The Ethics of AI for Intelligence

Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies. Please contact Elisabeth Siegel at elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk or Brian Kot at brian.kot@politics.ox.ac.uk in advance to participate or with any questions. Remote attendance is possible, but in-person attendance is prioritized (and provided refreshment). Discussion topics will be finalized and optional readings will be sent out a week in advance.

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Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies. Please contact Elisabeth Siegel at elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk or Brian Kot at brian.kot@politics.ox.ac.uk in advance to participate or with any questions. Remote attendance is possible, but in-person attendance is prioritized (and provided refreshment). Discussion topics will be finalized and optional readings will be sent out a week in advance.

Silicon Valley in Context: Technology Corporations as Political Actors

Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies. Please contact Elisabeth Siegel at elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk or Brian Kot at brian.kot@politics.ox.ac.uk in advance to participate or with any questions. Remote attendance is possible, but in-person attendance is prioritized (and provided refreshment). Discussion topics will be finalized and optional readings will be sent out a week in advance.

The Macro- and Micro-Politics of AI Standards-Making

Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies. Please contact Elisabeth Siegel at elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk or Brian Kot at brian.kot@politics.ox.ac.uk in advance to participate or with any questions. Remote attendance is possible, but in-person attendance is prioritized (and provided refreshment). Discussion topics will be finalized and optional readings will be sent out a week in advance.

The Role of Internal Skills and Expertise in Public Sector Digital Transformation

Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies. Please contact Elisabeth Siegel at elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk or Brian Kot at brian.kot@politics.ox.ac.uk in advance to participate or with any questions. Remote attendance is possible, but in-person attendance is prioritized (and provided refreshment). Discussion topics will be finalized and optional readings will be sent out a week in advance.

Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements Across India and Palestine/Israel

Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel (Stanford University Press, 2024) traces the political fallout of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, often known as “India’s 9/11” or simply “26/11”, concentrating on the efforts of Israel’s homeland security to advise and equip Indian city and state governments. Drawing on more than a decade of multi-sited ethnographic and archival research, it situates homeland security as a universalizing project, which seeks to remake the world in its image.

Palestinians and Native Peoples are Comrades: The Political Economy of Oil and Indigenous/Palestinian Solidarity

This paper explores a materialist ethic of solidarity between the Dene of the Northwest Territories (Canada) and the people of Palestine via a political economy of oil and extractivism. It looks at the 1973 Oil Crisis’ origins and effects, examining Indigenous resistance to extractivism spanning from Palestine and the Middle East to the proposed Mackenzie Valley Pipeline in the Canadian North.

Inger Isabella Storm Sandboe

I am currently researching what motivates lone-actor terrorists as part of my DPhil at DPIR.

Prior to studying at Oxford, I completed a BA (Hons) in Peace Studies and International Relations at Lancaster University, UK, a MA in Political Sciences specialised in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway, and an MLitt in Global Social and Political Thought at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. I have research experience from the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Moonshot CVE, working on counter-radicalism projects.

Alisa Hoenig

I am a first-year student on the MPhil in International Relations and a member of St Hugh’s College. My research studies small and middle powers in the Indo-Pacific, specifically their positioning and behaviour in the context of the current US-China competition. I am more broadly interested in geopolitical and geo-economic dynamics in the Indo-Pacific, as well as between this region and Europe.

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