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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[...]
Professor Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, looks at what we mean by development and what citizens, governments and the international community can do to encourage it. Goldin explains how the notion of[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are characterised by an acute shortage of trained doctors and nurses, and a strong reliance on community health workers. In this talk, drawing on recent research in urban and[...]
Professor Maria Jaschok, International Gender Studies Centre at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University: “Hui Muslim Women in Central China – Bargaining with Patriarchies” Dr Kerrie Thornhill, Academic Mentor for MST Women’s Studies Programme, Oxford University:[...]
In the fourth and final lecture of the Trinity Term Annual Lecture Series on ‘Global Education’, Prof Stefan Dercon will discuss ‘Education and jobs as a response to the Syrian refugee crisis’. Speaker Prof Stefan[...]
The Technology and Management Centre for Development at the Department of International Development will be hosting two research seminars in the coming weeks – The afternoons of May 19 and June 1st. We invite researchers[...]
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[...]
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.
A special postcolonial seminar with Professor Brinda Bose and Professor Prasanta Chakravarty (University of Delhi). This event is CHCI funded and supported by TORCH, the English Faculty Postcolonial Seminar, and Rhodes House.
Leopold Eyharts flew on the Atlantis Shuttle to the International Space Station in 2008. Part of his mission included the installation of the Colombus Space Laboratory, the main contribution of Europe to the International Space[...]
Visualise the world in the 21st century in seven new maps! Geographers Ben Hennig and Danny Dorling present some of the key challenges and questions relating to the future of people across the world, using[...]
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[...]
Speakers: -Jonathan Scheele (Senior Member, St Antony’s College and Head of Representation at the European Commission Representation in the UK, 2010-12) -Michael Weatherburn (Imperial College and Foundation for European Progressive Studies) -Lise Butler (Pembroke College[...]
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[...]
RSC Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas Term ‘Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration’ Series convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context[...]
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[...]
Delivering reliable drinking water to millions of rural people in Africa and Asia is an elusive and enduring global goal. A systematic information deficit on the performance of and demand for infrastructure investments limits policy[...]
Noeleen Heyzer, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, will give the Devaki Jain Lecture on the topic of ‘At the Frontlines of Change: Feminist Leadership Transforming Lives’. Noeleen Heyzer holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the[...]
RSC Public Seminar Series Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration Michaelmas Term 2016 Convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context[...]
An unwinnable battle? Zika and Ebola. Two viruses that are emerging as huge global threats to human health. What can we learn from the past? How must we approach the future? Some of Oxford’s leading[...]
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[...]
RSC Public Seminar Series Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration Michaelmas Term 2016 Convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context[...]
Haydar Zaki is outreach officer for the Quilliam Foundation and works extensively on projects that aim to promote values integral to Quilliam’s ethos, such as universal human rights. His outreach work primarily involves working with[...]
‘In 2012, the International Labour Organisation estimates that there were 5.5 million children in slavery’. From the cotton industry in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to shrimp fishing in SE Asia, Aidan McQuade, Director of the charity[...]
RSC Public Seminar Series Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration Michaelmas Term 2016 Convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context[...]
RSC Public Seminar Series Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration Michaelmas Term 2016 Convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context[...]
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