Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Talks:

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Introduction to Carl Schmitt
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Expanding the European Defense Technological Industrial Base for Deterrence
Date: 29 April 2025, 13:30 - 14:30
Speaker : Matthew Boyce (US Navy and SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Book Pre-Launch: Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialised Boundaries (OUP, 2025)
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Mohsen al Attar (Xi'an Jiaotong - Liverpool University), Claire Smith (University of Amsterdam), Dr Radha D’Souza (Westminster Law School), Nciko Wa Nciko (Amnesty International), Dr Raghavi Viswanath (School of Oriental and African Studies), Yang Han (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Lecture Hall
Organiser: Yang Han (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 May 2025

Where International Relations Theory Went Wrong, and How It Can Get Back on Track – and Become Policy Relevant Again
Date: 1 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Marco Verweij (Constructor University)
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week One: Beginnings
Date: 2 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 5 May 2025

Redistribution after War: Evidence from the US Reconstruction
Date: 5 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Megan Stewart (Michigan)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Tuesday 6 May 2025

Political Theology
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
Date: 6 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Jonathan Carroll (Sandhurst)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 May 2025

Fireside Chat with Prof Jeffrey Sachs: Can US-China Relations Develop Sustainably? (Online Event)
Date: 8 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
Speaker : Professor Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, the Secret Police, and Social Order in Cold War Europe
Date: 8 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Henry Thomson (Arizona State)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Cyril Foster Lecture 2025: 'How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding'
Date: 8 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:30
Speaker s: Christine Ahn (Institute for Policy Studies), Lt Gen (Ret) Dan Leaf (US Air Force)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: South School
Organiser: Neta Crawford
Host: David Doyle (University of Oxford)

Friday 9 May 2025

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Two: Child Liberation
Date: 9 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

In Conversation with Prof G John Ikenberry: Is Liberal Internationalism Dead?
Date: 9 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : John Ikenberry (Princeton University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Auditorium, Levine Building
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

Elite Rivalry, Mass Killing and Genocide in Authoritarian Regimes: Why Autocrats Kill
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Eelco van der Maat (Leiden)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

The Concept of the Political
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Title TBC
Date: 13 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 May 2025

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Three: Prison Abolition
Date: 16 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Old Library,
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

Consociationalism: from democracy to ethnoi-cracy?
Date: 19 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Nenad Stojanovic (Geneva)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Hybrid Warfare
Date: 20 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

In Conversation with Prof Vladislav Zubok: How the Kremlin's Past Shapes its Present
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Vladislav Zubok (LSE)
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 23 May 2025

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Four: Work
Date: 23 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 May 2025

Bringing War Back In
Date: 26 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Luis Schenoni (UCL)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Title TBC
Date: 27 May 2025, 13:30 - 15:00
Speaker : Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

In Conversation with Prof Abiodun Williams: Lessons in Leadership from the United Nations
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Abiodun Williams (The Fletcher School at Tufts University)
Organiser: Haitong Du (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 30 May 2025

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Five: Revolution
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025

Perpetrators of Mass Violence: Terribly and Terrifyingly Normal?
Date: 2 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Alette Smeulers (Amsterdam)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

"Courageous or Coerced?" Europe´s role in a changing geopolitical order
Date: 2 June 2025, 17:45 - 19:00
Speaker : Lukas Mandl (European Parliament)
Venue: Lincoln College, Turl Street OX1 3DR
Venue Details: Beckington Room
Organisers: Europeanist Society (University of Oxford), Severin Dauer (University of Oxford)
Host: Europeanist Society (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Political Romanticism
Date: 3 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Friday 6 June 2025

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Six: Art
Date: 6 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Lecture Room VII
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

The Nomos of the Earth
Date: 10 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Friday 13 June 2025

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Seven: Love
Date: 13 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Platnauer Room
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Organized Political Violence in Greece, 2003-2019: Comparing the Far Right and the Far Left
Date: 16 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Lamprini Rori (Athens)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)

Tuesday 17 June 2025

State, Movement, People
Date: 17 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organisers: TBA
Host: Jeffrey Liu (University of Oxford, DPIR)

Friday 20 June 2025

William Morris's News from Nowhere - Week Eight: Home
Date: 20 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Sophie Cardin (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA