The Muslim son of a Hindu zamindar - family quarrels and religious boundaries in a Mughal landlord's lineage

This talk will take a close look at a multi-generational legal dispute within a Mughal zamindari family that raged from the late seventeenth into the early eighteenth century. As regimes fell and rose, members of this landed family fumed at each other, and tried to use legal courts as well as other paraphernalia of the state to say who they were, and what was due to them, but not others.

Technical AI Governance Researcher Mixer - Where Disciplines Meet Ideas in Oxford

Join us for a lively networking reception at the Oxford Martin School, bringing together the brightest minds in AI and AI governance research from across university disciplines. Whether you're a computer scientist exploring the frontiers of machine learning or a social scientist investigating the best frameworks for AI governance, this event is for you! Come enjoy some wine, meet your fellows, hear about the University’s AI Governance Initiative, and think about how to work together to make AI safe and sound!

You might find your next research idea or your next collaborator!

Rethinking Non-State Armed Groups: Youth, Agency, and Pathways to Sustainable Peace

This seminar offers a fresh perspective on the roles and potential of youth within non-state armed groups, exploring both micro-level dynamics and broader implications for global peacebuilding. Based on field experiences across regions like Somalia, Yemen, Kenya, Indonesia, and Colombia, combined with insights from recent research, the presentation will challenge traditional narratives surrounding non-state armed groups and youth associated with non-state armed groups (YANSAG).

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Deborah is Sky News' security and defence editor. She covers the biggest foreign stories around the world and carries out her own investigations. She has reported from Europe on Brexit the United States on Donald Trump, and broken stories on suspected Russian disinformation operations and suspected cyber attacks in the UK.

Leading AUKUS: the UK perspective on the Australian, UK, United States strategic alignment for Indo-Pacific Defence and Security

Anne-Marie Trevelyan was the Minister of State for AUKUS in His Majesty's Government and this is her account of the multiple benefits of the new strategic alignment for the three powers. She lays out the domestic UK advantages this initiative is producing, and has the potential to produce in the future, for the regeneration of the North-East of England, technological acceleration for UK businesses, and a new era of deterrence against aggression in the region which is such an important strategic and commercial partner for the UK.
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