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Massada Annual Lecture 2026: Fania Oz Salzberger
This year's guest lecturer is Fania Oz Salzberger, Professor of History (University of Haifa), widely respected public intellectual and peace activist. All attendees are invited to join a drinks reception following the talk.
Multi-level Negotiation, Mediation and Diplomacy: OxPeace Training Workshop 2026
As Pauline Hanson’s One Nation roars back, what can Australia learn from the rise of Nigel Farage and Reform UK?
Sibylle Leonard
Devika Jain
I am a second-year MPhil student in International Relations and a member of Wadham College. My research examines the proliferation of International Commercial Courts (ICommCs) and the changing nature of jurisdiction, territory, and sovereignty in the international. My thesis investigates the relationship between law and capital and contextualizes ICommCs within a broader history of judicial spaces overseeing commerce. In the autumn of 2026, I will be pursuing a Juris Doctor (JD) at the University of Toronto.
China–Russia Relations and Allies and Subsidized Capacity Building
What is the nature of Sino-Russian alignment, its main drivers, and its evolution since 1949? Which factors have influenced the relationship most? How does the nature of this alignment affect peace, stability, and the liberal international order? Existing alliance literature does not fully explain why two great powers, China and Russia, with a history of ideological differences, asymmetric capabilities, and shifting threat perceptions have periodically deepened, downgraded, and reoriented their military cooperation since 1949.
Provost’s talk with Baroness Debbonaire: ‘Global Politics, the UK Culture Sector, and Support for the Creative Industries’
Join Baroness Thangam Debbonaire in conversation with Oriel College Provost and former UK government Culture Commissioner Lord Mendoza.
Debbonaire is a Labour peer and was a Labour MP for Bristol West from 2015-2024. During her time as an opposition MP, she held a number of shadow cabinet positions over a period of four years. Most recently she was the Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Debbonaire is a Labour peer and was a Labour MP for Bristol West from 2015-2024. During her time as an opposition MP, she held a number of shadow cabinet positions over a period of four years. Most recently she was the Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
How do solidaristic worker's movements emerge and what makes them sustainable?
How do solidaristic worker's movements emerge and what makes them sustainable? Maya will examine this question through a comparison of trade union politics in the US and UK at the turn of the twentieth century. Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both movements rejected government aid in favour of an exclusive set of trade union benefits. By the early twentieth century, the movements had diverged: whereas the British Trades Union Congress came to embrace universal state benefits, the American Federation of Labor clung to its exclusive benefits system and campaigned against state aid.