Department of Politics and International Relations Events
Talks:

Thursday 12 March 2026

Growth Models in the Global South: Maintenance and Dysfunction
Date: 12 March 2026, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Nikhil Kalyanpur (LSE)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Professor Inken Von Borzyskowski (University of Oxford), Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Professor Inken Von Borzyskowski (University of Oxford), Prof Krzysztof Pelc (University of Oxford)

Could Technology Replace Our Humanity? The Oxford Political Review Issue 18 Launch - 'Ghost in the Machine'
Date: 12 March 2026, 18:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Dr Mari van Emmerik (Pembroke College, University of Oxford), Robert Trager (Oxford Martin School), Priscille Biehlmann (Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism), Daniel B. Singer (Tenrec Analysis)
Organiser: Justin Daniels (University of Oxford)
Host: Justin Daniels (University of Oxford)

Friday 13 March 2026

Decolonizing the State: Bureaucratic Capacity and Policy Implementation in the Tanzanian Civil Service
Date: 13 March 2026, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker : Jeremy Bowles (UCL)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Utopia Reading Group: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time
Date: 13 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 March 2026

OCPSG Speaker Event (LLM Application): Measuring Empirically the Legal Conflicts over U.S. Public Lands from 1960 to 2024
Date: 20 March 2026, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker s: Prof Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, FBA (LSE), Amara Jane Otero Salgado (LSE)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organiser: Oxford Computational Political Science Group (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 March 2026

Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods 2026
Date: 23 March 2026, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker s: Spyros Kosmidis (University of Oxford), Marnie Howlett (University of Oxford), Kalina Zhekova (UCL), Tom Robinson (LSE), Maksim Zubok (University of Oxford), Noah Bacine (University of Oxford), Nelson Ruiz (University of Essex), Michal Ovadek (UCL)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 April 2026

Multi-level Negotiation, Mediation and Diplomacy: ‘Negotiating with difficult actors’ , OxPeace Training Workshop 23-24 April 2026
Date: 23 April 2026, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Martin Albani, Dr Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, St Antony's College, Oxford University
Organisers: Professor Walter Armbrust (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Harry Bregazzi (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)
Host: OxPeace (University of Oxford)

Friday 1 May 2026

Title TBC
Date: 1 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Krzysztof Krakowski (King's College London)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 May 2026

(Joint with the IR Colloquia, Note Different Day)
Date: 7 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Catherine DeVries (Bocconi University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 9 May 2026

OxPeace Annual Day-conference, Title tba
Date: 9 May 2026, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker s: Rt Revd & Rt Hon Lord Rowan Williams, Professor Paul Rogers (University of Bradford), Professor Mark Owen (Winchester University), Eldridge Adolfo (Folke Bernadotte Academy)
Venue: Auditorium,
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium, St John's College
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

OxPeace Annual Conference 2026 'The Design of Peace'
Date: 9 May 2026, 9:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Professor Sir Malcolm Evans (University of Oxford), Professor Paul Rogers (University of Bradford), Rt Revd Dr Rowan Williams (Welsh Peace Academy), Eldridge Adolfo (Folke Bernadotte Academy), Dr Hugo Slim (Las Casas Institute, Blackfriars), Professor Richard Caplan (Department of Politics and International Relations), Professor Mark Owen (University of Winchester)
Venue: St John's College, St Giles OX1 3JP
Venue Details: Garden Quad Auditorium, accessible
Organisers: Harry Bregazzi (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford), Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)
Host: OxPeace (University of Oxford)

Friday 15 May 2026

Title TBC
Date: 15 May 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 July 2026

Geopolitical Risk | DPIR Executive Education Programme
Date: 16 July 2026, 18:00 - 13:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Rhodes House, South Parks Road OX1 3RG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
Beyond Brexit
Bingham Seminars in Constitutional Studies
Brace for Impact: The Multiple Dimensions of Brexit
Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
British Politics Election Year seminar
CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership
Comparative Political Economy Seminars
CONPEACE Webinar Series
Countdown to Brexit
Critical Theory Seminar
Critical Theory Seminar
Democracy and Difference Seminar Series
DPIR Alumni Career Conversations
East Asia Seminar Series
Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series
Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
Gender and Elections Workshop, St Hilda's College
History of Political Thought Seminar
Ideas and Political Violence seminars
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Empire
International Relations of China
IR Research Colloquium
Israel Studies Seminar
Israel Studies Seminar - Oct 2017 – Mar 2023
Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
Israel Studies Seminar Trinity term 2021
Israel Studies Seminar Trinity Term 2025
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
OSSG Weekly Talks
OUCAN Seminar Series
Oxford Computational Political Science Group Event Series
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar
Oxford International Relations Society
Oxford Martin School Series - African Governance: Economic, social and political governance challenges
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
OxPeace Events
Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium
Philosophy, Law & Politics (PLP) Colloquium and Seminar Series
Political Theory Research Seminar Series
Politics Research Colloquium
Politics Research in Progress Seminar
Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Radical Histories of Anti-Racist Activism and Organizing
Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Trinity Term 2021
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar
Russian and East European Politics
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar Hilary Term 2021
SEESOX
Seminar 'Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics'
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia Seminar
St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence
The Carlyle Lectures 2017 - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism
The David N Lyon Speaker Series on "The Politics of Sex and Gender Equality in Diverse Societies"
The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations
The Political Thought of Carl Schmitt
Transformative Justice for the Post-COVID Transition: Insights from Leaders of Transitional Countries