Skip to main content

Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies seminars

Hear from academics and practitioners with expertise in Politics, Languages and International Studies. View our upcoming seminars on this page.

Upcoming seminars

Details about our scheduled seminars.

11 February 2025

  • Speaker: Dr Carl Müller-Crepon, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
  • Title: Co-ethnics Co-vote in Africa: Studying Electoral Cleavages with a Co-Voting Regression Model
  • Time: 1:15pm - 2:15pm
  • Location: 1 West North 2.4

4 March 2025

  • Speaker: Dr Stuart Turnbull Dugarte, University of Southampton
  • Title: Voting like their rights depended on it? Why more LGBTQ citizens are also voters
  • Time: 1:15pm - 2:15pm
  • Location: 1 West North 2.4

Previous seminars

Find details of past events from the Department of Politics, Languages & International Studies seminar series.

3 December

  • Speaker: Dr Dina Bolokan, Université de Neuchâtel
  • Title: Desertion and Conscientious Objection in the Context of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
  • Time: 1:15pm - 2:15pm
  • Location: 1 West North 2.4

19 November

12 November

5 November

  • Speaker: Dr Luis Schenoni, University College London
  • Title: Bringing War Back In: Victory, Defeat, and the State in Latin America

29 October

  • Speaker: Dr Susannah Crockford, University of Exeter
  • Title: Colliding Catastrophes: Climate Change and Online Misinformation

22 October

  • Speaker: Lucas Scheel, University of Adelaide
  • Title: Dump her in Anatolia: Violent language in populist discourse

15 October

8 October

  • Speaker: Dr Alena Drieschova, University of Cambridge
  • Title: Linking epistemological and ontological in/security: Hungary's identity crisis, Russian disinformation and Hungarians' vernacular insecurity

23 April

  • Speaker: Ndidi Olibamoyo, University of Bath
  • Title: Normative Agency of African States in UN Cybernorms Processes

16 April

  • Speaker: Dr Natalie-Anne Hall, Loughborough University
  • Title: Brexit, Facebook, and Transnational Right-Wing Populism

26 March

  • Speaker: Sean Garrett, University of Bath
  • Title: The Emergence of Roles in British Foreign Policy: How the UK Interprets Russian Disinformation

19 March

  • Speaker: Dr Bianka Speidl, University of Exeter
  • Title: Shi'ite Environmental Ethics in a Globalising World: Man and Nature in M.H. Tabatabai's 'Ethics of Moderation'

12 March

  • Speaker: Dr Cherry Miller, University of Glasgow
  • Title: Interpreting EU27-UK Parliamentary Diplomacy

5 March

  • Speaker: Dr Sara Polo, University of Essex
  • Title: Female Empowerment and Extreme Violence against Women

27 February

  • Speaker: Dr Rosalind Shorrocks, University of Manchester
  • Title: The Role of Conflict-Seeking and Conflict-Avoidance in Explaining Gender Gaps in Political Engagement

20 February

  • Speaker: Dr Mauro Lubrano, University of Bath
  • Title: From Ontological Security to Existential Threat: Retracing the Emergence of Contemporary Anti-Technology

13 February

  • Speaker: Dr Mike Bolt, University of Bath
  • Title: Meadows and Uplands: Leave’s Vision of the Post-Referendum Good Life

6 February 2024

  • Speaker: Professor Peter John, King's College London
  • Title: Nudge+: How to Encourage Citizen Empowerment in Behavioural Public Policy

12 December 2023

  • Speaker: Dr Fernanda Gallo, University of Cambridge
  • Title: Hegel in Italy: How Ideas Became Political Practice

5 December 2023

  • Speaker: Professor Petra Schleiter, University of Oxford
  • Title: The UK Voter ID Reform: Effects on Voter Attitudes and Behaviour

14 November 2023

  • Speaker: Dr Leah Owen, Swansea University
  • Title: "Enemies Within/Enemies Without": How Do Emotional and Security-Based Fears of "Infiltration" Direct and Shape Campaigns of Mass Violence?

21 November 2023

  • Speaker: Dr Sara Polo, University of Essex
  • Title: Female Empowerment and Extreme Violence against Women

28 November 2023

  • Speaker: Dr Robert Geist-Pinfold, Durham University
  • Title: Understanding Territorial Withdrawal: Israeli Occupations and Exits

3 October 2023

  • Speaker: Ms Mimi Mihailescu, University of Bath
  • Title: Meme-ing Waves: Unpacking Political Narratives in the Romanian Context

10 October 2023

  • Speaker: Dr Gabriel Huland, University of Bath
  • Title: The Syrian Conflict in the News: Coverage of the War and the Crisis of US Journalism

17 October 2023

  • Speaker: Professor John Boswell, University of Southampton
  • Title: En/Countering the State: Understanding Citizen Agency at the Front Lines of Democratic Government

24 October 2023

  • Speaker: Dr Nye Davis, Cardiff University
  • Title: Class, Power, Democratic Socialism: The Politics and Legacy of Aneurin Bevan

Seminar enquires

For further information about our seminars, you can contact the organiser.