The Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory was established in 2016. As we enter our seventh year, we are honoured to host two keynote lectures to be delivered by Lawrie Balfour and Andrea Sangiovanni. The 2023 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory will be held in-person on the 24th-25th April 2023 at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Join The Oxonian Review for a conversation with Yi-Ling Liu, who writes widely about Chinese society and culture, and is currently working on a narrative non-fiction book about the shifting bounds of public life in China, to be published by Penguin Press.

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We are delighted to present a special event in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development: the OICSD Scholars Research Showcase, happening on March 1 from 5-8 pm at Somerville College's Flora Anderson Hall.

What is political deference? Is there any point today in trying to retrieve a type of political respect specific to the Anglo-British constitution which has been discarded as analytically worthless and politically broken since the 1970s? The aim of this lecture is to look at this slippery concept, retrace its genealogy back to Walter Bagehot in the mid-Victorian period and retrieve its value for the present UK system of government at a time when its vulnerability has been exposed by the Johnson years.

Vanuatu is leading a global coalition to table a UN General Assembly Resolution asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to clarify the legal obligations for States, under existing international treaties, to do more to protect the planet from climate change. The vote for adoption by the UNGA is expected in mid-March.

Legal tools with the potential to catalyse the sustainability transition are gaining global traction, with other human rights related examples.

Viviana is a DPhil (PhD) candidate in Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She is also a member of Nuffield College and a Clarendon Scholar. Before starting her DPhil Viviana completed an MPhil in Politics (Comparative Government) also at the University of Oxford, and a BA in Politics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Her main area of interest is political behaviour at the individual level, with a focus on corruption.