"War and peace in the 21st century" by Dr James Martin

Past Event

Date
21 November 2012, 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Location
St John's College
St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JP

This seminar is hosted by OXPEACE and the Institute of Human Sciences

Speaker: Dr James Martin, Founder, Oxford Martin School

Biography: Dr James Martin founded the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford in 2005 to foster and facilitate innovative, interdisciplinary research on the problems, dangers and opportunities of the near future. Martin is the largest individual benefactor to the University of Oxford in its 900-year history.

Martin has written more textbooks than any other living person – 104, many of which have been seminal in their field. He wrote The Meaning of the 21st Century, which was made into a major film, and is a Pulitzer nominee for his book The Wired Society.

He is an Honorary Life Fellow of the British Royal Institution, a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow of the James Martin Center for Non-Proliferation Studies at Monterey, California. Martin has honorary doctorates from universities on all six continents.

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The seminar is free to all and will be followed by a wine reception