Marie-Lou Sohnius

I am a DPhil candidate in Politics working on non-citizen voting rights in the United Kingdom. My doctoral research is jointly funded by the Grand Union DTP (Economic and Social Research Council) and Nuffield College. Before starting my DPhil, I completed my Bachelor's and Master's in Political Science at the University of Mannheim with a specialisation in elections, quantitative methods, and survey research. I was a visiting student at the University of Sheffield, UK, where I focused on economic inequality and voting behaviour. 

LGBT+ History Month: Q&A with Tom Crewe

Join prize-winning author Tom Crewe for a special Q&A in celebration of LGBT+ History Month. The New Life, his first novel, is an historical imagining of LGBT+ rights in 1890s London. It is the winner of both the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the 2023 Southbank Sky Arts Award for Literature. The novel has been or is being translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch and Italian.

Anthony Calacino

Anthony is a Postdoctoral Researcher at DPIR as a member of the Climate Vulnerability Project, which is led by Professor Federica Genovese. His research focuses on the study of environmental and climate politics, covering topics about public opinion, institutions, and state power. Beyond the Climate Vulnerability Project, Anthony's current research is focused on a book manuscript delving into the politics of the environmental state in the Global South.

John Ikenberry: Does the Liberal International Order have a Future?

Professor G. John Ikenberry, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, is the world's leading scholar of liberal internationalism. Professor Ikenberry has been a Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow at Balliol and All Souls. He is the author of eight books, mostly recently A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order (Yale 2020).

The Rule of Law after the Anthropocene

The value of governing human conduct by law depends upon very general facts about what people are like. Those facts include that people have limited abilities to retain and process information; are prone to bias, favoritism, and arbitrariness; and find it difficult to spontaneously coordinate behavior at scale. Ordering human behavior around rules helps us work around these limitations. Agents who do not share those limitations have less reason to value the rule of law. Advanced AI systems do not share the same epistemic and practical limitations as humans.

Feminist activism under Russian political repression

How do feminists adapt their protest repertoires to a repressive political environment? What is the role of feminist activism in a wartime context? Daria Apakhonchich is an artist, feminist activist and Russian language teacher from St Petersburg. She is known for performance art protests against war, militarism, domestic violence and in support of jailed activists. She also writes and edits feminist books and children’s tales. She was among the first three individuals to be labelled as 'foreign agents' by the Russian state, and is now based in Georgia.
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