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

• 17:00 - Political Machines at Work: Electoral Subversion in the Russian Workplace
  Timothy Frye (Columbia University)
  Russian and East European Politics

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

• 12:30 - VOTER MOBILIZATION AT WORK
  Tim Frye (Visiting Fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Libya and Challenges for International conflict resolution
  Christopher Thornton (Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - EU Democracy Promotion and the Authoritarian Challenge
  Natasha Wunsch (Sciences Po), Heidi Maurer (University of Oxford)
  Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
• 14:15 - Iran and Palestine: Past, Present, Future
  TBA
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Making of the Israeli Far-Right
  Dr Peter Bergamin (Mansfield College)
• 17:00 - The Politics of the Visionary Present: J.G. Ballard’s Surrealist Liberalism
  Duncan Bell (Cambridge)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:00 - The State of Play in British Politics
  Lord Michael Dobbs (Conservative Peer), Baroness Julie Smith (Liberal Democrat Peer)
  Beyond Brexit

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Whose GDP? The Working Poor, the Economy, and the Perception Gap
  Sandwiches provided from 12pm
  Timothy Hellwig (Indiana University)
  Comparative Political Economy Seminars
• 14:00 - The truth behind Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles
  Richard Fletcher (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 16:00 - Book Launch: Rethinking Party Reform by Fabio Wolkenstein
  Fabio Wolkenstein (Aarhus University), Alasia Nuti (University of York), Stuart White (University of Oxford), Paolo Gerbaodo (KCL)
• 17:00 - Western approaches to South East Europe: Engagement or neglect?
  Mirena Pencheva (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Jarek Wisniewski (Independent analyst)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

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
• 12:45 - Life outside the Euro: Monetary and financial issues for the EU periphery and beyond
  Various Speakers
  European Political Economy Project (EuPEP)
• 17:00 - Catastrophic Climate Change and the Future of International Society
  Robert Falkner (LSE)

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

• 09:30 - Welfare State Workshop
  Various Speakers
• 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)

• 17:00 - The Neo-Nomenklatura System in Russia: How it Looks, How it Feels
  Nikolai Petrov (Chatham House)
  Russian and East European Politics

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

• 12:30 - MORE MONEY, MORE TURNOUT? MINIMUM WAGE INCREASES AND VOTING
  Arie White (MIT)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 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
• 14:00 - Democratic Legitimacy and Representation Beyond Elections
  Hélène Landemore (Yale University)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 14:15 - Ashkenazi Hegemony in Haredi Israeli Society and Implications for the Future
  Ms Heather Munro ((Durham University))
  Israel Studies Seminar

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

• 14:00 - Leading digital transformation
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 14:00 - France Insoumise and Left-Wing Populism in France
  Philippe Marlière (UCL), Sudhir Hasareesingh (University of Oxford)
  Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
• 17:00 - Radicalisation in the Western Balkans: Political, social or religious?
  Florian Qehaja (Kosovar Centre for Security Studies), Asya Metodieva (Central European University)
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

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

• 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
• 12:30 - EU referenda in Greece and the UK: Questions of legitimacy
  Light lunch provided
  TBA
  South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
• 17:00 - Sexual Subjectivity
  Martin Alcoff (CUNY)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:00 - Brexit, Populism, and Empires of the Mind
  Followed by wine & cheese
  Robert Gildea (University of Oxford), Michael Drolet (University of Oxford)
  Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Russian Organised Crime Under Putin – and After Him
  Mark Galeotti (UCL)
  Russian and East European Politics

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

• 12:30 - ANTI-ELITE POLITICS AND ‘POCKETBOOK ANGER’. EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FROM FRANCE, GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES
  Paul Marx (University of Dusburg-Essen)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 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
• 14:00 - Treatment and Accountability
  Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 14:15 - Ethnic segregation in the Haredi education in Israel: Policies and practices
  Lotem Perry-Hazan ((Haifa))
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Taqlīd: Authority and the Intellectual Elite in the Islamic World
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Notes from the frontline: Journalism in Bolsenaro’s Brazil
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

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
• 17:00 - Earthly Arts: Decolonising Ecology, Tracing Affect
  TBA
  Critical Theory Seminar

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - New Kremlinology: The Challenge of Understanding and Studying Elite Politics in Russia
  Alex Baturo (Dublin City University)
  Russian and East European Politics

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

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Maya Tudor (BSG)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Trojan Horse, Copycat, or Scapegoat? Unpacking the Refugees-Terrorism Nexus
  Dr Sara Polo (University of Essex)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Climate Change and the Presence of the Past
  Henry Shue (Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 14:15 - Palestinian Arab Citizens in Israel, Equality Struggle
  Hadeel Abu Hussein ((Oxford))
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Too High a Standard: Knowledge and Skepticism in Medieval Philosophy
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

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

• 14:00 - Notes from the frontline: Misinformation and propaganda wars in Ukraine and Russia
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

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

• 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
• 17:00 - The Making of Migration: Undoing the Migrant Activist/Victimhood Quandary
  Martina Tazzioli (Goldsmiths)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:00 - BBC Documentary: ‘Storyville, Brexit: Behind Closed Doors’
  Followed by wine & cheese
  Various Speakers
  Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Taxes and Trust: From Coercion to Compliance in Poland, Russia and Ukraine
  Marc Berenson (KCL)
  Russian and East European Politics

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

• 12:30 - THE ACTIVATION AND SPILLOVER OF WHITE GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE TRUMP ERA
  John Sides (Vanderbilt University)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 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
• 14:00 - To Claim or Not to Claim… Sovereignty in Outer Space
  Pablo Zambrano (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 14:15 - The Israeli Diaspora in Berlin: Back to Being Jewish?
  Larissa Remnick ((Bar-Ilan))
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Testing the Prophets: Reason and the Choice of Faiths
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

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

• 14:00 - Notes from the frontline: A dangerous moment: reporting Hong Kong’s protests
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 17:30 - Life and Thought of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: Prof Manu Bhagavan
  Prof Manu Bhagavan (City University of New York)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

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
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Critical Theory Seminar

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

• 17:00 - Party People: Electoral Candidates, Party Change and Party System Evolution in Central and Eastern Europe
  Allan Sikk (UCL)
  Russian and East European Politics

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

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Pia Raffler (Harvard University)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 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
• 14:00 - Partisan Community
  Jay Ruckelshaus (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 14:15 - The Emotional Scripting of Boycotts: The Nazi-Zionist Agreement in Jewish Public Culture During the 1930s
  Hizky Shoham ( (Bar-Ilan))
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Using the Pagans: Reason in Interreligious Debate
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

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

• 14:00 - News in the Digital Age
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

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

• 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
• 17:00 - On the Dangers of an Anthropocene Epoch: Geological Time, and Post-Human Politics
  Madeleine Fagan (Warwick)
  Critical Theory Seminar
• 17:30 - Dr Merze Tate on IR: Prof Cecelia Lynch
  Prof Cecelia Lynch (University of California, Irvine)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

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

• 17:00 - Reaching the Converted: Understanding the Methods of Informant Enrolment in East Germany
  Dr Barbara Piotrowska (University of Oxford )
  Russian and East European Politics

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

• 12:30 - VIGILANTES BEYOND BORDERS: NGOS, ORGANIZATIONAL ECOLOGY, AND ENFORCING INTERNATIONAL LAW
  Jason Sharman (University of Cambridge)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 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
• 14:00 - Self-Determination and Secession: Why Nations are Special
  Ruairi Maguire (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 14:15 - On Zionism and Melancholia: An alternative history
  Nitzan Lebovic ((Lehigh))
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - Some Pagans are Better than Others: the Merits of Plato and Aristotle
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Political Gossip and how it drives everything
  TBA
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
• 14:00 - Brexit, Identity and Party Polarization
  Geoff Evans (University of Oxford), Tim Vlandas (University of Oxford)
  Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics

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

• 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
• 17:00 - Slow Learners? On Moral Progress, Social Struggle, and Whig History
  Robin Celikates (FU Berlin)
  Critical Theory Seminar

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

• 17:00 - Social Capital and the Housing Renovations Programme in Russia
  Ekaterina Borisova (HSE University)
  Russian and East European Politics

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

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Is forecasting political violence feasible? Experiences from the ViEWS project.
  Håvard Hegre (Uppsala University)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 17:00 - Finding Their Voice: Women in Byzantine and Latin Christian Philosophy
  Professor Peter Adamson (Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at LMU Munich)
  The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
• 17:30 - The IR thought of Claudia Jones: Prof Patricia Owens
  Prof Patricia Owens (University of Sussex)
  The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - A new wave: Female editors and new audiences
  Meera Selva (University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

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

• 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
• 17:00 - The Commons and Counterhegemonic Politics in Our Times
  Alexandros Kioupkiolis (AUTh)
  Critical Theory Seminar

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

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