation, and praxis
  Rusha Latif (author of 'Tahrir's Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution')
  Book Talks
• 17:30 - The 2024 US election and its digital aspects
  Dr Caroline Leicht (University of Glasgow), Keegan McBride (The Oxford Internet Institute), Prathm Juneja (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Licinia Guttel (Oxford Internet Institute)
• 20:30 - OUSSG: Establishing a Security Consultancy in Adversity
  TBA
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 09:00 - Day 2: Workshop: Global Interpolity Relations, c. 1400-1800
  Various Speakers
  2-Day Workshop: Global Interpolity Relations, c. 1400-1800
• 12:30 - Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminars - More, Faster: AI and the Age of Iteration
  Dr Alexy Karenowska (Physics, Oxford)
  Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars
• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Whose Vote Counts?
  Ursala Hackett (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 17:00 - Crafting a new global order? The United Nations and international politics in the 1990s
  Fabian Klose (Cologne)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - The Entanglement of Domestic Politics and International Interests: A New Perspective on the Diplomatic History of Modern China
  Zhang Gong (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS)), Zhang Zhen (University of Edinburgh)
  International History of East Asia Seminar
• 17:15 - Leading AUKUS: the UK perspective on the Australian, UK, United States strategic alignment for Indo-Pacific Defence and Security
  Anne-Marie Trevelyan
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 12:30 - Money Flows: The Political Consequences of Migrant Remittances
  Catherine De Vries (Bocconi University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Understanding the Geoeconomics of Data Centres and the Cloud
  Abid Abdurrahman Adonis (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Saturday 2 November 2024

• 10:00 - South Sudan at the Crossroads, Election or No Election – What is the Prospect for Real Peace for South Sudan
  Please aim to register before 25th October 2024, as this helps greatly with planning for the day's catering and hospitality which are provided by St Antony's College.
  Various Speakers

Monday 4 November 2024

• 16:00 - Hierarchies of Victimhood in War-to-Peace Transition: Gendered Innocence and Perceptions of Deservingness for Justice and Reparations
  Dr Milli Lake (LSE)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 13:30 - Israel’s flawed strategy in the war in Gaza
  Online talk
  Dr Ehud Eilam
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:15 - New & Jew, Zionism and the Quest for National Culture
  Professor Yaron Peleg (University of Cambridge)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Rethinking Europe’s East-West Divide: Who will lead the EU?
  Mihail Chiru (Oxford School of Global and Area Studies), Kristi Raik (International Centre for Defence and Security), Zselyke Csaky (Centre for European Reform), Hussein Kassim (University of Warwick)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:15 - Conflict and citizenship: the challenges of Palestinian-Arabs in Israel
  Professor Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University)

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Debrief
  Adam Smith (Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 14:00 - Wartime Captivity and Colonial Counterinsurgency
  Dr Kevin Noles (Independent), Hendrik Willem Nelis (Oxford)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - History and the Modern Middle East: Do Policy Makers Need a Sense of the Past?
  Sir John Jenkins (Former UK Ambassador to Saudi Arabia)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:15 - Everyday militarism and the history of British military bases
  Yasmin Khan (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 12:30 - Infrastructural Vanguards and the Problem of Connectivity Under Anarchy
  Andrew Dougall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 12:30 - Survey Colombia Ex-Combatants Reintegration
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Ana Vilhelmina Verdnik (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Content Moderation, Platform Governance, and Legitimacy
  Diyi Liu (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 18:00 - Northeast Asia after Biden: Conversation with Former UK Ambassador to North Korea and Experts on the Korean Peninsula
  John Everard (Foreign and Commonwealth Office), Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford), John Nilsson-Wright (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford International Relations Society

Friday 8 November 2024

• 17:00 - Regional dimensions of the Gaza crisis, and the Arab role in the UN Security Council
  Mouin Rabbani, Hasmik Egian
  Friday Seminars

Monday 11 November 2024

• 14:00 - Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation
  Professor Sander van der Linden (University of Cambridge)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 16:00 - The politics of bureaucratic purges in revolutionary Iran (1978-1982)
  Guillaume Beaud (Sciences Po)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 16:00 - Nightmares of Decolonization: Paramilitary Violence and the Making of South Asia
  Registration Required
  Ali Raza (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 17:00 - Long shadow of the Holodomor
  Dr Daria Mattingly (University of Chichester)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - A new European Defence Union? Capabilities, coordination, and the quest for strategic autonomy
  Please subscribe to the mailing list on our website to receive information on all our upcoming sessions.
  Nick Witney (European Council on Foreign Relations)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 13:30 - Implementing AI systems in Government
  Julian von Nehammer (LILT)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Sacred Places Tell Tales: Jewish Life and Heritage in Modern Cairo
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Yoram Meital (Ben-Gurion University)
  Book Talks
• 20:30 - OSSG: Insurgency in the 21st Century
  TBA
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: The Urban-Suburban Divide
  Kimberly Johnson (University of Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 14:00 - Workshop: Stakeholder mapping for Academic-Policy Engagement for Social Sciences
  Jose Rojas Alvarado (Oxford Policy Engagement Team), Noora Kanfash (Oxford Policy Engagement Team)
  OPEN Learning Opportunities Event Series
• 14:00 - Reading, Writing, and Teaching Global History Now
  Professor Erica Charters (Oxford), Professor Manuel Barcia Paz (Leeds), Professor Richard Drayton (KCL)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Deborah Haynes (Sky News)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 12:30 - Credibility of Issue Linkage: How Treaty Recognition Unites Firms and Activists in Promoting Trade Liberalization
  Boram Lee (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Compute North vs. Compute South: The Uneven Possibilities of Compute-based AI Governance Around the Globe
  Boxi Wu (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:30 - After Ostpolitik: Germany and Ukraine in a new Europe
  Various Speakers

Friday 15 November 2024

• 17:00 - The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization
  Dr Elham Fakhro (Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School)
  Book Talks

Monday 18 November 2024

• 11:00 - Zionism: Jewish messianism and nationalism rethought
  Dr Miri Freud-Kandel (University of Oxford)
  Modern Judaism: Through the Lens of October 7
• 16:00 - Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
  Eugene Finkel (John Hopkins)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Ukrainian nationalists’ propaganda in western parts of Ukraine at the end of World War II and after: OUN-B and UPA, 1944–1953
  Dr Stanislav Tumis (Charles University, Prague)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - Insider Threats & Foreign Malign Influence, from Detection to Elimination
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 20:30 - OSSG: The Future of Intelligence in an Uncertain World
  Harry Kemsley, Sean Corbett
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 12:30 - Chinese global messaging campaigns on Western social media platforms
  Dr Naima Green-Riley (Princeton University)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 13:30 - CANCELLED: Integrated Deterrence
  Seminar cancelled
  Nicholas Taylor (DSTL)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Opportunities and Challenges of Navigating Fieldwork as Insider and Outsider Fieldworkers
  Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford), Professor Alison Shaw (University of Oxford), Dr Shahnoza Nozimova (University of Oxford), Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
  Social Sciences Division Research Training - Michaelmas Term 2024
• 20:30 - OSSG: The Future of Intelligence in the Face of Unprecedented Global Geopolitical Threats
  Harry Kemsley
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Political Violence
  Professor Desmond Kind (University of Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 17:15 - How the Navy saved Britain 1793-1798
  Rachel Blackman-Rogers (KCL)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 12:30 - Revisiting Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals: A Process-Based Approach
  Prof Larry Helfer will be joining online
  Başak Çalı (University of Oxford), Laurence Helfer (Duke)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Turning the Tide: Government Action to Counter Ransomware
  Dr Roxana Radu (SNSF Postdoctoral Researcher)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - God's Man in Iraq: The Life and Leadership of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani
  Sajad Jiyad
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Fighting misinformation on social media: the role of economic research
  Professor Sergei Guriev (Dean, London Business School)
  Oxford Martin School Events
• 17:00 - Compensation and the Consolidation of Authoritarian Power: Evidence from China’s 2016 PLA Reform
  Professor Victor Shih (University of California San Diego)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 22 November 2024

• 17:00 - Writing Middle Eastern lives: biography in modern Arab history
  Professor Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (American University of Beirut), Professor Marilyn Booth (Magdalen College, Oxford), Dr Peter Hill (Northumbria University)
  Book Talks

Monday 25 November 2024

• 12:00 - Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
  Dr Jeffrey Ding (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks
• 14:00 - Decision making in dynamically evolving, naturalistic environments
  Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford)
  Departmental Seminar Series (Experimental Psychology)
• 15:00 - From COVID to force design – are strategic leadership skills the answer?
  Brigadier Joe Fossey (British Army)
• 16:00 - Reaching the Converted: Understanding the Informant Enrollment Methods of the East German Stasi
  Barbara Piotrowska (King's College London)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Assembling the 'Palace of Nations': borderland federalisms and internationalist imaginations between Tsarism and Soviet power, 1917-1922
  Dr Marcel Garboś (University of Aberdeen)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - Soft Power in a Digital Age: Competition, Collaboration, Transformative Dynamics
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 17:30 - Photographing War & Peace
  Carlos Saavedra (Documentary Photographer), Dr. Samuel Ritholtz (University of Oxford), Dr. Milli Lake (LSE)
  Art & Peace Seminar

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 13:30 - Drones in Ukraine and beyond – A revolution in warfare?
  Ulrike Franke (ECFR)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Global Security: Is law our last hope?
  Professor Janina Dill (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - ‘Writing History After Brexit’, hosted in conjunction with the Modern British History Seminar
  Patricia Clavin (Oxford), Anne Deighton (Oxford), Robert Gildea (Oxford), Chair: Senia Paseta, Rob Saunders (QMUL)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:15 - Saving Soviet Muslims: the politics of protection at Jerusalem's General Islamic Congress of 1931
  Dr Roy Bar Sadeh (University of Manchester)
• 17:30 - The Making and Re-Making of Makers of Modern Strategy: war, strategy, and history
  Dr Michael Finch (Australian Defence College Weston)
• 20:30 - OSSG: Current Conflicts' Effects on Future Warfare
  Admiral Stuart Munsch
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Shifting Voter Allegiances
  Richard Johnson (Queen Mary, University of London)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 17:15 - Rethinking Non-State Armed Groups: Youth, Agency, and Pathways to Sustainable Peace
  Yosuke Nagai (Accept International)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 12:30 - The Paradox of International Adjudication
  Geraldo Vidigal (Amsterdam)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - AI Governance & U.S.-China Track II Diplomacy
  Kayla Blomquist (The Oxford Internet Institute), Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 29 November 2024

• 17:00 - Gaza – a war on healthcare
  Professor Nick Maynard (University of Oxford), Dr Debbie Harrington (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust), Dr Rebecca Inglis (University of Oxford)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 2 December 2024

• 16:00 - Do Sanctions on Terrorist Groups Work? Financial Adaptability, U.S. Sanctions, and Terrorist Attacks
  Brian J. Phillips (University of Essex)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Autonomous Defense: Countering Emerging Threats at Machine Speed
  Please note change of venue to Manor Road Building
  Matthew Wright (Delian Alliance Industries)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 13:30 - The threat posed by commercial UAVs modified by asymmetrical warfare actors
  Dr Chris Lavers (University of Lincoln)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - CSIS-ASPI Session on AUKUS and Emerging Technology Alliances
  Successful registration required to attend.
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
• 20:30 - OSSG: Defence Reform in the UK
  Captain Sarah Oakley
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 12:00 - An Outlook for US-China-Taiwan Relations under Trump 2.0
  Oxford China Centre Talks & Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
  Professor Yeh-chung Lu (National Chengchi University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 12:30 - The Present and Future of US Politics: Conservatism
  This talk has been cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Desmond Kind (University of Oxford), Gillian Peele (University of Oxford)
  The Present and Future of US Politics
• 17:15 - Violent Seas: Experience, Representation, and Technology of Naval Warfare, 1665–1783
  Sarah von Hagen (Göttingen)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 12:30 - Diplomatic Pressure, Policy Autonomy, and Human Rights Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment at the United Nations
  Avery Schmidt (Brown)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Rethinking Military AI Governance: From Principles to Practice
  After: OTSN Social (all welcome) Location The Oxford Retreat — Pub within short walk of Nuffield
  Brianna Rosen (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Defining antisemitism: what is the point?
  Please note, this Friday Seminar will be taking place on *THURSDAY* for 8th Week.
  Professor Shai Lavi (Tel Aviv University), Dr Brian Klug (Oxford)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?
  Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong Hwa University)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Friday 6 December 2024

• 10:00 - Taiwan and Indo-Pacific Geopolitics: Implications of 2024 Pivotal Elections Around the World (Annual Oxford Taiwan Studies Conference 2024)
  Professor Paul Chaisty (University of Oxford), Mr Andy Cheu-an Bi (Taipei Representative Office in the UK), Dr Monique Ming-chin Chu (University of Southampton), Professor Yeh-chung Lu (National Chengchi University), Dr Nicola Leveringhaus (King's College London), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford), Professor Chris Hughes (University of Warwick), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong Hwa University), Dr Michael Reilly (University of Nottingham), Dr Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova (Riga Stradins University), Professor Paul Irwin Crookes (University of Oxford), Representative Vincent Chin-hsiang Yao (Taipei Representative Office in the UK), Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Monday 20 January 2025

• 16:00 - Sudan’s Transition to War and the Limits of UN Good Offices
  Volker Perthes (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Geopolitics of the Arctic: Competition and Collaboration
  Nicolas Jouan (RAND)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 13:30 - Under the Radar: NATO staff in the strategy formation process
  Leanne Iorio (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:15 - Trump, Putin, NATO and the Defence of Europe: The role of public policy
  Viktorija Starych-Samuolienė (Council on Geostrategy), James Rogers (Council on Geostrategy)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Friday 24 January 2025

• 17:00 - Lebanon and Syria amidst regional turmoil
  Associate Professor Joseph Bahout (Director of the Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, AUB)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 27 January 2025

• 12:00 - Industrial Policy, Economic Statecraft and National Security: The US-Taiwan-China Semiconductor Triangle
  Dr Chun-Yi Lee (University of Nottingham)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Strong Bonds, Weak Bridges: Network Dynamics and Revolutionary Mobilization in the Syrian Uprising
  Kevin Mazur (KCL), Motasem Abuzaid (University of Oxford)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Defense Innovation & Neurotechnology: The Strategic Necessity of Responsible Technology Development
  Sydney Reis (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 13:30 - Artificial Intelligence: Recent developments and the implications for defence and security
  Al Brown
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey
  Professor Caroline Tee (University of Chester), Dr Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL), Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (University of Cambridge), Associate Professor Fabio Vicini (University of Verona)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - EU-China Relations in their 50th Anniversary and Future Perspectives
  Ambassador Jorge Toledo (Delegation of the European Union to the People’s Republic of China)
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 12:00 - US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Prospect and Retrospect
  Dr Andrew Scobell (United States Institute of Peace)
  China Centre talks
• 13:00 - Can AI Be a Force for Good? A Conversation with Craig Mundie
  In-person only
  Craig Mundie (Microsoft)
• 17:15 - Losing a War of Attrition: Developing Concepts of Warfare and the Realities and Perceptions of Axis Defeat in the Mediterranean War (1940-1943)
  Richard Hammond (Brunel)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 14:45 - The Political Economy of Strategic Technology Transfer: Security, Aid, and Benefit-Sharing in an Era of AI Competition
  Sumaya Nur Adan (Oxford Martin School AI Governance Initiative)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:30 - The starvation of civilian populations in war
  This event takes place in person only.
  Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Tom Dannenbaum (The Fletcher School)

Friday 31 January 2025

• 17:00 - Sudan's current war: a longer view on peacemaking and prospects
  Dr Richard Barltrop (Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Middle East Centre)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 3 February 2025

• 16:00 - Egyptian International Relations in the Late Bronze Age (13th C BCE)
  Roland Enmarch (Liverpool)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 18:00 - Redefining Power: U.S. National Security Strategy in a New Era, Fireside Talk with fmr White House NSC Director
  Please note the room change to the Skills Lab (still in the Manor Road Building) and the time at 6 pm (one hour later than our normal time)
  Alexander B Gray (White House National Security Council (NSC) Chief of Staff & Director (2018-2021); Chief Executive Officer, American Global Strategies)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 13:30 - A New Axis of Upheaval? North Korea, Russia, China, and others—why we should care
  Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Rethinking Masculinity Through Men's Sexual Experiences in Tehran
  Dr Nafiseh Sharifi (University of Exeter)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars
• 20:30 - OSSG: Power Shifts in International Organisations: China at the United Nations.
  Rosemary Foot (St Antony's College)
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 12:30 - Benchmarking Intelligence Better - Ethics in AI Lunchtime Research Seminars
  Dr Alex Grzankowski (University of London)
  Ethics in AI Lunchtime Seminars

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 15:00 - The Role of Internal Skills and Expertise in Public Sector Digital Transformation
  Dr Aaron Maniam (BSG, Univeristy of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:30 - Researching Reconciliation and Repression in 1960s Kenya
  Niels Boender
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 18:00 - Demystifying AI
  This is a hybrid event. Please find the Teams link in the 'Abstract'.
  Dr Sepideh Chakaveh (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Cross-Disciplinary Machine Learning (OxfordXML) Research Cluster Seminar Series

Friday 7 February 2025

• 13:00 - The Normative Foundations of (Non-)State Violence: Evidence from Nigeria on the legitimation logics of state and non-state security provision
  Professor Tore Wig (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Blavatnik Book Talk: Ransom War
  This is a hybrid event
  Max Smeets (ETH Zurich), Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government)
• 17:00 - The Axis of Resistance
  Dr Kamran Matin (University of Sussex), Dr Amal Saad (Cardiff University), Yasmeen al-Eryani (Co-Executive Director, Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 10 February 2025

• 16:00 - Community Protection from Populist Violence: The Catholic Church and the Philippine Drug War
  Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The US election: what happened there and what happens now?
  Peter Hyman ((Senior Advisor to Keir Starmer 2022 – 2024, Strategist to PM Tony Blair, Co-founder of School 21)), Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Jon Sopel ((former North America editor of BBC News, co-host of The News Agents))
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 12:00 - The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes
  Dr Frances Yaping Wang (Colgate University)
  China Centre talks
• 13:30 - The development of sea power thought in the early to mid Cold War
  Andrew Livsey (Kings College London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian Voter Records
  Associate Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  MENA Politics Seminars
• 17:00 - The new European Parliament and European Commission: Who won the 2024 power-play in Brussels?
  Anthony Teasdale (Visiting Professor, LSE and Columbia; former Director General, European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) (2013-22)), Klaus Welle (Chair, Academic Council, Martens Centre; former Secretary General, European Parliament (2009-22))
  European Studies Seminar
• 20:30 - OSSG: Can Strategic Intelligence Failure be Avoided?
  TBA
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:15 - Trading during War. The Baltic in Europe, ca 1550-1850
  Cathleen Sarti (Oxford)
  History of War Seminar Series

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 15:00 - The Macro- and Micro-Politics of AI Standards-Making
  Huw Roberts (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 16:00 - War and Psychiatry - Military psychiatry and the impact of operational deployment on mental health of serving personnel and veterans
  Dr Jeya Balakrishna (Ministry of Defence), Prof Edgar Jones (Kings College, London)
• 17:00 - Ethics in AI Colloquium - Two Mistakes in AI Design?
  Professor Ruth Chang (University of Oxford), Professor Philipp Koralus (University of Oxford), Dr Alex Grzankowski (University of London), Professor John Tasioulas (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Taiwan and its Southeast Asia Challenge
  Professor Alex Tan (University of Canterbury)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Death Cities: Hearing Atmospheric and Spatial Violence
  Professor Gascia Ouzounian (University of Oxford)
  Contemporary Art Lectures

Friday 14 February 2025

• 17:00 - Israeli Public Opinion, War and Prospects for Peace
  Dr Dahlia Scheindlin (Fellow, Century International & Columnist, Haaretz Newspaper)
  Friday Seminars

Monday 17 February 2025

• 16:00 - Circuits of South Asian labour and Post-War British Warfare
  Registration required for zoom
  Yasmin Khan (University of Oxford)
  South Asian Intellectual History Seminars
• 16:00 - Nationalism in Times of War and the Unpopularity of Territorial Trade-off
  Kathrin Bachleitner (Salzburg & Ca' Foscari)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Oligarchic networks of influence and legislatures in developing democracies: evidence from Ukraine
  NB The rest of this term's series is now in the Investcorp Auditorium
  Dr Silviya Nitsova (University of Manchester)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - Beyond The Global War on Terror: The Role of Special Operations Forces in the Changing Security Landscape
  Dr. Hans Breede (Royal Military College, Canada), Dr. Kevin Stringer (Military Academy of Lithuania)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 13:00 - Briefing on Scholarship Opportunities Offered by the ROC (Taiwan) Ministry of Education
  Mr Marc Tsou (Taipei Representative Office in the UK), Ms Virginia Galgani (Taipei Representative Office in the UK)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series
• 13:30 - AI in strategic decision-making
  Dr Kenneth Payne (King's College, London)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Genocide in Gaza
  Professor Avi Shlaim (MEC Emeritus Fellow)
  Book Talks
• 17:00 - Europe and Middle Powers: EU's relations with India, Brazil and Turkey
  Galip Dalay (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Dr Kira Huju (University of Oxford), Rodrigo Fracalossi de Moraes (University of Southampton)
  Dahrendorf Programme

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 12:00 - Pathways to Conflict in the South China Sea
  Professor David A. Welch (University of Waterloo)
  China Centre talks
• 13:30 - Integrated Deterrence
  Professor Antulio Echevarria (CCW & US Army War College)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
• 17:00 - Fireside Chat with Prof Graham Allison: Revisiting Thucydides's Trap
  Graham Allison (Harvard Kennedy School)
• 17:15 - Integrated Deterrence
  Professor Antulio Echevarria (CCW & US Army War College)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 15:00 - How should we REALLY think about security?
  Professor David A. Welch (Waterloo University)
• 15:00 - Silicon Valley in Context: Technology Corporations as Political Actors
  Alina Utrata (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 17:00 - Feminism in International Security Discourses - How we argue for participation matters
  Karolin Tuncel (Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford)
  Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series

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)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre 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 - Warfare and Development of the State in Pre-Colonial Asante
  Jeremy Rickets-Hagan (Oxford)
  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
• 12:30 - Damage Control: Accountability and Evasion in International Law
  TBA
  IR Research Colloquium
• 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)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre 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

• 17:00 - Military justice, soldierly endurance and the "brutalising" effects of the First World War on France's North African combatants
  Claire Eldridge (Leeds)
  Modern European History Seminar
• 17:15 - General Hastings ‘Pug’ Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat
  Sir John Kiszely
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 12:30 - The Politics of Green Consumerism
  Anouk Rigterink (Durham University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - The Ethics of AI for Intelligence
  Cancelled and rescheduled for Trinity Term
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford), Professor Mariarosaria Taddeo (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 15:30 - 'The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats’ (Book Launch)
  Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars
• 17:15 - Can Dialogue Bridge Divides? ‘Talking Peace’ with Palestinian & Israeli Peace Activists
  All attendees must register in advance and agree to the terms and conditions of the event: www.worc.ox.ac.uk/fos/massada-2025
  Mira Awad, Hamze Awawde, Magen Inon
  Massada Public Seminars

Friday 7 March 2025

• 16:00 - Book Discussion 'The Rule of Laws: a 2000 year quest to order the World'
  TBA
  Maison Française d'Oxford Events
• 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
• 17:00 - Communication in the age of populism.
  Alison Phillips ((Editor-in-Chief for the Daily Mirror, 2018 – 2024)), Tim Montgomerie ((Co-founder of the Centre for Social Justice)), Professor Helen Margetts (University of Oxford)
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
• 17:00 - Reaching Ignition, Competition in the Quest for Fusion Energy
  Ryan Ramsey (First Light Fusion)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 13:30 - Cyber Sovereignty and the EU’s Securitisation
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre 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
• 17:00 - The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and US Strategy Since 1989
  Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
  China Centre talks
• 17:30 - Who rules the AI age? Big Tech, the US and Chinese states and the space left for digital sovereignty
  Dr Cecilia Rikap (University College London)
• 20:30 - OSSG: Seapower and Statecraft
  Dr Kevin Rowlands (Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre)
  OSSG Weekly Talks

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 14:00 - Imperial & Transnational Histories of War
  Jake Gasson (King's College London), Salvador Lima (European University Institute)
  Transnational & Global History Seminar
• 17:00 - Reflections on the War in Sudan
  Dame Rosalind Marsden (RIIA)
  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
• 17:00 - 'Wicked' Challenges in Migration Management: Weaponization, Politicization, and Hostile Influence Operations
  Professor Kelly Greenhill (Tufts University and MIT)
  Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The second Trump Administration: Implications and expectations for South East Europe
  Daniel Dombey (Financial Times), Joan Hoey (Economist Intelligence Unit), Oana Lungescu (Royal United Services Institute (RUSI))
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Launch of the Oxford Programme for Cyber and Technology Policy
  This is a hybrid event
  Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government), Richard Horne (National Cyber Security Centre)

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 12:30 - Advisers in Foreign Policy
  Joshua Kertzer (Harvard University)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 13:00 - Unpacking the Evolving Role of Civil Resistance in Myanmar’s Revolution
  Matthew J Walton (University of Toronto), Nyi Nyi Kyaw (University of Bristol), Khin Khin Mra (University of Manchester)
  Asian Studies Centre seminars and events
• 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
• 16:00 - Does AI help humans make better decisions? A statistical evaluation framework for experimental and observational studies.
  Professor Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)
  Distinguished Speaker Seminar
• 17:00 - Why do we study China in the way that we do (and can we still today)? Reflections from a Frequent Flyer
  Professor Shaun Breslin (Warwick)
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Friday 14 March 2025

• 12:30 - American Economic Coercion and Elite Re-Globalization
  Lorenzo Crippa (University of Glasgow)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 14:00 - Efficiency, Resilience, and Artificial Intelligence
  Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University, USA)
• 17:00 - Do we really owe Arabs nothing?
  Professor Fouad Laroui (Professor of epistemology and writer)
  Friday Seminars
• 17:00 - Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific: From Vision to Reality
  Dr Eva Pejsova (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Saturday 15 March 2025

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

Tuesday 18 March 2025

• 13:00 - Fact-check journalism: Does it influence political behaviour?
  Tom Edgington (BBC Verify)

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 13:30 - Expanding the European Defense Technological Industrial Base for Deterrence
  Matthew Boyce (US Navy and SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 April 2025

• 17:15 - Trump, Putin, Jinping, and the Erosion of the International System: Meeting the Strategic Challenge
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

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
• 17:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran (University of Cambridge)
  Book Talks

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 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)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Sacrificial Intimacies: The Value of Life, Labor, and Desire in Queer Kurdish Worlds
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Emrah Karakuş (LSE)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Blythe Crawford (RAF & CCW)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 17:00 - After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Friday 16 May 2025

• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
  Friday Seminars

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
• 17:00 - The World After Gaza
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Pankaj Mishra
  Book Talks

Friday 23 May 2025

• 17:00 - The Devaki Jain Lecture
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Rana Husseini (journalist and activist)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  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
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University), Suheir Assad (Palestinian lawyer and activist)
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Friday 30 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Samer Abdelnour (University of Edinburgh Business School)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 17:00 - States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 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

• 17:00 - Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network), Professor Jeroen Gunning (King's College London)

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)