U.S. Navy surface ships are deployed around the world in strategically important waters. Their presence matters in the increasingly complex maritime domain and yet, despite unprecedented congressional support for shipbuilding, the U.S. defence industrial base cannot keep up with demand. At the same time, the U.S. is exploring new ways to deepen cooperation with partners in the Indo-Pacific to strengthen regional collective security and deter potential conflict. A collaborative warship construction program may succeed in achieving those aims.

In the wake of Super Tuesday, is the United States heading to another presidential transition in January 2025? Join us for a lunchtime discussion with Chris Liddell, who served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff during the Trump Administration and is the author of a new book on presidential transitions. We will discuss the state of the race, the challenges all the candidates face in the 2024 election and ask what a new Republican administration would look like.

What’s the matter with history? For decades, critics of the discipline have argued that the historical profession is dominated by scholars unable, or perhaps even unwilling, to write for the public. In Popularizing the Past, Nick Witham challenges this interpretation by telling the stories of five historians—Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Boorstin, John Hope Franklin, Howard Zinn, and Gerda Lerner—who, in the decades after World War II, published widely read books of national history.

Since 2018, we have seen a growth of Latino Republicans running for and winning at both the state and federal levels in places that one would not expect. This lecture will explain who they are, where they are running, who is winning, and their impact once in office.

Join us at our 1-day conference to discuss the Sudanese reflection on the present situation and future prospects. If you are unable to travel to Oxford please join us online through ZOOM webinars - register here for your personal ZOOM link: https://tinyurl.com/TSPprogFeb24.

Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi (Co-Founder and Chair of Trustees, The Sudanese Programme) and Dr Richard Barltrop (Trustee, The Sudanese Programme; Consultant and researcher, specialised in political, economic, conflict and peace analysis on the Sudans and countries in the Middle East, North Africa and the Sahel)

In Her Hands examines the various strategies women have utilized to fight for recognition as individuals vulnerable to and living with HIV/AIDS across multiple settings since the 1980s. Taking a new chronological and thematic approach to the study of the US epidemic, it explores five arenas of women’s AIDS activism: transmission and recognition, reproductive justice, safer sex campaigns for queer women, the carceral state, and HIV prevention and treatment.