Challenges and trends in contemporary European history writing

How is contemporary European history being written and reinterpreted today? Paul Betts, Patricia Clavin, Jussi Hanhimäki and Natalya Vince come together to discuss current trends and challenges in the field. The conversation will consider changing approaches to researching and writing Europe’s recent past, including the questions, perspectives and methodologies shaping historical scholarship today. It will also reflect on how historians navigate established narratives, new sources and evolving understandings of Europe and its place in the wider world.

Ending The Longest War: The 10th Anniversary of the Colombian Peace Agreement.

Sergio Jaramillo Caro served as High Commissioner for Peace for Juan Manuel Santos, the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, between 2012 and 2017. As National Security Advisor (2010-2012), he led the secret negotiations with the country's largest guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - FARC, which ended with the “General Agreement” of 26 August 2012. He then served for five years as High Commissioner for Peace and, together with Humberto de la Calle, led the public phase of the negotiations in Havana.

Brazil: the next four years

Brazil holds national elections in October, with incumbent president Lula and senator Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, as the two leading candidates in the polls. Alongside the president, Brazilians will elect federal and state legislators and 27 state governors. Join the Lemann Foundation Programme on the day after the runoff for a panel discussion on Brazil's political context and policy needs in light of the election results. Moderated by João Pedro Caleiro, Senior Policy Manager of the Lemann Foundation Programme, panellists include: Professor Timothy Power, He

DEFINING VENEZUELA: Chavismo with Another Name? In Transition to Democracy? A Neo-colony?

Ivan Briscoe is Sewnior Director for Policy at International Crisis Group, where he works with regional and cross-cutting programs to develop the organisation’s analysis and prescriptions. He was previously the program director for Latin America and the Caribbean between 2016 and 2024, based for much of that time in Bogotá.

The Infant Health Consequences of Divisive Political Messaging: Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign Rallies

While environmental stressors from economic conditions, natural phenomena, and violence are known determinants of infant health, less is known about the effects of divisive political messaging. Isolating these effects is challenging because most political events, like elections, simultaneously communicate messages and signal changes in political authority and policy. I use exposure to 2016 U.S.

Status of UK defence in NATO

Dr Rob Johnson is the Director of the Changing Character of War Centre, Senior Research Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Oxford. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Defence University Staff College and Adjunct Professor of Strategic Studies at Rennes School of Business in France. He is a historian, strategic studies and International Relations scholar combining academic analyses with ‘knowledge exchange’ policy impact.

Osamede Ogbomo

Osamede Ogbomo is an MPhil student in Political Theory and a Barry Scholar. Her research interests include natural rights, human flourishing, and political leadership. She is broadly interested in how ideas about human nature and the good shape political institutions, public discourse, and responses to social and technological change.

Her current research examines Frederick Douglass’s conception of equality, particularly as it relates to natural rights, human dignity, and human agency.

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