Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Normalization of Stigmatized Political Symbols
  Zoom and in-person seminar // Join Zoom Meeting https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09 Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066 Passcode: 322203
  Vicente Valentim (Nuffield College)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Blood, Metal and Dust: How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq
  Brigadier (rtd) Ben Barry (OBE (IISS))
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Gentrification and Everyday Democracy
  Jamie Draper (Nuffield College)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 14:15 - Pathways toward a Jewish Israeli restorative ethics
  Prof Atalia Omer (University of Notre Dame)
  Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The role of the press in Chile’s new constitution
  Francisca Skoknic (LaBot)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - International Authority and Institutionalized Inequalities
  Prof Michael Zurn (Free University Berlin)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - 'Suffering and International Progress' - Bapsybanoo Marchionness of Winchester Lecture 2021
  Professor Michael N. Barnett (George Washington University)

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New Book: Political Thought in the French Wars of Religion
  Sophie Nicholls (Oxford), Commentator: Connor Grubaugh, Commentator: Kate Shore
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 14:00 - Influences, Unintended Consequences and Ripple Effects: Conceptualizing the Presence of China in Southeast Asia
  Professor Enze Han (University of Hong Kong)
  International Relations of China
• 16:00 - Attention Shoppers: Retail and Consumption in the American Political Economy
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Kathleen Thelen (MIT)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 17:00 - MEC Friday Webinar Series - Dr Hussam Hussein - The politics of water scarcity in the case of Jordan
  Registration is essential
  Dr. Hussam Hussein, Lecturer in International Relations at DPIR, Oxford Martin School Fellow in Water Diplomacy, and Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College
  Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Integration – the Goldilocks factor 
  Lt. Col. Al Brown (British Army)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Liability to Defensive Censorship
  Jeff Howard (UCL)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
• 15:30 - Pride Amid Prejudice: The Impact of LGBT+ Rights Activism in a Socially Conservative Society
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  Philip Ayoub (Occidental College)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Quakes, coups and courage: how to cover Haiti
  Jacqueline Charles (Miami Herald)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - Reconceptualizing Grand Strategy: A Comparative and Relational Framework 
  Thierry Balzacq (Sciences Po)
  Changing Character of War Centre (CCW) Wednesday Evening Seminar Series

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - When is it “ok” to leave? U.S. public opinion toward withdrawal from international organizations
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Dr Inken von Borzyskowski (UCL)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New Book: John Stuart Mill: Socialist
  Helen McCabe (Nottingham), Commentator: Oliver Gough, Commentator: Charlie Richards
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 16:00 - Markets or What? Economic Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Agrarian Activism
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Adam Slez (University of Virginia)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Status Politics Hollows out the State: Evidence from Colonial India
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  Pavithra Suryanarayan (Johns Hopkins University)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Triple Axis: Iran's relations with Russia and China
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Automation and Immigration
  Tom Parr (University of Warwick)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Nicaraguan journalism in exile
  Carlos F. Chamorro
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Mano Dura: An Experimental Evaluation of Military Policing in Cali, Colombia
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Robert Blair (Brown University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 5 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New Book: The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of the Revolution
  Mitchell Dean (Copenhagen Business School), Daniel Zamora (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Commentator: Owen Coughlan, Commentator: Emily Dyson
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 14:00 - Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order
  Professor Yeling Tan (University of Oregon)
  International Relations of China
• 16:00 - Sounding the Alarm: Transgressing Democratic Norms and the Effects of Political Pushback
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Gretchen Helmke (University of Rochester)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 9 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Trade-offs of social democratic party strategies in a pluralized issue space: a conjoint analysis
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  Tarik Abou-Chadi (Nuffield College)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Dispute Inflation
  Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Against the Ontology-First Approach to Gender Recognition
  Katharine Jenkins (University of Glasgow)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Reporting climate change from the Pacific Islands
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
• 17:15 - Strategy in practice: The 2021 Integrated Review
  Ashlee Godwin (UK Parliament)
  Changing Character of War Centre (CCW) Wednesday Evening Seminar Series

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Mapping the global international system of the nineteenth century (1815-1914)
  If you are joining via Zoom, please join the call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Edward Keene (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 16:00 - New Book: Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
  Tae-Yeoun Keum (UC Santa Barbara), Comentator: Audrey Borowski, Comentator: Jamie Ranger
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 12 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World
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  Bob Kaufman (Rutgers)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Economic Lawfare: The Geopolitics of Corporate Justice
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  Cornelia Woll (Sciences Po)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - The Central role of Space Domain Awareness in future military conflicts
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - On Commemoration
  Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - From Russia: lessons in correspondence from the WSJ
  Ann M. Simmons (Wall Street Journal)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - War and Welfare in the French Colonial Empire
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the start of the talk.
  Prof Melissa Lee (Princeton University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 19 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - English News Culture and Classical Republican Thought in the 1640s
  Jamie Gianoutsos (Mount St Mary's)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 14:00 - The Role of Practice Diffusion in China’s Engagement in Global Standardization
  Professor Dr Sarah Eaton (Humboldt University Berlin)
  International Relations of China
• 16:00 - Government Debt and the Electoral Cycle
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Layna Mosley (Princeton)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Online Repression and Tactical Evasion: Evidence from the 2020 Day of Anger Protests in Egypt
  Neil Ketchley (Oxford)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - New technology in War
  Dr Olivier Schmitt (University of Southern Denmark)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - A Resourcist Argument for Sharing the Costs of Children
  Serena Olsaretti (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Nigeria vs Twitter: the fight for freedom of expression
  Fisayo Soyombo (Foundation for Investigative Journalism)
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 25 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Competing memories of conflict
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  Dr Kathrin Bachleitner (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 26 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - New book: Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing
  Mogens Laerke (CNRS)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 16:00 - A Moral Theory of Vaccination: States, Societies and the Control of Contagion in China and India
  Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
  Prerna Singh (Brown University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Politics of Corruption Prosecutions in a Weak Rule of Law Environment
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  Maria Popova (McGill University)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:00 - Military Strategy in the 21st Century: The Challenge for NATO
  Professor Janne Matlary (University of Oslo)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:00 - Paternalism at a Distance
  Jonathan Turner (University of Oxford)
  Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Behind the Pandora Papers
  TBA
  REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Digital Counterterrorism: Why Combatting Online Extremism is So Hard – And What Can Be Done About It
  Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
  Prof Tamar Mitts (Columbia University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 3 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Regulation and Distrust During the Covid Pandemic: Evidence from Russia
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  Timothy Frye (Columbia University)
  Politics Research Colloquium