College events

The logic of Russian disinformation narratives during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Speaker: Prof Katri Pynnöniemi

Date & Time: January 19, 2026, 5:00 pm

What is the role of international institutions in contemporary domestic politics?

Date & Time: January 19, 2026, 5:00 pm

BOOK TALK: Israel: What Went Wrong?

Speaker: Professor Omer Bartov

Date & Time: January 19, 2026, 5:00 pm

Sustainable development as a European project to remake the international order

Speaker: Sara Lorenzini, Chair: Paul Betts

Date & Time: January 20, 2026, 5:00 pm

BOOK TALK: The Fixer: A Journalist’s Accidental Journey through the Middle East

Speaker: Amjad M. Tadros

Date & Time: January 20, 2026, 5:00 pm

FILM SCREENING: COMPLICIT - How the West is Helping Israel Seize the West Bank

Speaker: Richard Sanders

Date & Time: January 22, 2026, 5:00 pm

Militarisation, patriotic mobilisation and the societal impact of war in Russia

Speaker: Dr Elena Racheva

Date & Time: January 26, 2026, 5:00 pm

How will the AI Revolution impact on the ways that MPs work?

Date & Time: January 26, 2026, 5:00 pm

The Materiality of Cyber Commercial Sigheh: An Introduction to A Post-Paradigmatic Sex Market in Iran

Speaker: Dr Minoo Sadat

Date & Time: January 27, 2026, 5:00 pm

The Construction of Masculinities in Popular Iranian Cinema of the 1990s

Speaker: Professor Nacim Pak Shiraz

Date & Time: January 29, 2026, 5:00 pm

From sovereigns to servants: how the war against Ukraine has reshaped Russia’s elite

Speaker: Dr Alexandra Prokopenko

Date & Time: February 2, 2026, 5:00 pm

What isn’t working in contemporary politics - and why: is the problem the civil service, the press, the public, the courts or politicians themselves?

Speaker: Sam Freedman, Peppa Crerar

Date & Time: February 2, 2026, 5:00 pm

BOOK TALK: Twelve Years Away from Constantinople, 1896 – 1908 (My Memoirs) by Yervant Odian

Speaker: Dr Nanor Kebranian

Date & Time: February 3, 2026, 5:00 pm

TBC

Speaker: Dominik Krell

Date & Time: February 5, 2026, 5:00 pm

Russian instrumental use of international law in its war against Ukraine and in the wider post-Soviet region

Speaker: Prof Rilka Dragneva-Lewers

Date & Time: February 9, 2026, 5:00 pm

What can MPs learn from what has already worked in transforming their institutions for 21st Century

Speaker: Lord Freud, Baroness Hodge of Barking

Date & Time: February 9, 2026, 5:00 pm

BOOK TALK: A History of Modern Syria

Speaker: Dr Daniel Neep

Date & Time: February 10, 2026, 5:00 pm

BOOK TALK: Kingdom of Football: Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World Soccer

Speaker: Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Date & Time: February 12, 2026, 5:00 pm

Navigating power shifts: Russia and the growing asymmetrical relationship with China

Speaker: Dr Marcin Kaczmarski

Date & Time: February 16, 2026, 5:00 pm

How does the cyber era affect the role of MPs in defence, foreign and security policymaking?

Date & Time: February 16, 2026, 5:00 pm

The Role of UNRWA Historical Refugee Registration Records in Documenting the Demographic Reality of the Nakba

Speaker: Dr Valeria Cetorelli

Date & Time: February 17, 2026, 5:00 pm

Politics in Ukraine: how resilient is Ukraine four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion?

Speaker: Prof Andrew Wilson

Date & Time: February 23, 2026, 5:00 pm

How can MPs operate in an area of disinformation and misinformation?

Date & Time: February 23, 2026, 5:00 pm

BOOK TALK: Fire in Every Direction

Speaker: Tareq Baconi

Date & Time: February 24, 2026, 5:00 pm

FILM SCREENING: The Conspiracy: Assassination in Beirut

Speaker: Dan Clifton, Michael Taylor

Date & Time: February 26, 2026, 5:00 pm

Preferences over contested territory: evidence from a new survey experiment in Ukraine

Speaker: Dr Carl Müller-Crepon, Dr Marnie Howlett

Date & Time: March 2, 2026, 5:00 pm

How are governments going to pay to make 19th century institutions fit to deal with 21st century problems?

Speaker: Professor Paul Johnson, The Lord Macpherson of Earl's Court

Date & Time: March 2, 2026, 5:00 pm

BOOK TALK: Contemporary Islamist Opposition in Morocco: Resisting Inclusion and Moderation

Speaker: Dr Alfonso Casani

Date & Time: March 3, 2026, 5:00 pm

A keynote conversation with Saeb Eigner about Artists of the Middle East. 1900 to Now.

Speaker: Saeb Eigner

Date & Time: March 5, 2026, 5:00 pm

Audiences of repression: defiant dissent and public opinion in Russia

Speaker: Dr Katerina Tertytchnaya

Date & Time: March 9, 2026, 5:00 pm

Is the changed relationship between voters and legislators due to the development of the Internet a boon for good decision-making - or a challenge?

Date & Time: March 9, 2026, 5:00 pm

An Autocratic Middle Class? State Dependency and Protest in the Middle East and North Africa

Speaker: Professor Neil Ketchley

Date & Time: March 10, 2026, 5:00 pm

Decolonizing Security Studies - a North African perspective

Speaker: Dr Nizar Messari

Date & Time: March 12, 2026, 5:00 pm