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From the team behind Riversimple (http://www.riversimple.com/), the UK Based Hydrogen Fuel Cell Eco Car Company, comes a brand new Eco business venture. They are about to launch a company that uses alternate approaches to energy,[...]
Join Lisa McKenzie (LSE), Danny Dorling (University of Oxford), Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London), Ruth Ibegbuna (CEO, RECLAIM Manchester) and Dawn Foster (The Guardian) to discuss how class is presented within the media. It[...]
Engaging with the Humanities: Katrin Kohl Creative Multilingualism – the hidden value of linguistic diversity Wednesday 30 November 2016, 12.15 – 1.15pm Oxford Saïd is pleased to welcome Katrin Kohl to the School on Wednesday[...]
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[...]
In this talk Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times Columnist on Foreign Affairs, Globalization and Technology, will talk about how the planet’s three largest forces – the advance of technology, globalisation and climate change are[...]
Winston Churchill advised that “experts should be on tap but never on top”. In 2017, is a post-truth world a post-expert world? What does this mean for future debates on difficult policy issues? And what[...]
The world is an increasingly complex, interconnected place; in work as in life, we need a broad range of experiences to widen our knowledge, perform to our best and feel most fulfilled. But in education,[...]
Sir Muir Gray believes that the most important type of healthcare is what you do for yourself. The author of “Sod 70!” and other works argues in this talk that knowledge is the greatest enemy[...]
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[...]
Talk followed by questions and discussion. All welcome.
At a time of heightened political tension and policy confusion about the refugee crisis, this lecture will explore why record numbers of people are fleeing their homes; what conditions they are living in; and what[...]
Our societies are increasingly dependent on, and shaped by, our information technologies. We read, watch, communicate, interact, and monitor digitally, both as individuals and in our institutions. As we document and store every conceivable facet[...]
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 fifth annual Ockenden International Prize for excellence in self-reliance projects among refugees and displaced people will be presented by Lord Alfred Dubs, Labour peer, on Tuesday 7th March 2017. Projects in Uganda, Egypt and[...]
The twin political earthquakes of 2016 – Brexit and Trump’s election as President – have left the UK and USA in a condition of divisiveness, uncertainty and rancour. Both events symbolized a rejection not only[...]
Saïd Business School is proud to welcome Kailash Satyarthi to speak at the School on Tuesday 25 April. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi will speak about the fight against modern slavery, sharing his experiences[...]
Anthony Barnett, Co-Founder openDemocracy and former Director Charter 88
“Decolonisation” has gained entrance into the popular discourse about diversity, academia, and politics. But what does it mean and do we mean it when we say it? In this talk, I will explore this question[...]
We’re delighted to announce our next Defense Entrepreneurs Forum (DEF) Oxford Agora. In keeping with the spirit of DEF, we’re trying something new: a hardware innovation workshop. Innovation is at the heart of what we[...]
Featuring Professor Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes) and more TBC.
Award-winning historian MARGARET MACMILLAN, Warden of St Antony’s College, considers how, a century after the First World War, we are still coming to terms with what that prolonged conflict meant for European society and the[...]
Robert Llewellyn will talk about some of the exciting new stories of sustainability from his recent BBC television documentary. Hear about the transformation of a village over two years as it adopted renewable technology, from[...]
A one-off screening of recent documentary release Citizen Jane: Battle for the City. The film will be followed by a panel discussion featuring four local experts talking about how the themes in the documentary relate[...]
Documentary screening followed by a Q&A with Brass Eye director Michael Cumming. Michael will describe his experiences of working on-set with Chris Morris and reflect on twenty years since Brass Eye’s first transmission. The discussion[...]
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[...]
Come along to the Graduate christian forum’s opening event to hear the Rev Dr Jonathan Brant (Chaplain of the Oxford Pastorate and Theology Research Fellow) give an engaging lecture on how studying leads to transformation[...]
The Graduate Christian Forum is excited to host Dr. Rob Heimburger who conducted research on migration patterns in south america, in particular Colombia, and will be sharing his views on his research and faith. This[...]
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[...]
Talk followed by questions and discussion All welcome Oxford Communist Corresponding Society
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[...]
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