Tuesday 14 October 2025

• 13:30 - How to survive a hostile world
  Patrick Porter (Birmingham)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 15 October 2025

• 17:15 - Politics and the General in Supreme Command
  This seminar will be online
  Richard Adams (Royal Australian Navy)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 12:30 - The Political Unconscious of Global Polycrisis
  Kerem Nisancioglu (SOAS)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 17 October 2025

• 13:00 - Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach
  Adriana Bunea (University of Bergen)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 13:30 - The Rise and Fall of the British Army, 1975–2025
  Brigadier (rtd) Ben Barry (OBE (IISS))
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 12:30 - International Order(ing) as Complex Indebtedness: An Alternative Framework for World Politics
  Meera Sabaratnam (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

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

Wednesday 29 October 2025

• 17:15 - Strategic Leadership Seminar
  TBA
  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

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 - Title TBC
  Rikhil Bhavnani (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Politics Research Colloquium

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

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 - Title TBC
  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 13 February 2025

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