All Souls Seminar Series 2025-26

The All Souls Seminars occur every two weeks during term. They are a vital part of the Centre’s intellectual culture and an opportunity for staff and students to engage first hand with new work from the best criminologists from around the world. Since the pandemic we have been recording most of the presentations and making them available on YouTube; where possible we also invite alumni and members of the public to attend either in person or online.  Please see below this year's series. You will also find links to recent recordings.

All seminars will take place in Wharton Room, All Souls College, 15:30pm – 17:00pm.  Refreshments will be available from 15:00pm.

Registration is required for events & can be accessed via our events webpage.

Michaelmas Term: 

Week 1, 16th October Samuel Singler, University of Essex - Book launch – Outsourcing Crimmigration Control: Digital Borders, the IOM, and Biometric Statehood

Week 3, 30th October Zoha Waseem, University of Warwick - Webs, Walls,Watchmen: Counterinsurgency Policing and Digital Authoritarianism in Pakistan.

Please note: this event is in-person only, not recorded or Hybrid

Week 5, 13th November Zora Hauser, University of Cambridge - Mafia Expansion: The 'Ndrangheta in Established Democracies

Week 7, 27th November Marina Warner, All Souls College, Oxford - Sanctuary, Safety, and Sacrilege

Hilary Term:

Week 1, 22nd January Leo Zaibart, University of Cambridge - “The Hard Problem of Punishment”

Week 3, 5th February David Sklansky, Stanford University - "Coercion, Control, and Complicity:  Aiding and Abetting in the Context of Domestic Violence." 

Week 5, 19th February Silvia Gomes, University of Warwick – Re-entry in Portugal: From Lived Experiences to Abolitionist Reimaginations

Week 6, 26th February Illan Wall, University of Galway - "Managing the Populace: Community tension and Public Order".

Trinity Term:

Week 1, 30th April Alpa Shah, University of Oxford - ‘The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India’.

Week 3, 14th May Pete Fussey, University of Southampton - “Policing, Human Rights and Ethics in the Age of AI Surveillance”

Week 5, 28th May Andrea Kretzmann, Leuphana University of Lüneburg – Title TBC

Week 7, 11th June Annual Roger Hood Lecture 17:00-18:30pm – TBC. Please note this event will be held at an alternate location.