Events

16th June 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

In recent years, and certainly since the launch of ChatGPT, there has been massive public and professional interest in Artificial Intelligence. But people are confused about what AI is, what it can and cannot do, what is yet to come, and whether AI is good or bad for humanity and civilisation - whether it will provide solutions to mankind's major challenges or become our gravest existential threat. There is also confusion about how we should regulate AI and where we should draw moral boundaries on its use.

16th June 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

The Tony Blair Institute of Global Change recently published an article asserting that reducing emissions was difficult and would fail unless we expanded use of technologies that are expensive and a challenge to living standards. This is reminiscent of nineteenth century economist William Stanley Jevons’ in “The Coal Question”, warning of the limits that finite coal resources placed on British prosperity. The hole in both visions is the absence of international trade.

12th June 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

The illusions that have long defined Africa-Europe relations are not just outdated—they are, Professor Carlos Lopes argues, actively harmful. As Africa repositions itself within a rapidly changing global order, clinging to legacy narratives only deepens inequality and missed opportunities.

11th June 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to lead to substantial economic growth and prosperity. To achieve these objectives, we need to ensure the larger-scale adoption and diffusion of these technologies in a way that maximises their economic value for corporations, consumers and the industrial production.

27th May 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Conservation in the Pacific Islands faces unique challenges, requiring approaches that acknowledge the deep interconnectedness of communities and their environments. Traditional conservation methods have sometimes overlooked unique socio-cultural contexts including the rights, needs and aspirations of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, leading to unintended negative consequences.

19th May 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

How do we move from tracking disease emergence to predicting the next epidemic?

14th May 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School

In developing economies, artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to have transformative—and potentially disruptive—effects on labour markets. Unlike previous waves of automation, which primarily affected routine or low-skilled jobs, AI now increasingly impacts high-skilled, educated workers, younger adults and women in certain roles.

30th April 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Proponents of AI governance often look to the past for examples of how AI might be governed multilaterally. Individuals concerned about AI arms races borrow from nuclear institutions, while those who worry about uncertainty support a scientific panel akin to the IPCC. Others draw on issue areas as diverse as particle physics, civil aviation, and financial regulation.

13th March 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Volcanic eruptions can be very destructive and have significant economic impact. However, active volcanoes are also a source of geothermal energy, and are used to produce heat and electricity in a number of locations around the world. Understanding the risks of a volcanic eruption, and developing geothermal energy resources, requires information about where molten rock and hot water is located underground.

12th March 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History

In this talk, Professor Stefanie Middendorf will scrutinise experiences of crisis and disorder in historical and comparative perspectives.

11th March 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

We have entered a new era of increasing ecological scarcity and rising environmental risks - global warming, land use change and biodiversity loss, freshwater scarcity, and deteriorating oceans and coasts. How economies choose to respond to this scarcity challenge is critical to both their sustainability and prosperity.

6th March 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Progressive taxation is a key pillar of democratic societies. But thanks to new research, there is now clear evidence that contemporary tax systems, instead of being progressive, do not effectively tax the wealthiest individuals.

5th March 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Social narratives around nonhuman life on Earth shape how we interrogate, value and act upon it.

26th February 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School

The Web was once for everyone. Thirty years ago, the Web was launched as an open, common, universal infrastructure that anyone with a computer and a modem could use to communicate, publish and access information. In recent years, however, it has radically diverged from the values upon which it was founded.

13th February 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Professor Sir Ian Boyd is a distinguished marine biologist who from 2012 to 2019 was Chief Scientific Advisor at Defra (Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) and is currently President of the Royal Society of Biology.

11th February 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

While traditional studies have emphasised the benefits of teamwork, the cost of teams in innovation has been overlooked.