Speaker

Stathis N. Kalyvas is Gladstone Professor of Government and fellow of All Souls College
at Oxford. Until 2018 he was Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science at Yale
University, where he founded and directed the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence
and co-directed the Hellenic Studies Program. In 2019 he founded the T. E. Lawrence
Program on Conflict and Violence at All Souls College, which he directs. He is the author,
among others, of The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press,
1996), The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and
Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2015). His
work has received multiple awards. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences since 2008 and of the British Academy since 2020. Since December 2023 he also
serves as Chairman of the Board of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.