Monday 19 January 2025

• 17:00 - The logic of Russian disinformation narratives during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine
  Prof Katri Pynnöniemi (Helsinki University)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - What is the role of international institutions in contemporary domestic politics?
  The Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws LT KC, Sir William Cash (Lincoln College)
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
• 17:00 - BOOK TALK: Israel: What Went Wrong?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Omer Bartov (Brown University)
  Book Talks

Tuesday 20 January 2025

• 17:00 - Sustainable development as a European project to remake the international order
  Sara Lorenzini (University of Trento), Chair: Paul Betts (St Antony's)
  European Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - BOOK TALK: The Fixer: A Journalist’s Accidental Journey through the Middle East
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Amjad M. Tadros (Author)
  Book Talks

Thursday 22 January 2025

• 17:00 - FILM SCREENING: COMPLICIT - How the West is Helping Israel Seize the West Bank
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Richard Sanders (Producer)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Saturday 24 January 2025

• 10:00 - Remembering Bona Malwal and his Achievements in Sudan and South Sudan
  Various Speakers

Monday 26 January 2025

• 17:00 - Militarisation, patriotic mobilisation and the societal impact of war in Russia
  Dr Elena Racheva (University of Manchester)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - How will the AI Revolution impact on the ways that MPs work?
  TBA
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 27 January 2025

• 17:00 - The Materiality of Cyber Commercial Sigheh: An Introduction to A Post-Paradigmatic Sex Market in Iran
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Minoo Sadat (University of Bristol)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Thursday 29 January 2025

• 17:00 - The Construction of Masculinities in Popular Iranian Cinema of the 1990s
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Nacim Pak Shiraz (University of Edinburgh)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Monday 2 February 2025

• 17:00 - From sovereigns to servants: how the war against Ukraine has reshaped Russia’s elite
  Dr Alexandra Prokopenko (ZOiS, Berlin)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - What isn’t working in contemporary politics - and why: is the problem the civil service, the press, the public, the courts or politicians themselves?
  Sam Freedman, Peppa Crerar
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 3 February 2025

• 17:00 - BOOK TALK: Twelve Years Away from Constantinople, 1896 – 1908 (My Memoirs) by Yervant Odian
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Nanor Kebranian (Vienna)
  Book Talks

Thursday 5 February 2025

• 17:00 - Saudi Arabia and the Global Trajectory of Islamic Law
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Dominik Krell (CSLS)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Monday 9 February 2025

• 17:00 - Russian instrumental use of international law in its war against Ukraine and in the wider post-Soviet region
  Prof Rilka Dragneva-Lewers (University of Birmingham)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - What can MPs learn from what has already worked in transforming their institutions for the 21st Century
  Lord Freud, Baroness Hodge of Barking
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 10 February 2025

• 17:00 - BOOK TALK: A History of Modern Syria
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Daniel Neep (Brandeis University)
  Book Talks

Thursday 12 February 2025

• 17:00 - BOOK TALK: Kingdom of Football: Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World Soccer
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen (Rice University)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Monday 16 February 2025

• 17:00 - Navigating power shifts: Russia and the growing asymmetrical relationship with China
  Dr Marcin Kaczmarski (University of Glasgow)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - How does the cyber era affect the role of MPs in defence, foreign and security policymaking?
  TBA
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 17 February 2025

• 17:00 - The Role of UNRWA Historical Refugee Registration Records in Documenting the Demographic Reality of the Nakba
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Valeria Cetorelli
  MENA Politics Seminars

Thursday 19 February 2025

• 17:00 - BOOK TALK: Order and Region Making in the Middle East
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Simon Mabon (Lancaster University)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Monday 23 February 2025

• 17:00 - Politics in Ukraine: how resilient is Ukraine four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion?
  Prof Andrew Wilson (UCL-SSEES)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - How can MPs operate in an area of disinformation and misinformation?
  TBA
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 24 February 2025

• 17:00 - BOOK TALK: Fire in Every Direction
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network)
  Book Talks

Thursday 26 February 2025

• 17:00 - FILM SCREENING: The Conspiracy: Assassination in Beirut
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dan Clifton (Independent Writer/Director), Michael Taylor (Independent Investigations/Police Consultant)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)

Monday 2 March 2025

• 17:00 - Preferences over contested territory: evidence from a new survey experiment in Ukraine
  Dr Carl Müller-Crepon (LSE), Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - How are governments going to pay to make 19th century institutions fit to deal with 21st century problems?
  Professor Paul Johnson (University of Oxford), The Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 3 March 2025

• 17:00 - BOOK TALK: Contemporary Islamist Opposition in Morocco: Resisting Inclusion and Moderation
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Alfonso Casani (Complutense University of Madrid)
  Book Talks

Thursday 5 March 2025

• 17:00 - A keynote conversation with Saeb Eigner about 'Artists of the Middle East. 1900 to Now.'
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Saeb Eigner (Author)
  Book Talks

Monday 9 March 2025

• 17:00 - Audiences of repression: defiant dissent and public opinion in Russia
  Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya (Brasenose College)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - Is the changed relationship between voters and legislators due to the development of the Internet a boon for good decision-making - or a challenge?
  TBA
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship

Tuesday 10 March 2025

• 17:00 - An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford)
  MENA Politics Seminars

Thursday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Nizar Messari (Al Akhawayn University)
  Thursday Seminars (formerly Friday Seminars)