Katharina Klotz
Katharina is a first-year doctoral student in International Relations at New College, Oxford. Previously, she completed the MPhil in International Relations at Mansfield College, Oxford, as the 2023-2025 Adam von Trott Scholar.
Suhasini Das Gooptu
Edward Brooks
Professor Edward Brooks is the Director of the Programme for Global Leadership at DPIR and Executive Director of the Oxford Character Project.
From ‘closedness’ to ‘closeness’: how changing community values sustains a traditional craft industry
Japan’s craft industries have frequently been cited as one of the main cultural domains affected by the ageing and shrinking population. Adopting new technologies or marketing strategies has shown attempts to maintain them. However, the transformation of community values has gotten less attention. This presentation examines the resilience of the Tamba pottery industry in Hyogo Prefecture by looking at the potters’ collective re-evaluation of their internal social dynamics.
University of Oxford Annual Black History Month Lecture: Ann Pratt, Mary Seacole, and Questioning British History
This year’s Black History Month Lecture, ‘Ann Pratt, Mary Seacole, and Questioning British History’, will be delivered by Dr Christienna Fryar, writer and independent historian of Britain and the Caribbean. This lecture tells the story of two mixed-race Jamaican women, one of whom is widely considered an important figure within Black British history while the other is barely known, and questions the fraught relationship between British history and Black British history.
Rising Powers and the Politics of Status: China and India in the Liberal International Order
Why do rising powers sometimes challenge an international order that enables their growth, and at other times support an order that constrains them? Based on a recently published book, Ascending Order: Rising Powers and the Politics of Status in International Institutions (Cambridge University Press), this talk will offer the first comprehensive study of conflict and cooperation as new powers join the global arena. International institutions shape the choices of rising states as they pursue equal status with established powers.
Julian Jacobs
I am a Political Economy doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford and a Researcher at Google DeepMind, specializing in AI economic impacts.
My academic work specialises in artificial intelligence policy, the economic impacts of technological shocks, inequality, and worker training programs. For instance, I am currently studying labour upskilling amid AI and the question of 'who can be retrained' in an age of digitally-enabled automation and occupation substitution. This work is supervised by Ben Ansell and David Rueda.
BBC Radio 4 - The Today Podcast
The Compass Rose meets the Rising Sun: a new era of NATO-Japan Relations
After nearly 70 years of distant relations, ties between NATO and Japan are flourishing. Over the past year alone, an unpreceded level of integration and planned commitment has taken place with the adoption of a number of important initiatives, including high-level political dialogues, joint military training, and cooperation in science, technology, and cyber security. This seminar considers the drivers and objectives of the institutionalization of NATO-Japan relations and their implications for broader global security in both the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific.
Japan’s “three national security documents” and fundamental reinforcement of defence capabilities: reinforcing a radical military trajectory
Japan’s government posits that its 2022 three national security documents are at the same time transformational and yet maintain overall continuity in military and security policy. This talk through investigating several pivotal aspects of the defence reforms weighs the arguments for essential continuity versus step change. It concludes that the three documents fundamentally change Japan’s exclusively defence-oriented policy and the US-Japan alliance division of labour, further accelerate Japan’s radical military trajectory, and pose important implications for regional security.