Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 13:30 - Expanding the European Defense Technological Industrial Base for Deterrence
  Matthew Boyce (US Navy and SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series

Wednesday 30 April 2025

• 17:15 - Trump, Putin, Jinping, and the Erosion of the International System: Meeting the Strategic Challenge
  Dr Rob Johnson (CCW, Oxford)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 13:30 - Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995
  Jonathan Carroll (Sandhurst)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Erin M.B. O’Halloran (University of Cambridge)
  Book Talks

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2025: 'How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding'
  Christine Ahn (Institute for Policy Studies), Lt Gen (Ret) Dan Leaf (US Air Force)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Sacrificial Intimacies: The Value of Life, Labor, and Desire in Queer Kurdish Worlds
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Emrah Karakuş (LSE)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Blythe Crawford (RAF & CCW)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 17:00 - After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Munira Khayyat (NYU Abu Dhabi)

Friday 16 May 2025

• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Michael Wolfson (Wolfson Design)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 13:30 - Hybrid Warfare
  Dr Johann Schmid (Bundeswehr & SST- CCW)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The World After Gaza
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Pankaj Mishra
  Book Talks

Friday 23 May 2025

• 17:00 - The Devaki Jain Lecture
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Rana Husseini (journalist and activist)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 13:30 - Title TBC
  Tycho van der Hoog (Netherlands Defence Academy.)
  Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology (Changing Character of War) Centre Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Slavery, Abolition and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Haroon Bashir (Markfield Institute of Higher Education)
  Book Talks

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 17:00 - NGOization of the Palestinian civil society post-Oslo: our community-based ways out
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Amal Nazzal (Birzeit University), Suheir Assad (Palestinian lawyer and activist)
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership

Friday 30 May 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Samer Abdelnour (University of Edinburgh Business School)
  Friday Seminars

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 17:00 - States and Social Hierarchies in Kuwait and the Arab Gulf Region
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University)
  Women’s Rights Research Seminars

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London), Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London)
  Oxford Taiwan Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:00 - Contemporary Islamic Studies seminar
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Tareq Baconi (Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network), Professor Jeroen Gunning (King's College London)

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 17:00 - Dame Zaha Hadid Mini Series – Celebrating 10 Years Of The Investcorp Building
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Joseph Giovannini (Giovannini Associates)