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November

Book talk: 'The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society' with Prof Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

21st November 2023: 12:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School

More people today get news via Facebook and Google than from any news organisation in history, and smaller platforms like X serve news to more users than all but the biggest media companies.

'Medicine in the 4th Industrial Revolution' with Prof Andrew Morris

13th November 2023: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School

With increasing connectivity, advanced analytics, automation, and advanced-manufacturing technology, how can health care embrace this digital revolution?

October

James Martin Memorial lecture: 'Time To Look Up – in conversation with Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma about the climate crisis'

26th October 2023: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
The Sheldonian

After a summer of extreme heatwaves, devastating wildfires and deadly flooding across the world, all made worse by climate change, the Rt Hon Sir Alok Sharma, President of COP26 in Glasgow 2021, will discuss the ongoing climate crisis with Director of the Oxford Martin School, Professor Sir Charles Godfray.

Adama Dieng & Prof Andrew Thompson in Conversation: 'The United Nations and the prevention of mass atrocities in the 21st Century: some challenges and opportunities'

9th October 2023: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School

Adama Dieng, former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, July 2012 to July 2020, will discuss the UN's role in the global collective responsibility to prevent genocide and other mass atrocities.

June

Risk, security and democracy: A public conversation

7th June 2023: 4:30pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School

Criss-crossing the disparate realms of healthcare and global finance, war and national security, climate and personal safety, the language and logic of risk have become pervasive in the twenty-first century.

Panel discussion: 'Kleptocracy and The Financial Action Task Force' with Oliver Bullough, Susan Hawley, Margaret Hodge, Jason Sharman & Ricardo Soares de Oliveira

5th June 2023: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School

The international standards regarding money laundering and terrorist financing are set by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which describes itself as a ‘global watchdog’ whose recommendations ‘aim to prevent these illegal activities and the harm they cause to society’.

May

Baroness Jo Valentine, Jason Stockwood & Paul Collier in conversation: 'Grimsby and Blackpool- how community power is helping them with levelling up'

24th May 2023: 5:00pm   Registration Required   Live Stream
Online & Oxford Martin School

We know that flourishing communities and good work sits at the heart of good lives and wealthy societies. At the start of the digital revolution, in the 1970s, there was an expectation that people and places could transition to a new economy. Today we are reaping the grim rewards in terms of social deprivation and unbalanced economies. Levelling Up is an acknowledgement that transitions must be managed.

Series: Levelling-up regional disparities, inequality and social inclusion