Department of Politics and International Relations Events
Talks:

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

Revisiting Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals: A Process-Based Approach
Date: 21 November 2024, 12:30 - 14:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Başak Çalı (University of Oxford), Laurence Helfer (Duke)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser: Rachel Roberts (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Turning the Tide: Government Action to Counter Ransomware
Date: 21 November 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Roxana Radu (SNSF Postdoctoral Researcher)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

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

Age Gaps Between Political Leaders and the Public Can Undermine Satisfaction with Democracy
Date: 22 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Scott Williamson (University of Oxford)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Reaching the Converted: Understanding the Informant Enrollment Methods of the East German Stasi
Date: 25 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Barbara Piotrowska (King's College London)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College

Developing Leadership: Insights from Ten Years of Practice
Date: 25 November 2024, 16:30 - 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Marianne Camerer (University of Cape Town)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Anjali Sarker (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How Did the Enlightenment Rights of Man Become Christian?
Date: 25 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Alexander Schmidt (Vanderbilt)
Venue: New College, Holywell Street OX1 3BN
Venue Details: Lecture Room 6
Organiser: Anton Jäger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Soft Power in a Digital Age: Competition, Collaboration, Transformative Dynamics
Date: 25 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room B
Organiser: Isabel Schulze Froning (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Photographing War & Peace
Date: 25 November 2024, 17:30 - 19:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Carlos Saavedra (Documentary Photographer), Dr. Samuel Ritholtz (University of Oxford), Dr. Milli Lake (LSE)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: Butler Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Affective Polarization and Deliberative Decision-Making: Evidence from a Visual Conjoint Experiment
Date: 26 November 2024, 12:30 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Julia Schulte Cloos (University of Marburg)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: SCR (A staircase)
Organisers: Rachel Bernhard (Nuffield College), Tarik Abou-Chadi (Nuffield College)
Hosts: TBA

Drones in Ukraine and beyond – A revolution in warfare?
Date: 26 November 2024, 13:30 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Ulrike Franke (ECFR)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

OSSG: Admiral Stuart Munsch
Date: 26 November 2024, 20:30 - 21:30 (Tuesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Admiral Stuart Munsch
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Main access to the Old Library is via a steep staircase. Arrangements can be made for those with limited mobility to use a stairlift and a Fellow’s room to gain access. Please let us know if you require this type of assistance. Capacity is limited so please arrive early.
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Colonialism, Cosmopolitanism, and Kant’s Justification of Territorial Rights
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Lea Ypi (LSE)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Summer Common Room
Organiser: Anton Jäger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Rethinking Non-State Armed Groups: Youth, Agency, and Pathways to Sustainable Peace
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:15 - 18:45 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Yosuke Nagai (Accept International)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

The Paradox of International Adjudication
Date: 28 November 2024, 12:30 - 13:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Geraldo Vidigal (Amsterdam)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser: Rachel Roberts (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

AI Governance & U.S.-China Track II Diplomacy
Date: 28 November 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Thursday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker s: Kayla Blomquist (The Oxford Internet Institute), Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

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

Ideology, Idiosyncrasy, and Instability in the American Electorate
Date: 29 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Ben Lauderdale (UCL)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Do Sanctions on Terrorist Groups Work? Financial Adaptability, U.S. Sanctions, and Terrorist Attacks
Date: 2 December 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Brian J. Phillips (University of Essex)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Stathis Kalyvas (All Souls College, Oxford)
Host: Thomas Hegghammer, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College

Rights in Roman Republican Thought
Date: 2 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Valentina Arena (Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Room 6
Organiser: Anton Jäger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Corporate counterterrorism: Why do social media firms designate some groups as terrorists?
Date: 3 December 2024, 12:30 - 14:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Brian Phillips (University of Essex)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Venue Details: SCR (A staircase)
Organisers: Rachel Bernhard (Nuffield College), Tarik Abou-Chadi (Nuffield College)
Hosts: TBA

The threat posed by commercial UAVs modified by asymmetrical warfare actors
Date: 3 December 2024, 13:30 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Chris Lavers (University of Lincoln)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organiser: Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

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

Berlin Lectures Discussion
Date: 4 December 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Melissa Lane (Princeton)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Lecture Room
Organiser: Anton Jäger (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Diplomatic Pressure, Policy Autonomy, and Human Rights Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment at the United Nations
Date: 5 December 2024, 12:30 - 14:00 (Thursday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Avery Schmidt (Brown)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser: Rachel Roberts (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Hate-Crime, Co-Ethnicity, and Law Enforcement: Evidence from Caste-Segregated Police Stations in India
Date: 6 December 2024, 13:00 - 14:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Nirvikar Jassal (LSE)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Cyber Incidents, Ethics, and Armed Conflict
Date: 6 December 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Brianna Rosen (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
Venue: Nuffield College, New Road OX1 1NF
Organisers: Elisabeth Siegel (University of Oxford), Changing Character of War Centre (CCW)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 19 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Book Launch of "Security" by Professor David A. Welch
Date: 19 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Professor David A. Welch (Waterloo University)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 February 2025 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Seminar on issues involving "South China Sea"
Date: 20 February 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room C
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

'Provably Beneficial AI', Bodleian Library (co-sponsored with the Oxford Institute for Ethics and AI
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Stuart Russell (University of California, Berkeley)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Life-time Limitations to a Right to Private Property
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 17th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker s: Stefan Gosepath (Frei University, Berlin), Cecile Fabre (University of Oxford)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

To Be Confirmed
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 18th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Elizabeth Anderson (University of Michigan)
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Old Library
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
Beyond Brexit
Bingham Seminars in Constitutional Studies
Brace for Impact: The Multiple Dimensions of Brexit
Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics
British Politics Election Year seminar
CCW: Emerging Threats & Technology Working Group
Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
Changing Character of War (CCW) Seminar Series
Changing Character of War Centre: Strategic Leadership Seminar Series
Comparative Political Economy Seminars
CONPEACE Webinar Series
Countdown to Brexit
Critical Theory Seminar
Democracy and Difference Seminar Series
DPIR Alumni Career Conversations
East Asia Seminar Series
Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace: Fulbright Seminar Series
Fulbright Seminar Series, Trinity Term 2023: The Meaning of War
History of Political Thought Seminar
Ideas and Political Violence seminars
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Empire
International Relations of China
IR Research Colloquium
Israel Studies Seminar - Oct 2017 – Mar 2023
Israel Studies Seminar series Hilary Term 2019
Israel Studies Seminar Series Michaelmas Term 2022
Israel Studies Seminar Trinity term 2021
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
Nuffield Political Theory Workshop
OSSG Weekly Talks
OUCAN Seminar Series
Oxford Conservative Thought Reading Group
Oxford Critical Theory Seminar
Oxford Martin School Series - African Governance: Economic, social and political governance challenges
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
Philosophy, Law, and Politics Colloquium
Philosophy, Law & Politics (PLP) Colloquium and Seminar Series
Political Theory Research Seminar Series
Politics Research Colloquium
Politics Research in Progress Seminar
Politics Research in Progress Seminar Series
Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Radical Histories of Anti-Racist Activism and Organizing
Reconsidering Early Jewish Nationalist Ideologies Trinity Term 2021
Reuters Institute Business and Practice of Journalism seminar
REUTERS INSTITUTE GLOBAL JOURNALISM SEMINARS
Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminar
Russian and East European Politics
Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Monday Seminar Hilary Term 2021
SEESOX
Seminar 'Brexit, Populism and Mainstream Politics'
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia Seminar
T.E Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence
T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence – Speaker Series
T. E. Lawrence Workshop on Conflict and Violence
The Carlyle Lectures - Don’t Think for Yourself: Authority and Belief in Medieval Philosophy
The Carlyle Lectures in the History of Political Thought 2022: The Cold War and the Canon of Liberalism
The David N Lyon Speaker Series on "The Politics of Sex and Gender Equality in Diverse Societies"
The Global Thinkers Project, Oxford: Reviving silenced internationalist voices in International Relations
Transformative Justice for the Post-COVID Transition: Insights from Leaders of Transitional Countries