Talks of interest to the Department of Politics and International Relations
Talks:

Monday 20 January 2025

A Political Disconnect? Evidence From Votes on EU Trade Agreements?
Date: 20 January 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Paola Conconi (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 21 January 2025

Morale: A Revolutionary Idea?
Date: 21 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Krysten Blackstone (Salford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 January 2025

Reckoning with Brexit five years on: what happens next?
Date: 22 January 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Anand Menon (King’s College London), Paul Johnson (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Hannah White (Institute for Government)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: de Jager Auditorium, Levine Building
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 January 2025

Towards Purpose: Redesigning Business From Within
Date: 24 January 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Marya Besharov (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford), Erinch Sahan (Doughnut Economics Action Lab), Bruno Roche (ONE Society and Economics of Mutuality)
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1HP
Venue Details: The Nest, on the far right of reception area
Organiser: Skoll Centre (Said Business School)
Host: Skoll Centre (Said Business School)

Beyond Boundaries: Developing Indigenous Intellectual History
Date: 24 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Saliha Belmessous (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 January 2025

Title TBC
Date: 27 January 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Pedro Bordalo (Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 January 2025

Anishinaabe Albion: Indigenous Diplomacy, Performance, and Resistance in the British Isles
Date: 28 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : John Bird (Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Alfred Landecker Memorial Lecture : Escaping the Holocaust
Date: 28 January 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government), Jonathan Freedland (Columnist for The Guardian newspaper)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Venue Details: In person and online
Organiser: Blavatnik School of Government (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 January 2025

Losing a War of Attrition: Developing Concepts of Warfare and the Realities and Perceptions of Axis Defeat in the Mediterranean War (1940-1943)
Date: 29 January 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Richard Hammond (Brunel)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Brasenose Women in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Date: 29 January 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford), Professor Masooda Bano (University of Oxford), Banu Demir Pakel (University of Oxford), Abigail Green (Brasenose College), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford), Dr Ashwiny O Kistnareddy (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford), Dr Sonali Nag (University of Oxford), Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford), Professor Carole Bourne-Taylor (Brasenose College), Professor Anne Davies (Brasenose College)
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Organiser: Anu Dawson (Principal's Office, Brasenose College)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 31 January 2025

Folksongs and Inclusion in Early Modernity: A Comparative Study
Date: 31 January 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Leigh Jenco (LSE)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 3 February 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Yajna Govind (Copenhagen Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 February 2025

Unfair ID: Digital Identity from Injustice to Resistance
Date: 4 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Silvia Masiero (University of Oslo)
Venue Details: TBA
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"Harlem Interdit": Paris-Match and European Uses of Harlem, c.1964-c.1975
Date: 4 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Andrew Fearnley (Manchester)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 7 February 2025

Circulation: Object memory, global exchange, and the first English embassy to India
Date: 7 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Nandini Das (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 10 February 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Dr Adeel Malik (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Threatening Dystopias: Development, Scientific Knowledge, and Adaptation to Climate Change
Date: 11 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Kasia Paprocki (The London School of Economics)
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Glow Boys: Temporary Workers and the Making of Atomic Capitalism
Date: 11 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Tom Bishop (Lincoln)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 February 2025

Trading during War. The Baltic in Europe, ca 1550-1850
Date: 12 February 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Cathleen Sarti (Oxford)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 14 February 2025

Medicine for Ghosts: Visions, Possessions, and Medical Exchange in Early Modern Southeast Asia
Date: 14 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Tara Alberts (York)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 17 February 2025

Title TBC
Date: 17 February 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Hye Young You (Princeton University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 February 2025

Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt
Date: 18 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Jayaseelan Raj (Kinds College London)
Venue Details: TBA
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 February 2025

The global nature of Mughal Early Modernity
Date: 21 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Azfar Moin (Austin, Texas)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 February 2025

Paying Not to Know: News Avoidance in Times of War
Date: 24 February 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Moses Shayo (Hebrew University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 February 2025

Between Nation and Community. Muslim Universities and Indian Politics after Partition (1947-1990s)
Date: 25 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker : Laurence Gautier (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi)
Venue Details: TBA
Organiser: Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rediscovering James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Minister and Activist
Date: 25 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jan Stievermann (Heidelberg)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 26 February 2025

What was Grand Strategy in World War II—a look at the US policy of "Germany First"
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Philips Payson O'Brien (St Andrews)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 28 February 2025

Imperialism and Ethnology: The Ottoman Case
Date: 28 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Giancarlo Casale (EUI)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Room TBC
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 March 2025

The Cost of Sympathy: Perceptions of Suffering in the New York City Draft Riots
Date: 4 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 5 March 2025

Brasenose Women in the Media, Business and Finance
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 10 March 2025

Title TBC
Date: 10 March 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Nancy Qian (Northwestern University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 March 2025

Black American leisure time 20th century
Date: 11 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Tiffany M Gill (Rutgers)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Organiser: Stephen Tuffnell (Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Title TBC
Date: 29 April 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Women and the Unions - Challenging Inequality
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford)
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Title TBC
Date: 14 May 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Elias Papaioannou (London Business School)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

Principal's Conversation with The Guardian reporter, Amelia Gentleman
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr John Bowers KC (Principal, Brasenose College, Oxford)
Venue: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square OX1 4AJ
Venue Details: Amersi Foundation Lecture Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 2 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Rachel Kranton (Duke University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Title TBC
Date: 9 June 2025, 11:30 - 12:45
Speaker : Paola Giuliano (UCLA Anderson School of Management)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Skills Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
2019- Grand Challenges in Science
2022 Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics
3-Day International Conference - Global Gender: Pasts, Presents, Futures
African History & Politics Seminars
Africans and war in Vietnam: global protest, liberation politics and transnational soldiers
African Studies Seminar Series
American History Research Seminar
American Politics Graduate Seminar
Annual Uehiro Lectures
Archive: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Lunchtime Seminar Series
ASEAN Institute Seminar Series 2024
Aspects of Conservatism
Bingham Seminars in Constitutional Studies
Blavatnik School of Government Research Seminars Hilary Term 2017
Bonavero Discussion Group
Bonavero Panel Series on the Past and Present of Slavery
Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2024: Clarendon and the Practice of Politics
Celebrating 50 Years of Women at Brasenose
Centre for Gender, Identity and Subjectivity Discussion Group (formerly Reading Group)
Changing Character of War
Changing Character of Warfare: Tuesday Lunchtime Seminars
China Centre talks
COMPAS seminar series: Beyond Impact? Using, Exchanging, and Communicating Migration Knowledge and Research
Contemporary Islamic Studies Programme
Contemporary South Asia Seminars
Contestations in Land and Agriculture: Historical and Geopolitical Case-Studies
Critical and Decolonial Approaches to “Religion” - Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
Economics Research Jamboree
‘Encyclopédie Nouvelle’ Seminar
Endangered Tribal Languages in India
Environmental Change Institute
ESC Core Seminar Series
ESC Visiting Academics Lunchtime Seminar Series Hilary Term 2019
Europaeum: Before War, After War
European Studies Seminar
Future of the Left Seminar Series
Gender, Women and Culture
Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
Global Gender: Pasts Presents Futures
Global Governance & Diplomacy Public Speaker Series
Governance of AI Seminar Series
Governance of AI Seminar Series
Health: fresh perspectives
History of Gender Seminar
History of War Seminar Series
Human Dignity and Bureaucracy Seminars
Inequality
Institutions: Understanding and Evaluating Them
Interdisciplinary Seminars on Empire
Israel Studies Seminar
Israel Studies Seminar Michaelmas Term 2020
JOINT Middle East Politics & Women's Rights Research Seminar
Kyoto Prize at Oxford
Massada Fellowship Programme seminars
MEC Women's Rights Research Seminars
Media and Migration
Methods and Work in Progress Seminar in Practical and Medical Ethics
Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Seminar Series
Middle East Centre Tuesday Book Launch (Book Talk)
Modern History Research Seminar
Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
Modern South Asia Seminar
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
OPHI Weekly Seminars: Multidimensional Poverty
OxCGRT Seminar Series
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Seminars
Oxford China Reading Group
Oxford Martin School Lecture Series: Shaping the future
Oxford Martin School Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion
Oxford Martin School Series: Post COP26: successes, lessons learnt & what do we need to do now?
Oxford Martin School & Smith School Online Series: The economics of biodiversity
Oxford Minds from the Social Sciences Division
Oxford Political Review
Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
Oxford Transnational and Global History Seminar
Oxford University Economics Summer Schools
Oxford University Strategic Studies Group (OUSSG) Weekly Seminar
Oxford Women in Research (OxWiR) Seminar Series HT 2019
OxonCourts
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Political Economy of Financial Markets Programme
Political Economy Seminar
Politics Scriptorium
PPE Centenary Professorship Lectures
Providing Health and Social Care for an Ageing Population: Challenges and Responses
Reading Rorty
Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Michaelmas term 2020
Re-Engaging Truth Seminar Series
Refugee Studies Centre Special Seminars & Lectures
Rethinking the Contemporary: The World since the Cold War
Rothermere American Institute Events
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar
Science and populism: from evidence to narrative (Oxford Martin School, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and University College Joint Series)
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX)
St Hilda's College Feminist Salon
Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop
Technology and Mobilities in Africa
The D'Arcy Lectures 2021: Common Good: Theological, Philosophical, Political Aspects
The James Ford Lectures - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850
The Present and Future of US Politics
The Roger Scruton Memorial Lecture Series
Thinking Through Toxicity
TORCH Doctoral Network: Critical-Thinking Communities
Violence Studies Research Network
Women's Rights Research Seminar