Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Public Lectures and Seminars from the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. The Oxford Martin School brings together the best minds from different fields to tackle the most pressing issues of the 21st century.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Quantum life	Professor Seth Lloyd, Principal Investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School.	Seth Lloyd	18 August, 2015
The fight for women's rights: learning from success	Baroness Helena Kennedy QC gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School on women's rights.	Helena Kennedy	24 February, 2015
Capital failure - restoring trust in the financial system	Professor David Vines gives a talk onthe financial system.	David Vines	17 February, 2015
Oxford and the next-generation of mobile health	David Clifton, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, gives a talk for Oxford Martin School.	David Clifton	17 February, 2015
The butterfly defect: how globalization creates systemic risks, and what to do about it	Professor Ian Goldin gives a talk on globalization and systemic risk.	Ian Goldin	17 February, 2015
Is the Planet Full?	Charles Godfray, Ian Goldin, Sarah Harper, Toby Ord and Yadvinder Malhi discuss whether the planet is full.	Charles Godfray, Ian Goldin, Sarah Harper, Toby Ord, Yadvinder Malhi	17 February, 2015
Well fed? The health and environmental implications of our food choices	Mike Rayner, Susan Jebb and Tara Garnett give a talk about food and feeding the population.	Mike Rayner, Susan Jebb, Tara Garnett	17 February, 2015
World population and human capital in the 21st century	Andrew Dilnot, David Coleman, Francesco Billari, Sarah Harper and Wolfgang Lutz give a talk about world population.	Andrew Dilnot, David Coleman, Francesco Billari, Sarah Harper, Wolfgang Lutz	17 February, 2015
Eradicating Hepatitis C and HIV: progress and challenges for the next ten years	Dr John Frater, Principal Investigator, Institute for Emerging Infections and Dr Ellie Barnes, Principal Investigator, Institute for Emerging Infections.	Ellie Barnes, John Frater	17 February, 2015
New strategies for disease prevention and management from infancy to old age	Professor Terry Dwyer, Executive Director, The George Institute for Global Health and Dr Kazem Rahimi, Deputy Director, The George Institute for Global Health.	Kazem Rahimi, Terry Dwyer	17 February, 2015
Why do we need to reconstruct drug discovery?	Dr Javier Lezaun and Professor Chas Bountra give a talk about drug discovery.	Chas Bountra, Javier Lezaun	17 February, 2015
Strategies for vaccines for the 21st century	Professor Susan Lea, Professor Christoph Tang, Professor Jeffrey Almond and Dr Ian Feavers discuss strategies for vaccines for the 21st century.	Susan Lea, Christoph Tang, Jeffrey Almond, Ian Feavers	17 February, 2015
Superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies	Professor Bostrom on his book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies.	Nick Bostrom	17 February, 2015
Science and the future: Death - nothing more certain? - Oxford Literary Festival	From Neolithic burials to Mozart's Requiem and the novels of Martin Amis, humans have fashioned cultural responses to the inevitability of each individual's demise.	Donna Dickenson, Adam Rutherford, Anders Sandberg, Georgina Ferry, Frances Ashcroft, Paul Fairchild	18 June, 2013
Innovation or stagnation - Oxford Union Debate	The Innovation Enigma - Is the current growth crisis a result of decades of technological stagnation in a risk-averse society?	Ian Goldin, Peter Thiel, Seung-yoon Lee, Mark Shuttleworth, Kenneth Rogoff, Garry Kasparov	22 May, 2013
The Transformation of Humankind	With Dr James Martin, Founder, Oxford Martin School.	Andrew Hamilton, Ian Goldin, James Marrow	22 May, 2013
The Future of Energy and Transport	With Elon Musk, CEO and Product Architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).	Elon Musk	22 May, 2013
Ethics and infectious disease - navigating the moral maze of pandemic control	With Professor Paul Klenerman Principal Investigator, Institute for Emerging Infections.	Paul Klenerman, Bennertt Foddy	22 May, 2013
Ethics and plant science - improving food yields in a changing environment	With Professor Liam Dolan and Professor Jane Langdale, Co-Directors, Plants for the 21st Century Institute.	Liam Dolan, Jane Langdale, Julian Savulescu	22 May, 2013
Resource stewardship - can we develop a new common sense morality?	With Professor Myles Allen, Co-Director, Oxford Martin Programme on Resource Stewardship. You can show people all the evidence in the world about climate change, but if the policy debate is framed in an intractable way, it won't make any difference.	Myles Allen, Ian Goldin	22 May, 2013
Killing with computers - the ethics of autonomous and remote controlled weapon	Remote controlled and autonomous robotic weapons are bringing new levels of complexity to modern warfare. It's when such robots are designed as lethal weapons that the threshold for moral justification gets higher.	Alex Leveringhaus, Dapo Akande, Bennett Foddy	22 May, 2013
Reviving the Spirit of Innovation	With Kary Kasparov, world chess champion, writer and political activist. The world we live in now is very different from the one that was imagined 50 years ago.	Gary Kasparov, Ian Goldin	22 May, 2013
Pandemics - Can we eliminate major worldwide epidemics?	Larry Brilliant, President of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School.	Larry Brilliant	6 November, 2012
Doing capitalism in the innovation economy	William H. Janeway CBE, Senior Advisor and Managing Director at Warburg Pincus, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School.	William H Janeway	6 November, 2012
Hybrid reality: the emerging human-technology co-evolution	Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna; Directors of The Hybrid Reality Institute, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School public lecture series. With Professor Ian Goldin; Director, Oxford Martin Institute.	Parag Khanna, Ayesha Khanna, Ian Goldin	19 May, 2012
Catastrophic dehumanization	Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon gives a talk on Dehumanization for the Oxford Martin School Public Lectures series. Introduced by Professor Ian Goldin.	Thomas Homer-Dixon	19 May, 2012
Can Globalization work for the Poor?	Panel discussion on whether Globalisation can benefit the poor with Alex Gennie, Ian Goldin, Rushanara Ali MP, James Drummond and Nick Gowing.	Alex Gennie, Ian Goldin, Rushanara Ali, James Drummond, Nick Gowing	21 March, 2012
The War and Peace of the Nuclear Age	Dr James Martin, Founder of the Oxford Martin School and founder of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.	James Martin	21 March, 2012
Global governance, local governments	Distinguished Public Lecture. Globalization has created a more interconnected, interdependent and complex world than ever witnessed before.	Pascal Lamy, Ian Goldin, Lord Patten of Barnes	9 March, 2012
The price of civilization	Sachs argues that for the U.S. to regain sound fiscal health the country must also reform its politics.	Jeff Sachs	16 December, 2011
A Global Community Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technologies	Dr Jill Tarter, Director, Center for SETI Research, SETI Institute gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School Seminar Series.	Jill Tarter	24 August, 2011
Rethinking Geoengineering and the Meaning of the Climate Crisis	Professor Clive Hamilton delivers a critique of the consequentialist approach to the ethics of geoengineering, the approach that deploys assessment of costs and benefits in a risk framework to justify climatic intervention.	Clive Hamilton	2 August, 2011
Who speaks for climate?	Mass media serve vital roles in communication processes between science, policy and the public, and often stitch together perceptions, intentions, considerations, and actions regarding climate change.	Maxwell T. Boykoff	28 July, 2011
A new capitalism for a big society	Bishop and Green led a discussion based on their recent book, "The Road From Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society".	Matthew Bishop, Michael Green	3 February, 2011
Assessing the economic rise of China and India	The recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention--and justifiably so.	Pranab Bardhan	3 February, 2011
Dealing with The New Normal: Resilience in systems that must cope with uncertainty	Part of the School's intergrative seminar series. Delivered by Professor Patricia Hirl Longstaff, James Martin Senior Visiting Fellow, Professor, Syracuse University, Research Associate, Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy.	Patricia Hirl Longstaff	3 February, 2011
Integrating Technology, Science, Law, Economics, and Politics: Development of Practical Policy for Carbon Capture and Storage	Dr Kenneth Richards, James Martin Senior Visiting Fellow on how carbon capture and storage (CCS) provides a potentially promising approach to mitigating carbon dioxide emissions.	Kenneth Richards	24 November, 2010
Working with the crowd : 21st century citizen science	Galaxy Zoo PI and James Martin Fellow Chris Lintott will review the technologies available to researchers seeking to rescue themselves from drowning in data by recruiting the help of tens or even hundreds of thousands of volunteers.	Chris Lintott	27 October, 2010
Climate Shocks: Turning Crisis into Opportunity	Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, CIGI Chair of Global Systems, Balsillie School of International Affairs; full Professor, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo on Climate Shocks: Turning Crisis into Opportunity.	Thomas Homer-Dixon	15 October, 2010
Climate change and marine ecosystems: have dangerous changes already begun?	Special seminar from the James Martin 21st Century School: Climate change and marine ecosystems: have dangerous changes already begun?	Ove Hoegh-Guldberg	7 September, 2010
The Plundered Planet	Paul Collier, Oxford Professor and author of The Bottom Billion, launched a discussion based on his latest publication, The Plundered Planet.	Paul Collier, Charles Badenoch, Jamie Drummond, Gideon Rachman	17 June, 2010
A Panel Discussion with George Soros	Lessons from Financial Crises: Paradigm Failure and the Future of Financial Regulation.	Paul Beaudry, Ian Goldin, Roger Goodman, Anatole Kaletsky, David Soskice, George Soros	17 December, 2009
Geoengineering the climate	Geoengineering the climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty: The Royal Society Study - John Shepherd (NOCS).	John Shepherd	19 November, 2009
The End of Business as Usual	Distinguished Public Lecture: The end of business as usual by Dr Mohamed El-Erian, Co-CIO of PIMCO.	Mohamed El-Erian	18 November, 2009
Dealing with doctrines: time to outlaw nuclear weapon use?	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 "Global Zero" campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons.	Rebecca Johnson	11 November, 2009
Blueprint for a Safer Planet	Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, a world renowned economist and leading authority on climate change, came to the 21st Century School on Thursday 7 May to give a lecture about his "Blueprint for a Safer Planet".	Nicholas Stern	8 May, 2009
Ian Goldin at University of Cape Town	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, or will humanity be overtaken by its own medical, technological and scientific successes?	Ian Goldin	18 March, 2009
21st Century Challenges: Humanity at the Crossroads?	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.	Ian Goldin	15 October, 2008
What is Science for?	What is science for, what good does it do and should it do good?	John Sulston, John Harris, Richard Dawkins	10 June, 2008
Stiglitz on Credit Crunch - Global Financial Debacle: Meeting the Challenges of Global Governance in the 21st Century	The global financial crisis reflects a failure of global economic governance. The failure of America's regulatory system has not only ramifications for the American economy, but for the global economy.	Joseph Stiglitz	10 June, 2008
Craig Venter on Genomics: From humans to the environment	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 Craig Venter Institute and its implications for the future of our culture, society and science.	J Craig Venter	14 April, 2008
Economics of Climate Change	Professor Sir Nicholas Stern, HM Treasury: The economics of climate change Introduced by: Dr John Hood, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Chaired by: Dr Ian Goldin, Director of the James Martin 21st Century School.	Nicholas Stern	14 April, 2008

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