Past Events Date/Time Event 8 October 2018 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm The Engelsberg Applied History Speaker Series presents: ‘The Peacemakers: Leadership Lessons from Twentieth-Century Statesmanship,’ with Prof. Bruce Jentleson 10 October 2018 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Public Panel on 'India, China, Pakistan and the Future of South Asia,' with Dr. Christopher Clary, Sushant Singh, Dr. Sadia Sulaiman, and Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot 11 October 2018 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Engelsberg World Order Seminar I 23 October 2018 12:00 am Engelsberg Applied History Speaker Series: ‘Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual,’ with Dr. Daniel Bessner and Prof. Andrew Preston 24 October 2018 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Engelsberg Applied History Programme presents: A discussion with Lord Peter Ricketts, former National Security Advisor and Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office 30 October 2018 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm The Engelsberg Applied History Speaker Series presents: ‘Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping,’ with Dr. Sulmaan Wasif Khan 20 November 2018 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm 'Violence and Islamist Extremism: New approaches and interpretations,' with Dr. Emman El-Badawy, Dr. Shiraz Maher and Dr. Martyn Frampton 29 November 2018 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Engelsberg World Order Seminar II 30 November 2018 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm ‘The World’s Youngest Failed State: Interrogating Western Interventions in South Sudan,' with Adam Day and Dr. Charlie Hunt 16 January 2019 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm 'Restraining Great Powers: Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era,' with Prof. T.V. Paul and Hillary Briffa 21 January 2019 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm The Engelsberg Applied History Speaker Series presents: ‘Spotting the Tiger in the Grass: The Case for Applied History,’ with Robert Crowcroft. 5 February 2019 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm ‘Working for the Foreign Affairs Committee in Parliament,’ with Ashlee Godwin, Eleanor Scarnell and Ariella Huff 7 February 2019 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Engelsberg World Order Seminar III, with guest John Ikenberry 25 February 2019 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm The Hijaz: The First Islamic State 5 March 2019 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm The Engelsberg Applied History Speaker Series presents: 'Allies or Competitors? A discussion on Britain and America in the Middle East' with James Barr and Alex von Tunzelmann 11 March 2019 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm The Engelsberg Applied History Speaker Series presents: ‘Early Cold War History and Contemporary Politics,’ with Dr. Ian Johnson and Dr. Flavia Gasbarri (KCL) 12 March 2019 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm Lunchtime Seminar with Professor Jason Sharman (Cambridge) 13 March 2019 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm 1919: The Anticolonial Upsurge (KCL) 21 March 2019 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Engelsberg World Order Seminar IV (KCL) 25 March 2019 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm The Engelsberg Applied History Speaker Series presents: 'Europe in the Midst of a World in Geopolitical Transition', with Prof David Criekemans (KCL) 29 April 2019 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm 'Stalinism at War: A New History of the Second World War', with Prof Mark Edele (co-hosted with the Sir Michael Howard Centre at KCL) 9 May 2019 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm 'A New Theory of Political Violence' with Nuno Monteiro (KCL) 7 June 2019 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Applied History: Possibilities & Pitfalls (Cambridge) 17 June 2019 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Destined for War, with Graham Allison (Cambridge) 20 June 2019 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm A Central European Grand Strategy? (Cambridge) 19 September 2019 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm World Order Study Group with Prof Chiyuki Aoi (Univ. of Japan) Strand Building, King’s College London, London 21 October 2019 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Engelsberg Applied History Annual Lecture with Prof. Margaret MacMillan Safra Lecture Theatre, King’s College London, 22 October 2019 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Why is it useful to think like a realist? with Prof. Stephen Walt War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07), London 31 October 2019 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Conquering Peace with Stella Ghervas Forum on Geopolitics, Cambridge 25 November 2019 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm ‘Active Defense: Chinese Military Strategy since 1949’ with Professor Taylor Fravel War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07), London 26 November 2019 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Engelsberg Keynote Lecture: ‘How to Prevent Europe Becoming the Nut in US/China Cracker’ with Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (former Secretary General of NATO) International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London 29 November 2019 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm World Order Study Group with Minister Noriyuki Shikata War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07), London 4 December 2019 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Raison d’Etat: Richelieu’s Grand Strategy During the Thirty Years’ War War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07), London 13 January 2020 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Strategic and Tactical Slavery in War River Room (2nd Floor) King’s Building, London 21 January 2020 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm Hubertus Jahn: Understanding cultural, behavioural and historical factors shaping contemporary Russian politics Forum on Geopolitics, Cambridge 22 January 2020 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Applying insights from the UK-Ireland split to Post-Brexit UK-EU relations War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07), London 29 January 2020 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm What’s the Point: Moving from a Research Degree to a Diplomatic Career War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07), London 28 February 2020 - 29 February 2020 All Day Jack Straw on The English Job: Understanding Iran and Why It Distrusts Britain Forum on Geopolitics, Cambridge 28 April 2020 12:00 am Talk by Alexander Downer, former Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Forum on Geopolitics, Cambridge 6 May 2020 12:00 am Conference on the geopolitics and modern history of the Caribbean Forum on Geopolitics, Cambridge 26 May 2020 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Live Webinar: The False Promise of Liberal Order 3 June 2020 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Geopolitics of the Middle East: Learning from past failed peace settlements and negotiation formats 10 June 2020 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Live Webinar: The Armenian Genocide and Anglo-American Struggle to Remake Global Order 22 June 2020 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Making Sense of the Intermeshed Conflicts of the Middle East 24 June 2020 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm The Great Imperial Hangover: book launch with author Samir Puri 24 June 2020 12:00 am Roundtable on the Baltic States 1939-1940 Forum on Geopolitics, Cambridge 24 June 2020 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm Baltic States 1939-1940 2 July 2020 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Live Webinar: Foreign Intervention in Middle East Geopolitics
