Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
The War and Peace of the Nuclear Age
21 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Dr James Martin, Founder of the Oxford Martin School and founder of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of ...
Global governance, local governments
09 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Distinguished Public Lecture. Globalization has created a more interconnected, interdependent and complex world than ever witnessed before. Whilst thi...
The price of civilization
16 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Sachs argues that for the U.S. to regain sound fiscal health the country must also reform its politics. The lecture is immediately followed by a panel...
A Global Community Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technologies
24 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jill Tarter, Director, Center for SETI Research, SETI Institute gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School Seminar Series.
Rethinking Geoengineering and the Meaning of the Climate Crisis
02 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Clive Hamilton delivers a critique of the consequentialist approach to the ethics of geoengineering, the approach that deploys assessment of...
Who speaks for climate?
28 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Mass media serve vital roles in communication processes between science, policy and the public, and often stitch together perceptions, intentions, con...
A new capitalism for a big society
03 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Bishop and Green led a discussion based on their recent book, "The Road From Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society". Together, they will take a loo...
Assessing the economic rise of China and India
03 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention--and justifiably so. Together, the two countries account for one-f...
Dealing with The New Normal: Resilience in systems that must cope with uncertainty
03 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Part of the School's intergrative seminar series. Delivered by Professor Patricia Hirl Longstaff, James Martin Senior Visiting Fellow, Professor, Syra...
Integrating Technology, Science, Law, Economics, and Politics: Development of Practical Policy for Carbon Capture and Storage
24 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Kenneth Richards, James Martin Senior Visiting Fellow on how carbon capture and storage (CCS) provides a potentially promising approach to mitigati...
Working with the crowd : 21st century citizen science
27 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Galaxy Zoo PI and James Martin Fellow Chris Lintott will review the technologies available to researchers seeking to rescue themselves from drowning i...
Climate Shocks: Turning Crisis into Opportunity
15 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, CIGI Chair of Global Systems, Balsillie School of International Affairs; full Professor, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Environ...
Climate change and marine ecosystems: have dangerous changes already begun?
07 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Special seminar from the James Martin 21st Century School: Climate change and marine ecosystems: have dangerous changes already begun? The Earth's oce...
The Plundered Planet
17 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Collier, Oxford Professor and author of The Bottom Billion, launched a discussion based on his latest publication, The Plundered Planet. Building...
A Panel Discussion with George Soros
17 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Lessons from Financial Crises: Paradigm Failure and the Future of Financial Regulation. In October, George Soros delivered a week-long series of lectu...
Geoengineering the climate
19 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Geoengineering the climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty: The Royal Society Study - John Shepherd (NOCS). The climate change we are experiencin...
The End of Business as Usual
18 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Distinguished Public Lecture: The end of business as usual by Dr Mohamed El-Erian, Co-CIO of PIMCO. In the wake of last year's financial crisis, busin...
Dealing with doctrines: time to outlaw nuclear weapon use?
11 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Achieving an end-state of "zero" has emerged as an important policy goal for a number of 21st Century challenges. The most prominent example is the "G...
Dealing with doctrines: time to outlaw nuclear weapon use?
11 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Achieving an end-state of "zero" has emerged as an important policy goal for a number of 21st Century challenges. The most prominent example is the "G...
Blueprint for a Safer Planet
08 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, a world renowned economist and leading authority on climate change, came to the 21st Century School on Thursday 7 May t...
Ian Goldin at University of Cape Town
18 Mar 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Speaking at the Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture, Dr Ian Goldin asked: Are the world's leading thinkers anticipating the risks and opportunities of the ...
21st Century Challenges: Humanity at the Crossroads?
15 Oct 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ian Goldin provides an overview of the work of the James Martin 21st Century School and looks at the challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century...
What is Science for?
10 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
What is science for, what good does it do and should it do good? In this lecture, Sulston and Harris will attempt to identify some of the most urgent ...
Stiglitz on Credit Crunch - Global Financial Debacle: Meeting the Challenges of Global Governance in the 21st Century
10 Jun 2008
Contributed by Lukas
The global financial crisis reflects a failure of global economic governance. The failure of America's regulatory system has not only ramifications fo...
Craig Venter on Genomics: From humans to the environment
14 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
In the second of the Distinguished Public Lecture Series run by the James Martin 21st Century School, Dr Craig Venter will discuss his work at the J C...
Economics of Climate Change
14 Apr 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Sir Nicholas Stern, HM Treasury: The economics of climate change Introduced by: Dr John Hood, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. C...