Monday 28 April 2025

• 17:00 - Islam and Liberalism: More than a Modus Vivendi?
  Please note, spaces are strictly limited to 25 attendees so registration is essential.
  Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto)
  Oxford Islam and Justice Programme

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 13:00 - Introduction to Carl Schmitt
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - Expanding the European Defense Technological Industrial Base for Deterrence
  Matthew Boyce (US Navy and SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 April 2025

• 17:00 - Book Pre-Launch: Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries (OUP, 2025)
  Dr Mohsen al Attar (Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University), Claire Smith (University of Amsterdam), Dr Radha D’Souza (Westminster Law School), Nciko Wa Nciko (Amnesty International), Dr Raghavi Viswanath (School of Oriental and African Studies), Yang Han (University of Oxford), Dr Jinan Bastaki (NYU Abu Dhabi), Dr Shahab Saqib (University of Birmingham)

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 17:30 - Where International Relations Theory Went Wrong, and How It Can Get Back on Track – and Become Policy Relevant Again
  Prof Marco Verweij (Constructor University)
  Oxford International Relations Society

Friday 2 May 2025

• 13:00 - The Political Correlates of Organized Criminal Violence: Evidence from Contemporary Mexican Municipalities
  Javier Perez Sandoval (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week One: Beginnings
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 17:00 - 2025 Astor Lecture: Beyond Mere Inconvenience: United States and Civilian Harm
  Professor Helen M. Kinsella (University of Minnesota)

Monday 5 May 2025

• 16:00 - Redistribution after War: Evidence from the US Reconstruction
  Megan Stewart (Michigan)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 13:00 - Political Theology
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
  Jonathan Carroll (Sandhurst)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Research Ethics and the Study of Armed Actors
  Joint Event, OxPeace with DPIR. Followed by drinks reception
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Christine Cheng (KCL), Dr Ibrahim Bangura (University of Oxford), Dr Gloriana Rodriguez (KCL), Prof. Niloufer Siddiqui (SUNY-Albany)
  OxPeace Events
• 17:00 - Research Ethics and the Study of Armed Actors
  Dr Ibrahim Bangura (Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone), Dr Christine Cheng (Department of War Studies, King's College London), Dr John Gledhill (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Research Ethics and the Study of Armed Actors
  Dr Ibrahim Bangura (Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone), Dr Christine Cheng (Department of War Studies, King's College London), Dr John Gledhill (University of Oxford), Dr Gloriana Rodriguez (KCL), Prof. Niloufer Siddiqui (SUNY-Albany)

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 16:00 - Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, the Secret Police, and Social Order in Cold War Europe
  Henry Thomson (Arizona State)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2025: 'How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding'
  Christine Ahn (Institute for Policy Studies), Lt Gen (Ret) Dan Leaf (US Air Force)

Friday 9 May 2025

• 13:00 - The political geography of populism and anti-immigrant sentiment
  Sergi Pardos-Prado (University of Glasgow)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Two: Child Liberation
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group
• 18:00 - In Conversation with Prof G John Ikenberry: Is Liberal Internationalism Dead?
  John Ikenberry (Princeton University)
  Oxford International Relations Society

Monday 12 May 2025

• 16:00 - Elite Rivalry, Mass Killing and Genocide in Authoritarian Regimes: Why Autocrats Kill
  Eelco van der Maat (Leiden)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Prospects for Multilateralism at the End of the Liberal Order
  Dr Joel Ng (Nanyang Technological University)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 13:00 - The Concept of the Political
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 17:00 - Benevolence in International Relations - Book presentation
  Frédéric Ramel (Sciences Po & CERI)

Friday 16 May 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Three: Prison Abolition
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 19 May 2025

• 16:00 - Consociationalism: from democracy to ethnoi-cracy?
  Nenad Stojanovic (Geneva)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 13:00 - The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - Hybrid Warfare
  Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 14:30 - Generative AI-powered Causal and Predictive Inference
  Professor Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)
  Oxford Computational Political Science Group Event Series

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:00 - In Conversation with Prof Vladislav Zubok: How the Kremlin's Past Shapes its Present
  Vladislav Zubok (LSE)
  Oxford International Relations Society

Friday 23 May 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Four: Work
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 26 May 2025

• 16:00 - Bringing War Back In
  Luis Schenoni (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 13:00 - The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:30 - In Conversation with Prof Abiodun Williams: Lessons in Leadership from the United Nations
  Prof Abiodun Williams (The Fletcher School at Tufts University)
  Oxford International Relations Society

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 15:30 - Synthetic Agents for Social Science Workshop
  Emma Madden (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Computational Political Science Group Event Series

Friday 30 May 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Five: Revolution
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 2 June 2025

• 14:00 - Fireside Chat with Prof Jeffrey Sachs: Can US-China Relations Develop Sustainably? (Online Event)
  Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
  Oxford International Relations Society
• 16:00 - Perpetrators of Mass Violence: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?
  Alette Smeulers (Amsterdam)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:45 - "Courageous or Coerced?" Europe´s role in a changing geopolitical order
  Lukas Mandl (European Parliament)
  Europeanist Society Oxford

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 13:00 - Political Romanticism
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt

Friday 6 June 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Six: Art
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 13:00 - The Nomos of the Earth
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
• 16:00 - Conceptualising 'compounded suffering' in the post-war context
  Followed by drinks reception
  Dr Farah Milhar (Oxford Brookes University)
  OxPeace Events

Friday 13 June 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Seven: Love
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Monday 16 June 2025

• 16:00 - Organized Political Violence in Greece, 2003-2019: Comparing the Far Right and the Far Left
  Lamprini Rori (Athens)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 17 June 2025

• 13:00 - State, Movement, People
  TBA
  The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt

Friday 20 June 2025

• 16:00 - William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Eight: Home
  TBA
  Utopia Reading Group

Thursday 26 June 2025

• 12:00 - In Conversation with Prof Cynthia Enloe: How to Make Feminist Sense of the World Today?
  Prof Cynthia Enloe (Clark University)
  Oxford International Relations Society