Friday 31 January 2025

• 10:00 - Oxford Ukraine Hub Workshop 1: Ukrainian Environmentalisms: Perspectives from Science, Policy, and Culture
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Green industrial policy in the voting booth: The electoral effects of the Inflation Reduction Act
  Professor Jared J. Finnegan (University College London)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 3 February 2025

• 16:00 - Egyptian International Relations in the Late Bronze Age (13th C BCE)
  Roland Enmarch (Liverpool)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Jacobus Acontius's Stratagemata Satanae (1564) and the question of religious coercion
  Dr Odile Panetta (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Profiting from prestige: the political economy of mega-events in Azerbaijan
  Dr Jody LaPorte (Lincoln College, Oxford)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - The world’s 2024 elections: what just happened? The rise of populism and its causes.
  Kelly Beaver CBE (Ipsos (Chief Executive)), Peter Kellner CBE (YouGov (Former President))
  St Antony's Visiting Parliamentary Fellowship
• 18:00 - Redefining Power: U.S. National Security Strategy in a New Era, Fireside Talk with fmr White House NSC Director
  Alexander B Gray (White House National Security Council (NSC) Chief of Staff & Director (2018-2021); Chief Executive Officer, American Global Strategies)
  Oxford Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 12:30 - Affective polarization and perceptions of partisan discrimination
  Markus Wagner (University of Vienna)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:30 - A New Axis of Upheaval? North Korea, Russia, China, and others—why we should care
  Edward Howell (New College, University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - From Victimhood to Love: The political as a feminist question In Colombia
  Dr Roxani Krystalli (University of St Andrews), Prof Leigh Payne (University of Oxford), Dr. Samuel Ritholtz (University of Oxford)

Friday 7 February 2025

• 13:00 - The Normative Foundations of (Non-)State Violence: Evidence from Nigeria on the legitimation logics of state and non-state security provision
  Professor Tore Wig (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 10 February 2025

• 16:00 - Community Protection from Populist Violence: The Catholic Church and the Philippine Drug War
  Professor Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The Divorce Tracts and Milton's Radical Affections
  Dr Michal Zechariah (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Colonial echoes, Uzbekistan’s voice: historical narratives as spaces for agency in relations with China and Russia
  Dr Frank Maracchione (University of Kent)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 12:30 - Using Algorithms to Detect Gerrymandering and Improve Legislative Redistricting: Cases from the United States and Japan
  Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:30 - The development of sea power thought in the early to mid Cold War
  Andrew Livsey (Kings College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:00 - Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel
  Dr Rhys Machold (University of Glasgow)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 14 February 2025

• 13:00 - Tending the Grassroots: How Local Institutions Impact National Elections
  Professor Tine Nansen Paulsen (University of Zurich)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 17 February 2025

• 16:00 - Nationalism in Times of War and the Unpopularity of Territorial Trade-off
  Kathrin Bachleitner (Salzburg & Ca' Foscari)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Kashmir Without History: Sheikh Abdullah, Jinnah and Indian Political Thought
  Dr Amar Sohal (KCL)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Oligarchic networks of influence and legislatures in developing democracies: evidence from Ukraine
  Dr Silviya Nitsova (University of Manchester)
  RESC Monday Seminar
• 17:00 - Beyond The Global War on Terror: The Role of Special Operations Forces in the Changing Security Landscape
  Dr. Hans Breede (Royal Military College, Canada), Dr. Kevin Stringer (Military Academy of Lithuania)

Tuesday 18 February 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Markus Kollberg (Humboldt University)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:30 - AI in strategic decision-making
  Dr Kenneth Payne (King's College, London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 13:30 - Integrated Deterrence
  Professor Antulio Echevarria (CCW & US Army War College)
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance
• 17:00 - Fireside Chat with Prof Graham Allison: Revisiting the Thucydides Trap
  Graham Allison (Harvard Kennedy School)

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 15:00 - How should we REALLY think about security?
  Professor David A. Welch (Waterloo University)

Friday 21 February 2025

• 13:00 - To Have and to Hold: The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance
  Dr Tessa Devereaux Evans (University of Oxford)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 24 February 2025

• 16:00 - The Axis of Resistance and the Collapse of the Unity of Fronts Strategy
  Liz Sly (former Washington Post Middle East bureau chief)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Book Presentation: Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
  Quentin Skinner (Queen Mary University)
  Oxford Political Thought Seminar
• 17:00 - Childhood under attack: three years of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine.
  Various Speakers
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Henrik Bech Seeberg (Aarhus University)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:30 - China's Private Security Sector at a Crossroads: From Pakistan to Myanmar.
  Dr Alessandro Arduino (King's College London)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 17:00 - 'Provably Beneficial AI', Bodleian Library (co-sponsored with the Oxford Institute for Ethics and AI)
  Registration will be open soon.
  Stuart Russell (University of California, Berkeley)
  Philosophy, Law & Politics (PLP) Colloquium and Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Attitudes Toward Normalization in a Conflict Context: Evidence from the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  Dr Ibrahim Khatib (Doha Institute)

Friday 28 February 2025

• 13:00 - Interethnic variation in support for authoritarian regimes: Evidence from Russia
  Professor Kyle Lohse Marquardt (University of Bergen)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 3 March 2025

• 16:00 - Rethinking Civil Wars in Light of the Syrian conflict
  Jerome Drevon (International Crisis Group)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - After Navalny: evaluating the impact of Alexei Navalny and his movement on Russian politics
  Dr Ben Noble (UCL-SSEES), Morvan Lallouet (University of Kent)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 12:30 - The Social Transmission of Authoritarianism: Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments
  Sirianne Dahlum (University of Oslo)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:30 - The Impact of AI & Emerging Technologies on Future Defence Strategy
  Dr Robert Hercock (British Telecommunications Security Research Practice)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
• 17:00 - To Be a Jewish State: Zionism as the New Judaism, by Yaacov Yadgar. Book launch event: Prof. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University) in conversation with the author
  Professor Yaacov Yadgar, Professor Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben Gurion University, Israel)

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:15 - General Hastings ‘Pug’ Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat
  Sir John Kiszely
  Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership and the NATO Alliance

Friday 7 March 2025

• 13:00 - Why do “Ethnically Included” Groups Rebel? The Limits of Nominal Ethnic Inclusion
  Dr Kevin Mazur (King's College London)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Monday 10 March 2025

• 16:00 - Local Security Provision and Return from Forced Displacement: Evidence from South Sudan
  Andrea Caflisch (UCL)
  T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
• 17:00 - Dismantling the rule of law in Russia: reflections from three public filings
  Professor Jeffrey Kahn (Southern Methodist University)
  RESC Monday Seminar

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Jennier Piscopo (Royal Holloway University of London)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 13:30 - Cyber Sovereignty and the EU’s Securitisation
  Julia Carver (University of Oxford)
  Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Brooke Ackerly (Vanderbilt University)
  Critical Theory Seminar

Friday 14 March 2025

• 13:00 - American Economic Coercion and Elite Re-Globalization
  Dr Lorenzo Crippa (University of Strathclyde)
  Politics Research Colloquium

Thursday 20 March 2025

• 09:30 - Negotiating with Difficult Actors: International Negotiation, Mediation and Diplomacy. Day 1 (of 2) Intensive Training Workshop
  Applications: For details on how to apply, please email Assistant Organiser Devika Manish Kumar devika.manishkumar@sant.ox.ac.uk Places will be limited, and the current deadline for applications is 28 February 2025. Early applications are encouraged!
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Friday 21 March 2025

• 09:30 - Negotiating with Difficult Actors: International Negotiation, Mediation and Diplomacy, Day 2 (of 2) Intensive Training Workshop
  Applications: For details on how to apply, please email Assistant Organiser Devika Manish Kumar devika.manishkumar@sant.ox.ac.uk Places will be limited, and the current deadline for applications is 28 February 2025. Early applications are encouraged!
  Martin Albani (European External Action Service), Valentin Ade (The Negotiation Studio)
  OxPeace Events

Monday 31 March 2025

• 09:00 - Oxford Spring School in Advanced Research Methods 2025
  Various Speakers

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 17:00 - Cyril Foster Lecture 2025:
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Christine Ahn (Women Cross DMZ), Dan Leaf (former United States Air Force officer)

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 17:00 - Life-time Limitations to a Right to Private Property
  Registration will be open soon.
  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

• 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