In a text written in Jerusalem in 1926, Gershom Scholem, who later became one of the greatest Jewish scholars and intellectuals in the twentieth century, pointed to the dangers inherent in Zionism’s attempt to secularize and nationalize Judaism. Involved in the organization ‘Brit Shalom’ (Covenant of Peace), that advocated a binational arrangement in Israel-Palestine, Scholem at that time argued that binationalism was essential for distinguishing Zionism from messianism.

Canada’s rapid rise in deaths from euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, termed Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in the country, now ranks it second only to the Netherlands in terms of MAiD deaths as percentage of overall deaths, with one province already hosting the highest rate of all jurisdictions in the world.

We are very excited to be hosting Dr. Kevin Rowlands on Seapower and Statecraft on Tuesday, March 11th at 8:30 PM in the Old Library at All Souls College. There will be a drinks reception prior to the talk at 8. Dr. Kevin Rowlands is the Head of the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre, the Royal Navy’s internal think tank which serves to strengthen the conceptual component of the Navy’s fighting power.

We are very excited to be hosting Chris Lavers on Threats in Urban Environments Posed by the Proliferation of Modified Commercially Available UAVs by Asymmetrical Warfare Actors on Tuesday, March 4th at 8:30 PM in the Old Library at All Souls College. There will be a drinks reception prior to the talk at 8. Chris Lavers is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Strategy, Statecraft, and Technology - Changing Character of War Centre, University of Oxford.

We are very excited to be hosting Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer next week on The Black Brant Scare: Early Warning, Nuclear Alerts, and the 1995 Rocket Incident. The talk will take place on Tuesday (February 25th) at 8:30 PM in the Old Library at All Souls College. There will be a drinks reception prior-to the talk from 8 PM. Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo, and is the founding director of the Oslo Nuclear Project.

We are very excited to be hosting Beatrice Heuser on Can Strategic Intelligence Failure be Avoided? on Tuesday, February 10th at 8:30 PM in the Old Library at All Souls College. There will be a drinks reception prior to the talk at 8. Beatrice Heuser is Distinguished Professor at the Brussels School of Governance, Free University of Brussels (VUB). She heads the Strategy teaching section at the German General Staff College (Führungsakademie) of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and previously the Chair in International Relations at the University of Glasgow.

We are very excited to be hosting Professor Rosemary Foot next week on Power Shifts in International Organisations: China at the United Nations. The talk will take place on Tuesday (February 4th) at 8:30 PM in the Old Library at All Souls College. There will be a drinks reception prior-to the talk from 8 PM. Professor Rosemary Foot is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. She is also an associate of the China Centre, an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College and a Fellow of the British Academy.

This paper, taken from the third chapter of Aisha Djelid's forthcoming monograph, _Forced Reproduction: Slavery, Gender, and Family in the Antebellum South_ under contract with the University of Georgia Press, explores antebellum enslavers’ “regimentation” of the health of enslaved people, particularly women and girls, to establish a proto-eugenic and pronatalist ideology to reproduce the slave regime.

This workshop will consider the ways that queer history, art, and curating intersect. Each speaker will give a brief presentation on the ways that they conceptualize curating in their own practice, whether as an artist, curator, professor, and/or author. A brief conversation among the panelists will follow and then open up to the entire audience.

A bit more about individual panelists:

*Gemma Rolls-Bentley* (author and curator): https://www.gemmarollsbentley.com

*Leah DeVun* (photographer, author, and historian): https://www.leahdevun.com

Reading: Mijke van der Drift and Nat Raha, “They Would Plant the Rose Garden Themselves”: Femme, Complicity, Solidarity, and the Rewiring of the Sensuous’. _Social Text_ 42, no. 3 (2024): 75-100

What is “care” good for, and how best to apprehend it as a scholarly category? The “Care” Series gathers scholars of any discipline who are interested in reading and thinking about “care” together. Each session, we gather to discuss a short reading with the help of a local expert.