Past Events

'Redesigning AI' with Professor Daron Acemoglu (in-person only event, fully booked)

17th May 2024: 11:00am Registration Required
Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School

The Institute for Ethics in AI and the Oxford Martin School are pleased to announce an exclusive event featuring a keynote address by distinguished economist Professor Daron Acemoğlu, followed by commentary from expert panellists.

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'Historical research in the time of the Anthropocene: can climate data help us read the past (and, if so, how)?' with Prof Nicola Di Cosmo (Online only)

8th May 2024: 5:00pm Live Stream
Online - Crowdcast

Over the past few decades historians have investigated paleoclimate data seeking answers to long-standing questions in the premodern world that may be linked to climate variability.

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Book Talk: 'Making sense of chaos: a better economics for a better world' with Prof Doyne Farmer

2nd May 2024: 5:00pm Registration Required Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

We live in an age of increasing complexity, where accelerating technology and global interconnection hold more promise – and more peril – than any other time in human history.

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'Eating to conserve: harnessing seafood sustainability to save threatened sharks' with Dr Divya Karnad

1st May 2024: 1:00pm Registration Required Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

The historical philosophy of wildlife conservation suggests that if humans and wildlife are separated, then wildlife will thrive.

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The Dr Stanley Ho Memorial Lecture: 'Revisiting genetic determinism: evidence from large population cohorts' with Prof Caroline Wright

29th April 2024: 5:15pm Registration Required
Lecture Theatre, Oxford Martin School

Developments in whole genome sequencing technologies have catalysed incredible progress in the diagnosis of rare disease and the discovery of novel disease-associated genes.

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Book talk: 'Past, present, and future of economic growth: how we should rethink it' with Daniel Susskind

24th April 2024: 5:00pm Registration Required Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer.

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'Navigating world orders over five millennia: does the past offer clues to the future?' with Prof Amitav Acharya

7th March 2024: 5:00pm Registration Required Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Building world order is not the monopoly of any civilisation, region or nation.

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'The UK’s development strategy and the new economic and geopolitical challenges' with Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, Minister for Development and Africa

6th March 2024: 5:00pm Registration Required Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

The UK launched an international development White Paper in November 2023, setting out seven areas for action across a broad range of development themes and policy areas.

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Panel Discussion: 'The great carbon market debate: is it over for offsetting?'

27th February 2024: 5:15pm Registration Required Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Critics and proponents of offsetting agree: achieving global net zero emissions is essential. But how we get there is up for debate.

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Book talk: 'Not the end of the world: how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet' with Hannah Ritchie & Charles Godfray

26th February 2024: 12:30pm Registration Required Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

We are bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won't be able to support crops, fish will vanish from our oceans, that we should reconsider having children.

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Panel Discussion: 'Saving the Oceans from the Sky' with David Freestone, Efthymios Papastavridis, Catherine Redgwell & Gwilym Rowlands - CANCELLED

22nd February 2024: 5:00pm Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

Please note this event has been cancelled and we will advertise the new date as soon as possible.

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'Why governments need scientists' with Sir Patrick Vallance

21st February 2024: 5:00pm Registration Required Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

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'The inequality of wealth' with Rt Hon Liam Byrne, Prof Barbara Petrongolo & Prof Brian Nolan

19th February 2024: 5:00pm Registration Required Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Wealth inequality has been rising for the last forty years and today the richest 10% of household hold 43% of the country’s wealth and the bottom 50% under a tenth.

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'Agent-based modelling in public health: from playground to planet' with Professor Joshua M. Epstein

6th February 2024: 5:00pm Registration Required Live Stream
Oxford Martin School & Online

Agent-Based Models (ABMS) are artificial societies of individual software people whose interactions generate large-scale social patterns—of violence, of inequality, and of disease.