Final seminar in a series on 'Forced Migration and Digital Technologies: (Dis)continuities in Actors and Power Relations'. Seminar abstract: Who is the subject of human rights? This concern, which has been at the heart of postcolonial and feminist critiques on liberal human rights, has a renewed importance in the literature of algorithmic governance, where anxieties about the loss of human agency and autonomy are prevalent.

The U.S. unemployment insurance (UI) system operates as a federal-state partner- ship, where states have considerable autonomy to decide on specific rules. While it could allow states to efficiently tailor their UI generosity level to local economic condi- tions, it could also generate racial inequality as states with a larger Black population appear to set stricter rules. Do the differences in state UI rules create racial inequal- ity, and are they are efficient?

The right research engagement can change the world. But how does it happen? Hear from 3 key perspectives and ask all your questions on media engagement to renowned former BBC Science Editor and front-line journalist David Shukman, Oxford Smith School Head of Strategic Communications Lucy Erickson, and Dr Alice Watson, ESRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, whose work investigates public engagement with media and popular culture including through podcasts and radio

The Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory was established in 2016. As we enter our seventh year, we are honoured to host two keynote lectures to be delivered by Lawrie Balfour and Andrea Sangiovanni. The 2023 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory will be held in-person on the 24th-25th April 2023 at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Join The Oxonian Review for a conversation with Yi-Ling Liu, who writes widely about Chinese society and culture, and is currently working on a narrative non-fiction book about the shifting bounds of public life in China, to be published by Penguin Press.

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