Tuesday 27 May, 13.30
Old Library, All Souls
Title to Be Announced
Tycho van der Hoog, Neherlands Defence Academy & CCW
Tycho van der Hoog is an Assistant Professor of International Security Studies at the Netherlands Defence Academy. He completed a PhD at the African Studies Centre of Leiden University on the relations between North Korea and African revolutionaries. The resulting book, Comrades Beyond the Cold War: North Korea and the Liberation of Southern Africa, was published by Hurst and Oxford University Press in 2025. Over the course of ten years, Tycho has conducted extensive archival research in repositories across four continents, including multiple countries in Africa. He is the recipient of the BISA African Affairs Postgraduate Paper Prize in 2021 and was elected as one of the ‘Faces of Science’ by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2022. His work is published in peer-reviewed journals such as Cold War History, History in Africa, and Africa Spectrum. During his time in Oxford, Tycho will work on a new research project will highlight the contribution of African liberation movements to the global order, with particular attention to African military thought.
Seminars at 13.30, Old Library, All Souls
All are welcome, no need to book.
