Friday 19 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Listening for silence: absence and lack in political thinking'
  Michael Freeden (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 12:30 - Reflections on the United Nations and the Responsibility to Protect: A Conversation with Jennifer Welsh
  Jennifer M. Welsh (McGill University)

Saturday 20 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Book Launch - A Rope from the Sky: The Making and Unmaking of the World's Newest State
  Zach Vertin (Brookings Doha Center)

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Launch Event: Critical Theory at Oxford
  Lois McNay (University of Oxford), Alice Crary (University of Oxford), Eleni Philippou (University of Oxford)
• 18:00 - Multilateral responses to current security challenges: OSCE’s offer
  Dr Thomas Greminger (Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe)

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Changing Character of Conflict and the Work of the United Nations on Terrorism
  Elizabeth Joyce (United Nations)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:15 - Israel: The Russian connection
  Yakov Rabkin (Montreal)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 17:00 - The Electoral Consequences of State Violence: Evidence from the Catalan 2017 Referendum
  Dr Toni Roden (LSE)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Breaking news: the remaking of journalism’
  Alan Rusbridger (Lady Margaret Hall)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia: How Trade Makes the State
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Christine Cheng (Kings College London)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 26 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'The Federalist Vision of Eric Williams'
  Adom Getachew (Chicago)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Misinformation and its effect on public life’
  Phoebe Arnold (Reuters Institute)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Responding to Sexual Violence in Conflict: Fighting Impunity in DRC
  Chloe Lewis (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:15 - The making of alliance: The making and history of US-Israel relationships
  David Tal (Sussex)
  Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Transformations in news organizations’
  Anita Zielina (NZZ Media Group)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Logic of Illicit Flows in Armed Conflict: Explaining Variation in Violent Non-State Group Interactions
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Annette Idler (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 2 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - ' Coercion in a Subjective World'
  Dan Luban (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘NGOs as newsmakers’
  Matthew Powers (Department of Communications, University of Washington)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 6 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Rebel Diplomacy: Territoriality, Identity and the 'Foreign' Affairs of Non-State Armed Groups
  Dr David Brenner (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:15 - Zionism: An emotional state
  Derek Penslar (Harvard)
  Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Politics and Technology of Cyber Security
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Danny Steed (ReSolve Cyber)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘Networked solidarity in the age of Trump’
  Professor Gina Neff (Oxford Internet Institute, Department of Sociology, Senior Research Associate, Christ Church, University of Oxford)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Gunboat Diplomacy: Power and Profit at Sea in the Making of the International System
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jason Sharman (University of Cambridge)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 9 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - In Conversation: History, Philosophy and Feminism
  Martha Nussbaum (Chicago)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘Reporting austerity Britain’
  Danica Kirka (Associated Press)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 13 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Rebel Diplomacy: Territoriality, Identity and the ‘Foreign’ Affairs of Non-State Armed Groups
  Dr David Brenner (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:15 - A gift from Sinai: Translation and nation-building
  Adriana X. Jacobs (Oxford)
  Israel Studies Seminar
• 15:00 - Just War and Unjust Soldiers: American Public Opinion on the Moral Equality of Combatants (ELAC Colloquium)
  Scott Sagan (Stanford University), Prof Jeff McMahan (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Empowered: Popular feminism and popular misogyny’
  Professor Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Prohibition, Preference and Prediction: Public Opinion on the Use of Force and Nuclear Weapons
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Scott Sagan (Stanford University)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 16 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Political Theory for the Real World'
  Michael Goodhart (Pittsburgh)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - ‘The state, the media and Euroscepticism in Italy’
  Marco Varvello (RAI Italian TV)
  Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 20 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The law and practice of cross-border humanitarian relief operations: Syria as a case study
  Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Emanuela-Chiara Gilliard (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:15 - Gendered citizenship: The case of Women Breaking the Silence
  Orna Sasson-Levy (Bar-Ilan)
  Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - ‘The rebirth of audio’
  Nic Newman (research associate and lead author of Digital News Report at RISJ)
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Compliance and Resistance: Understanding the Agency of Rising Powers
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 23 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Human Rights on Trial'
  Justine Lacroix and Jean-Yves Pranchère (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 27 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Constitution of Illicit Orders: Contested Sovereignty in Territorial Domains
  Dr Christopher Lilyblad (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Lunchtime Seminars
• 14:15 - Defining antisemitism, demonizing Zionism: The current controversy over the left and the Jews
  Brian Klug (Oxford)
  Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Möbius Hacker: Reflections on Studying Shifting Identities in Cybersecurity
  Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm.
  Leonie Tanczer (UCL)
  Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
• 14:00 - ‘Behind the lens. The impact and implications of visual storytelling’
  Hazel Thompson
  Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 29 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Art of Diplomacy in an Age of Real-Time Governance
  Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
  Jennifer Cassidy (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 30 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - 'Moral possibility'
  Annabel Brett (Cambridge)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar