Friday 24 October 2025

• 13:00 - Racing through Election Cycles: The Political Consequences of the Tour de France
  Ala' Alrababah (Bocconi University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 13:30 - Military strategy and complex uncertainty
  Maria de Goeij (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 29 October 2025

• 17:15 - Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain
  Dr Nicholas Wright (Georgetown University)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 12:30 - How Domestic Politics Shape the United States' Nuclear Credibility
  Lauren Sukin (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 31 October 2025

• 13:00 - Varieties of Authoritarian Policymaking
  Emilia Simison (Queen Mary University of London)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 13:30 - Russia's Hybrid War
  Bob Seely MBE
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 12:30 - The Impacts of Globalization on Political Knowledge: Evidence from Climate Awareness in Africa
  Amanda Kennard (Stanford University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 7 November 2025

• 13:00 - Losers' Consent in Polarized Elections: Observational and Experimental Evidence
  Ignacio Jurado (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 13:30 - Reflections on American foreign and defence policy by Shashank Joshi
  Shashank Joshi (The Economist)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 17:15 - Composing a Defence Review on Tech by Richard Barrons
  General Sir Richard Barrons
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
• 17:30 - Lester B. Pearson Inaugural Lecture: Passions, Preferences, and the Politics of Self-Binding
  Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)

Friday 14 November 2025

• 13:00 - Musical Chairs: How Frequent Judge Transfers Shape Judicial Decision-Making in India (with Saloni Bhogale, Amit Jadhav)
  Rikhil Bhavnani (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 13:30 - Cyber Security
  Jen Easterly (former Director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA))
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 12:30 - Norms, Practices, and Change in a Planetary Era
  Steven Bernstein (University of Toronto)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 21 November 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Tugba Bozcaga (King's College London)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 13:30 - How the global operating system is a sea-based phenomenon, ocean anarchy and why the sea matters to everyone
  Sean Andrews (CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 26 November 2025

• 17:15 - Strategic Leadership Seminar
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 12:30 - The Politics of Deference by International Courts
  Theresa Squatrito (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 28 November 2025

• 13:00 - Regime Loyalty during Wartime: Evidence from Nazi Germany
  Sascha Riaz (EUI)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 12:30 - Collective Reciprocity and the Failure of Climate Change Mitigation Treaties
  Sam Housekeeper (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 5 December 2025

• 13:00 - Who Gets Protection from Protectionism? Evidence from the Buy American Act
  Hye Young You (Princeton University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Friday 23 January 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Kristin Michelitch (Institute for Advanced Study - Toulouse)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Friday 30 January 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Katharina Lawall (University of Reading)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Friday 6 February 2025

• 13:00 - TBD
  Jane Green (Nuffield College-University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Friday 13 February 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Andrew Eggers (University of Chicago)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Friday 27 February 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni (DPIR-Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Friday 6 March 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Ferdinand Eibl (KCL), Steffen Hertog (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Friday 13 March 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Jeremy Bowles (UCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Friday 1 May 2025

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Krzysztof Krakowski (King's College London)
  Politics Research Colloquium