Alan Morrison and Rupert Younger will lead a discussion with Carlo Messina on the future of the financial services industry and the role of major financial institutions in society today.

The discussion will draw out areas where financial innovation is strongest, and the opportunities for young entrepreneurs to create new products and business models that will serve the needs of commercial and private customers alike.

Products and services aimed at the growing third sector will also be discussed, as will a more wide ranging approach to the responsibilities and obligations of businesses in society today.

Carlo Messina is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Intesa Sanpaolo since 29 September 2013.

He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of ABI (Italian Banking Association) and has been a member of the Bocconi University Board since November 2014. On 1 June 2017, Carlo Messina was knighted for Services to Industry “Cavaliere del Lavoro” by the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella.

Think Human Festival is proud to host this panel on Writing Working-Class Fiction.
Kerry Hudson, Kit de Waal and Alex Wheatle are celebrated contemporary British novelists who have all written working-class experience into their fiction. At this event, the novelists are hosted by writer and critic Boyd Tonkin.

They will read from their work, and then discuss the problems they have encountered in being working-class writers, the creative responses they have formulated in their writing of working-class experience, and the wider issues of publishing and literary culture in relation to working-class writing and authorship. The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes has a rich tradition of research into working-class life and culture, across literature, history and the social sciences.

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College.
Convenor: Meera Selva

What if I like research but not teaching? What if I do not like any of them? What alternatives to academia do I have?

We would like to introduce the “SIU Career Sessions”, a termly round of talks focusing on alternative careers for PhD students and postdocs, which will definitely help you with these questions. Get ready to hear from experts and explore new career paths! If you are not sure what is next after your PhD or would just like to be aware of your options, these events are for you!

Our first session will focus on a promising field for PhD-level scientists: industry. In this event, attendees will have the opportunity to hear from high profile speakers from two pharmaceutical companies with different focuses: Novo Nordisk and Immunocore. The speakers will bring not only information about the attributes they seek in potential employees, but also the daily life in industry and opportunities for a successful and stable career in big pharmaceutical companies. We will also learn from their first-hand experience how they took the career transition path to industry.

Is industry for you? Come find out with us!
As always, this event is completely free and everyone is welcome.

Carrie Gracie grew up mostly in North-East Scotland and set up a restaurant before taking a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford. She spent a year teaching in two Chinese universities and then built a small film business before joining the BBC in 1987 as a trainee producer.

She went back to China as the BBC’s Beijing reporter in the early 1990s and served as China correspondent and Beijing bureau chief until 1999 when she returned to the UK to focus on presenting. For several years she anchored the morning slot on the BBC News Channel and hosted the weekly BBC World Service programme, The Interview. In April 2014, she took up a newly created post as BBC China Editor and has since covered many news stories in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. She has also made documentaries about China for TV and radio, winning prizes including a Peabody and an Emmy.

In January 2018, she left her post as BBC China editor in protest at unequal pay. She published an open letter to BBC audiences on the subject and appeared before a parliamentary select committee. She has since returned to BBC HQ as a news presenter and continues to campaign for an equal, fair and transparent pay structure.

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College.
Convenor: Meera Selva

Kumar Iyer, visiting academic at Hertford College and partner with consultants Oliver Wyman, will present findings from a study examining the potential impacts of Brexit on business. The talks will be followed by a brief discussion. All are welcome: please pre-register using the Eventbrite link.
Please note that unfortunately there is no disabled access to the Baring Room.

About the talk

The talk will revolve around the luxury beauty business in the Middle East, focusing on the region’s trends. Charles will also touch upon Dubai as one of the key cities for impressive events and marketing activations, as well as the significance of Arabic fragrances in the modern luxury sector.

About the event

The seminar is open for anyone to attend and will take place at Saïd Business School from 17.45 followed by a drinks reception until 19.30.

About the speaker

Charles Haddad is the General Manager of L’Oréal Luxe Middle East, where he develops a large portfolio of luxury brands, which includes iconic names such as Lancôme, Giorgio Armani, Yves Saint Laurent and Urban Decay. With the support of his multicultural teams, he leads the marketing, digital, commercial and retail strategies as well as the operations of the division.

Charles started his careers with L’Oréal in 2004, following previous experience in finance, banking and the music industry. He spent several years in marketing in various subsidiary locations of L’Oréal and has been promoted in 2013 to General Manager of the luxury division covering Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.

Charles is a graduate from Dauphine University and ESCP Europe Business School in Paris and holds a master’s degree in Finance, Economics and Business.

Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars
The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Convenors: Meera Selva, David Levy, Andrew Dilnot

Book Launch with Author & Translator: Yan Ge (顏歌)’s The Chilli Bean Paste Clan, translated by Nicky Harman

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2018/May/07 Monday 5-7PM Ho Tim Seminar Room, China Centre, St Hugh’s College, Oxford

Open and free of charge for all

Supported by: Oxford Chinese Studies Society

To welcome everyone back to Oxford in this Trinity Term, we have invited one of the most important writers of China’s post-1980 generation, Yan Ge, to share with us her experiences as a young writer in China and abroad. She will bring her seminal work, The Chilli Bean Paste Clan (《我們家》in Chinese, published in 2013), and discuss issues of family, language, morality, capitalism and more, with the novel’s English translator Nicky Harman. The Chilli Bean Paste Clan the English translation will be published by Balestier Press and available on the market from the 1st of May, 2018, adding a fresh voice in the growing field of literature in translation.

Synopsis of The Chilli Bean Paste Clan:

Set in a fictional town in West China, this is the story of the Duan-Xue family, owners of the lucrative chilli bean paste factory, and their formidable matriarch. As Gran’s eightieth birthday approaches, her middle-aged children get together to make preparations. Family secrets are revealed and long-time sibling rivalries flare up with renewed vigour. As Shengqiang struggles unsuccessfully to juggle the demands of his mistress and his wife, the biggest surprises of all come from Gran herself……

Professor David Der-wei Wang 王德威 of Harvard University has commented on Yan Ge and her work and hinted that she might signal a generational shift in the Chinese literary scene:
“She writes about her hometown. The stories in a small Sichuanese town are greatly done. She has her own worldviews, and frankly speaking, she is of a very fortunate generation. What she may have encountered as she grew up is not as tumultuous or adventurous as the writers that came before her, and therefore the factor of imagination has gradually come to matter more than experiences in reality.
她写她的故乡，四川一个小城的故事，写得很好。她有她的世界观，但坦白地讲，他们都是有幸的一代，在她成长的过程里面，她所遭遇的不如过去那辈作家有那么多的坎坷或者冒险性，所以，想象的成分已经逐渐地凌驾了现实经验的体会。”

This event will be of interest to those of you who work on contemporary China, Chinese literature, translation studies, and publishing. The conversation between Yan Ge and Nicky Harman will last around 30 minutes and we will leave plenty of time for critical dialogues, Q & A and discussions.

Books available for purchase at a discounted rate.

Speaker biography:

Yan Ge was born in Sichuan Province, China in 1984. She is a writer as well as a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature. Publishing since 1994, she is the author of eleven books in Chinese. Her works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Hungarian. She was a visiting scholar at Duke University from 2011 to 2012 and a residency writer at the Cross Border Festival in Netherlands in November 2012. Named by People’s Literature magazine as one of twenty future literature masters in China, she is now the chairperson of China Young Writers’ Association and a contract writer of Sichuan Writers’ Association. She recently started writing in English. Her English stories could be seen on Irish Times and Stand Magazine. She lives in Dublin with her husband and son.

Nicky Harman is a British translator of Chinese literature, and one of the most influential figures in the field. She is co-Chair of the Translators Association (Society of Authors) and co-founded Paper Republic 纸托邦, one of the most important online forums for Chinese literatures in translation. She taught on the MSc in Translation at Imperial College until 2011 and now translates full-time from Chinese. The authors she has translated include Jia Pingwa贾平凹，Yan Geling 严歌苓，Chan Koon-chung 陈冠中，Annibaobei 安妮宝贝，Chen Xiwo陈希我，Yan Ge颜歌，and Han Dong韩东, to name just a few. She has won several awards with her translations.

How do we define a sound or a taste for which our language does not have a dedicated word?

Typically, we borrow words from another sensory modality. Wines, for example, are often described by words that belong to other sensory perceptions: a “soft flavour” borrows the adjective soft from the domain of touch, and a “round taste” borrows the adjective round from the domain of sight.

It remains an interesting open issue to what extent these cross-sensory metaphors are universal across languages, and to what extent they are language-specific.

Dr Francesca Strik Lievers will address these questions and provide an overview of the latest scientific discoveries in the field, using examples taken from different languages. Her talk will be followed by an opportunity for questions.

The event is organised and hosted by Creative Multilingualism in collaboration with TORCH. Creative Multilingualism is a research programme led by the University of Oxford and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Open World Research Initiative.

Participation is free and open to the public. We provide FREE LUNCH to all participants.

12.30-13.00 – lunch and mingling

13.00-14.00 – talk and discussion

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College.
Convenor: Meera Selva

Saïd Business School is delighted to welcome Miles Young, Warden of New College, University of Oxford and former Chairman and CEO of Ogilvy and Mather, to deliver a session at the School on Thursday 10 May.

About the talk
Drawing on a long and successful career in the ad world, Miles Young cuts through the noise and offers up hard-won truths in his book ‘Ogilvy and Advertising in the Digital Age’. Young will discuss how the digital age has radically altered our way of life, by creating new challenges and opportunities for advertising agencies and their clients.

About the event
The seminar is open for anyone to attend and will take place at Saïd Business School. You are welcome to bring a cold lunch to the lecture.

About the speaker
Miles Young is the Warden of New College, University of Oxford and has focused his business career on advertising and marketing. Prior to joining New College, Young was Chairman and CEO of Ogilvy and Mather, a leading global communications network.

Miles was an undergraduate historian at New College, University of Oxford. He retains a strong interest in the issues facing developing countries, especially Asia.

Johan Eliasch, Swedish Billionaire CEO and Chairman of Head N.V (a global sporting goods group) since 1995, a global philanthropist and former special representative to the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on clean energy and deforestation, will be speaking to the Oxford Guild and Oxford PPE Society on Thursday 10th May (3rd week) from 4.30pm in the comfortable surroundings of Exeter College’s Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre (https://www.facebook.com/events/2074612062774409/). The will undoubtedly be one of the most exciting, fascinating and topical events of the year and a truly unique opportunity to hear from such a high profile speaker who will be sharing his vast range of experiences and insights and talking about ‘Brexit and Climate Change’. The event is 100% FREE AND OPEN TO ALL and is NOT TO BE MISSED! PLEASE REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE: https://tinyurl.com/JohanEliaschTalk

A keen advocate of environmental causes, he created the Rainforest Trust in 2005 and purchased for preservation purposes a 400,000-acre rainforest area in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Johan Eliasch co-founded Cool Earth in 2006, a charity he co-chairs, which sponsors local NGO’s to conserve endangered rainforest and has over 120,000 registered members. In 2007 he was commissioned by UK Government and Prime Minister Gordon Brown to undertake an independent review on the role of international finance mechanisms to preserve the global forests in tacking climate change, ‘The Eliasch Review’ , which was launched by the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street in October 2008. The Eliasch Review has served as a guideline for REDD (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) as part of the international climate change convention.

He was a member of the Mayor of London’s (Boris Johnson) International Business Advisory Council 2008-2016 and is a member of the Mayors of Jerusalem and Rome’s International Business Advisory Councils. He is Chairman of the Boards of Equity Partners, Aman Resorts and London Films and sits on the board of the Foundation for Renewable Energy and Environment and Longleat. He is a non-executive director of CV Starr Underwriting Agents and Acasta Enterprises. He has been a non-executive chairman of Investcorp Europe and is an advisory board member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Polar Regions, Brasilinvest, Societe du Louvre, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Capstar, Centre for Social Justice and the British Olympic Association. He is the first President of the Global Strategy Forum, a trustee of the Kew Foundation and a patron of the Stockholm University. He chaired the Food, Energy and Water security program at RUSI and has also served on the boards of IMG (2006-13) and the British Paralympics Association, the sports advisory board of Shimon Peres Peace Centre, the advisory board of the World Peace Foundation. He was non-executive chairman and a non-executive director of Starr Managing Agents 2008-2015. He served in different roles for the Conservative Party between 1999 and 2007, as Party Deputy Treasurer (2003–07), Special Advisor to the Leaders of the opposition (William Hague and Iain Duncan Smith) and shadow Foreign Secretaries (Michael Howard, Francis Maude and Michael Ancram) (1999–2006). He covered Shadow Foreign Relations (2003–2006) as part of the Shadow Foreign Office team. He was a member of the Austrian President’s delegation of State for Trade and Industry 1996-2006.

If you would like to ballot for the chance to meet Mr Eliasch and speak to him directly and take photos in a private reception please email president@theoxfordguild.com ASAP! DO NOT MISS OUT ON THE UNIQUE CHANCE TO HEAR FROM SUCH AN ACCOMPLISHED AND INFLUENTIAL GLOBAL BUSINESSMAN, PHILANTHROPIST AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST IN WHAT SHOULD BE ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING AND TOPICAL TALKS OF THE YEAR!

WHEN: 4.30pm, Thursday 10th May (3rd wk)
WHERE: Exeter College’s Saskatchewan Lecture Theatre
REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE: https://tinyurl.com/JohanEliaschTalk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2074612062774409/

St Anne’s College is proud to host an inspiring group of entrepreneurs to demystify the field of entrepreneurship and explain some of the paths to a career in this field.

Our speakers will present their first-hand experiences from different areas of the start-up ecosystem, from founding and growing successful companies to investing in the next generation of entrepreneurs. The talks will be followed by a Q&A panel session featuring young entrepreneurs sharing their journeys to show their routes into the field. With this range of involvement, you will be able to get a feel for how to be a part of start-ups from joining an existing team to developing your own ideas.

This event is open to everyone and free to attend. There will be a networking drinks reception following the talks where you will be able to carry on discussion.

Matt Clifford – Matt is a co-founder and chief executive of Entrepreneur First (EF), the world’s leading technology start-up builder. Since 2011 they have helped build over 140 start-ups that are now collectively worth over $1 billion. EF’s mission is to bring together individuals who want to start their entrepreneurial journeys and in this process, sthey help put people together to create cofounding teams that go on to build companies.

David Langer – During his Maths degree at Oxford, David founded GroupSpaces – a software company to help university clubs and societies manage themselves, hosting over 5 million memberships. After six years working on this, he then moved on to found Zesty, a Y Combinator backed corporate meal provider based in Silicon Valley that has raised over $20 million from investors. David is also an angel investor and startup advisor working with over 20 companies across Europe, Asia and the United States

Talk followed by questions and discussion

Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars
The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Convenors: Meera Selva, David Levy, Andrew Dilnot

Speaker(s):
Monika Bickert (Head of Product Policy, Facebook)
Yvette Cooper (Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee)
Louise Richardson (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford)
Convenor:
Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College)

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College.
Convenor: Meera Selva

As part of Think Human Festival, this one-off pop-up event is a unique opportunity for visitors of all ages to interact with leading academics from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University. The academics will act as ‘human books’ from a range of perspectives; historic, literary, political, legal and educational for 15 minutes per ‘book loan’ against the back drop of revolution. ‘RESIST! REMAIN!’ will provide the chance to engage with and access humanities and social science disciplines in a fun, original and inspiring way, and aims to create a lasting impression of how these subjects can help to understand what it is to be human.

Please note that this event is free, open to all ages and there is no need to book ahead. Please come to Bonn Square and start a interesting conversation around revolution!

For many people science in the media is lovely science stories like gravitational waves, the God particle and incredible discoveries about our natural history. But science is also to be found in messy, politicised and contentious stories like the coverage of climate-gate, Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans and rows about the safety of statins, e-cigarettes and anti-depressants. And it is essential that the wider public and policy makers have access to the best evidence when these controversies rage on our front pages.

How can scientists get their voices heard more loudly on these sensitive and contested issues? Is science in the headlines an opportunity or a threat? How can we help the public to assess where the weight of good evidence lies on issues when the media’s love of ‘balance’ and the maverick make it look like science is divided. The Science Media Centre sits on the front line between the research community and the 24 hour news media. Its remit is to get the media to do science better by getting scientists to do the media better. The CEO Fiona Fox will describe the philosophy of the Centre and show through real case studies how scientists changed what the public saw by engaging.

Our world is driven by technology and while it offers a variety of benefits to society, it also exposes us to a series of new and complex cybersecurity risks. These can relate to how we conduct business, how we engage with colleagues, family and friends, or even how organisations and individuals interact with new platforms such as social media and the internet-of-things.

In this talk, Dr Jason Nurse will explore these issues from the perspective of Cybersecurity. His talk begins with a brief discussion of what cybersecurity is, and then moves on to a detailed presentation of some of the significant challenges facing cybersecurity practice and research. Topics that will be covered include: the challenge of social engineering and why it is one of the most popular attacks today; the internet-of-things and its security and privacy implications; and how criminals use social media as a key platform for intelligence gathering on potential targets. These are all topics that will become critical in the future as society grows and technology becomes even more embedded into our daily lives.

If you’d like to find out more or reach Jason online, check out Twitter @jasonnurse!

Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars
The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Convenors: Meera Selva, David Levy, Andrew Dilnot

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College.
Convenor: Meera Selva

Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars
The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Convenors: Meera Selva, David Levy, Andrew Dilnot

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College.
Convenor: Meera Selva

Are we really living in a post-truth world where everyone is addicted to fake news? If so, what are the implications for communicating science and expert knowledge? The Frameworks Institute has harvested the most up-to-date understanding of how people think and what affects their thinking from across the social sciences. Their research methods identify the words and ideas that shift public attitudes – along with those that backfire or fail to drive change. Nicky Hawkins will share insights drawn from FrameWorks’ research on communicating a wide range of scientific and social issues including early childhood development, climate change and inequality.

Reuters Institute / Nuffield College Media & Politics seminars
The following seminars will be given at 5pm on Fridays, normally in the Butler Room, Nuffield College.
Convenors: Meera Selva, David Levy, Andrew Dilnot

Reuters Institute seminars “The business and practice of journalism”
The following seminars will be given at 2pm on Wednesdays, normally in the E.P. Abraham Lecture Theatre, Green Templeton College.
Convenor: Meera Selva

This workshop will discuss the increasing importance of ‘fairness’ as a criterion for more active intervention in UK markets, especially energy and telecommunications markets, by economic regulators such as OFGEM and OFCOM.

Fairness defined as fair treatment for consumers demands that economic regulators significantly extend their focus from price regulation to the regulation of the terms of contracts between regulated companies and their customers. Measures to address concerns about the use of private data are of particular importance to any such reforms, as well as the higher compliance costs that regulators would face under such an approach.

Drawing on the recent findings of behavioural economics which suggest that regulators will have to use formal rules for intervention, such as more stringent conditions of service, as well as ‘nudges’ in order to secure compliance, the workshop will bring together academics, practitioners, and policymakers to propose policies to ensure that consumers receive fairer treatment through effective regulation.

Participants include:
Convenor: Frank Vibert, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Government at the London School of Economics, and a former Senior Fellow of UNU/WIDER and Senior Advisor at the World Bank

Chair: Denis Galligan, Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of Programmes, Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, Oxford

Dr Christopher Decker, Economist and Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, Oxford

Professor Bettina Lange, Associate Professor of Law and Regulation, Oxford