CCW Recommended Seminars
Talks:

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Expanding the European Defense Technological Industrial Base for Deterrence
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Matthew Boyce (US Navy and SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Trump, Putin, Jinping, and the Erosion of the International System: Meeting the Strategic Challenge
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Jonathan Carroll (Sandhurst)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 May 2025

Cyril Foster Lecture 2025: 'How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding'
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:30
Speaker s: Christine Ahn (Institute for Policy Studies), Lt Gen (Ret) Dan Leaf (US Air Force)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organiser: Neta Crawford
Host: David Doyle (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Sacrificial Intimacies: The Value of Life, Labor, and Desire in Queer Kurdish Worlds
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Emrah Karakuş (LSE)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker : Blythe Crawford (RAF & CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 May 2025

After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Pascal Menoret (Magdalen College)

Friday 16 May 2025

Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 16 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Hybrid Warfare
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

The World After Gaza
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Pankaj Mishra
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

The Devaki Jain Lecture
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 23 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Rana Husseini (journalist and activist)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Devaki Jain (Honorary Fellow, St Anne's College)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Haroon Bashir (Markfield Institute of Higher Education)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 28 May 2025

NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University), Suheir Assad (Palestinian lawyer and activist)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Title TBC
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 May 2025

Title TBC
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 30 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Samer Abdelnour (University of Edinburgh Business School)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: MEC Boardroom, Kirdar Building, 68 Woodstock Road
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 June 2025

Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford
Organiser: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network), Professor Jeroen Gunning (King's College London)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Raihan Ismail (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 June 2025

Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Middle East Centre Administrator (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)

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