CCW Recommended Seminars
Talks:

Monday 16 June 2025

The Bangladesh Liberation War and Mass Internment of Bengalis in (West) Pakistan, 1971-1974
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Ilyas Chattha (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Old Fellows Dining Room and online on zoom
Organisers: Bhadrajee Hewage (University of Oxford), Zaki Rehman (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Organized Political Violence in Greece, 2003-2019: Comparing the Far Right and the Far Left
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Lamprini Rori (Athens)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women's Political Representation?
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
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

Life on Ukraine's front line: the story of Avdiivka
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Abdujalil Abdurasulov (BBC News)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Investcorp Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)
Host: Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski (St Antony's College)

Tuesday 17 June 2025

State, Movement, People
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organisers: TBA
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

The Struggle for Liberation: A History of the Rwandan Civil War, 1990-1994
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : John Kegel (Netherlands Defence Academy)
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Eccles Room
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Undoing a Revolution: Sudan & the Politics of Debt
Date: 18 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Harry Cross (Indepedent)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser: Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Identity–Security Relations in Politics
Date: 18 June 2025, 19:45 - 21:30
Speaker : Dr Ferit Belder (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Exact location will be sent to registered participants
Organiser: OxMEND (Oxford Middle Eastern Narratives and Discourse)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 June 2025

Opportunities and Challenges of Navigating Fieldwork as Insider and Outsider Fieldworkers
Date: 19 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Dr Dolores Martinez (SAME), Jingsi Wang (SAME), Susan MacDougall (ISCA, Oxford), Professor Agnieszka Kubal (University of Oxford), Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Venue: 6 Worcester Street, 6 Worcester Street OX1 2BX
Venue Details: Social Sciences Division
Organiser: Keiko Kanno (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Taiwan Test: Assessing Societal Resilience Using COVID Governance Experience
Date: 19 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Wei-ting Yen (Academia Sinica)
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

Friday 20 June 2025

Constructing Chinese Plans: China’s Multi-Tiered and Diverse Approaches to Global Governance Reform
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Bowen Yu (Fudan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Who do we trust? Building bonds of trust in a fractured society (Stella Aldwinckle Seminar)
Date: 20 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Tom Simpson (Blavatnik School of Government)
Venue: Somerville College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HD
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 June 2025

In Conversation with Prof Cynthia Enloe: How to Make Feminist Sense of the World Today?
Date: 26 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Prof Cynthia Enloe (Clark University)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Rector's Drawing Room
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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