Events

All Alumni and Friends are welcome at our launch of an 'Alumni Book Club' event on Tuesday, 10 June. It will be an informal gathering of Alumni and Friends to hear from a number of Nuffield Alumni about their new books, followed by a Q&A.

The event will take place on 10 June at 5.30pm in the Butler Room, with the option to join virtually for our international Alumni or anyone not able to come to College. Those who attend in person are very welcome to join us at High Table following the event, alongside some of the speakers.

Please RSVP by 1June at [email protected], specifying if you would like to attend in person/online, and let us know if you would like to attend High Table, with any accessibility/dietary requirements.

Event Speakers:

Robert Falkner (DPhil IR 1994), Professor of International Relations will join us from the LSE to talk about his book co-authored with Barry Buzan, The Market in Global International Society: An English School Approach to International Poltiical Economy. The book explores the market not just as an economic system but as a political ideology and key institution within global international society, highlighting its role in shaping the normative framework of International Relations. 

Bronwen Everill (Research Fellow 2010-2011) will join us virtually from Princeton, where she is on the faculty of the Princeton Writing Program. Her book Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance argues that Western attempts to ‘fix’ African economies fail by overlooking Africa’s own economic traditions, instead imposing Western models. The book challenges long-held myths and shifts the focus from Western assumptions to African economic thought.

Sarah von Billerbeck (DPhil IR 2008) will join us from the University of Reading, and Oisín Tansey (DPhil Politics 2002) from King’s College London. Together with Birte Gippert and Kseniya Oksamytna, they co-authored United Nations Peacekeeping and the Politics of Authoritarianism, which argues that while the UN doesn't set out to support authoritarianism, its actions can unintentionally enable it. The book identifies two forms of this ‘authoritarian enabling’: building the capacity of repressive state institutions and failing to strongly challenge authoritarian behaviour. It also offers strategies for peacekeepers to avoid these outcomes.