Collection - Oxford Talks

16:00 - Future Agendas in Conflict Research
This round-table is part of a graduate workshop on conflict dynamics, held at Nuffield College on 20-21 September 2017. For more information about the workshop, please contact nicholas.barker@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Various Speakers

Tuesday 26 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

18:00 - CRIC Public Lecture: Online Radicalisation - Myths and Reality
Professor Peter Neumann (King's College London)

Wednesday 27 September 2017 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

18:00 - CRIC Public Lecture: Conflict, Complexity and Cooperation
The Right Honourable the Lord Alderdice (Director of the Centre for Resolution of Intractable Conflicts)

Monday 9 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - The contested meaning of "Failed States” for international order (SEESOX, CIS and ESC Co-Sponsored Seminar)
Susan Woodward (City University of New York)

Wednesday 11 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:15 - IR Publishing: Current and future challenges (IR Colloquium: MT)
(Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
John Lough (OUP)
17:15 - UK Defence Capability: 'How well is the United Kingdom prepared, in terms of defence & security, for the challenges and threats that lie ahead?'
The Right Honourable the Lord Alderdice (Director of the Centre for Resolution of Intractable Conflicts)

Friday 13 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:15 - Radio for Peace: UN Broadcasting and Violence against Civilians (IR Colloquium: MT)
(Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
Jessica DiSalvatore (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - 'Hayek's Political Thought: Development, Problems and Heritage'
Jeremy Shearmur (ANU)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - 'The Price of Cooperation: How Authoritarian States Retain Control'
Dr Barbara Piotrowska (University of Oxford )
Politics Research Colloquium
12:30 - Book Manuscript Workshop: ‘Economic Statecraft’
Lunch will be provided to those who have registered.
Cecile Fabre (University of Oxford)
17:00 - ‘Google and Facebook: Friend or Foe?’
Helen Lewis, deputy editor, New Statesman
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar
17:00 - Roundtable discussion: 'New Approaches to the South China Sea Conflicts'
Various Speakers
University of Oxford China Centre
17:00 - New Approaches to the South China Sea Conflicts
Antonio Carpio (Supreme Court of the Philippines), Bill Hayton (Chatham House), Nong Hong (Institute for China-America Studies)

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:30 - The consequences of Germany's federal elections
Alexandra Borchardt (University of Oxford), Felix Krawatzek, Alexandra Zeitz (University of Oxford ), Bill Emmott (Author and adviser)

Tuesday 24 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:15 - The Global Politics of the AI Revolution: A Research Agenda (IR Colloquium: MT)
(Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
Allan Dafoe (Yale)

Friday 27 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - 'Brexit, the UK and China: Where Next?'
Mr George Magnus (Adviser and former Chief Economist, UBS)
University of Oxford China Centre

Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:15 - Attitudes towards Killing in War (IR Colloquium: MT)
(Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
Dr Livia Schubiger (LSE)
12:30 - Let Them Eat Credit: Urban-Rural Biases and the Politics of Sovereign Default
Cameron Ballard-Rosa (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Comparative Political Economy Seminars
16:30 - CIS-Sponsored Roundtable: 'Women in the History of International Thought'
Professor Patricia Owens (University of Sussex)

Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Saturday 4 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

10:00 - Effective Use of Data in EPQs - Teachers' Workshop
Professor Andy Eggers (University of Oxford ), Nicholas Martindale (DPIR, Oxford)

Tuesday 7 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:15 - The paradox of safe areas in ethnic civil wars (IR Colloquium: MT)
(Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
Dr Stefano Recchia (Cambridge)
12:30 - Democratic Drain: Emigration and Democratization in the Middle East
Justin Gest (George Mason University)
Comparative Political Economy Seminars

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 13 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - ‘The Populist Explosion’: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics (CIS, RAI and ESC Co-Sponsored Talk)
Sandwich lunch available on a first-come, first-served basis.
John B. Judis (Author and Journalist)
17:00 - 'Understanding West Africa’s Ebola Epidemic: Towards a Political Economy' (CIS Co-Sponsored Book Launch/ Panel Discussion)
Dr Julia Amos (University of Oxford), Prof Nicole Zitzmann ((Biochemistry) University of Oxford), Dr Kerrie Thornhill (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:15 - No Friends but the Mountains: Why conflict persists at high altitude. (IR Colloquium: MT)
(Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
Judith Matloff (Columbia)
17:00 - Governance and Leadership in the EU's Digital Single Market
Krzysztof Szubert (Secretary of State, Deputy Minister of Digital Affairs, The Government Plenipotentiary for Digital Single Market, Government of Poland)
Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - 'Political Theory and the Dark Arts'
Steven Smith (Yale)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - 'Audits for Accountability: Evidence from Municipal By-elections in South Africa'
Sandwiches are available!
Dan Berliner (LSE), Joachim Wehner (LSE)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - ‘A reporter's discovery during the financial crisis: those in charge were making it up as they went along’
Katherine Griffiths, banking editor, The Times
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar
17:00 - The “Salaryman” Samurai: Japan’s Medieval Warrior and the “Birth” of the Early Modern World
Those travelling from outside Oxford are advised to check on the Institutes website in case there has been a cancellation or change of venue: www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/events
Jeff Kurashige (Keio University and Cambridge University)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 21 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

09:00 - DPhil Politics/IR graduate seminar
Various Speakers
12:15 - Resistable Restrictions? The Effectiveness of States’ Efforts to Silence Civil Society (IR Colloquium: MT)
(Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
Kristin Bakke (UCL)
12:30 - Rewarding Merit or Luck? The Competency Signal in Comparative Perspective
Daniela Campello (Fundação Getúlio Vargas/EBAPE), Cesar Zucco Jr (Fundação Getúlio Vargas/EBAPE)
Comparative Political Economy Seminars

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - 'History and Judgment in the thought of Hannah Arendt'
Waseem Yaqoob (Cambridge)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - The role of family history in shaping attitudes toward outgroups
Dr Elias Dinas (Brasenose College)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - Akira Kurosawa’s Reception of Tolstoy in the film Ikiru (To Live, 1952) in the Context of Postwar Japan
Those travelling from outside Oxford are advised to check on the Institutes website in case there has been a cancellation or change of venue: www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/events
Olga Solovieva (University of Chicago)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - The Political Economy of Business-State Deals in Indian States
Kunal Sen (Manchester)
Modern South Asia Seminar
17:00 - "Japan and Brexit"
Those travelling from outside Oxford are advised to check on the Institutes website in case there has been a cancellation or change of venue: www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/events
Various Speakers
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
17:00 - Prior Beliefs and Arguments: The Micro-Mechanisms of Attitude Certainty and Attitude Change in Deliberative Settings
TBA
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - ‘Decline in media freedom worldwide’
Jodie Ginsberg (chief executive, Index on Censorship)
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
17:00 - Book Debate & Discussion: "Brexit and British Politics"
Various Speakers

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:15 - Divergent paths. Institutional constraints and post-Cold War Italian and German defence policy (IR Colloquium: MT)
(Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
Fabrizio Coticchia (University of Genoa)
12:30 - 'The Oxford Guidance on the Law Relating to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflicts'
Professor Dapo Akande (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Emanuela-Chiara Gillard (ELAC, Oxford)
Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - 'The People Trap'
Sofia Näsström (Uppsala)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - Does Online Activism Affect Legislative Behaviour?
Sandwiches will be available at the session!
Jack Blumenau (UCL)
Politics Research Colloquium
12:30 - The Urban Advantage in Revolution
Mark Beissinger (Princeton)
Comparative Political Economy Seminars
17:00 - Mishima Yukio and Takahashi Kazumi: Commitment and Literature in 1960s Japan
Those travelling from outside Oxford are advised to check on the Institutes website in case there has been a cancellation or change of venue: www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/events
Dr Thomas Garcin (Pembroke College)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Wednesday 6 December 2017 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:30 - Beyond Gridlock in World Politics? Panel Discussion and Book Launch
Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Emily Jones (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)

Friday 12 January 2018 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - The Destruction of Syria and Failure of Conflict Prevention
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Alexander Bellamy (University of Queensland)

Tuesday 16 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 17 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Friday 19 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Monday 22 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Disrupted democracy in Ukraine? Protest, performance and contention in the Verkhovna Rada
Dr Sarah Whitmore (Oxford Brookes University)
Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 24 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - ‘Not-for-profit journalism - a model for change'
Rachel Oldroyd (managing editor, Bureau of Investigative Journalism)
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Friday 26 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Saturday 27 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

17:30 - A Look at the Forest: Universal Characteristics of the Buddhist-Rohingya Conflict
Brian Victoria (Centre for Buddhist Studies)

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 31 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - A Theory of Treatymaking
A sandwich lunch is booked according to numbers. Please email andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk if you would like to be included in the sandwich order.
James Morrow (University of Michigan)
IR Research Colloquium
12:30 - The Politics of School Reform: Inequality, Political Parties, and Student Sorting
Charlotte Haberstroh (University of Oxford)
Comparative Political Economy Seminars
16:00 - “Self-Reliant Struggle” or Revolution?: On the Limits of Ideology in African Civil War
Zoe Marks (Edinburgh)
Ideas and Political Violence seminars
17:00 - Historical Criticism without Progress: Memory as an Emancipatory Resource for Critical Theory
Peter Verovšek (Harvard & Sheffield Universities)
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 2 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Dominus before Domination: Harriet Jacobs on Property and Slavery
Desmond Jagmohan (Princeton)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:30 - Diasporas, Political Institutions, and International Investment
David Leblang has indicated that he would be willing to meet with students and staff on Friday February 3. If you would like to arrange a meeting, please contact David Doyle.
David Leblang (University of Virginia)
17:00 - ‘Britain’s media and politics’
Tony Gallagher (editor-in-chief, The Sun )
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 7 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Religion Within Global International Society
(Sandwich lunch provided to those who have signed up)
Andrew Hurrell (Balliol College)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - When Is One Recognizable
Dr. Danielle Petherbridge (UCD)
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 9 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - After 20 years: Russia and the European Convention on Human Rights
Prof Jeffrey Kahn (Southern Methodist University)
Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 14 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - The Long Shadow of Economic Geography: Political Inequality and Public Goods Provision in the Original 13 US States
Pablo Beramendi (Duke), Jeff Jensen (NYU-Abu Dhabi)
Comparative Political Economy Seminars
12:30 - Winning or Losing in Investor-to-State Dispute Resolution: The Role of Arbitrator Bias and Experience
The sandwich lunch is booked according to numbers. Please write to andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk by 10am on Tuesday 13 January if you’d like to be included in the sandwich order.
Eric Neumayer (LSE)
IR Research Colloquium
16:00 - How do Salafi Jihadi Ideological Commitments Matter in Multiparty Civil Wars: Rationales, Costs, and Regulations
Dr Jerome Drevon (University of Oxford)
Ideas and Political Violence seminars
17:00 - Does History Travel? Historiography and Non-Western Pasts
Sanjay Seth (Goldsmiths)
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 16 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Ethnic hierarchy in the Russian labour market
Dr Alexey Bessudnov (University of Exeter)
Post-Soviet Politics and Society

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 21 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - How Legislatures Discuss Violence: The Case of Nigeria
The sandwich lunch is booked according to numbers. Please email andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk by noon on Tuesday 20 January if you’d like to be included in the sandwich order.
Kazuhiro Obayashi (Hitotsubashi University)
IR Research Colloquium
16:00 - Conflict, Complexity and Cooperation
Please note that this event has been cancelled.
The Right Honourable the Lord Alderdice (Director of the Centre for Resolution of Intractable Conflicts)
Ideas and Political Violence seminars
17:00 - War Beyond the Human
Dr Lauren Wilcox (Cambridge)
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 23 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Eduard Bernstein on the "Republic of Peoples": Socialism, Patriotism, and the Rise of International Institutions
Marius Ostrowski (All Souls)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - Terms of Agreement: The Challenge of Muslim Inclusion
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (University of Bergen)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - CIS Sponsored Book Launch: The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Problems of International Politics)
This talk has been cancelled by the speaker in solidarity with the UCU strikes.
Dr Matthew Longo (St Anne’s)
17:00 - ‘Who’s watching? Filmmaking and journalism in war zones’
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Nevine Mabro (deputy editor, Channel 4 News)
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Monday 26 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 28 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Friday 2 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 6 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 7 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Cyber Weapons: What Are They Good For?
Lunch will be provided from 12.15pm.
Max Smeets (cybersecurity fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (Stanford University), and Research Associate at the Centre for Technology and Global Affairs (University of Oxford))
Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
14:00 - ‘The “King of Whoppers” and political factchecking in the 2016 US presidential race’
Lucas Graves (senior research fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism)
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
17:00 - The Chinese Storyteller: The Key Narratives of a New Player in Africa
Bjørnar Sverdrup-Thygeson (London School of Economics)
Oxford University China Africa Network (OUCAN)
17:00 - Rival Power: Russia and South East Europe
A joint event with the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre (RESC), in association with Centre for International Studies (CIS)
Dimitar Bechev (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's College), Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
17:15 - After Italy’s general election
Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford), Annalisa Piras (filmmaker and journalist, co-author and director, “Girlfriend in a Coma”), Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Federico Varese (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Our Weapons, Our Problem: Civil Society, Domestic Policy and Arms Exports in the UK
Sandwiches will be available at the session!
Rodrigo Moraes (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
16:00 - Politics and the Promise of Violence
Please note that this event has been cancelled.
Professor Christopher Finlay (Durham University)
Ideas and Political Violence seminars
17:00 - Structural Power and Interstitial Agency
Dr Eva von Redecker (Humboldt)
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar
17:00 - The Pakistan-China Corridor: Impacts on Regional Stability
Muhammad Samrez Salik (National Defence University Islamabad)

Friday 9 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Monday 12 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

18:30 - Rethinking the Peace Negotiations in Colombia
HE Mr Néstor Osorio Londoño (Colombian Ambassador to the United Kingdom), Professor Eamon Gilmore (EU Special Envoy for the Peace Process in Colombia), Joaquin Villalobos (Peace Process Advisor to the Government of Colombia)

Tuesday 13 March 2018 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

10:00 - Academic Workshop in Honour of Alan Ryan
Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia), Lisa Herzog (University of Munich), Jacob Levy (McGill University), Pratap Mehta (Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi), Carole Pateman (UCLA and University of Cardiff), Mark Philp (Warwick), Dr. Alexander Prescott-Couch (University of Oxford), Michael Rosen (Harvard University), Dr Sophie Smith (Christ Church, Oxford University), Stuart White (Jesus College, Oxford)

Monday 19 March 2018 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

09:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods
Dr Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos (University of Oxford), Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford ), Dr Jessica Di Salvatore (University of Oxford), Dr Annette Idler (University of Oxford), Dr Spyros Kosmidis (University of Oxford ), Dr Andreas Murr (University of Warwick)

Monday 16 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Oil Wealth and Armed Conflict in Colombia
Juan D. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez (University of Oxford )

Tuesday 17 April 2018 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - Costs of War – Impact, Meaning and Perceptions, OXPO Conference
Various Speakers

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - 2018 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Various Speakers
17:00 - Keynote Address of the 2018 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory, "Against Marriage"
Dr Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - “Filthy Lapdogs”, “Stooges” and “Little Rocket Man”: Making Sense of International Insults
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Dr Stephane J. Baele (University of Exeter)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 27 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

17:30 - Perspectives on Democracy: A Panel Discussion
Prof Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford ), Prof Nicholas Bunnin (University of Oxford), Prof Karma Nabulsi (University of Oxford ), Puneet Dhaliwal (University of Oxford)

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - Panel discussion - Greek-Turkish tensions: Impending conflict?
Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Ezgi Başaran (St Antony's College, Oxford), Mehmet Karli (Centre for International Studies, Oxford), Katerina Dalacoura (LSE), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College), Yaprak Gursoy (Ashton University)
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Tuesday 1 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Islamic Law and International Law: Peaceful Resolution of Disputes
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Emilia Justyna Powell (University of Notre Dame)
IR Research Colloquium
16:00 - The Idea of an "Economy of Violence" in Political Theory and Ethics
Professor Christopher Finlay (Durham University)
Ideas and Political Violence seminars
17:00 - Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration
Catherine de Vries (University of Essex), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford), Jan Zielonka (University of Oxford ), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)

Friday 4 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

12:00 - Juries, Hobbes and Weber
A sandwich lunch will be provided so please register if you would like to attend.
Richard Tuck (Harvard)
Political Theory Research Seminar Series
17:00 - ‘Populism as a challenge and a threat to media in liberal democracies’
Dr. Alexander Görlach (senior fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs)
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Monday 7 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - Political risks in Europe: Brexit and its impact on businesses
Mujtabar Rahman (Eurasia Group, Europe), Charles Enoch (University of Oxford), Kalypso Nicolaidis (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Conflict, Complexity and Cooperation
Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford)
Ideas and Political Violence seminars

Friday 11 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

12:00 - Shakespeare, violence and war
A sandwich lunch will be provided so please register if you would like to attend.
Ariel Colonomos (Sciences Po Paris), Theodor Meron (President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals), Dr Elizabeth Frazer (University of Oxford)
Political Theory Research Seminar Series
17:00 - ‘Online disinformation: what do we know, what can we do?’
Rasmus Nielsen (University of Oxford)
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Saturday 12 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - OxPeace Tenth Annual Day-Conference - The Business of Peace: Business and Economics in Peacebuilding
Various Speakers

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - Are International Institutions Obsolete?
Dr Renata Dwan (Director, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research), Dr Thomas Greminger (Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe), Dr Michael Møller (Director General of the United Nations Office at Geneva), Professor Andrew Hurrell (University of Oxford), Professor Jennifer Welsh (European University Institute)

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - North Korea's Hidden Revolution
Jieun Baek (University of Oxford)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Electoral Consequences of Colonial Invention: Chieftaincy and Distribution in Northern Ghana
Professor Noah Nathan (University of Michigan)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
12:30 - Throwing Back the Boomerang? Norm Diffusion, Social Opprobrium, and Great Power Behaviour in the United Nations
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Carlotta Minnella (University of Oxford), Swapna Pathak (Oberlin College)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2018: The New New Civil Wars
Prof Barbara F. Walter (UC San Diego)

Friday 18 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

12:00 - Responsibility for the past and the changing identity of the state
A sandwich lunch will be provided so please register if you would like to attend.
Avia Pasternak (UCL)
Political Theory Research Seminar Series
12:30 - Calming the Markets: When technocratic appointments signal credibility
Despina Alexiadou (University of Strathclyde)
Politics Research Colloquium
14:15 - Black Urban Political Development and the American City
Professor Kimberley Johnson (New York University)
16:00 - Panel Discussion with Barbara Walter: Political Violence and Extremism
Prof Barbara F. Walter (UC San Diego), Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Annette Idler (University of Oxford), Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford )
17:00 - ‘We Can’t Handle The Truth: Race, Big Data and Public Policy’
Trevor Phillips (writer and broadcaster)
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - The Politics of US Taxation
Andrea Louise Campbell (MIT)

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Partisanship, Organizations, and the Cultural Politics of Protest During Trump’s Presidency
Professor Kenneth Andrews (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 24 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - The Nature of Realism
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Professor Patrick James (University of Southern California)
IR Research Colloquium
13:00 - Cultural Citizenship in India
Lion König (St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford), Polly O'Hanlon (University of Oxford), Sundas Ali (University of Oxford), Peter Frankopan (University of Oxford)
Book at Lunchtime

Friday 25 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

12:00 - Arendt and the Legitimate Expectation for Hospitality and Membership Today
A sandwich lunch will be provided so please register if you would like to attend.
Michael Weinman (Bard College Berlin)
Political Theory Research Seminar Series
12:30 - Bureaucrats and the Resource Curse in Africa
TBA
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - ‘Broadcasters and the international story’
Nevine Mabro (deputy editor, Channel 4 news)
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar
17:00 - The Korean missile crisis: avoiding the cliffs at the edge of the summit
Scott Sagan (Stanford University)

Monday 28 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

14:15 - Cultural Diversity and International Order
Christian Reus-Smit (Queensland), Andrew Hurrell (Oxford)

Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - Symposium on Liberalism’s Religion by Cécile Laborde
Various Speakers
12:30 - The UN and its Discontents: The Sociology of an International Organisation
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
David M. Malone (Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations & Rector of the UN University), Rupert Burridge (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - Book Launch: Dangerous Diplomacy
Dr Herman Salton (Asian University for Women, Bangladesh), Neil MacFarlane (Oxford)

Friday 1 June 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - ‘Whistleblowing and intelligence’
Ewen MacAskill (defence and intelligence correspondent, The Guardian)
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar

Tuesday 5 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 7 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Breaking Deadlock? Efforts to Meet Half-way in Norm Contestation
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Anette Stimmer (University of Oxford), Samuel Ramani (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 8 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - Oxford Fulbright Lecture: The best of centuries or the worst of centuries?
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - A Survey of the Sriksetra Pyu Archaeological site in Myanmar
Kyaw Myo Win (Site Manager, Sri Ksetra UNESCO World Heritage Site)

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 13 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

10:45 - Publishers, papers and peer review
Various Speakers
Open Scholarship
12:30 - Prisoners of the Past: A Narrative Theory of International Cooperation
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Mareike Kleine (LSE)
IR Research Colloquium

Monday 18 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - Why We Fight
This event has been rescheduled for 5pm Monday 25 June
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Mike Martin (KCL)

Friday 22 June 2018 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

08:30 - Greek Diaspora Conference: Homeland‒diaspora relations in flux
Tea and coffee included during breaks. Lunch not included.
Various Speakers
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Friday 29 June 2018 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - Workshop “Does the future of the European Union depend on differentiation? The sources and effects of the logic of differentiation”
Various Speakers

Tuesday 25 September 2018 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Why Quantum Computing Will Not Destabilize International Security: The Political Logic of Cryptology
Lunch will be provided
TBA

Tuesday 9 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 10 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:15 - The Trump Administration and International Law
Professor Harold Koh (Yale Law School)

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Trusting Enemies: Interpersonal Relationships in International Conflict
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Nick Wheeler (University of Birmingham)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 12 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - 'Hobbes on the Definition of a Legal Sphere'
Signy Gutnick Allen (LSE)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
17:00 - War & Peace and Space
Reception immediately following
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Dr Nikita S.W. Chiu (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 16 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - AI Governance: A Research Agenda
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Allan Dafoe (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
12:30 - Why Women Mobilize: Dissecting and Dismantling India’s Political Gender Gap
Sandwiches will be provided.
Soledad Prillaman (University of Oxford)
Comparative Political Economy Seminars

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

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)

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

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

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
12:15 - The Popular Side of Austerity: Public Support for Budget Balance in Europe
Sandwiches will be provided.
Lucy Barnes (UCL)
Politics Research Colloquium
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)

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

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

09:00 - Challenges of Government Conference 2018: The Future of Government
Various Speakers
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
12:30 - Modeling Complex Games: Government Formation as Logrolling
Sandwiches will be provided.
Scott de Marchi (Duke University)
Comparative Political Economy Seminars
13:00 - Historical Reconciliation with Reciprocal Non-domination: Beyond the Politics of Shame in Northeast Asia
Jun-Hyeok Kwak (Sun Yat-sen University)

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

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Book Launch: When Political Transitions Work: Reconciliation as Interdependence
Fanie du Toit (IJR)

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

13:00 - Gender, State-collapse, Conflict and State-building: Recent Research from the Somali Context
Change to original programme
Judith Gardner
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:15 - Zionism: An emotional state
***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED***
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Derek Penslar (Harvard)
Israel Studies Seminar
17:00 - POLITICAL HABIT FORMATION UNDER DEMOCRATIC AND AUTHORITARIAN ELECTIONS
Dr Ksenia Northmore-Ball (QMUL)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
17:00 - Beyond the Border: The Implications of Brexit for Ireland
Dr Martin Mansergh (former Irish government minister and special advisor), Mark Durkan (former deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland), Denis Staunton (Irish Times London Editor), Professor Desmond King (University of Oxford), Professor Kalypso Nicolaїdis (University of Oxford)

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

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
17:00 - Repugnant to the Whole Idea of Democratic Society? On the Role of Philanthropic Foundations
Rob Reich (Stanford)

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

12:00 - In Conversation: History, Philosophy and Feminism
Please note the change in location: this week's seminar will be held in the Sir Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre in Christ Church.
Martha Nussbaum (Chicago)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
17:00 - ‘Reporting austerity Britain’
Danica Kirka (Associated Press)
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar
17:00 - Asymmetry Matters: Poland, Germany and State Power in Post-Cold War Europe
Dr Stefan Szwed (University of Oxford), Professor Timothy Garton Ash (University of Oxford), Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford)

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

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
12:30 - Productivity takes Leave? Examining the Impact of Maternity Leave Policies on Academic Careers
Sandwiches will be provided.
Vera Troeger (Warwick University)
Comparative Political Economy Seminars
17:00 - Modern Greek Seminar: In search of a usable past: the case of the first cathedral of modern Athens
LYCOURGOS SOPHOULIS (University of Oxford)
Southeast Asia Seminar

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

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

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

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
12:15 - Politics of Educational Expansion
Sandwiches will be provided.
Professor Dulce Manzano (University Complutense, Madrid)
Politics Research Colloquium

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

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.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
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
14:00 - ‘Playing with fire can get you burnt: conventional politics, populism - and Brexit’
TBA
Seminar 'Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics'
14:00 - ‘Playing with fire can get you burnt: conventional politics, populism - and Brexit’
Tim Bale (Queen Mary University of London)
Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics

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
12:15 - Contrasting Formal and Informal Power Sharing
Sandwiches will be provided.
Simon Hug (Geneva)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 15 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 16 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - The New Cold War Online and Offline
Lunch will be provided at 12.15pm
Edward Lucas (CEPA)
Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
14:00 - Do we need a new kind of journalism in 2019? The new challenges of trust and misinformation
Rachael Jolley (Index on Censorship magazine)
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
TV Paul (McGill)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 18 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Politics Scriptorium
TBA
Politics Scriptorium

Tuesday 22 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 23 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - The Death of this Norm is Greatly Exaggerated: What Really Happens with Norm Erosion
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Sarah Percy (Queensland)
IR Research Colloquium
12:30 - The Legal Metamorphosis of War
Delphine Dogot (Sciences Po)
17:00 - Wealth inequality in political perspective
Professor Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Evolving economic thought
17:00 - Chinese Perspectives on the Bomb in the Early Atomic Age, 1945–53
Nicola Leveringhaus (King's College London)
17:00 - War Beyond the Human: Robots, Race and Reproduction
Dr Lauren Wilcox (Cambridge)
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 25 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Thucydides on the Corruption of Language, or The Unbearable Lightness of Logos
Mark Fisher (Georgetown)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - Guidelines for Constructing and Evaluating Complex Concepts
Sandwiches will be provided.
Gary Goertz (University of Notre Dame)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:30 - Title TBC
Andreas Wimmer (Columbia)
T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Dance of the Trillions: Developing Countries and Global Finance
David Lubin (Head of Emerging Markets, Citi)

Tuesday 29 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 30 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Rise and Fall of Political Orders
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Richard Ned Lebow (KCL)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - Towards a Materialist Theory of Ideological Propaganda
Dr Titus Stahl (Groningen)
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Locke versus Filmer revisited
James Harris (St Andrews)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - Candidate Coethnicity, Rural Dwelling, and Partisanship in Africa
Sandwiches will be provided.
Dr Robin Harding (University of Oxford), Kristin Michelitch (Vanderbilt University)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 5 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - ‘Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall’: Self-Legitimation by International Organizations
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Sarah von Billerbeck (University of Reading)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - Brexit: Challenges to Parliamentary Assumptions
Baroness Dianne Hayter (Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords and Shadow Minister, DExEU), Nikki da Costa (Former Director of Legislative Affairs, 10 Downing Street)
Countdown to Brexit

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 12 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 13 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Humanitarian Club
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Michael Barnett (George Washington)
IR Research Colloquium
12:30 - How to measure legislative district compactness if you only know it when you see it
Professor Gary King (Harvard University)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
17:00 - Horkheimer, Adorno and Societal Transformation
Prof Maeve Cooke (UCD)
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 15 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Socialism's heart of darkness: the origins of 'Eurafrica' in dissident Social Democracy, 1918-32
Marius Ostrowski (Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - Title TBC
Sandwiches will be provided.
Alex Scacco (Berlin Social Science Centre)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - The Political Economy of Chinese Private Foreign Direct Investment in Ethiopia: A Case Study of Eastern Industry Park
Weiwei Chen (SOAS)
OUCAN Seminar Series

Tuesday 19 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 20 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Who Fights for Reputation? The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Keren Yarhi-Milo (Princeton)
IR Research Colloquium
12:30 - Privileging one’s own? Voting patterns and politicized spending in India
Francesca R. Jensenius (University of Oslo and Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
Comparative Political Economy Seminars
17:00 - Objective Reason and Irrational Society: The 'Linguistic Turn' in Horkheimer and Adorno
Prof Fabian Freyenhagen (Essex)
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar
17:00 - Brexit and Populism: Is the Leave Vote Good or Bad for Democracy?
Claire Fox (Institute of Ideas), Professor Matthew Goodwin (University of Kent)
Countdown to Brexit

Friday 22 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - The End of Enlightenment: A Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures
Richard Whatmore (St Andrews)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - Strategic Victimization
Sandwiches will be provided.
Miguel Rueda (Emory University)
Politics Research Colloquium
16:00 - Cross-Cutting Cleavages and Communal Riots in India
Zeynep Bulutgil (UCL)
T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 26 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 27 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - The Financial Statecraft of Debtors: The Political Economy of External Finance in Africa
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Alexandra Zeitz (University of Oxford )
IR Research Colloquium
13:00 - The Great Moderation Revisited: The Political Economy of Inflation and Disinflation in the OECD
Dr Tim Vlandas (University of Oxford)
Comparative Political Economy Seminars
17:00 - The Real Political Contradiction of Adorno's Critical Theory
Dr Gordan Finlayson (Sussex)
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar
17:00 - Future Legacies of Brexit
Lord Nick Mcpherson (Former Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury), Torbjorn Sohlstrom (Swedish Ambassador to the UK)
Countdown to Brexit
18:00 - St Antony's International Review (STAIR) Launch: Individuals in Conflict: Agency, Rights, and The Changing Character Of War
Charu Hogg (Chatham House), Jelke Boesten (KCL), Barbara Jackson (ICRC)

Friday 1 March 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Natural right theory in Kant’s legal metaphors
Sofie Møller (Frankfurt)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - The Effect of Political Campaigns in Multiethnic Societies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Sandwiches will be provided.
Ken Opalo (Georgetown University)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 5 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 6 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - The Liberal International Order Was Never Popular: The Merging Contestation in the Non- West and the West
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge)
IR Research Colloquium
14:00 - Trains, Treaties and Courts: The Role of International Law in the Unification of the Koreas
TBA
17:00 - From Transatlantic to Eurasian: Global Order in the 21st Century
TBA
17:00 - Critical Theory, Ideology, and Common Sense
Dr Lorna Finlayson (Essex)
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar
17:00 - Understanding the Determinants of Penal Policy: Crime, Culture, and Comparative Political Economy
Nicola Lacey (LSE)
Comparative Political Economy Seminars
17:00 - The Role of Parliament in the Next Stage of Brexit
Hilary Benn M.P. (Chair of Exiting the EU Select Committee, House of Commons), Lord George Bridges, Lord Stewart Wood
Countdown to Brexit

Friday 8 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Monday 11 March 2019 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

09:30 - OxPeace Negotiation Training Workshop
Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio), Douglas Carpenter (EEAS), Lord John Alderdice (University of Oxford), Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)

Monday 1 April 2019 (12th Week, Hilary Term)

10:00 - The Folly of Secularism - Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context
Various Speakers

Monday 8 April 2019 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods
Ezequiel González Ocantos (University of Oxford), Andy Eggers (University of Oxford), Annette Idler (University of Oxford), Anja Neundorf (University of Nottingham), Tom O’Grady (UCL), Thomas Robinson (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing!)
TBA
Politics Scriptorium
13:00 - 2019 Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference
Various Speakers
13:00 - Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective: Book Launch of ‘Justice framed: A Genealogy of Transitional Justice’
The discussion will begin at 13:15, a light sandwich lunch will be served at 13:00.
Marcos Zunino (British Institute of International and Comparative Law)
Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
17:30 - 2019 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory Keynote Address: Irregular Migration, Adverse Possession and the Justification of the Right to Exclude
Lea Ypi (LSE)

Tuesday 30 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 1 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Gender, Community and Religion in Cameroon: Living in the Midst of Multiple "Crises"
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Cecelia Lynch (UC Irvine), Yang Han (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 3 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Monday 6 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - MPhil and MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
TBA
Politics Scriptorium

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 8 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Regimes of Difference: Culture and Order in World Politics
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Christian Reus-Smit (Queensland), Eric Haney (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

12:15 - Quantifying Dynamic Policy Responsiveness: Evidence from State Minimum Wage Laws in the U.S.
Sandwiches will be provided.
Gabor Simonovits (CEU)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Tuesday 14 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Partisan Politics and Fiscal Policy: (Why) are the left perceived as debt-profligate
Dr Lucy Barnes (LSE)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - Conflict and Social Cohesion
Professor Frances Stewart (University of Oxford), Arnim Langer (Ku Leuven)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - Second Personal Authority and the Practice of Democracy
TBA
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
17:00 - Writing Black Britain a Reflection: The Case of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and Black Activism
Please note the room change: this seminar will take place in the Pichette Auditorium at Pembroke
Elizabeth Williams (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Radical Histories of Anti-Racist Activism and Organizing
17:00 - Roundtable on the Ukrainian Presidential Elections
Tetyana A. Malyarenko (NU OLA), Petro Burkovskyy (NISS), Orysia Lutsevych (Chatham House), Stefan Szwed (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Islamic Law States and the International Order
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Emilia Justyna Powell (University of Notre Dame), Katharine Brooks (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - Special Annual Lecture 2019: 'The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists and the Struggle for the Cold War Imagination'
Dr Jenny Andersson (CNRS and Sciences Po, Paris)
17:30 - Bingham Lecture in Constitutional Studies: 'Is the House of Commons Too Powerful?'
Lord Philip Norton of Louth (University of Hull)

Friday 17 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

12:15 - Kickbacks and Limits on Campaign Donations
Sandwiches will be provided.
Nelson Ruiz-Guarin (University of Oxford )
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - Hong Kong on the Brink, 1987-2019
Professor Jeff Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine)
19:00 - OxPeace Conference Dinner
Brian Lander (World Food Programme)

Saturday 18 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

08:30 - OxPeace Conference: Peace in the Anthropocene: Humanity, Environment, Sustainability
Various Speakers

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
TBA
Politics Scriptorium

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - “Globalization in the First Person”: Political Risk and the Study of International Relations
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Nigel Gould-Davies (Mahidol & Chatham House)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 24 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

12:15 - The Politics of Portfolio Design in European Democracies
Sandwiches will be provided.
Ulrich Sieberer (Bamberg)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - French TV Documentary Projection: 'Brexit: les coulisses du divorce'
Eric Albert (Le Monde), Thomas Johnson
Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics

Monday 27 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing+Social)
TBA
Politics Scriptorium

Tuesday 28 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

14:30 - The French Parliament and the European Union: Backbenchers' Blues
Olivier Rozenberg (Sciences Po), Radoslaw Zubek (University of Oxford)

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
TBA
Politics Scriptorium

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 5 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 6 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 7 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

09:15 - Ethics and Public Policy Conference
Various Speakers
12:15 - Political Tolerance and the Crisis of Democracy in Israel
Sandwiches will be provided.
Mark Peffley (Kentucky)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - Book Launch event at the China Centre
Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford), Kyle Jaros (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing and Social)
TBA
Politics Scriptorium
10:30 - Debating Basic Income
Various Speakers

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 12 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 13 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - MPhil/MSt Politics Scriptorium (Group Writing + Social)
TBA
Politics Scriptorium

Tuesday 18 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

09:15 - Political Economy of Development and Accountability Conference
Various Speakers
14:00 - Work, Free Time, and Just Growth
Julie Rose (Dartmouth)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Wednesday 19 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 21 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - 2019 Oxford Fulbright Distinguished Lecture in International Relations: ‘The New "Arrogance of Power": Global Politics in an Age of Impunity’
Rt Hon David Miliband (International Rescue Committee)

Thursday 4 July 2019 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Cross-border Conflicts and their Connections: The Case of the African Great Lakes and South Sudan
Various Speakers

Wednesday 9 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - 'Anatomies of Revolution' Roundtable
George Lawson (LSE), Stathis Kalyvas (University of Oxford ), Elizabeth Frazer (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 16 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Healing words - Innovations in health reporting
Mia Malan (Bhekisia)
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Where is Conflict Research? Geographic Bias in the Literature on Armed Violence
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Brian Phillips (Essex)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - In the Shadow of Justice
Katrina Forrester (Harvard)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - The Rich, the Poor, and the Other: Distributional, Consequences of Philanthropic Provisioning of Public Goods
Sandwiches will be provided.
Asli Cansunar (University of Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - 'Exodus, Reckoning, Sacrifice: Three Meanings of Brexit' Book Debate
Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford), Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Fiona Macintosh (University of Oxford), Teresa Bejan (University of Oxford), Tae-Yeoun Keum (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Brexit and the declining appeal of valence politics
Cyril Benoît (OXPO Sciences Po Paris/Nuffield College, Oxford), Tim Vlandas (ESC/St Antony's College, Oxford)
Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
14:00 - Political attacks on journalism in central and eastern Europe
Meera Selva (University of Oxford)
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
14:00 - ‘Brexit and the declining appeal of valence politics’
Cyril Benoît (OXPO Sciences Po Paris/Nuffield College, Oxford), Tim Vlandas (ESC/St Antony's College, Oxford)
Seminar 'Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics'
17:00 - Measuring Peace: A Panel Discussion
A reception will follow the panel discussion: all welcome to attend. Copies of the book will be available for sale at a discounted price.
Professor Richard Caplan (Department of Politics and International Relations), Lord John Alderdice (Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict), Dr Jessie Barton Hronešová (Department of International Development), Professor Neil MacFarlane (Department of Politics and International Relations), Professor Andrea Ruggeri (moderator) (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Civil Wars and State (Un)Making
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Dr Adrian Florea (Glasgow)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 30 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Incumbents Beware: The Impact of Offshoring on Elections
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Stephanie Rickard (LSE)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 1 November 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 5 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 6 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - The 50:50 Project - increasing women's representation in the BBC's journalism
Ros Aktins (BBC News)
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - The Logic of Strategic Assets
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Allan Defoe (University of Oxford), Jeff Ding (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - The "Gilets Jaunes" movement - Issues of leadership and purpose in fluid organizing
Yoann Bazin (EM Normandie, Oxford Campus), Barry Colfer (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
17:00 - ‘The « Gilets Jaunes » movement - Issues of leadership and purpose in fluid organizing’
Yoann Bazin (EM Normandie, Oxford Campus), Barry Colfer (St Antony's College, Oxford)
Seminar 'Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics'
17:00 - The State of Colombia's Transition
Various Speakers

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

10:00 - Private Health Insurance and the European Union
Cyril Benoît (OXPO Sciences Po Paris/Nuffield College, Oxford)
Social Policy and Intervention - Departmental Colloquium
12:30 - Launderers Anonymous: Two Global Field Experiments on Regulatory Compliance in the Finance Industry
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Mike Findley (University of Texas at Austin)
IR Research Colloquium
17:30 - The Case Against Humane War: Lecture in Honor of Professor Henry Shue
Samuel Moyn (Yale University)

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

09:00 - Conference: Global populism: 50 Years After

Various Speakers
Latin American Centre Seminars and Events
12:00 - The Neo-Liberal Turn
Note this week's talk is on THURSDAY
Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:30 - The Hirschman Effect in Latin America’s Relations with the United States
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Tom Long (Warwick)
IR Research Colloquium
15:00 - Exceptionalism as an analytical resource in Global International Relations: Views from nuclear South Asia
Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)
South Asian Political Thought Seminars

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Europe, the World and Beyond
Ambassador Peter Wittig (German Ambassador to UK)

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Territorial Self-Governance and Ethnic Conflict Management
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Natascha Neudorfer (Birmnigham)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - A utopian feminist in the French Revolution: J. H. Lawrence against marriage
Due to industrial action this seminar has been cancelled
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Anne Verjus (CNRS)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - Gender and Party Discipline: Evidence from 2500 Parliamentarians
Sandwiches will be provided.
Amanda Clayton (Vanderbilt)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Does history have an arrow?
Lord Daniel Finkelstein (House of Lords )
All Souls' Lectures on Politics

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - The Politics of Legal Pluralism: Why Does the Chechen Government Promote Customary Law and Sharia
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Egor Lazarev (Harvard)
IR Research Colloquium
15:30 - Cities and the search for a governance of mobility
Colleen Thouez (Open Society Foundations ), Cécile Riallant (International Organisation for Migration), Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (Science Po, Paris)

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Friday 13 December 2019 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Title TBC
Jonathan Quong (University of Southern California)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Wednesday 15 January 2020 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Regulating Autonomous Weapons: The Role of Timing
Neil C. Renic (University of Hamburg)
Centre for Technology and Global Affairs

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)

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

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
12:00 - 'Socialist Internationalism and the Problem of Islam'
Faridah Zaman (Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
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)

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

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

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
17:00 - Sexual Subjectivity
Linda 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

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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)

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

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
Dorothy Kwek (Cardiff)
Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 7 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - 'The Stateless in the History of International Political Thought'
Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - Repression and Dissent Around a Potential Critical Juncture: Panel Data Evidence from Zimbabwe
Sandwiches will be provided.
Lauren Young (UC Davis)
Politics Research Colloquium

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)

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

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 Film Screening: ‘Storyville, Brexit: Behind Closed Doors’
Followed by wine & cheese
Various Speakers
Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics

Friday 14 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - 'The Mixing Body: A Theory of Property in Locke'
Hagar Kotef (SOAS)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - Legacies of the Third Reich: Concentration Camps and Out-group Intolerance
Sandwiches will be provided.
Jonathan Homola (Rice University)
Politics Research Colloquium

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

16:00 - Symposium in Honour of Professor Jan Zielonka
Various Speakers
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)

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

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Title TBC
Status: This talk has been cancelled
TBA
Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

12:15 - Public Perceptions of the Criminalization of Grand Corruption in Latin America
Sandwiches will be provided.
Ezequiel González Ocantos (University of Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium

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

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

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 - Climate Change, the Illusion of Separation, and the Date-of-Last Opportunity
Sandwiches are provided. Please book one in advance via andrew.melling@politics.ox.ac.uk
Henry Shue (University of Oxford)
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

Friday 28 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - 'Republicanism and Anti-Trinitarianism in John Milton's Poetry and Prose
Deni Kasa (Tel Aviv)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:15 - Title TBC
Sandwiches will be provided.
Sara Hobolt (LSE)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - Scientific advisers as guardians of responsible policy-making
Dr Lieve Van Woensel (European Parliamentary Research Service), Kalypso Nicolaidis (St Antony's College)

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

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

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

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

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

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

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

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

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

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - The logic of consistency and the rise of human rights institutions: CIS Book Manuscript Workshop
Lunch will be provided.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Gjovalin Macaj (Leiden University)
12:15 - Title TBC
Sandwiches will be provided.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Andy Hall (Stanford)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 16 March 2020 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

09:00 - OxPeace Negotiation and Mediation Training Workshop
Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio), Douglas Carpenter (EEAS), Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford)

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

08:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Various Speakers

Wednesday 29 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Building a global media brand
Prashant Rao, global editor, The Atlantic
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Thursday 30 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Visualizing International Relations
Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
William A.Callahan (LSE)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 1 May 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

12:15 - Affluence and Policy Influence in Advanced Democracies
Delivered via Zoom
Mads Andreas Elkjaer
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 5 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Sheltering Populists? House Prices and the Support for Populist Parties
This seminar will take place online.
Ben Ansell (Nuffield College)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 6 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 7 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - The International Peace and Counter-Peace Architecture
Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
Oliver Richmond (Manchester)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 8 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

12:15 - Placebo Tests for Casual Inference
Delivered via Zoom
Andy Eggers (University of Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 12 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - ‘Digital Media and the Rise and Entrenchment of Populist Politics’
Professor Ralph Schroeder (Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Stephen Whitefield (Pembroke College)
Seminar 'Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics'

Wednesday 13 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 14 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

14:30 - Of Two Minds? Rationalism and Psychology in International Relations
Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
Paola Solimena (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 15 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

12:15 - Insuring Against Hunger? Long-Term Political Consequences of Exposures to the Dutch Famine
Delivered via Zoom
Professor David Rueda (University of Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 19 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - The Political Consequences of Criminal Violence: Applying MRP to Mexican Survey Data
Online Seminar
Noam Lupu (Vanderbilt University)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 20 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 21 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

14:30 - Calling it Peace: Liberal Order and Liberal Nostalgia
Seminar to be conducted remotely: joining instructions to follow
Patrick Porter (Birmingham)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 22 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

12:15 - Terrorism, Trust, and Ethnic Identification: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nigeria
Delivered via Zoom
Dr Robin Harding (University of Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 27 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 29 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

12:15 - Turning Out Together: The Impact of Gender-Specific Polling Station on Voter Turnout
Delivered via Zoom
Shruti Lakhtakia
Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 3 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - The role of the Today programme in a national crisis
Sarah Sands, editor of BBC Radio 4 Today programme
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Friday 5 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

12:15 - Who governs? A new global dataset on members of cabinets
Delivered via Zoom
Jacob Nyrup
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 9 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - What Should We Be Allowed to Post? Citizens’ Preferences for Online Hate Speech Regulation
Online Seminar
Simon Munzert (Hertie School)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 10 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Holding power to account
Matthew Caruana Galizia, investigative journalist
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
15:00 - The US-China conflict: What implications for the world trading system?
Registration has reopened for this event - please sign up using registration link to access the Zoom room. Please arrive online at 14.45 ready to be admitted to the Zoom Room for the talk to begin promptly at 15.00.
Lloyd C. Nelson (NYU School of Law), Robert Howse (NYU School of Law), Prof. Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), Ignacio Garcia Bercero (University of Oxford; EU Commission)

Friday 12 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

12:15 - Who wants technocrats? A comparative study of citizen attitudes in nine young and consolidated democracies
Delivered via Zoom
Mlhail Chiru
Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 17 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Public sector broadcasting and trust in dangerous times
Dorothy Byrne, head of news and current affairs, Channel 4 News
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar

Friday 19 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

12:15 - The Effect of Counter-Stereotypes on Attitudes Toward Gender and LGBT Equality
Delivered via Zoom
Jae-Hee Jung
Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 24 June 2020 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Operationalising European democracy: Three Proposals
Please register with an institutional email address before the event, and arrive online at 15.45 ready to be admitted to the Zoom Room for the talk to begin promptly at 16.00.
Matteo Garavoglia (University of Oxford), Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford), Daniel Innerarity (University of the Basque Country)

Thursday 10 September 2020 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

10:00 - Stress Test
This lecture is via Zoom only
Hannah Storm (Ethical Journalism Network)
RISJ Summer School 2020

Friday 11 September 2020 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

10:00 - Numbers Game
This lecture is via Zoom only
Tim Harford
RISJ Summer School 2020

Wednesday 30 September 2020 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Book Launch, Elizabeth Frazer, Shakespeare and the Political Way
Registration required via link below. Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins, to allow for a prompt start at 4pm.
Alan Finlayson (UEA), Deana Rankin (RHUL), Will Poole (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 6 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
Dr Carissa Veliz (University of Oxford), Professor Rasmus Nielsen (Oxford Martin Programme on Misinformation, Science and Media)

Wednesday 7 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - The missing perspectives of women in COVID-19 news
Luba Kassova (AKAS audience strategy consultancy)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 8 October 2020 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Conflict and Human Rights in Colombia: The Role of the Ombudsman’s Office
---This is a public event--- ---The event will be held in Spanish--- Event to be hosted on Zoom. Please register below, and arrive online 5 minutes before the start of the event.
Carlos Alfonso Negret Mosquera

Tuesday 13 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - The Power of Uncertainty: How Change in Conflict Influences Security
Annette Idler (University of Oxford)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
17:00 - Europe's State of Play. Where are we? Where are we heading?
Various Speakers

Wednesday 14 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 15 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - Public Diplomacy in Times of Crisis & Citizens' Attitudes
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Dr Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Farsan Ghassim (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - Joint book launch:'China, the UN, and Human Protection' by Rosemary Foot and 'China's Good War' by Rana Mitter
Professor Rosemary Foot (University of Oxford), Professor Rana Mitter (University of Oxford)
17:00 - Roundtable on The Case for Scottish Independence
Ben Jackson (Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 16 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Building Tribes: How Administrative Units Shaped Ethnic Groups in Africa
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Carl Mueller-Crepon (University of Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 20 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe
Online only
Simukai Chigudu (University of Oxford)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - CANCELLED: Russia’s Intelligence and Security Agencies in the Current Time of Troubles
Cancelled. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Dr Andrew Foxall
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Under pressure: journalists and the battle to keep reporting’
Meera Selva (University of Oxford)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 22 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - The Suffragist Peace
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Joslyn Barnhart (UC Santa Barbara)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 23 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Bureaucratic Revolving Doors and Interest Group Participation in Policymaking
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Hye Young You (New York University)
Politics Research Colloquium
12:30 - Laws, liberties and the will of the people (right and wrong): political thought in the wars of religion
Sarah Mortimer (Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Monday 26 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Graduate Political Theory Conference - Day 1
Various Speakers
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
17:00 - Race and the 2020 US Election
TBA
America Decides

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 29 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - Elite Misperceptions and the Domestic Politics of Conflict
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Joshua Kertzer (Harvard University)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 30 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - Alison Hills (Philosophy) engages with Miranda Fricker (CUNY)
Various Speakers
Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium
16:00 - Protection or Peril? Colonial Jurisdictions and Ethnic Segregation in Mexico
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Jenny Guardado (Georgetown)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 4 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 5 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - China's Changing National Security Doctrine under Xi Jinping
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Sheena Greitens (University of Texas at Austin), Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 6 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Party adaptation, factionalism, and organizational choices
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Matthias Dilling (University of Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 9 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Panel discussion: Africa, capital flight and the bankers who help: evidence from the FinCEN files
William Fitzgibbon (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists), Agustin Armendariz (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists), Taiwo Hassan Adebayo (Premium Times Nigeria), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)
Oxford Martin School Events

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Russian Military Modernisation: Progress and Ambitions
TBA
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:30 - Racial Discrimination Against Blacks in the United States
Online only Please note: To accommodate US time differences, this seminar will be online at a later time of 14.30
John Holbein (University of Virginia)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 12 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - Defining Statehood: Exclusion from Universal Organizations
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Christina Davis (Havard University), Cecilia Corsini
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 13 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:30 - Re-Framing Islam: Submission, Reformation, Pacification
Murad Idris (UVA/Michigan)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
15:00 - Thomas Sinclair (Philosophy) engages with Samuel Scheffler (NYU)
Various Speakers
Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium
16:00 - “Reinvigorating Local News,” from News Hole: The Demise of Local News and Political Engagement – and What We Can Do about It (co-authored with Danny Hayes).
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Jennifer Lawless (University of Virginia)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 17 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - Natural Resources and Territorial Sovereignty: The Separate Independence of Oil-Rich Protectorates
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Naosuke Mukoyama (University of Oxford), Hussam Hussein
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 20 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Kant, Empiricism, and the Fate of Nations at the Dawn of the Nineteenth Century
Morgan Golf-French (Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
14:00 - Riskier than you think: Crisis instability between the US and China in maritime Asia
Professor Jonathan D. Caverley (US Naval War College), Dr Peter Dombrowski (US Naval War College)
16:00 - Public Opinion and the Psychologies of Threat
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
David Hendry (London School of Economics)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 26 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - Shaping States into Nations: The Effects of Ethnic Geography on State Borders
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Carl Mueller-Crepon (University of Oxford), Kan Li
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Who Answers for the Government? Bureaucrats, Ministers, and Responsible Parties (with Max Goplerud)
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Daniel M. Smith (Harvard University)
Politics Research Colloquium
12:45 - Politics, Time and East German Identity in the Era of Late Socialism
Marcus Colla (Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 1 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Wednesday 2 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - The Cyber Domain and Geopolitical Competition: Where To Next?
Please arrive 5 minutes before the event begins. Please register using your Oxford email address.
Ciaran Martin (Blavatnik School of Government)
13:00 - A new media success story
Emily Ramshaw (The 19th)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 3 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - Quantum Theory as Critical Theory: Entanglement, Alienation, and the Politics of Social Physics
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Alexander Wendt (Ohio State University), John de Bhal
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Title TBC
Please arrive 5 minutes before event begins.
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
TBA
Politics Research Colloquium
14:00 - Calculating Bully – Explaining Chinese Coercion
Keitlan Vivian Zhang (George Mason University)
16:00 - The Polish Women’s Strike: Reproduction, Work, Activism
Please arrive 5 minutes before the event begins.
Marta Lempart, Elżbieta Korolczuk, Magdalena Grabowska

Wednesday 9 December 2020 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - The War Against the BBC
Patrick Barwise (London Business School)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Tuesday 15 December 2020 (10th Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2020: Reflecting on the advances of International Relations
Janina Dill (University of Oxford), Rosemary Foot (University of Oxford), Adam Roberts (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 13 January 2021 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Experiments in innovation at The Washington Post
The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required.
Elite Truong (The Washington Post)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Monday 18 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - The autocratic middle class: how post-communist state dependency reduces the demand for democracy
Bryn Rosenfeld (Cornell)
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar Hilary Term 2021

Tuesday 19 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 20 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Building relationship and trust on TikTok – and finding news stories
The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required.
Sophia Smith Galer (BBC)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
13:00 - This Ad was Tailored for You: Estimating the Effect of Micro-targeted Political Campaigning in the 2020 US Presidential Election
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
Musashi Jacobs-Harukawa (Oxford)
Politics Research in Progress Seminar

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Women's International Thought: Towards a New Canon
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Patricia Owens (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 22 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Elite Kinship Network and State-Building Preferences in Imperial China
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Yuhua Wang (Harvard)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 25 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Individualism and attitudes towards reporting corruption: evidence from post-communist economies
Elodie Douarin (UCL-SSEES, London)
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar Hilary Term 2021

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 27 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Journalism and time
The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
James Harding (Tortoise Media)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
13:00 - Title TBC
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
TBA
Politics Research in Progress Seminar

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - It's the Politics, Stupid: Explaining US-Iranian Relations Since the Revolution
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 29 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State
Steven Klein (KCL)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
14:00 - Few Strings Attached: Why Countries Join the Belt and Road Initiative
Professor M Taylor Fravel (MIT)
International Relations of China
16:00 - Institutional Sequencing and Regime Stability: The Case of Germany, 1871-1933
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Amel Ahmed (University of Massachusetts)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 3 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Arrested development: Zimbabwean journalism
The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
Hopewell Chin’ono
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
13:00 - Title TBC
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
TBA
Politics Research in Progress Seminar
17:15 - Cruising for a Bruising: Maritime Competition in an Anti-Access Age
Jonathan D. Caverley (United States Naval War College)
Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Before Defeat: The Rise and Decline of World Orders
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Ayşe Zarakol (Cambridge)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 5 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Freedom: An Unruly History
Annelien de Dijn (Utrecht)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
16:00 - Gender and the Impact of Proportional Representation: A Comment on the Peripheral Voting Thesis
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Dawn Teele (University of Pennsylvania)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 9 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Artificial Intelligence and National Security Decision-making
Dr Erik Lin-Greenberg (MIT)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Keeping tech accountable: a conversation with The Markup
The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
Julia Angwin (The Markup)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
13:00 - From Your House to Their House: Do Changes in Consituency House Prices Change How MPs Speak About Housing?
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
Laure Bokobza (Oxford), Jacob Nyrup (Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford)
Politics Research in Progress Seminar
18:00 - Finding friends for Global Britain
Prof. Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford), Mr Charles Parton (The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)), Amy Pope (Chatham House)

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - The Tension Within Norms: Agency and Risks in Pursuit of Global Climate Justice
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Carlotta Minnella (Duke), Swapna Pathak (Oberlin College), Marco Scauso (Quinnipiac)
IR Research Colloquium
15:30 - Contesting Conformity: Democracy and the Paradox of Political Belonging
Jennie Ikuta (Missouri)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 12 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - Leveraging Money and Politics: The Rise of China’s Sovereign 'Leveraged' Funds and China’s Financial Statecraft
Dr Zongyuan Zoe Liu (Texas A&M)
International Relations of China
16:00 - Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
David Bateman (Cornell)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - Staying out of trouble: criminal cases against Russian mayors
Noah Buckley (Trinity College Dublin)
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar Hilary Term 2021

Monday 15 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - United by the state: the social roots of authoritarian power in Russia
Natalia Forrat (Michigan)
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar Hilary Term 2021

Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 17 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Data and subscriptions: El Pais' lessons in pandemic coverage
The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
Borja Echevarría (El País)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
13:00 - Displacing the Political Fiscal Cycle. Blessing or Curse?
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
Nelson Ruiz (University of Oxford), Luis Martinez (Chicago)
Politics Research in Progress Seminar
17:15 - Forward or Persistent Presence
Conor O'Neil (Royal Navy)
Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Orchestration around the Governor’s Dilemma: G7/G20 Governance of Financial Stability and Market Integrity
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins
David Hagebölling (Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 19 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Party System Institutionalization and Stability in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Michael Bernhard (University of Florida)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 22 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - What kind of firms get government support in Russia? The analysis of priority change during crises
Andrei Yakovlev (Moscow School of Economics)
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar Hilary Term 2021

Tuesday 23 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Stuff's 2020 Facebook exit: what happened next
The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
Sinead Boucher (Stuff)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
13:00 - Title TBC
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
TBA
Politics Research in Progress Seminar
17:15 - The Maritime Rung on the Escalation Ladder: Naval Blockades in a US-China Conflict
Fiona Cunningham (George Washington University)
Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Power in IR: Matching Empirical Uses to Theoretical Advances’
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Karolina Milewicz (Oxford), Duncan Snidal (University of Oxford), Kenneth Stiller (Oxford), Jacklyn Majnemer (LSE)
IR Research Colloquium
15:30 - African American Political Thought: A Collected History
Melvin Rogers (Brown)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

14:00 - A World Safe for Autocracy? The Domestic Politics of China’s Foreign Policy
Professor Jessica Chen Weiss (Cornell University)
International Relations of China
16:00 - The punishment against black girls and women and its political consequences
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Sally Nuamah (Northwestern)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 1 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Blame attribution and the politics of Covid in Russia
Paul Chaisty (University of Oxford), Chris Gerry (University of Oxford), Stephen Whitefield (Pembroke College)
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar Hilary Term 2021

Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Wednesday 3 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Covering the cartels: the history and mission of Zeta
The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
Adela Bello (Zeta magazine)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
13:00 - Title TBC
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the event begins.
TBA
Politics Research in Progress Seminar
17:15 - Advantage at Sea A discussion on the recently released Tri-Service Maritime Strategy by the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Coast Guard
Rear Admiral James Bynum
Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Thanks For Your Service: What Drives Public Confidence in the U.S. Military and Why it Matters
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Peter Feaver (Duke University), Jim Golby (UT-Austin)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 5 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
16:00 - Parties as Disciplinarians: Charisma and Commitment Problems in Programmatic Campaigning
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Rocio Titiunik (Princeton)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 8 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Social Media Virality: Predicting Social Media Cascades over Arbitrary Time Horizons
Thomas Leeper (LSE)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - How distance constrains US grand strategy in an era of military-technological innovation
Paul van Hooft (The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - Insecurities, Uncertainty, and Human Rights: A Conversation with the Colombian Ombudsman
Due to unforeseen urgent changes in the schedule of the Ombudsman, this event has been postponed (new date tbc)
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Carlos Ernesto Camargo Assis (Ombudsman of Colombia), Annette Idler (Blavatnik School of Government)
CONPEACE Webinar Series
17:00 - Cold War, Trade War: The Soviet Union, the EEC, and UNCTAD’s battle for free trade
Alessandro Iandolo (St Catherine’s), Paul Betts (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), David Priestland (St Edmund Hall), Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - News media in the Far East in 2021
The following seminars will take place at 1pm. All welcome to join via Zoom, but registration required
Daisuke Furuta (Buzzfeed)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

09:00 - EU - China relations in 2021: challenges and responses
Registration has now closed.
His Excellency Ambassador Nicolas Chapuis, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the People's Republic of China
14:00 - Reconstructing International Political Economy: A Deweyan Approach
Note earlier time of 2pm-3.30pm GMT. Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins)
IR Research Colloquium
16:00 - 'Where does Populism stand at the beginning of the 2020s?'
Chantal Mouffe (Westminster), Federico Tarragoni (Paris Diderot)
'Antidemocratic Politics vs. Democratising Democracy: New Political Imaginaries in the 21st Century'

Friday 12 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - John Locke and Empire (Carlyle Lectures)
Mark Goldie (Cambridge)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
14:00 - Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy
Dr Andrea Ghiselli (Fudan University)
International Relations of China
16:00 - Closing the Gap: The Politics of Property Rights in Kenya
Please join the Zoom room 5 minutes before the colloquium begins.
Mai Hassan (Michigan)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - The Happy Traitor: Spies, lies and exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake
Simon Kuper (Columnist and author), Helen Fry (Author and historian), Rana Mitter (St Cross, Oxford), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)

Wednesday 24 March 2021 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Financial Patterns and International Architectures: Grand corruption, Nigeria and the Role of the West
Dan Haberly (Sussex), Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Oxford), Tena Prelec (Oxford), Jackie Harvey (Northumbria), Peter Sproat (Northumbria)

Friday 16 April 2021 (-1st Week, Trinity Term)

10:00 - Germany after Merkel: recalibrating EU and foreign policies
Katja Kipping (Leader of "Die Linke", German Bundestag)

Monday 19 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods
Scott Cunningham (Baylor), Jody La Porte (Oxford), Thomas Robinson (Durham), Tom O’Grady (UCL)

Tuesday 20 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

17:15 - Oxford Spring School public lecture: Using Twitter for Social Science Research
Arun Frey (University of Oxford), Christopher Barrie (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 21 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - 13 Lessons from Lockdown
RISJ Journalist Fellows
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
16:00 - Insecurities, Uncertainty, and Human Rights: A Conversation with the Colombian Ombudsman (Event will be held in Spanish)
Regrettably, due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Carlos Ernesto Camargo Assis (Ombudsman of Colombia), Dr Annette Idler (University of Oxford)
CONPEACE Webinar Series

Thursday 22 April 2021 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

17:15 - Oxford Spring School public lecture: MRP Modelling
Chris Hanretty (Royal Holloway)

Monday 26 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - 2021 OXFORD GRADUATE CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL THEORY
Various Speakers
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Tuesday 27 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 28 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 29 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

15:00 - The Power of the Weak: How Informal Power-Sharing Shapes the Work of the United Nations Security Council
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Christoph Mikulaschek (Harvard)
IR Research Colloquium
19:00 - OUP Book Launch: ‘Women of Ideas: Interviews from Philosophy Bites’
Suki Finn (Royal Holloway, University of London), Sarah Fine (Kings College London), Teresa M. Bejan (University of Oxford), Rebecca Roache (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Friday 30 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Does Decentralization Promote Poverty Alleviation? Evidence from Kenya's Constituencies Development Fund
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Daniel Posner (UCLA)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 4 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 5 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 6 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

15:00 - Disentangling Norms, Morality and Modes of Reasoning: The September 2019 Brexit Rebellion
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Jess Gliserman (University of Oxford), Anette Stimmer (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 7 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

15:00 - Tarun Khaitan engages with Cécile Fabre
Ruth Chang (University of Oxford), Cecile Fabre (University of Oxford), Tarun Khaitan (University of Oxford)
Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium
16:00 - Repression in the digital age: Communication technology and the politics of state violence
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Anita Gohdes (Hertie)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 12 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 13 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Two Day Workshop: The Moral Psychology of War
Various Speakers
15:00 - The Power of Money in World Politics: The Ford Foundation and the Inter-American Human Rights Regime
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
16:00 - Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement
Erin Pineda (Smith College)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 14 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Democracy and Dignified Development in South Africa
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Evan Lieberman (MIT)
Politics Research Colloquium

Saturday 15 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - ‘Peace in the Nuclear Era: threats, treaties and public understanding’
Various Speakers

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - Local energy communities and the EU’s Clean Energy Package
Various Speakers

Tuesday 18 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Voters' Preferences for Parties' Moral Rhetoric
ONLINE
Jae-Hee Jung (Nuffield College)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - Why the U.S. Military Forgets What It Learns in War
Jon Askonas
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - Past Exclusion and Present-Day Immigration Policy
Rufaida Al-Hashmi (University of Oxford)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
14:15 - Between Exclusion and Intersection: Heidegger’s Philosophy and Jewish Volkism
NB This is a rescheduling of the seminar originally planned for Hilary term
Dr Daniel Herskowitz (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Trinity Term 2021
17:00 - Bingham Lecture 2021 - Dr Hannah White: Against the Clock: Brexit, COVID-19 and the Constitution
TBA
Bingham Seminars in Constitutional Studies

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Revitalising the public editor role
Kathy English (Toronto Star)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

15:00 - Public Opinion and Foreign Electoral Intervention
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Jessica Weeks (Wisconsin-Madison)
IR Research Colloquium
16:00 - Louis Blanc: Republican Socialism in 19th Century France
Pablo Scotto (Barcelona/Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Friday 21 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

15:00 - Mixed Signalling in Chinese Foreign Policy
Professor Xiaoyu Pu (University of Nevada, Reno)
International Relations of China
16:00 - A Conjunctural Theory of Political Revolution: The Case of Spanish American History
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
James Mahoney (Northwestern)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 25 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - The perils of parachute journalism in Myanmar
Aye Min Thant
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 27 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Statelessness: A Modern History
Mira Siegelberg (Cambridge)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 1 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - The Explanatory Power of Ideology
Allen Buchanan (University of Arizona)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Wednesday 2 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Ethiopian elections: what to expect in Addis
Samuel Getachew
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Friday 4 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Killing Chickens, Scaring Monkeys: The Demonstration Effects of China’s Economic Coercion and their Limits
Professor Ja Ian Chong (National University of Singapore)
International Relations of China

Monday 7 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - The Benefits and Limits of Transparency in Qualitative Research
Various Speakers

Tuesday 8 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 9 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Covering Covid: Lessons from a health reporter
Jessica Hamzelou (New Scientist)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 10 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Two Day Conference - Cultural heritage in crisis situations: a challenge for International Relations
Various Speakers

Friday 11 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Two Day Conference - Cultural heritage in crisis situations: a challenge for International Relations
Various Speakers

Tuesday 15 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 16 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Journalism behind bars – the Belarusian crisis
Volha Siakhovich (Belarusian Association of Journalism)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 17 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

09:30 - Two-Day Conference: Johnson’s Constitutional Reform Agenda
Various Speakers

Friday 18 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 23 June 2021 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Live from Capitol Hill: Robert Moore recounts Jan 6
Robert Moore (ITV News)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 19 August 2021 (17th Week, Trinity Term)

19:00 - Amia Srinivasan and Alice Spawls: The Right to Sex, hosted by London Review Bookshop
Amia Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Alice Spawls (Co-editor of the LRB)

Tuesday 12 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - In Praise of Skepticism
(speaker joining online in the LLR, Nuffield College)
Pippa Norris (Kennedy School, Harvard)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - The Operational Application of Offensive Cyber: Challenges and Opportunities
Conrad Prince (RUSI)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - Democratic Equality and the Respect Paradox
Jeff Spinner-Halev (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
14:15 - Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War 
Prof Shay Hazkani (University of Maryland)
Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 14 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - The Politics of Emotion in International Relations: Who Gets to Feel What and Whose Emotions Matter
If joining by Zoom, please log on 5 minutes before start of talk.
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 15 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:00 - New Book: The Right to Sex
Amia Srinivasan (Oxford), Commentator: Shai Agmon, Commentator: Jenny Huang, Commentator: Kushti Westwood
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
16:00 - How Patrons Select Brokers: Efficacy and Loyalty in Urban Indian Machines
Please join the Zoom meeting 5 minutes before the event begins.
Tariq Thachil (University of Pennsylvania)
Politics Research Colloquium

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 (CCW) Seminar Series
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)

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

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

13:00 - Integration – the Goldilocks factor
Lt. Col. Al Brown (British Army)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - Liability to Defensive Censorship
Jeff Howard (UCL)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
14:15 - A road towards atonement? Why only West Germany came to “atone” for the Nazi crimes.
Please note that capacity is limited in the venue. As pre-booking arrangements have proved ineffective, we now intend to offer the 10 available seats on a first come, first served basis. Once capacity is reached, additional people will be turned away. Please arrive early to secure your place. All attendees must scan in using the NHS QR code provided by the college. COVID-19 Safety Information: If you have symptoms of COVID-19 or have been in contact with someone with COVID-19, please do not attend this event. We encourage attendees to wear a face covering at all indoor OSGA events unless exempt. We encourage attendees to respect social spacing, by leaving the seat next to them free, where possible and to use handwashing and hand sanitisation facilities regularly. We request that attendees, particularly those who are not double vaccinated, perform LFD tests before attending OSGA events. All attendees at St Antony's College events must: Take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event - if positive, stay at home; Stay home if you feel unwell; Wear a face covering where indicated; Be considerate of other people’s space; Wash your hands regularly with soap or sanitiser. The latest University guidance on the use of face coverings should be checked and followed: unless exempt, you are asked wear one while moving around indoor spaces, and where possible, while seated, particularly during larger events. Attendees are asked to use the official NHS QR code posters displayed throughout the College site. College general COVID guidance can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/staff-update. Attendees need to have one of: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination status; Registration (via NHS app) of a negative Lateral Flow Device test (LFD test) taken in the last 48 hours; or Proof of natural immunity via a positive PCR test taken within 180 days of the event, but following the 10-day isolation period.
Dr Kathrin Bachleitner (University of Oxford)
Israel Studies Seminar
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)

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 (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - Automation and Immigration
Tom Parr (University of Warwick)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
14:15 - Supporting Denial: Israel’s Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide
Please note that capacity is limited in the venue. As pre-booking arrangements have proved ineffective, we now intend to offer the 10 available seats on a first come, first served basis. Once capacity is reached, additional people will be turned away. Please arrive early to secure your place. All attendees must scan in using the NHS QR code provided by the college. COVID-19 Safety Information: If you have symptoms of COVID-19 or have been in contact with someone with COVID-19, please do not attend this event. We encourage attendees to wear a face covering at all indoor OSGA events unless exempt. We encourage attendees to respect social spacing, by leaving the seat next to them free, where possible and to use handwashing and hand sanitisation facilities regularly. We request that attendees, particularly those who are not double vaccinated, perform LFD tests before attending OSGA events. All attendees at St Antony's College events must: Take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event - if positive, stay at home; Stay home if you feel unwell; Wear a face covering where indicated; Be considerate of other people’s space; Wash your hands regularly with soap or sanitiser. The latest University guidance on the use of face coverings should be checked and followed: unless exempt, you are asked wear one while moving around indoor spaces, and where possible, while seated, particularly during larger events. Attendees are asked to use the official NHS QR code posters displayed throughout the College site. College general COVID guidance can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/staff-update. Attendees need to have one of: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination status; Registration (via NHS app) of a negative Lateral Flow Device test (LFD test) taken in the last 48 hours; or Proof of natural immunity via a positive PCR test taken within 180 days of the event, but following the 10-day isolation period.
Dr Eldad Ben Aharon (University of Groningen)
Israel Studies Seminar
17:00 - Theory-Building: generating testable abstractions
Prof Federico Varese (University of Oxford), Dr Martha Newson (University of Oxford), Professor Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford)
Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division

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

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

15:00 - Military Policing Exacerbates Crime and Human Rights Abuses: A Randomized Controlled Trial 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
16:00 - Upending Impunity: Explaining Post-Tenure Presidential Prosecutions in Latin America
Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
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 (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - Against the Ontology-First Approach to Gender Recognition
Katharine Jenkins (University of Glasgow)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
14:15 - Religion and State among the Palestinian-Arabs in Israel: A Multicultural Entrapment
Please note that capacity is limited in the venue. As pre-booking arrangements have proved ineffective, we now intend to offer the 10 available seats on a first come, first served basis. Once capacity is reached, additional people will be turned away. Please arrive early to secure your place. All attendees must scan in using the NHS QR code provided by the college. COVID-19 Safety Information: If you have symptoms of COVID-19 or have been in contact with someone with COVID-19, please do not attend this event. We encourage attendees to wear a face covering at all indoor OSGA events unless exempt. We encourage attendees to respect social spacing, by leaving the seat next to them free, where possible and to use handwashing and hand sanitisation facilities regularly. We request that attendees, particularly those who are not double vaccinated, perform LFD tests before attending OSGA events. All attendees at St Antony's College events must: Take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event - if positive, stay at home; Stay home if you feel unwell; Wear a face covering where indicated; Be considerate of other people’s space; Wash your hands regularly with soap or sanitiser. The latest University guidance on the use of face coverings should be checked and followed: unless exempt, you are asked wear one while moving around indoor spaces, and where possible, while seated, particularly during larger events. Attendees are asked to use the official NHS QR code posters displayed throughout the College site. College general COVID guidance can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/staff-update. Attendees need to have one of: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination status; Registration (via NHS app) of a negative Lateral Flow Device test (LFD test) taken in the last 48 hours; or Proof of natural immunity via a positive PCR test taken within 180 days of the event, but following the 10-day isolation period.
Professor Michael Karayanni (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Israel Studies Seminar

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

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

15:00 - Mapping the global international system of the nineteenth century (1815-1914)
This session is now taking place online only. 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
17:00 - Kate Greasley (Law) engages with Seana Shiffrin (UCLA)
Kate Greasley (University of Oxford), Seana Shiffrin (UCLA)
Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium

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

16:00 - Backsliding: Democratic Regress in the Contemporary World
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Bob Kaufman (Rutgers)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Five years of the Colombian Peace Agreement
Lord Alderdice (University of Oxford), Andries Gomez-Suarez (University of Winchester), Mariels Kohpn (TUC)

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
12:30 - Where is the UK National Interest in our Economic Relationship with China?
John Edwards (Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for China)
Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series
13:00 - The Central role of Space Domain Awareness in future military conflicts
Stuart Eves (SJE Space Ltd)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - On Commemoration
Zofia Stemplowska (Oxford)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
14:15 - Israeli foreign policy since the end of the Cold War
Please note that capacity is limited in the venue. As pre-booking arrangements have proved ineffective, we now intend to offer the 10 available seats on a first come, first served basis. Once capacity is reached, additional people will be turned away. Please arrive early to secure your place. All attendees must scan in using the NHS QR code provided by the college. COVID-19 Safety Information: If you have symptoms of COVID-19 or have been in contact with someone with COVID-19, please do not attend this event. We encourage attendees to wear a face covering at all indoor OSGA events unless exempt. We encourage attendees to respect social spacing, by leaving the seat next to them free, where possible and to use handwashing and hand sanitisation facilities regularly. We request that attendees, particularly those who are not double vaccinated, perform LFD tests before attending OSGA events. All attendees at St Antony's College events must: Take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event - if positive, stay at home; Stay home if you feel unwell; Wear a face covering where indicated; Be considerate of other people’s space; Wash your hands regularly with soap or sanitiser. The latest University guidance on the use of face coverings should be checked and followed: unless exempt, you are asked wear one while moving around indoor spaces, and where possible, while seated, particularly during larger events. Attendees are asked to use the official NHS QR code posters displayed throughout the College site. College general COVID guidance can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/staff-update. Attendees need to have one of: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination status; Registration (via NHS app) of a negative Lateral Flow Device test (LFD test) taken in the last 48 hours; or Proof of natural immunity via a positive PCR test taken within 180 days of the event, but following the 10-day isolation period.
Dr Amnon Aran (City University)
Israel Studies Seminar
17:00 - Intersectionality: making sense of power and identity
Prof Nick Owen (University of Oxford), Prof Nikita Sud (University of Oxford), Prof Rossella Ciccia (University of Oxford)
Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division

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

15:00 - From Pluribus to Unum? The Civil War and Imagined Sovereignty in 19th Century America
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)

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:15 - CCW 2021 Annual Lecture: British Defence Policy: Reviews and Redirections
Peter Watkins (Chatham House)

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
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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 (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - A Resourcist Argument for Sharing the Costs of Children
Serena Olsaretti (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
14:15 - The Colonizing Self (Or: Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine)
Please note that capacity is limited in the venue. As pre-booking arrangements have proved ineffective, we now intend to offer the 10 available seats on a first come, first served basis. Once capacity is reached, additional people will be turned away. Please arrive early to secure your place. All attendees must scan in using the NHS QR code provided by the college. COVID-19 Safety Information: If you have symptoms of COVID-19 or have been in contact with someone with COVID-19, please do not attend this event. We encourage attendees to wear a face covering at all indoor OSGA events unless exempt. We encourage attendees to respect social spacing, by leaving the seat next to them free, where possible and to use handwashing and hand sanitisation facilities regularly. We request that attendees, particularly those who are not double vaccinated, perform LFD tests before attending OSGA events. All attendees at St Antony's College events must: Take a lateral flow test on the morning of the event - if positive, stay at home; Stay home if you feel unwell; Wear a face covering where indicated; Be considerate of other people’s space; Wash your hands regularly with soap or sanitiser. The latest University guidance on the use of face coverings should be checked and followed: unless exempt, you are asked wear one while moving around indoor spaces, and where possible, while seated, particularly during larger events. Attendees are asked to use the official NHS QR code posters displayed throughout the College site. College general COVID guidance can be found here: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/staff-update. Attendees need to have one of: Proof of COVID-19 vaccination status; Registration (via NHS app) of a negative Lateral Flow Device test (LFD test) taken in the last 48 hours; or Proof of natural immunity via a positive PCR test taken within 180 days of the event, but following the 10-day isolation period.
Hagar Kotef (SOAS)
Israel Studies Seminar

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

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

15:00 - Competing memories of conflict
If joining online, please join Zoom call 5 minutes before start of the talk.
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
14:30 - Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order
Professor Yeling Tan (University of Oregon)
International Relations of China
16:00 - A Moral Theory of Vaccination: States, Societies and the Control of Contagion in China and India
Unfortunately, this talk has been cancelled.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Prerna Singh (Brown University)
Politics Research Colloquium

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

12:30 - The Politics of Corruption Prosecutions: Varieties of Anticorruption Campaigns
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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 (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - Paternalism at a Distance
Jonathan Turner (University of Oxford)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
14:15 - The Social Life of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel: A Global History
Zoom joining details: Topic: The Social Life of Hashish is Mandatory Palestine and Israel: A Global History (Haggai Ram) Time: Nov 30, 2021 14:15 London Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99134999749?pwd=TWhPbExmUDU1UGJKSG9rSVcxZ1diZz09 Meeting ID: 991 3499 9749 Passcode: 486354
Dr Haggai Ram (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Israel Studies Seminar
17:00 - Migration Crisis on the Belarus/EU border - Fight Against What?
Professor Neil MacFarlane (University of Oxford), Dr Michael Taylor (Oxford Analytica), Tadeusz Giczan (Nexta), Dr Dimitar Bechev (University of Oxford)
17:00 - Europe in a changing world: The view from outside
Hybrid seminar
Ezgi Basaran (St Antony’s College, Oxford) (St Antony’s College, Oxford), Dr Kira Huju (University of Oxford), Prof. Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), David Priestland (University of Oxford)
European Studies Seminar

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)

10:00 - The Politics of Nuclear Commemoration in Asia: The China Case
Nicola Leveringhaus (King's College London)
International Relations of China
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
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Timothy Frye (Columbia University)
Politics Research Colloquium

Wednesday 12 January 2022 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Afghanistan and me: a female perspective
TBA
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Monday 17 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - The UN and the changing character of peacemaking: new tools and new thinking
Please note this event has now been moved online. A video link will be posted closer to the time. Attendees are asked to log on 5 minutes prior to the start of the event.
Raja Gundu (United Nations)

Tuesday 18 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Fathers’ leave increases attitudinal gender equality
Zoom details: https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09 Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066 Passcode: 322203
Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - On Russian strategy in the social media battlefield
Dr David Gioe (King's College London)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
17:00 - Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us, with Brian Klaas
Brian Klaas (UCL)
Bingham Seminars in Constitutional Studies
18:30 - The Rise of China: Implications for the World System
Various Speakers

Wednesday 19 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - DPhil Politics Research in Progress seminar
Javier Pérez Sandoval (University of Oxford)
13:00 - The death of the Kyiv Post and the fight for its rebirth
Elina Alem Kent (Kyiv Independent)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
17:15 - It’s grand, but is it strategy? The origins of ‘grand strategy’ revisited
Please note that the venue has been changed to the Manor Road Building.
Dr. David Morgan-Owen (King's College London)
Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Thursday 20 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - ‘Right-Peopling’ the State: Nationalism, Historical Legacies and Ethnic Cleansing in Europe, 1885-2020
Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
Carl Mueller-Crepon (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 21 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Discussion of Sarah Mortimer's Reformation, Resistance and Reason of State (1517-1625): the Oxford History of Political Thought
Sarah Mortimer, Geertje Bol, Jacob Chatterjee
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
16:00 - The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle-Class
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Tomila Lankina (LSE)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - POSTPONED - Economic reforms in Angola: the Government’s perspective (Online Only)
Please note this talk has been postponed due to speaker illness. We hope to announce a new date soon.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Vera Daves de Sousa (Minister of Finance, Angola), José de Lima Massano (Governor, National Bank of Angola), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)
Oxford Martin School Events

Tuesday 25 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Can Americans Depolarize? Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization
Zoom: https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09 Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066 Passcode: 322203
Amanda Lea Robinson (Ohio State University)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - Illusions of Autonomy: Why Europe Cannot Provide for Its Security If the United States Pulls Back
Dr Hugo Meijer (Sciences Po)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
17:00 - Against the Enlightenment (Judith Shklar)
Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 27 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Friday 28 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - City, faction, and tyranny: Bartolus of Sassoferrato's three treatises on city government
If you are planning to attend in person please book a ticket at the link below
George Garnett (Oxford), Magnus Ryan (Cambridge)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
14:00 - Translation Matters: Problems of Inference in Assessments of China's Intentions
Professor Alastair Iain Johnston (Harvard University)
International Relations of China
16:00 - Circumstantial Liberals: Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Jan Rovny (Sciences Po Paris)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - The Fate of Colonial Elites in Post-Colonial Regimes: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
Dr Neil Ketchley (Associate Professor in Politics, St Antony’s College)
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 1 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Does Political Representation Increase Participation? Evidence from Party Candidate Lotteries in Mexico
Zoom: : https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09 Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066 Passcode: 322203
Mathias Poertner (LSE)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - Copenhagen 1807: A British War of prevention and pre-emption?
Professor Brendan Simms (University of Cambridge)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
17:00 - The Romantic Revolution (Isaiah Berlin)
Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

Wednesday 2 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 3 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - NATO After 9/11: Counterterrorism, Organized Violence and the Transnational Remaking of the Euro-Atlantic Security
Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
Julien Pomarede (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
IR Research Colloquium
17:15 - The Gender of Critical Theory
Extra Session with the Critical Theory Seminar
Lois McNay (University of Oxford), Commentator: Liz Frazer (Politics)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
17:15 - The Gender of Critical Theory
This session is jointly hosted with the Oxford Political Theory Seminar
Lois McNay (University of Oxford)
Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 4 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Online Hate Speech and How to Counter it
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Dominik Hangartner (ETH Zurich)
Politics Research Colloquium
16:00 - Claudia Jones' "Triple Oppression" Concept and the interrelation of Race, Gender, and Class
Vanessa Wills (George Washington University)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
17:00 - Africa for the Africans: A History of Self-Determination before Decolonization
Please note this is an online event
Adom Getachew (Chicago)

Tuesday 8 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - The Cultural Origins of Populism
Zoom: https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09 Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066 Passcode: 322203
Yotam Margalit (Tel Aviv)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
Please use this link to join the meeting: https://jh.zoom.us/j/97354488555?pwd=emRsbWU1TEx0Z3A0VG0vWEU5VTdFQT09
Professor Mary Sarotte (Johns Hopkins)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
17:00 - The Terrors of Historical Progress (Karl Popper)
Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 10 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Virtual Territories
Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
Jordan Branch (Claremont McKenna College)
IR Research Colloquium
17:15 - Slavery, Work, and History: DuBois’s Black Marxism
Amy Allen (Penn State)
Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 11 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

10:00 - Chinese Scholars and the Studies of Chinese Foreign Policy
Professor Kai He (Griffith University)
International Relations of China
12:00 - Title TBC
Tim Stuart-Buttle (York)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
16:00 - How Emancipation Drives Property Rights: Theory and Evidence from Imperial Brazil
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Jorge Mangonnet (University of Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Can Political Fiscal Cycles be Stopped? Evidence from a Public Spending Ban Near Elections
Zoom: https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09 Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066 Passcode: 322203
Nelson Ruiz (University of Oxford)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - Maritime Strategy: Using the Other 71%
Captain Brent Spillner (US Navy), Commander Andrew Livsey (Royal Navy and CCW Visiting Research Fellow)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
17:00 - Jewish Christianity (Gertrude Himmelfarb)
Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism
17:00 - The Lee Lecture in Political Science and Government: The Right Not To Be Manipulated
Cass R. Sustein (Harvard)

Wednesday 16 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 17 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Inevitability
Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
Yuna Han (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
17:15 - Frantz Fanon on alienation and identity
Jean Khalfa (Cambridge)
Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 18 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Rereading An American Dilemma
Emma MacKinnon (Cambridge)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
16:00 - Democratization after Democratization: how first wave democracies ended electoral corruption
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Isabela Mares (Yale)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - HYBRID EVENT - All Jihad Is Local: the Micro-Politics of Militant Islamism in 1980s Lebanon and Beyond
Raphael Lefevre (St.Antony's College)
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series

Tuesday 22 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Who gets the Credit? News-Gathering Competition and Political Accountability
Zoom: https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09 Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066
Patrick Le Bihan (CEVIPOF-Sciences Po)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - People’s Liberation Army Modernisation: from drivers of change to strengths and weaknesses
Meia Nouwens (The International Institute for Strategic Studies)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
13:00 - Birth of Neoliberal Anti-Environmentalism in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s
Extra session with American History Research Seminar
Niklas Olsen (University of Copenhagen)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
17:00 - White Freedom (Hannah Arendt)
Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Institutional Racism in International Relations
Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
Phillip Lipscy (University of Toronto), Jiajia Zhou
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - PLP Colloquium: Alison Hills (Philosophy) engages with Nomy Arpaly (Brown)
Prof Alison Hills (University of Oxford), Prof Nomy Arpaly (Brown University)
Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium

Friday 25 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Reconsidering Racial Capitalism: From Necessity to Entanglement
Emily Katzenstein (Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:00 - Visualising Truths: The Politics of Omission, Manipulation, and Erasure
This series is open to anyone having an interest in the visual means and modes through which migration and im/mmobility are and can be represented. The zoom link will be sent out via email 48 hours before the events.
Anthony Bourached (Co-Founder, Oxia Palus; PhD Candidate in Machine Learning and High Dimensional Neuroscience, UCL), Gillian Rose (Professor of Cultural Geography, Fellow of the British Academy, The Open University)
14:00 - Politics of AI in China
Professor Jinghan Zen (Lancaster University)
International Relations of China
16:00 - Conflict Shapes in Flux: A Typology of Spatial Change in Armed Conflict
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Kate Tcakova (University of Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - The Structural Underpinnings of Affective Polarization in Western Democracies
Join Zoom Meeting: https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09 Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066 Passcode: 322203
Noam Gidron (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - The Indo-Pacific Tilt, Geopolitics and International Law - Issues and Challenges
Captain Ian Park (Royal Navy)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
17:00 - The Garrisoned Self (Lionel Trilling)
Professor Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism

Wednesday 2 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Making an Underworld: Internationalism and Moral Panics
Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
Jeanne Morefield (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
17:15 - Title TBC
Koshka Duff (Nottingham)
Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - The rule of merit and the merit of rules
Benjamin Straumann (Zurich/NYU)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
12:00 - The invasion of Ukraine and its implications: a panel discussion
Prof Federico Varese (University of Oxford), Dr Michael Biggs (University of Oxford), Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Emma Mateo (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)
16:00 - The Challenges to Representative Democracy: Populism, Technocracy and Political Pluralism
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Daniele Caramani (EUI)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 8 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Strategies for Reducing Misinformation Uptake in a Polarized Context: Experimental Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
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Jessica Gottlieb (University of Houston)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - ‘War’ vs ‘Conflict’: changing Russian perceptions between the military and the civilian security establishment
Mark Galeotti (UCL)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Can a leopard change its spots? Implicit theories and signaling in international politics
Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
Paola Solimena (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
17:15 - Title TBC
Amelia Horgan (Essex)
Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 11 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism: A Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures
Sam Moyn (Yale)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
13:00 - Roundtable on Ukraine
Petro Burkovskyy (Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation), Olesya Khromeychuk (Ukrainian Institute, London), Orysia Lutsevych (Ukraine Forum, Chatham House, London)
14:30 - Making China Great Again? China’s 'Green' and 'Digital' Belt and Road Initiative
Dr Yuka Kobayashi (SOAS)
International Relations of China
16:00 - Post-Communist Regime Trajectories - A Challenge to the Mainstream Comparative Approach
Please join the Zoom 5 minutes before the event begins.
Balint Magyar (CEU)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 14 March 2022 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

09:30 - OxPeace 3 Day Training Workshop in Mediation and Negotiation
Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
OxPeace Events

Tuesday 22 March 2022 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

10:00 - Turning point: The implications of Putin’s war for Europe’s economic and political choices
Paolo Gentiloni (European Commission), Professor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford), Professor Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Matteo Garavoglia (University of Oxford)

Monday 28 March 2022 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: What it Means for UK-China Relations and the Threat to Taiwan
Tom Tugendhat, Sophia Gaston (British Foreign Policy Group), Rana Mitter (Oxford)

Wednesday 30 March 2022 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

10:00 - Waking up to reputation laundering as a mechanism for transnational kleptocracy
Matthew T. Page (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Tena Prelec (Oxford), Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Oxford), Jodi Vittori (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), John K. Glenn (International Forum for Democratic Studies)

Tuesday 5 April 2022 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

18:00 - Is There a Better Way to do Democracy? A Roundtable on Hélène Landemore's 'Open Democracy'
Date changed to 5 April 2022
Hélène Landemore (Yale University), Udit Bhatia (University of Sheffield), Tom Ginsburg (University of Chicago), Stuart White (University of Oxford)

Monday 18 April 2022 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods 2022
Scott Cunningham (Baylor), Bruno Castanho Silva (Cologne), Jody La Porte (Oxford), Andreas Murr (Warwick), Tom Robinson (Durham), Chris Barrie (Edinburgh)
DPIR Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods

Wednesday 20 April 2022 (0th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Why journalism needs information security
Philip Di Salvo (London School of Economics)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Tuesday 26 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - How Main Street Sees Wall Street: Financial Regulation as a Second Dimension of Public Opinion on Economic Policy
Hybrid event: Join Zoom Meeting: https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09; Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066; Passcode: 322203
Taeku Lee (UC Berkeley Political Science)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - International Law, Politics and Ethics of Humanitarian Military Intervention
Dr Iacovos Kareklas (CCW)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 28 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 29 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Organization, Literacy, and the Rise of Secular Parties (with Kit Rickard)
Zeynep Bulutgil (UCL)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 3 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 4 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 5 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - The Industrial Park Model and Global Value Chain Integration in Ethiopia
Nicolas Lippolis (University of Oxford)
Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
15:00 - Binding international law without ratification: delegation in environmental treaties
Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
Jon Pevehouse (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - PLP Colloquium: Sophie Smith (Politics) engages with Imani Perry (Princeton)
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Sophie Smith (Christ Church, Oxford University), Imani Perry (Princeton University)
Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium

Friday 6 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - Lecture by the Right Hon. Lord David Willetts (PPE, 1975): 'Can politics deliver fairness between the generations?'
Rt Hon. Lord David Willetts

Tuesday 10 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Voter-Endorsed Challenges to International Institutions and how they Reverberate Abroad
Hybrid Event: Join Zoom Meeting, https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09, Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066 Passcode: 322203
Stefanie Walter (University of Zurich)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - Reflexive Control Theory: a Soviet perspective on influence and why it matters in the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Maria de Goeij (CCW)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - Book Workshop - 'Postcolonial Global Justice' by Shuk Ying Chan
Shuk Ying Chan (University of Oxford)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
14:15 - Hollywood and Israel: A History
Professor Tony Shaw (University of Hertfordshire), Dr Giora Goodman (Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee)
Israel Studies Seminar
16:00 - Legalist Assaults on Democracy
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SESSION WILL TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY
Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:00 - The Future of Accountability
Alison Brysk (UC Santa Barbara), Neil Mitchell (UCL), Yuna Han (Oxford)
Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 12 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Tuesday 17 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Collateral Censorship: Theory and Evidence from Venezuela
Hybrid Event: Join Zoom Meeting: https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09, Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066, Passcode: 322203
John Marshall (Columbia University)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - Nation-Building in the Borderlands of a Borderland: A Cartographical Examination of the Russia-Ukraine War
This event will now be on Teams as well as in person. Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Yjg4ZjgwMTUtODc2MS00ZWE1LTg3OWItMWYyMjU3YzVkZjZm%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22a4e7f38d-7c83-4a62-a150-818baca67a19%22%7d
Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - Three Ecological Arguments for Limitarianism
Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht University)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
14:15 - Is Zionism a “Left-Wing Melancholy”?
Nitzan Lebovic ((Lehigh))
Israel Studies Seminar
17:00 - The Bingham Lecture: 'Parliament under strain: culture, norms and rule-breaking in the House of Commons since 2009'
Professor Emma Crewe (SOAS)
Balliol College Online Lectures
17:00 - Communicating Human Rights
Alison Brysk (UC Santa Barbara), Todd Landman (Nottingham)
Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Lessons in visual journalism from Paraguay's El Surtidor
Jazmín Acuña (El Surtidor)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 19 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - Learning from Machines: Differentiating US Presidential Campaigns with Attribution and Annotation
Musashi Jacobs-Harukawa (Oxford)
Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
15:00 - Theory of Linkage Politics
Please join the Zoom call 5 minutes before the talk.
Kennedy Mbeva (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 20 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media
Dr Michael Masterson (Missouri State)
International Relations of China
15:30 - The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion: In conversation with Mark R. Beissinger
Please note that this event will now begin 30 minutes earlier than originally advertised, at 15:30 GMT
Mark R. Beissinger (Princeton), Anne Wolf (Oxford), Stathis Kalyvas (Oxford), Neil Ketchley (Oxford), Andrea Ruggeri (Oxford)
16:00 - Large-N Qualitative Analysis (LNQA): external validity and generalization in case study and multi-method research
This is a hybrid event. If you wish to join the Join Zoom Meeting, please use the following details: us06web.zoom.us/j/81400620216?pwd=ZXdSWGxkWmZ3dmZvM1BVVnJoMnVldz09 Meeting ID: 814 0062 0216 Passcode: 535586
Stephan Haggard (UCSD)
Politics Research Colloquium

Saturday 21 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

10:00 - Backsliding and resilience in liberal democracies: One-day conference
Please register using the Eventbrite link
Giovanni Capoccia (University of Oxford), Ivan Ermakoff (Wisconsin), Isabela Mares (Yale), Vicente Valentim (Nuffield College), Professor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford), Justin Grimmer (Stanford), Lonna Atkeson (Florida), Susan Stokes (Chicago), Robert Lieberman (Johns Hopkins University), Stephen Haggard (UC San Diego), David Bateman (Cornell), Melis Laebens (University of Oxford)

Monday 23 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

14:30 - The historical origin of tolerance
Isabela Mares (Yale)

Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Executive control of the policy agenda in the age of social media
Hybrid Event: Join Zoom Meeting: https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09, Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066, Passcode: 322203
Emiliano Grossman (Sciences Po LIEPP)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
14:00 - Social Beneficence
Jacob Barrett (Global Priorities Institute, Oxford)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
14:15 - The Fear of Judaism in Israeli Culture
Professor Gideon Katz (Ben Gurion University)
Israel Studies Seminar
15:00 - Red Wall, Red Herring? Economic insecurity and voting intention in Britain
Please register to attend online here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/red-wall-red-herring-economic-insecurity-and-voting-intention-in-britain-tickets-327343893397 or in person here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/red-wall-red-herring-economic-insecurity-and-voting-intention-in-britain-tickets-323824095587
Jane Green (Oxford), Roosmarijn De Geus (Reading), Sarah O’Connor (Financial Times)
16:00 - Sinology in Wartime: a conversation
Professor Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), Dr Yevheniia Hobova (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), Professor Olga Lomová (Charles University Prague)
17:00 - 'Illicit finance and the role of professional enablers in the United Kingdom: are things finally changing?' with Andrew Mitchell & Dame Margaret Hodge
Dame Margaret Hodge (MP for Barking and Dagenham), Andrew Mitchell (MP for Sutton Coldfield), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)
Oxford Martin School Series - African Governance: Economic, social and political governance challenges
17:00 - Human Rights and The Future of Migration
Alison Brysk (UC Santa Barbara), Stephen Meili (Minnesota/Oxford), Loren Landau (Oxford)
Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
17:00 - Institutional Pathways in Challenging the Liberal Order: China at the United Nations
Rosemary Foot (Oxford)

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 26 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 27 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Tuesday 31 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - When Losing The State Drives Opposition to Redistribution: An Experiment in India
Hybrid Event: Join Zoom Meeting: https://bsg.zoom.us/j/91663686066?pwd=QWNHVEY4YzhWMUtvMHZmN0RKQWsyQT09, Meeting ID: 916 6368 6066, Passcode: 322203
Simon Chauchard (University Carlos III, Madrid)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
14:00 - Taking It Home With You: Work, Free Time and Domination
Orlando Lazar (University of Oxford)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
14:00 - Interpretive Politics Forum: Tracing memories in IR
Kathrin Bachleitner (Oxford)
17:00 - Human Rights and The Future of Global Governance
Alison Brysk (UC Santa Barbara), Leigh Payne (Oxford), Pilar Elizalde (LSE)
Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 2 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Tuesday 7 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 8 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

10:00 - The West, China and 'Systemic Rivalry' – Coalitions and Counter-coalitions
Andrew Small (German Marshall Fund)
International Relations of China
13:00 - Reporting on the women the pandemic left behind
Ryan Lenora Brown (The Continent)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
14:15 - South East Europe in the shadow of the war in Ukraine
Online webinar
Various Speakers
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Thursday 9 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Monday 13 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 16 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 17 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - Panel Discussion with Josiah Ober: Ethics in AI with Aristotle
Various Speakers

Monday 20 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Peacekeeping: research, policy, and practice
Professor Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), Dr John Cockell (United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali)
Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) Showcase 2022

Wednesday 22 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

13:30 - The State of the Constitution: Constitution Unit Conference 2022
Various Speakers

Thursday 14 July 2022 (12th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Labour Market and Workplace Justice: Two-Day Workshop
Various Speakers

Friday 9 September 2022 (20th Week, Trinity Term)

10:00 - SISP Conference 2022: Section 6 - International Relations (part of a three-day conference)
Various Speakers

Monday 12 September 2022 (21st Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - The geopolitics of global high-tech standards: Key issues and debates
Various Speakers

Thursday 22 September 2022 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Russia-Ukraine War: The West vs. The Rest?
Various Speakers

Tuesday 27 September 2022 (-1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:30 - Research Showcase Event - DPIR
If you cannot attend in person, please Join us virtually via Teams: https://tinyurl.com/yafmd6jr
Various Speakers

Wednesday 5 October 2022 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Thanks, but No Thanks: Attitudes on Refugee Policy in the European Union
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Natalia Letki (University of Warsaw)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars

Monday 10 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tuesday 11 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Laboratories of Democratic Backsliding
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Jake Grumbach (University of Washington)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
17:00 - Book launch: “The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America” by Francesca Lessa
This is a hybrid event. To attend online please register via the link below. Registration is not required for in person attendance.
Professor Jocelyn Alexander (University of Oxford), Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (Nuffield College), Dr Francesca Lessa (Oxford Department of International Development and Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford), Dr Par Engstrom (Associate Professor of Human Rights, Institute of the Americas, University College London)
17:00 - Understanding Right-Wing Populism And What To Do About It
Dr Tim Vlandas (University of Oxford), Prof Daphne Halikiopoulou (University of Reading), Prof Lenka Bustikova (University of Oxford), Dr Anja Giudici (Newcastle University)

Wednesday 12 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 13 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:15 - Before the Colour Line: Capital, Empire, and Race in Asia, 1800-1850
Ulas Ince (SOAS)
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Empire

Friday 14 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - PLP Colloquium: Liam Murphy (NYU) engages with Tsilly Dagan (Law)
Professor Liam Murphy (NYU), Tsilly Dagan (University of Oxford)
Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Miltonic Monsters among the British Moralists: The Imagination of AI from Hobbes to Shelley
Eileen M Hunt (Notre Dame)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 18 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Benito Juarez, Republican Internationalism, and the Transformation of Nineteenth Century International Order
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Thomas Long (University of Warwick)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
14:00 - Rising India's Hidden Transcripts: The Long Shadow of 'Nuclear Apartheid' in the Global Nuclear Order
Kate Sullivan de Estrada (University of Oxford)
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
14:00 - The Islamic Movement in Israel
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
Dr Tilde Rosmer (Zayed)
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
14:00 - Disaggregating Structural Injustice
Johann Go (Worcester College, Oxford)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop

Wednesday 19 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Putting indigenous rights on the news agenda
Isabella Higgins (ABC news)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions - Book Talk and Round-table
Neta Crawford (University of Oxford), Oliver Belcher (Durham University), Jan Selby (Sheffield University)

Friday 21 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Civic Associations, Populism, and (Un-)Civic Behavior: Evidence from Germany
Bogdan Popescu (Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 24 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Painting Political Philosophy
Emma Planinc (Notre Dame)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 25 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - The Political Consequences of the Mental Load
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Ana Catalano Weeks (University of Bath)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - The Face of Peace: Government pedagogy amid disinformation in Colombia
Dr Gwen Burnyeat (Merton College, University of Oxford)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - Israel, Germany, the Holocaust and the Luxembourg Agreement of September 1952: was the Ben Gurion government justified in accepting Adenauer's ‘shilumim'/'reparations'/''wiedergutmachung'?
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky (Oxford and Brunel, retired)
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
14:00 - Title TBC
Vanessa Wills (Georgetown University)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
16:00 - Purging to Transform the Post-Colonial State: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
Neil Ketchley (Oxford)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
17:00 - Foreign States in Domestic Markets
The European Studies Centre in partnership with the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.
Tim Vlandas (ESC/St Antony's College, Oxford), Prof Mark Thatcher (LUISS Italy), Professor Jane Gingrich (DPIR), Prof. Pepper Culpepper (Blavatnik School of Government)

Wednesday 26 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 27 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Friday 28 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Social Norms, Preference Falsification, and Support for Stigmatized Parties
Sandwich lunch available
Vicente Valentim (Nuffield College)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Parliamentary institutions in the political thought of Jean Bodin
Paulina Kewes (Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 1 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - The Co-opted State: Bureaucrats, Development, and Corruption in Ghana
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Sarah Brierley (LSE)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
14:00 - Dwelling on the Green Line: Privatize and Rule in Israel/Palestine’
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
Dr Gabriel Schwake (University of Sheffield)
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
14:00 - Mansplaining and Its Political Consequences for Women’s Voice
Laura Montanaro (University of Essex)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
16:00 - Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Cosmopolitan Origins of Revolution in Southeast Asia
John Sidel (LSE)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
16:30 - Republics of Myth: National Narratives and the US-Iran Conflict
Huss Banai (Indiana University, Bloomington), Louise Fawcett (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
17:00 - Panel Discussion: 'Financial and economic crime in the Global South'
Dr Folashade Adeyemo (Assistant Professor in Law, University of Reading), Dr Nkechi Azinge-Egbiri (Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Lincoln), Dr Joy Malala (Assistant Professor, University of Warwick), Luckystar Miyandazi (Coordinator, Tax Inspectors Without Borders, UNDP), Dr Lovina Otudor (The Global South Dialogue on Economic and Financial Crime), Prof Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Department of Politics and International Relations)
Oxford Martin School Events

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Friday 4 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - The Silenced Text: Field Experiments on Gendered Experiences of Political Participation
Sandwich Lunch Available
Dr Rachel Bernhard (Nuffield College)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 7 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

17:00 - Book Launch: Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa. The National Peace Accord 1991-1994
Joint event, DPIR and OxPeace (Oxford Network of Peace Studies)
Rev Liz Carmichael (University of Oxford), William Beinart (University of Oxford), Felicity Steadman (independent mediator and peace facilitator), Professor Richard Caplan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Does Local Exposure to Refugees Affect Voting Behavior
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Sascha Riaz (Nuffield College)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - Know your enemy: Empathy and imagination in strategy
Dr Kenneth Payne (King's College, London)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - The Divine People? Mapping the political-theological coordinates of post-liberalism
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
Dr Suzanne Schneider (Brooklyn Institute for Social Research)
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
16:00 - Looking for the Enemy: Mullah Omar and the Unknown Taliban
Bette Dam (Sciences Po)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Wednesday 9 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Behind the scenes of the world's number one Spanish podcast
Carolina Guerrero (Radio Ambulante)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
17:15 - An Exceptional Relationship? US nuclear strategy and the US-UK Nuclear Relationship
This seminar take place on 9th November as originally planned.
Dr Suzanne Doyle (East Anglia)
Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:15 - Deparochializing (global) justice: why and how
Catherine Lu (McGill University)
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Empire

Friday 11 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Monday 14 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Languages of republicanism: res publica and swaraj
Manjeet Ramgotra (SOAS)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 15 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Thanks, But No Thanks: Attitudes on Refugee Policy in the European Union
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Natalia Letki (University of Warsaw)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
14:00 - Haters, Love Story: on the relations between Mizrahi Jews and Palestinian Arab’
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
Professor Hillel Cohen (Hebrew U)
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
14:00 - Global Justice and Biodiversity Conservation
Chris Armstrong (University of Southampton)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
16:00 - Victimization and Punishment Violence in Latin America
Enzo Nussio (Zurich)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
17:00 - The Geopolitics of Cybersecurity: Old Problems, New Trends
Mr Viljar Lubi (Embassy of Estonia) (Estonian Ambassador to the United Kingdom), Edward Lucas (Oxford), Vili Lehdonvirta (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Roundtable with Journal Editors
Please note that this is an online event via Zoom.
Professor Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford), Ben Ansell (University of Oxford), Geoff Evans (University of Oxford)
13:00 - Avoiding the pitfalls of Fifa World Cup Qatar 2022 coverage
Chris McHardy (Arabian Radio Network)

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:30 - Life, Death, and the Western Way of War
Lorenzo Zambernardi (University of Bologna)

Friday 18 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Sexism and Voting for Women Candidates: Evidence from Britain, the United States, and Canada
Rosalind Shorrocks (University of Manchester), Elizabeth Ralph-Morrow (UCL), Roosmarijn de Geus (University of Reading)
Politics Research Colloquium

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - How the COVID-19 Pandemic Polarized Societies
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Michael Bang Petersen (Aarhus University)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - Provocative presence: Strategic ambiguity and naval options in a restive world
Captain Brent Spillner (US Navy)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:00 - Menachem Begin’s stand on the imposition of the Military Government, 1948- 1966
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
Dr Maya Mark (Ben Gurion)
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
14:00 - Towards a Political Theory of Caring In and Against the Welfare State
Emily Dyson (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
16:00 - From Cyberspace to the Metaverse: Toward an Intellectual History of the Internet
Please note this seminar will be on Tuesday at the Rothermere American Institute
Angus Burgin (Johns Hopkins)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:15 - CANCELLED: Gandhi's Silence
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Faisal Devji (St Antony's College)
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Empire

Friday 25 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Democracy, Votes, and Participation
Filip Kostelka (European University Institute)
Politics Research Colloquium
13:00 - Sample event
TBA

Monday 28 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

15:00 - Exploring Transgender Politics: A Conversation with Catharine A. MacKinnon
Please note that due to the UCU strikes happening on the 24th, 25th, and 30th November, the date and time of this event has now changed.
Catharine A. MacKinnon (U Michigan/Harvard)
Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium

Tuesday 29 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

12:30 - Members of the Same Club?: Subnational Variations in Electoral Returns to Public Goods
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09; Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Tugba Bozcaga (King's College London)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
14:00 - Zionist Neutral? The Sardonic Zionism of Yeshayahu Leibowitz and Ovadia Yosef
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm
Netta Schramm (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
14:00 - Book manuscript workshop on Jamie Draper’s Climate Displacement
Various Speakers
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
16:00 - The Moral Hazard of Military Automation: From Boots on the Ground to Drones in the Air
Anna Getmansky (LSE)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
17:00 - PLP Colloquium: Catharine A. MacKinnon, 'Rape Redefined'
Catharine A. MacKinnon (U Michigan/Harvard)
Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium

Wednesday 30 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

14:00 - Implementing the SDGs in Africa: the UN's 'nexus approach' to implementation of peace, rights, and development:
Prof Alain Tschudin (Durban Univ. of Technology)

Friday 2 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Just look at the pictures: Imagery use in jihadi magazines, 1984-2022
A sandwich lunch will be provided
Thomas Hegghammer (University of Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium and Oxford Constitutional Studies Forum

Tuesday 6 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - The Violent bias in the Study of Civil War
Ana Arjona (Northwestern)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Wednesday 7 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

13:00 - Missing Perspectives in News: what the third report reveals about intersectionality of coverage
Luba Kassova (Co-founder and director of AKAS)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Friday 9 December 2022 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Major Power Competition and Internal Politics in Modern Asia
Paul Staniland (Chicago)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Wednesday 11 January 2023 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - The role of journalism in disrupting corruption
Jane Bradley (New York Times)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Monday 16 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, and the History of Political Thought
Samuel Zeitlin (Colgate)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 17 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Training Local Leaders to Prevent and Reduce Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Peru
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Livia Schubiger (Nuffield College)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
14:15 - Empty Cradles: Israel’s Disappeared Children
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
Dr James Eastwood (Queen Mary)
Israel Studies Seminar
16:00 - Institutionalizing Violence: Strategies of Jihad in Egypt
Jerome Drevon (International Crisis Group)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
17:15 - Commoning Care & Collective Power - Feminist cues for building another world
Mauela Zechner (Jena)
Critical Theory Seminar

Wednesday 18 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 19 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Friday 20 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Digital Politics and Foreign Interventions through Illiberal Communication: A Natural Language Processing Approach
Please note - change of speaker and subject. Sandwich Lunch provided
Ashrakat Elshehawy
Politics Research Colloquium
16:00 - Blood, Patriots and Tyrants: Countering Violent Far-Right Extremism in America
Bruce Hoffman (Georgetown University)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Monday 23 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells on (Black) Loss: Egalitarian Witness Against Pornographic Pain
Juliet Hooker (Brown)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 24 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Can anti-corruption policies contain political budget cycles? Evidence from public employment in Brazil
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Guillermo Toral (IE University)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - The Difficulty of Innovation in Defence
Oliver Lewis (Rebellion Defence), Bob Daigle (Rebellion Defence)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:15 - Invisible Settles: Resettling Palestinian Collaborators in Israel
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
Prof. Menachem Hofnung (Hebrew University)
Israel Studies Seminar
16:00 - Roadblock Politics: Τhe Deep History of Trade Routes as a Frontline of State-building and Resistance
Peer Schouten (Danish Institute for International Studies)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
17:15 - On Real Abstraction: Wealth and Suffering
Werner Bonefeld (York)
Critical Theory Seminar
18:30 - PPE CENTENARY LECTURE: The Power of Narratives in Nation Building
Mathias Thoenig (University of Lausanne)
PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures

Wednesday 25 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Unpacking Coalition Governance: Presenting a Measure of Coalition Differentiation
Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
Christine Sheldon (University of Oxford)
Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
13:00 - Are any Twitter alternatives fit for purpose?
David Lee (Financial Times)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Research Seminar on the Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics
A drinks reception will be provided. Email nicolas.lippolis@politics.ox.ac.uk if you wish to attend.
Ignacio Sánchez Cuenca (University of Oxford), Eunice Goes (Richmond), António Costa Pinto (ICS Lisbon), Pedro Magalhães (ICS Lisbon), Ana Catalano Weeks (Bath), Jorge M. Fernandes (IPP, CSIC Madrid)
15:00 - A Qualitative Analysis of International Governance Approaches to Powerful Technologies
Robert Trager (UCLA), Chris Morris (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - Neural & Cognitive Warfare: Technology, Operations, and Strategy
Discussion Group
CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
17:00 - The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: Examination, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology in Chinese History and Today
Prof. Yasheng Huang (MIT Sloan School of Management)
China Studies Seminar series

Friday 27 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - What Can Government Do with Data Science and Artificial Intelligence?
Sandwich Lunch provided
Professor Helen Margetts (University of Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Discussion of the Carlyle Lectures: Custom, Common Law and Civil Law
John Hudson (St Andrews)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 31 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - The Information Environment and Perceptions of Parties' Ideological Positions
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Zeynep Somer-Topcu (University of Texas at Austin)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
16:00 - Serbian Paramilitaries and the Breakup of Yugoslavia: State Connections and Patterns of Violence
Iva Vukušić (Utrecht)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
17:00 - Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise
Hybrid event. To join talk online, please register first.
Professor Christopher Marquis (University of Cambridge)
Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series
17:15 - Critical Theory and Social Pathology
Neal Harris (Oxford Brookes)
Critical Theory Seminar

Wednesday 1 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - The Pursuit of Merit: How Individuals Justify Market Inequality
Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
César Fuster Llamazares (University of Oxford)
Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
13:00 - Using data to tell LGBTQ+ stories in Uganda
Caleb Okereke (Minority Africa)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
17:15 - The Post-Cold War Anglo-American military relationship
Professor Wyn Rees (University of Nottingham)
Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Thursday 2 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Rethinking “middle powers” as a category of practice
John de Bhal (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium

Friday 3 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Relating Voter ID Laws to Voter Turnout: Going Beyond the United State
Sandwich Lunch provided
Tom Barton (Royal Holloway)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 6 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Economies of Conspiracy: Hidden Power and the Erosion of Democracy in Athenian Political Thought
Demetra Kasimis (Chicago)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 7 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - The Effects of Ballot Order Randomization on Gender- and Ethnicity-Based Voter Biases
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Rachel Bernhard (Nuffield College)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - Evolution of far-right ideologies
Professor Peter Neumann (King's College London)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:15 - The Fusion of Zionism and Science: The First Two Decades—And the Present Day?
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
Professor Amos Morris- Reich (Tel Aviv)
Israel Studies Seminar
16:00 - Instability and Conflict in 19th Century Spain
Ignacio Sanchez Cuenca (Carlos III)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - The Risk of Conflict in the Taiwan Strait: Strategy, Technology and Deterrence
Dr James Lee (Academia Sinica)
China Centre talks
12:30 - Will She Run? Role Models Events, Informational Content and Women's Political Ambition
Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
Marta Antonetti (University of Oxford)
Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
13:00 - Navigating newsgathering in the deadliest country for journalists
Marcela Turati Muñoz (Freelance Investigative Reporter)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
17:15 - Walking with Sankara and Epistemicide: Challenges and Stakes of Anti-colonial Political Thought
Olivia Rutazibwa (LSE)
Critical Theory Seminar

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Don't blame it on the Blob
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Andy Payne (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - Bioinformatics & Big Data: Government and Military Applications
Discussion Group
CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Friday 10 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - On the Causes of Party System Institutionalization in Asia
Sandwich Lunch provided
Fernando Casal Bertoa (University of Nottingham)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 13 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Toleration, Time and the Other
Marietta van der Tol (Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 14 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Civilian Signalling on Social Media During Civil War
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Anita Gohdes (Hertie School)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
14:15 - The Political Fairy Tale: The Case of Little Red Riding Hood in Palestine
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm
Loaay Wattad (Tel Aviv)
Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Thursday 16 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Quechua and Aymara Revolution in International Legal Thought: An Initial Exploration
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
16:00 - The Politics of Exit: Emigration, Collective Action, and Agrarian Change in Mexico
Emily Sellars (Yale)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence

Friday 17 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Tuesday 21 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Climate Action from Abroad: Assessing Mass Support for Cross-Border Climate Compensation
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Federica Genovese (University of Essex)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
13:00 - The follower map: Towards a theory of the roots of cultural variations in leadership ideals
Venue Change: Seminar will now take place in Pembroke College. Sandwiches will not be available this week
Professor Mark van Vugt (Vrije Universiteit), Dr Sirio Lonati (Neoma Business School)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:15 - The Israel Supreme Court Religion and the Relationship of State and Religion in Israel
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
Professor Anat Scolnicov (Winchester)
Israel Studies Seminar

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Fuelling Opposition to Green Legislation Across the Urban-Rural Divide: Evidence from Germany
Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
Francesco Raffaelli (University of Oxford)
Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
13:00 - The Prince's secrets: behind the podcast exposing China's leader
Sue-Lin Wong (The Economist)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
17:00 - Book launch. Reconciling the Irreconcilable: Diplomatic Relations between Germany, Austria, and Israel.
The book launch will be followed by a buffet and wine reception
Dr Kathrin Bachleitner (University of Oxford), Dr Lorena De Vita (Utrecht University)

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Beyond the Blob: The Politics of Restraint in the Middle East
Ebenezer Azamati (University of Oxford), Andrew Payne (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - Human-Machine Teams: From Sensor to Shooter Across the Domains
Discussion Group
CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
22:30 - Tolerance and Mere Civility
Register at - https://american.swoogo.com/bejan/begin Live streamed event from School of Public Affairs in Washington DC.
Teresa Bejan (Oriel, Oxford)

Friday 24 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Campaign Promises and Legislative Leadership Posts
Sandwich Lunch provided
Stefan Muller (University College Dublin)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Forward Ever: Nkrumah’s Conception of Anticolonial Speed
Musab Yunis (Queen Mary University of London)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 28 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - Prosecutors, Voters, and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
TBA
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
14:15 - Rituals of Loyalty: When Israeli Journalists Face Digital Hate
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm
Ayala Panievsky (Cambridge)
Israel Studies Seminar
17:15 - Title TBC
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Jeremy Gilbert (UEL)
Critical Theory Seminar

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Jihadist Mobilisation in Divided Contexts: Cleavages, Collaboration and Resistance
Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
Natasja Rupesinghe (University of Oxford)
Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
17:15 - Jordan and Kuwait: US-UK relations in the aftermath of Suez
Dr Louise Kettle (University of Nottingham)
Changing Character of War Centre: Illusionary Trends in Strategic Studies Seminar

Thursday 2 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Legitimacy in IR
Lora Viola (Free University of Berlin), Alexandra Stafford (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - PLP Colloquium with Seth Lazar: Governing the Algorithmic City
Status: This talk has been cancelled
TBA
Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium

Friday 3 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Uncivil society in eastern Europe
Sandwich Lunch provided
Prof Lenka Bustikova (University of Oxford)
Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Discussion of Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory
Jeanne Morefield (Oxford)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
16:00 - Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory
Jeanne Morefield (Oxford)
Critical Theory Seminar
17:30 - Reuters Memorial Lecture - 'How to report under a dictatorship: lessons from Nicaragua and beyond'
If you would like to follow the lecture online, please click on the link below and we will send you details of how to do so closer to the time - https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7231854/2023-Memorial-Lecture-online-audience-access
Carlos F. Chamorro

Tuesday 7 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

09:00 - Interdisciplinary Conference on Social Norms
2 day conference: 7th March: 9am-6pm & 8th March: 10am-3pm
Various Speakers
13:00 - NATO's Nordic Neophytes: How Sweden & Finland's Accession to NATO Alters the Military Balance in Northeast Europe
Julia Carver (University of Oxford), Sam Seitz (University of Oxford)
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
14:15 - Settler Colonial Studies, Secessions of Colonialism, and Ethnonationalism: An Edward Saidian Consideration
A coffee and tea reception will be offered from 2pm.
Moshe Behar (Manchester University)
Israel Studies Seminar
16:00 - Elite Murder and Popular Resistance: Evidence from Post–World War II Poland
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Krzysztof Krakowski (Collegio Carlo Alberto)
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
17:00 - Democracy promotion and safeguarding after accession: Does the EU matter?
In person and online. Booking required for online attendance only.
Eli Gateva (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford), Othon Anastasakis (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Mihail Chiru (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - Will AR and VR change war reporting forever?
Khalil Ashawi (Focus), Hail Khalaf (Focus)
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

12:30 - When Do Firms Speak Up? The Role of Empowered Knowledge Workers
Zoom (ID: 837 4972 9547, pw: 257341) A sandwich lunch will be provided
Luis Cornago Bonal (Oxford)
Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
15:00 - White supremacy in the United States during the post-Cold War and War on Terror eras
Anna Meier (Nottingham), Alejandro Posada Téllez (University of Oxford)
IR Research Colloquium
17:00 - Genomics & Bioengineering: Securing Advantage in the Biological Domain
Discussion Group
CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Friday 10 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

13:00 - What's the Half-Life of the Economic Vote? (About a Year and a Half)
Sandwich Lunch provided
Jack Bailey (University of Manchester)
Politics Research Colloquium
17:15 - Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton (CUNY), Artie Vierkant (CUNY)
Critical Theory Seminar

Monday 13 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

09:15 - OxPeace Training Workshop: Local Peacebuilding and International Agencies: Grassroots Skills and Wisdom in Support
Cost: Students are asked to pay just £20, and non-students £50. Coffee, tea and a sandwich lunch will be provided. The workshop is being subsidized by the independent Oxford Peace Research Trust (OPRT). Applications: Please send your application, giving your name, contact details (phone, postal address, email) your present course if you are a student, a brief CV, and a short statement of why you would like to participate, to Assistant Organizer, Megan McDowell: Megan.mcdowell@hotmail.co.uk You can expect a quick reply, and when accepted you will receive information on how to pay to secure your place. Places will be capped at twenty participants. Please apply now!
Various Speakers

Wednesday 15 March 2023 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

11:00 - Women, Socialism, and early International Relations
Ricardo Villanueva (Visiting Fellow University of Oxford)

Monday 20 March 2023 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

10:30 - Oxford Conflict Peace and Security Hub
Lars-Erik Cederman (LSE), Carl Müller-Crepon (LSE), Seung Hoon Chae (University of Oxford), Micha Germann (University of Bath), Patricia Justino (UNU-WIDER), Neil Ketchley (Oxford), Dan Miodownik (University of Oxford), Amiad Haran Diman (University of Oxford), Kristin Marie Bakke (UCL), David Siroky (University of Oxford), Jakob Schram (University of Oxford), Dan Midownik (Hebrew University), Livia Isabella Schubiger (University of Oxford), Lars-Erik Cederman (ETH), Laia Balcells (Georgetown), Anastasia Shesterinina (York), Vincenzo Bove (Warwick), Emily Myers (Duke)

Monday 27 March 2023 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

09:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods
Applications have now closed
Spyros Kosmidis (University of Oxford), Tom O’Grady (UCL), Marnie Howlett (University of Oxford), Andreas Murr (Warwick), Vicente Valentim (University of Oxford)
DPIR Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods

Monday 24 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Laurie Balfour, Andrea Sangiovanni
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
10:00 - 2023 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Various Speakers
2023 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory

Tuesday 25 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

10:00 - 2023 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia), Andrea Sangiovanni (Kings College London)
2023 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
12:30 - Democratization and Individualism. A Historical Approach
Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/93310459956?pwd=ak5DcEs1ZGFmOXd1c0tUTFNPZzZmdz09 Meeting ID: 933 1045 9956; Passcode: 582070
Ignacio Sanchez-Cuenca (Carlos III University of Madrid)
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
17:00 - The Meaning of War - How do we define war and its meaning in society, both past and present?
Sir Hew Strachan (All Souls College), Gregory A. Daddis (Fulbright Visiting Fellow)
Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War

Wednesday 26 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Friday 28 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

13:00 - The Demand and Supply of Pandemic Populism: A Global Overview
Petra Guasti (Charles University in Prague)
Politics Research Colloquium

Saturday 29 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

09:00 - Learning from Ukraine: origins, impacts, and lessons for peacebuilding
Registration: this is strongly advised. It will probably be possible to walk in on the day (bring cash, Students £5, others £10, and donations are welcome) but please register in advance if possible to help with numbers for catering. Coffee/tea breaks and sandwich lunch are included.
Various Speakers
OxPeace Events