All Souls Seminar Series 2026-27

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, 15th October Marie-Helen Maras, John Jay College of Criminal Justice – ‘The Com’: Deconstructing an Evolving Online Criminal Ecosystem

Week 3, 29th October Alistair Fraser, University of Glasgow – The Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction: Stories, Movements and Hope

Week 5, 12th November Rory Kelly, University of Galway – Cumulative Unfairness and the Structure of Criminal Liability

Week 7, 26th November Richard Martin, LSE – Constituting Police Power: The Human Rights Act 1998 at Twenty-Five

Hilary Term:

Week 1, 21st January Harry Annison, University of Southampton – English Penal Governance and the Centralizing Impulse

Week 3, 4th February Mojca M. Plesničar, Institute of Criminology – Sentencing Architecture: Decision-Making Inside the Pinball Machine

Week 5, 18th February Kate Herrity, University of Cambridge – Sound, ‘cascading reminiscence bumps’ and institutional violence

Week 7, 4th March Marie Manikis, McGill University – Rethinking Criminal Responsibility in Contexts of Marginalization: A Relational and Communicative Framework Incorporating State Responsibility

Trinity Term:

Week 1, 29th April Gavin Slade, Nazarbayev University – Towards a Criminology of the Global East: Carceral Lives in a Subaltern Empire 

Week 3, 13th May Fernanda Fonseca Rosenblatt, IIRP – Restorative Justice and Gendered Violence: Possibilities, Perils and Unresolved Questions

Week 5, 27th May Emma Kaufman, NYU Law – TBC