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As the UK emerges from its own bruising referendum campaign, we present a screening of NO — the Oscar nominated dramatization of the 1988 referendum in Chile to decide the future of the country’s military[...]
Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series
Brookes Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series
Please join us for two insightful talks, followed by informal discussion and afternoon snack. Everyone is welcome! The talks will be given by: – Professor Lyn Parker (The University of Western Australia, Perth) Topic: “Intersections[...]
The people are angry and want change. Across Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, the people, or more accurately, segments of the People, are demonstrating their discontent and disenchantment with some of the ideas and[...]
Following the High Court ruling that the government, under a centuries-old Royal Prerogative, does not have the power to trigger Article 50 to leave the EU, MPs have claimed that we are entering a full-blown[...]
Gene editing promises to precisely modify the human DNA of embryos. This could cure genetic disorders, eradicate genes contributing to common human diseases and further research into disease. But it could also be used to[...]
Tweet, unlike, hashtag, unfriend. While these terms can now be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, the effect of social media on human psychology is still widely unknown. Is social media really changing the way[...]
Jonathan Metzger (KTH, Sweden) will talk about the necessity of exclusion in environmental planning. Abstract: A more-than-human sensibility is founded upon an awareness of the fundamentally entangled fates of humans and non-humans, from the individual[...]
Leading campaigner for human rights and LGBT freedom since 1967; member of OutRage! Through the Peter Tatchell Foundation he campaigns for human rights in Britain and internationally; author of six books, including “The Battle for[...]
The paper evolves from research Tora Holmberg has done for several years when capturing the more-than-human experiences and politics of living in the city. The research comes together through the concept of “humanimal crowding”, a[...]
Rio gold medallist, Grace Clough, will talk about the experience of competing at sport’s highest levels. When not studying towards an MSc in Sociology, Grace is a member of the British Rowing Squad and won[...]
Saïd Business School is pleased to welcome Lubomira Rochet, Global Chief Digital Officer of the L’Oréal Group, to speak at the School on Wednesday 26 April. Leading digital transformation at L’Oréal L’Oréal is the world’s[...]
Anthony Barnett, Co-Founder openDemocracy and former Director Charter 88
Joe Klein, a renowned American political columnist for Time magazine and author of Primary Colours. Paul Solman, Emmy-award-winning business, economics and occasional art correspondent for PBS NewsHour
Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the then West Pakistani (later Pakistani) military and their local East Pakistani (later Bangladeshi) collaborators as birangonas, (“brave women”).[...]
Age is the only category of discrimination that includes all humans. However, ageing people are stigmatised in popular culture and discourse, and regarded with a disgust closely linked to fear. Dr Nussbaum argues that stigma[...]
In this keynote lecture, leading political writer Timothy Garton Ash will present his ten guiding principles for a connected world, and offer a manifesto for global free speech in the digital age. Drawing on a[...]
This event is in partnership with the Resolution Foundation The accumulation and distribution of wealth across Britain has been a contentious issue since the dawn of economics. But while wealth inequality is traditionally viewed as[...]
Exploring the emotional terrain of the citizenship experiences of groups in Goa this paper will argue that through the linguistic choices made by the government of Goa it is not merely caste that is at[...]
Speakers: Ivor Crewe (Master, University College, Oxford) Anne Deighton (Emeritus Professor of European International Politics, St Antony’s College, Oxford) Stephen Fisher (Associate Professor of Political Sociology, Trinity College, Oxford) Iain McLean (Emeritus Professor of Politics,[...]
The Spanish Society of Researchers in the United Kigdom´s Oxford Constituency (SRUK/Oxford) brings the third event of Seminar series: visiting Spanish researchers in Oxford. In this occasion, we will be pleased to welcome Dr Rosario[...]
Numerous free talks, walking tours and workshops over two days.
Abstract: The current crisis in Ukraine is near the top of the international policy agenda. The armed conflict in eastern Ukraine was followed by the creation of ‘quasi states’, significant declines in living conditions and[...]
Abstract: Exploring both debates about misrecognition and explorations of encounters, this article focuses on the experiences of ethnic and religious minority young people who are mistaken for being Muslim in Scotland. We explore experiences of[...]
Transformation for All – Implementing the Agenda 2030 in Germany from a Practical Policy Perspective
Environmental and sustainability policy is facing new challenges concerning wicked problems in the accelerating interlinkages of the eco-socio-economic world, in the growing complexity of policy-and-beyond governance to deal with those problems and in the increasingly[...]
The UK has an increasingly hostile immigration policy environment, but is also the scene of substantial pro-migrant civic mobilization. There has been little systematic research on this phenomenon, particularly on what motivates people with relatively[...]
Abstract: The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) was created in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 (“9/11”). Its aim was to increase dialogue and reduce enmity between “civilizations,” notably between Christians and Muslims. In[...]
Culture’s role in hazard and climate change risk: worldviews, belief systems and ‘alternative facts’
Evidence from around the world indicates that culture can influence people’s vulnerability to climate variability and natural hazards, because expressions of culture include behaviour that results in exposure and sensitivity to hazards. Most studies have[...]
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