Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Participatory Censorship in Authoritarian Regimes
  Tony Zirui Yang (Nuffield College)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:30 - Israel’s flawed strategy in the war in Gaza
  Online talk
  Dr Ehud Eilam
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Infrastructural Vanguards and the Problem of Connectivity Under Anarchy
  Andrew Dougall (University of Oxford)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 12:30 - Survey Colombia Ex-Combatants Reintegration
  Ana Vilhelmina Verdnik (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Content Moderation, Platform Governance, and Legitimacy
  Diyi Liu (Oxford Internet Institute)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus
• 18:00 - Northeast Asia after Biden: Conversation with Former UK Ambassador to North Korea and Experts on the Korean Peninsula
  John Everard (Foreign and Commonwealth Office), Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford), John Nilsson-Wright (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford International Relations Society

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Elite Affective Polarization and Coalition Formation
  Royce Carroll (University of Essex)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 11 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The politics of bureaucratic purges in revolutionary Iran (1978-1982)
  Guillaume Beaud (Sciences Po)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Bernard Mandeville’s Critique of Epicurus and the ‘Easie Divines’ of the Church of England, 1705–1732
  Jacob Chatterjee (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Not So Sweet: External Price Shocks, State Capacity, and Violence in Madagascar's Vanilla Industry
  Megan Erickson (Nuffield College)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:30 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Conflict Mediation in a Turbulent International Environment
  Dr Paul Dziatkowiec (Geneva Centre for Security Policy)

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Deborah Haynes (Sky News)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership Seminar Series
• 17:30 - PPE Centenary Lecture: Economic Diplomacy and Balance of Power
  Christina L. Davis (Harvard)

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Credibility of Issue Linkage: How Treaty Recognition Unites Firms and Activists in Promoting Trade Liberalization
  Boram Lee (LSE)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Compute North vs. Compute South: The Uneven Possibilities of Compute-based AI Governance Around the Globe
  Boxi Wu (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 15 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Message Testing and Targeting in Political Campaigns
  Miriam Sorace (Kent University)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine
  Eugene Finkel (John Hopkins)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Book Discussion: Citizen Marx: Karl Marx and Republicanism
  Bruno Leipold (LSE)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Tessa Ditonto (University of Durham)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:30 - Integrated Deterrence
  Nicholas Taylor (DSTL)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Revisiting Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals: A Process-Based Approach
  Başak Çalı (University of Oxford), Laurence Helfer (Duke)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Turning the Tide: Government Action to Counter Ransomware
  Dr Roxana Radu (SNSF Postdoctoral Researcher)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Age Gaps Between Political Leaders and the Public Can Undermine Satisfaction with Democracy
  Scott Williamson (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 25 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Reaching the Converted: Understanding the Informant Enrollment Methods of the East German Stasi
  Barbara Piotrowska (King's College London)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - How Did the Enlightenment Rights of Man Become Christian?
  Alexander Schmidt (Vanderbilt)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Affective Polarization and Deliberative Decision-Making: Evidence from a Visual Conjoint Experiment
  Julia Schulte Cloos (University of Marburg)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:30 - Drone Warfare
  Ulrike Franke (ECFR)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism, and Kant’s Justification of Territorial Rights
  Lea Ypi (LSE)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:15 - Title TBC
  Yosuke Nagai (Accept International)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership Seminar Series

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Paradox of International Adjudication
  Geraldo Vidigal (Amsterdam)
  IR Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - AI Governance & U.S.-China Track II Diplomacy
  Kayla Blomquist (The Oxford Internet Institute), Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Ideology, Idiosyncrasy, and Instability in the American Electorate
  Ben Lauderdale (UCL)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Do Sanctions on Terrorist Groups Work? Financial Adaptability, U.S. Sanctions, and Terrorist Attacks
  Brian J. Phillips (University of Essex)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Rights in Roman Republican Thought
  Valentina Arena (Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Tuesday 3 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Corporate counterterrorism: Why do social media firms designate some groups as terrorists?
  Brian Phillips (University of Essex)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:30 - The threat posed by commercial UAVs modified by asymmetrical warfare actors
  Dr Chris Lavers (University of Lincoln)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Berlin Lectures Discussion
  Melissa Lane (Princeton)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Diplomatic Pressure, Policy Autonomy, and Human Rights Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment at the United Nations
  Avery Schmidt (Brown)
  IR Research Colloquium

Friday 6 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Hate-Crime, Co-Ethnicity, and Law Enforcement: Evidence from Caste-Segregated Police Stations in India
  Nirvikar Jassal (LSE)
  Politics Research Colloquium
• 15:00 - Cyber Incidents, Ethics, and Armed Conflict
  After: OTSN Social (all welcome) Location The Oxford Retreat — Pub within short walk of Nuffield
  Brianna Rosen (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Technology & Security Nexus

Thursday 27 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - 'Provably Beneficial AI', Bodleian Library (co-sponsored with the Oxford Institute for Ethics and AI
  Venue, time and commentators to be confirmed
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Stuart Russell (University of California, Berkeley)
  Philosophy, Law & Politics (PLP) Colloquium and Seminar Series

Wednesday 14 May 2025 (17th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Life-time Limitations to a Right to Private Property
  Venue, time and commentators to be confirmed
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Stefan Gosepath (Frei University, Berlin), Cecile Fabre (University of Oxford)
  Philosophy, Law & Politics (PLP) Colloquium and Seminar Series

Wednesday 21 May 2025 (18th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - To Be Confirmed
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
  Philosophy, Law & Politics (PLP) Colloquium and Seminar Series