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November
'Is conservation working?' with Prof Julia Jones
27th November 2023: 5:00pm
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We are living through a nature crisis.
Book talk: 'The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society' with Prof Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
21st November 2023: 12:30pm
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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.
'Health misinformation: the barriers to its recognition by information consumers and the limits to the concept of medical “truth”' with Dr Olessia Koltsova
16th November 2023: 5:00pm
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As mass communications facilitate the dissemination of messages, both true and false, wrong or inaccurate medical information is increasingly leading to large-scale social consequences.
'Medicine in the 4th Industrial Revolution' with Prof Andrew Morris
13th November 2023: 5:00pm
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With increasing connectivity, advanced analytics, automation, and advanced-manufacturing technology, how can health care embrace this digital revolution?
'Human security versus National security: have we lost our capacity for collective action?' with Achim Steiner
3rd November 2023: 5:00pm
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Conflicts, climate change, rising inequalities…. the list of crises is long and growing.
'How can we build the sustainable economy?' with Dieter Helm & Dimitri Zenghelis
2nd November 2023: 5:00pm
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What would the sustainable economy look like? What would it take to live within our environmental means?
October
'The future of global development and implications for Aid' with Charles Kenny
30th October 2023: 5:00pm
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Richer countries are rapidly ageing and productivity is stagnating.
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
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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.
'Anthropocene opportunities: unleashing humanity's shared aspirations' with Prof Erle Ellis
12th October 2023: 5:00pm
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Anthropogenic planetary disruptions, from climate change to biodiversity loss, are unprecedented challenges.
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
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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
Book talk: 'Age of the City: why our future will be won or lost together' with Prof Ian Goldin
15th June 2023: 5:00pm
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The city - the ultimate symbol of human ingenuity - is where the battles of climate change, pandemics, inequality and loneliness must be faced.
Panel discussion: 'Uncovering the offshore world: how researchers investigate shell companies, international wealth managers and transnational informal economies'
13th June 2023: 5:00pm
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According to the Tax Justice Network, up to $32 trillion in hidden assets are held in offshore tax havens.
Risk, security and democracy: A public conversation
7th June 2023: 4:30pm
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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
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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’.
'China's Deepfake Regulations: navigating security, misinformation and innovation' with Prof Mimi Zou
1st June 2023: 5:00pm
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China implemented new regulations on 'deep synthesis' technology in January 2023.
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
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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
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