Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:30 - Classifying the evolution of technological innovation
  Prof Mark Bedau (Reed College)

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Libya and Challenges for International conflict resolution
  Christopher Thornton (Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Freedom by Force: Why Foreign-Imposed Democracies Succeed or Fail
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jonathan Monten (University College London)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - On the relation between gross output and value added production functions (and why it matters)
  Dr Luis Valenzuela (INET Oxford Postdoctoral Research Officer, Employment Equity & Growth Programme)
  INET Oxford Researcher Seminars

Friday 24 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Attributing Policy Influence under Coalition Governance
  Sandwiches will be provided.
  David Fortunato (Texas A&M)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Low-carbon well-being is political: Findings from the Living Well Within Limits project
  Prof Julia Steinberger (School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds)
• 16:30 - Jurist in Context: William Twining in conversation with Ruth Chang, David Sugarman and Linda Mulcahy
  Various Speakers
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Russian Understanding of War: Blurring the Lines between War and Peace
  Dr Oscar Jonsson (Stockholm Free World Forum)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Escaping the backtesting illusion: An application of evolutionary finance
  Prof Klaus Schenk-Hoppé (University of Manchester)

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Law and Experience – A socio-legal perspective on German asylum adjudication
  Teresa Büchsel (DPhil Candidate, CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 12:30 - Dispute Inflation: Intangible Stakes and the Intensification of Preferences
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - The moral hazard problem in banks' risk reporting
  Christoph Siebenbrunner (Complexity Economics, INET Oxford)
  INET Oxford Researcher Seminars

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - China's Good War: How Memory of the World War II past is shaping a nationalist future
  Professor Rana Mitter
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Comparing National Power in an Age of Transition
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jennifer Lind (Dartmouth)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - Marginally stable economies?
  Jean-Philippe Bouchaud (CFM)

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Trojan Horse, Copycat, or Scapegoat? Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus
  Dr Sara Polo (University of Essex)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - The Worse-off and the Restless: Dynamics of the Saliency of Immigration and Economic Risk Exposure
  Elif Naz Kayran (IHEID, Geneva & Visiting Fellow, DPIR, Oxford)
• 16:30 - Institutions and economic development: theory, policy, and history
  Dr Ha-Joon Chang (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Transitioning from QUAL to mixed methods: Teething Problems and Pragmatic Solutions in Researching Public-Sector Data Sharing in the UK
  Stergios Aidinlis (CSLS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 12:30 - World Ordering: A Social Theory of Cognitive Evolution
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Emanuel Adler (Toronto)
  IR Research Colloquium

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Uncertainty and Mutual Recognition in Colombia - the Study of the Nature of Armed Non-State Actors in the Colombian Conflict
  Dr Jan Boesten (CCW, Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Innovation, employment and wages
  Prof Maria Savona (University of Sussex)

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Calling it Peace: Liberal Order and Liberal Nostalgia
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Patrick Porter (Birmingham)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - From macro to micro and back: Microstates initialization from chaotic aggregate time series
  Blas Kolic (Complexity Economics, INET Oxford)
  INET Oxford Researcher Seminars

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Looking for Law in China: Empirical Research in an Authoritarian Context
  Michael Palmer (Emeritus Professor of Law, SOAS)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Conflict and Wellbeing Deprivation in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Ricardo Nogales (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative), Dr Christian Oldiges (Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Major transitions in information technology
  Dr Sergi Valverde (Institute of Evolutionary Biology)

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Constitution-Making in a Post-Conflict Environment: A Socio-Legal Perspective of the Libyan Process
  Felix-Anselm van Lier (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 12:30 - The International Peace and Counter-Peace Architecture
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Oliver Richmond (Manchester)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Poodle Problem: Are Corporate Lawyers Still Professionals?
  Dr Steven Vaughan (University College London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - New Insights into the Psychology of Individuals and Large Groups in Changing Conflicts
  Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - From voluntary to forced migration: a socio-legal overview of Syrian labour in Lebanon
  Jessy Nasser (PhD Candidate, King’s College London)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 12:30 - Rethinking Thinkers in IR: The Case for Global Thinkers of the International
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Marina Pérez de Arcos (University of Oxford), Sharinee Jagtiani (University of Oxford ), Urvi Khaitan (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Macro-financial linkages and the micro-evidence based foundations of policy models
  Professor John Muellbauer (Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School)
  INET Oxford Researcher Seminars

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - The Art of Justice: Reconfiguring the Courtroom Object
  TBA
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Is forecasting political violence feasible? Experiences from the ViEWS project.
  Håvard Hegre (Uppsala University)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Oya Aydin (PhD Candidate, University of Ankara)
  Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Discussion Group
• 12:30 - Secrets in Global Governance: Disclosure Dilemmas and the Challenge of International Cooperation
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Austin Carson (Chicago)
  IR Research Colloquium

Monday 30 March 2020 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 08:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods
  Various Speakers