Tuesday 21 January 2025

• 13:30 - Under the Radar: NATO staff in the strategy formation process
  Leanne Iorio (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Charting Ukraine's Future with Sir Lawrence Freedman: Ceasefire Scenarios and Security Frameworks
  Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman (King's College London)

Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:15 - Changing Character of War Seminar
  Viktorija Starych-Samuolienė (Council on Geostrategy), James Rogers (Council on Geostrategy)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Friday 24 January 2025

• 13:00 - Measurement, Intervention, and Simulation: Three Uses of Generative AI for Social Science Research
  Dr. Mitchell Bosley (University of Toronto)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 27 January 2025

• 16:00 - Strong Bonds, Weak Bridges: Network Dynamics and Revolutionary Mobilization in the Syrian Uprising
  Kevin Mazur (KCL), Motasem Abuzaid (University of Oxford)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Beyond Antagonism: Converging Radicalisms in the 1930s Caribbean
  Dr Leslie James (Queen Mary University)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Wednesday 29 January 2025

• 17:00 - Palestinians and Native Peoples are Comrades: The Political Economy of Oil and Indigenous/Palestinian Solidarity
  Dr Glen Coulthard (University of British Columbia)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 31 January 2025

• 13:00 - Green industrial policy in the voting booth: The electoral effects of the Inflation Reduction Act
  Professor Jared J. Finnegan (University College London)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 3 February 2025

• 16:00 - Egyptian International Relations in the Late Bronze Age (13th C BCE)
  Roland Enmarch (Liverpool)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Friday 7 February 2025

• 13:00 - To Have and to Hold: The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance
  Dr Tessa Devereaux Evans (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 10 February 2025

• 16:00 - Community Protection from Populist Violence: The Catholic Church and the Philippine Drug War
  Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The Divorce Tracts and Milton's Radical Affections
  Dr Michal Zechariah (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 13:30 - The development of sea power thought in the early to mid Cold War
  Andrew Livsey (Kings College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:00 - Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel
  Dr Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Monday 17 February 2025

• 16:00 - Nationalism in Times of War and the Unpopularity of Territorial Trade-off
  Kathrin Bachleitner (Salzburg & Ca' Foscari)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Kashmir Without History: Sheikh Abdullah, Jinnah and Indian Political Thought
  Dr Amar Sohal (KCL)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 13:30 - AI in strategic decision-making
  Dr Kenneth Payne (King's College, London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 15:00 - How should we REALLY think about security?
  Professor David A. Welch (Waterloo University)

Monday 24 February 2025

• 16:00 - The Axis of Resistance and the Collapse of the Unity of Fronts Strategy
  Liz Sly (former Washington Post Middle East bureau chief)
• 17:00 - Book Presentation: Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
  Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 13:30 - China's Private Security Sector at a Crossroads: From Pakistan to Myanmar.
  Dr Alessandro Arduino (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Monday 3 March 2025

• 16:00 - Rethinking Civil Wars in Light of the Syrian conflict
  Jerome Drevon (International Crisis Group)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 13:30 - The Impact of AI & Emerging Technologies on Future Defence Strategy
  Dr Robert Hercock (British Telecommunications Security Research Practice)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:15 - General Hastings ‘Pug’ Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat
  Sir John Kiszely
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance'

Monday 10 March 2025

• 16:00 - Local Security Provision and Return from Forced Displacement: Evidence from South Sudan
  Andrea Caflisch (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 13:30 - Cyber Sovereignty and the EU’s Securitisation
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Brooke Ackerly (Vanderbilt University)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Thursday 20 March 2025

• 09:30 - Negotiating with Difficult Actors: International Negotiation, Mediation and Diplomacy. Day 1 (of 2) Intensive Training Workshop
  Applications: For details on how to apply, please email Assistant Organiser Devika Manish Kumar devika.manishkumar@sant.ox.ac.uk Places will be limited, and the current deadline for applications is 28 February 2025. Early applications are encouraged!
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Friday 21 March 2025

• 09:30 - Negotiating with Difficult Actors: International Negotiation, Mediation and Diplomacy, Day 2 (of 2) Intensive Training Workshop
  Applications: For details on how to apply, please email Assistant Organiser Devika Manish Kumar devika.manishkumar@sant.ox.ac.uk Places will be limited, and the current deadline for applications is 28 February 2025. Early applications are encouraged!
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Monday 31 March 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods 2025
  Various Speakers

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2025:
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Christine Ahn (Women Cross DMZ), Dan Leaf (former United States Air Force officer)