Academic Year 2024-25
Welcome Reception with Wine and Cheese
Monday, 16 September, 16:00-17:30
Arts Building, First Floor Foyer
Roundtable: Notes from Kyiv
ISWS Ukraine Working Group
Prof. Stephen Gethins (MP), Prof. Hew Strachan, Dr. Marc DeVore, Prof. Kristen Harkness
Monday, 23 September, 16:00-17:30
School VI
War Game/Crisis Simulation: Women, Peace, and Security in Northeast Asia
Quakers of New York
Facilitated by Dr. Catherine Jones
Tuesday, 8 October, 13:00-18:00
Sign-up will be circulated
Navigating Strategic Trilemmas in the Black Sea
Dr. Victoria Vdonychenko, Centrę for Geopolitics, University of Cambridge
Monday, 14 October, 16:00-17:30
School VI
2024 US Election Watch Primer
Prof. Kristen Harkness, Prof. Juliet Kaarbo, Dr. Ryan Beasley
Monday, 4 November, 17:00-18:30
Arts Lecture Theatre
The Making and Remaking of ‘Makers of Modern Strategy’: War, Strategy, and History
Dr. Michael Finch, Deakin University (Australia)
Monday, 11 November, 16:00-17:30
School VI
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Career as a Colonial Officer, 1900-1906: Knowledge Transfer and the Performance of an Imperial Biography
Prof. Sybille Scheipers, University of St. Andrews
Monday, 3 February, 17:00-18:30
School I
Remaking ‘Primordial Russian Land’: the Imperial Russian Army’s Occupation of Habsburg Galicia, 1914-1915
Prof. Alexander Watson, Goldsmiths University of London
Monday, 17 February, 17:00-18:30
Arts Lecture Theatre
Whose Order? An Analysis of the Relationship between Remote Warfare and Global Order
Dr. Norma Rossi, University of St. Andrews
Monday, 24 February, 17:00-18:30
Arts Lecture Theatre
Banning Destructive Anti-Satellite Tests: Necessity and Possibility
Dr. Adam Bower, University of St. Andrews
Monday, 31 March, 17:00-18:30
Arts Lecture Theatre
Academic Year 2023-24
Welcome Reception
Thursday, 7 September, 16:00-17:30
Arts Building, First Floor
The Future of European Security in the Light of Russia’s War in Ukraine
Róbert Ondrejcsák, Slovak Ambassador to the UK
Friday, 15 September, 10:00-11:00
In-Person: Arts Building, Seminar Rm 3 (co-sponsored with the Principal’s Office)
Peacekeeping in Mali: The Royal Scots Dragoons Experience
Captain Tom Walpole
Monday, 18 September, 17:00-18:30
In-Person: Arts Lecture Theatre followed by pub drinks at Hams Hame
North Korea: What Happens Next?
John Everard, former UK Ambassador to DPRK
Wednesday, 27 September, 16:00-17:30
In-Person: Arts Lecture Theatre (co-sponsored with Dr. Catherine Jones)
Book Launch! Uncivil War: The British Army and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1966-1975
Dr. Huw Bennett, Cardiff University
Thursday, 5 October, 18:15-20:15
In-person: Lower College Hall followed by a wine reception (co-sponsored with CSTPV)
Careers with INGOs and NGOs (The Halo Trust)
Calum Gibbs
Tuesday, 24 October, 16:00-17:30
In-person: School II (co-sponsored with CPCS and PBM)
International Security and Chinese Grand Strategy
Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greitens, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Monday, 30 October, 17:00-18:30
Online: sign up [email protected]
The Causes and Consequences of Global Police Militarization
Dr. Erica De Bruin, Hamilton College
Monday, 13 November, 17:00-18:30
Online: sign up [email protected]
Hostages of Empire: Colonial Prisoners of War and Vichy France
Dr. Sarah Frank, University of Sheffield
Monday, 22 January, 12:30-14:00
Online: sign up [email protected]
Masterclass on Working with the Media: Translating Academic Knowledge for Wider Audiences
Dr. Jenny Mathers, University of Aberystwyth
Monday, 29 January, 13:30-15:00
In-Person: sign up [email protected]
Seeing Gender in Russia’s War in Ukraine: A Feminist Security Studies Approach
Dr. Jenny Mathers, University of Aberystwyth
Monday, 29 January, 17:00-18:30
In-Person: Arts Lecture Theatre
Careers with Think Tanks
James Black, RAND Europe Assistant Director for the Defense and Security Research Group
Monday, 4 March, 13:00-14:30
In-person: Parliament Hall
The Fate of Civilians in War
Prof. Stephen Neff, University of Edinburgh Law School
Monday, 11 March, 16:00-17:30
In Person: Arts Lecture Theatre
The End of the Afghan Campaign?
General (retired) Mick Nicholson, United States Army
Lieutenant General (retired) Giles Patrick Hill, British Army
Monday, 18 March, 16:30-18:00
In-Person: Lower College Hall
End of Term Celebration—Wine and Cheese Reception
Immediately following our final in-person event
Monday, 18 March, 18:00-19:00
In-Person: Lower College Hall
Perceptions of Illegitimate Violence in Intercultural Wars in German East Africa (c.1884-1914)
Prof. Tanya Bührer, University of Salzburg
Monday, 1 April, 17:00-18:30
Online: sign up [email protected]
Academic Year 2022-23
Welcome Reception
Friday, 16 September, 16:00-18:00
Arts Building Main Office Foyer
War in Present Times*
“Contemporary Conflicts: Lessons from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Ukraine”
General David Petraeus
Wednesday, 28 September, 17:30-19:00
Online (will also be streamed at the British Academy Conference)
British Academy Conference: The Russo-Ukrainian War
Programme: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british-academy-conferences/the-russo-ukrainian-war/
Wednesday & Thursday, 28-29 September, 9:00-17:30
Hybrid: London and Online
Postgraduate Master Class
“Researching the Army”
Brigadier Khashi Sharifi, OBE
Monday, 10 October, 10:00-11:30
In-Person: TBD
ISWS Lecture Series
“Strategic and Operational Insights from the War in Ukraine”
Brigadier Khashi Sharifi, OBE
Monday, 10 October, 17:00-18:30
In-Person: TBD
War in Present Times*
“The Maritime Dimension of the War in Ukraine”
Dr. Deborah Sanders, King’s College
Wednesday, 12 October, 17:30-19:00
War in Present Times*
“Lessons from Ukraine for the Wars and Battlefields of the Future”
General Dr. Freuding, Chief of the Ukraine Center in the German MoD
Thursday, 27 October, 17:30-19:00
Postgraduate Coffee Chat
with Prof. Alessio Patalano, King’s College
Monday, 7 November, 14:00-15:00
In-Person: TBD
ISWS Lecture Series
“The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific: Five Factors of Influence”
Prof. Alessio Patalano, King’s College
Monday, 7 November, 17:00-18:30
In-Person: Arts Lecture Theatre
War in Present Times*
“Historical Reflections Roundtable: Wars and the Dangers of Escalation”
Prof. Holger Afflerbach, University of Leeds; Dr. Marc DeVore, University of St. Andrews; Prof. Annika Mombauer, The Open University; Sir Prof. Hew Strachan, University of St. Andrews
Wednesday, 9 November, 17:30-19:00
Postgraduate Coffee Chat
with Prof. Erica Chenoweth, Harvard University
Wednesday, 21 November, 13:00-14:00
ISWS Lecture Series
Prof. Erica Chenoweth, Harvard University
Wednesday, 21 November, 15:30-17:00
War in Present Times*
“The Ukrainian and Russian Societies and the War in Ukraine”
Dr. Olga Onuch, University of Manchester, and Sofia Asaminova
Wednesday, 23 November, 17:30-19:00
War in Present Times*
“Ukraine and the Russian Menace”
Andrij Zagordnyuk, Former Defense Minister of Ukraine
Wednesday, 7 December, 17:30-19:00
Master Class
Professor Stephen Biddle, Columbia University
Thursday, 9 March, 13:00-14:30
In-Person: Arts Seminar Room 7
ISWS and CRSCEES Joint Sponsored Workshop
“Media Literacy and Misinformation in the Russo-Ukrainian War”
[Ukrainian/Russian language proficiency required]
Dr. Joanna Szostek, University of Glasgow
Monday, 3 April, 13:00-14:00
In-Person: Arts Seminar Room 5
ISWS Lecture Series
“Free Speech versus Defence of the Nation? The Media as Sources of National Security in Ukraine”
Dr. Joanna Szostek, University of Glasgow
Monday, 3 April, 17:00-18:30
In-Person: Arts Lecture Theater
ISWS Lecture Series
“The Russian Conquest of Central Asia”
Dr. Alexander Morrison, Oxford University
Monday, 17 April, 17:00-18:30
In-Person: Arts Lecture Theatre
*War in Present Times is an online collaboration with the University of Leeds and the University of Birmingham.