
The SPIR seminar series brings together the School’s research community and domestic as well as international leaders in the field of politics and international affairs. Across each semester, the series showcases a diverse and exciting range of topics.
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Upcoming Events
Repression, Religion, and Regime Loyalty in Nazi Germany
Professor Dr. Alexander De Juan (University of Osnabrück)
Measuring regime support in closed autocracies is challenging due to preference falsification and censorship. Professor Alexander De Juan introduces…
Past Events
Reimagining Public Institutions: From the National to the Global
Sir Geoff Mulgan (University College London)
Public institutions worldwide face a crisis of legitimacy and effectiveness, yet they remain critical for addressing 21st-century challenges from…
Global Citizenship and World Order? Educational Multilateralism and the History of IR
Dr April Biccum (ANU)
Many new disciplinary histories of both Political Science and International Relations (IR) demonstrate their implications in empire and race science…
Managing Elections in a Changing World
Dr Therese Pearce Laanela (International IDEA)
The field of electoral management is being reshaped, as many of the foundational assumptions crafted in the 1990s no longer apply as initially…



