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Is international governance facing a pivotal moment? Seventy years on from the creation of the UN, the list of issues requiring international co-operation is lengthy and complex, ranging from the conflict in Syria to infectious[...]
Mitigating climate requires a transition to low carbon energy systems and renewable energy looks increasingly likely to play a key role, but the most important resources are intermittent. This lecture will describe the research of[...]
In this talk Professor Daniel Kammen, Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow at INET Oxford, will discuss the strategies emerging to cost-effectively decarbonise energy systems worldwide. This work integrates elements of the science and engineering of energy[...]
The Technology and Management Centre for Development at the Oxford Department of International Development invites you to our upcoming research seminars. These research seminars are intended to connect active researchers and students on the topics[...]
For the third lecture of the Trinity Term Annual Lecture Series on ‘Global Education’, Dr Mary Robinson, will discuss ‘Educating for climate justice after the Paris climate agreement’. Speaker Dr Mary Robinson founded The Mary[...]
Professor Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, and fellow author Chris Kutarna preview their forthcoming book about the risks and rewards of a new Renaissance taking place in our modern world. They will[...]
For most of the world’s toughest challenges, there exists a tension between the needs of an individual and what is best for the common good. Income derived from fishing may be vital to one country’s[...]
Three high-profile SPC alumni return to their college to discuss the impending EU Referendum in a forum chaired by the Master, Mark Damazer CBE. Join the Editor of the Sunday Times, Martin Ivens (BA Modern[...]
Is there anything wrong with putting a price on health, education, citizenship, and the environment? Where do markets serve the public good, and where do they not belong? Join us for a lively discussion with[...]
There is increasing recognition over the last decade that conservation, while conserving biodiversity of global value, can have local costs. Understanding these costs is essential as a first step to delivering conservation projects that do[...]
“Where have all the bumblebees gone?” Since the mid-nineteenth century, three species of bumblebee in the British Isles have gone extinct, and several other species have become so rare that they are at risk of[...]
A discussion with photographer Alison Baskerville and curator Brigitte Lardinois that will consider women as photographers and photographic subjects, and the effects of social and technological change on portrait photography over the last 100 years.
Date/Time: Saturday 25 June, 13:30 Venue: Oxford Town Hall, Assembly Room Admissions: £5/£4(conc.)/£16(fam.) Suitability: 14+ Book here: http://www.oxfordshiresciencefestival.com/sat-opening-weekend.html What’s the closest environment to space on our planet? Antarctica ranks high on the list. Scientists and[...]
Ludo, snakes & ladders and draughts are all popular pastimes, but in the past couple of decades a new generation of board games from designers with backgrounds in maths and science has begun to break[...]
Why does Oxford have so many problems with city trees, what should we plant, and why perhaps should we take a “leaf” from the French? Using examples of tree plantings in Paris Ian Gourlay will[...]
Join Photograph Collections curatorial staff for a ‘behind the scenes’ tour of the Pitt Rivers Museum’s dedicated research area. A special opportunity to receive a guided tour of the climate-controlled storerooms and to view collections[...]
Oxford’s varied geology and green areas, both adjacent to river and stream corridors and on drier land make the city far richer in wildlife than large tracts of rural ‘green’ Oxfordshire. This talk will explore[...]
Jonathon Porritt and Shaun Chamberlin celebrate the launch of the late Trinity alumnus David Fleming’s extraordinary book, ‘Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy’. This intimate event will[...]
“History will remember this day,” said Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, on 12 December 2015, as a record of over 195 states adopted the first universal and legally-binding climate deal pledging to[...]
The Symposium focuses on drought and water scarcity in the UK and globally. A range of expert speakers give their perspectives from an academic and practisers view on the impact of drought and how to[...]
Iceland is one of the most volcanically active regions in the world. This is due to the interaction between the plate spreading and the Icelandic hotspot. This small island contains 35 active volcanoes, each capable[...]
Pen Hadow is one of the world’s leading polar explorers; in 2003 he made history and became the first, and so far only, person to trek solo without resupply from Canada to the North Pole.[...]
Elain Harwood will look at David Roberts’s work in Cambridge and Oxford, and will place it in the context of the growth of higher education in the 1950s and 1960s, and the development of a[...]
Our present laws attacking conflict of interest and corruption came into existence during years of blistering financial and political corruption scandals in early Hanoverian England, notably the 1720 South Sea Bubble. But there was also[...]
The Tim Hetherington Society and the Oxford PPE Society present: 7 Days in Syria, an evening with Janine di Giovanni. Join us for free in the Simpkins Lee Theatre at Lady Margaret Hall for a[...]
Professor Andrew Smith (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford) discusses Succulent plants: surviving in adversity. This is part of Oxford Botanic Garden’s Autumn Plant Sciences Lecture Series, taking place on Mondays in October and[...]
Climate change is a much-discussed topic, but what does the science say? In this talk, the evidence of how climate change is already affecting bird distributions, populations and communities will be reviewed and summarised. The[...]
Dr Brenda Boardman will speak at the Neighbourhood Forum AGM on ‘How we can deliver a low carbon future for Summertown and St Margaret’s’. Please come along. All welcome. Entry free.
Brookes Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series
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