OCPSG Speaker Event (LLM Application): Measuring Empirically the Legal Conflicts over U.S. Public Lands from 1960 to 2024

The Oxford Computational Political Science Group (OCPSG) is pleased to announce its speaker event w/ Prof Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, FBA and Amara Otero-Salgado. They will be presenting their paper 'Measuring Empirically the Legal Conflicts over U.S. Public Lands from 1960 to 2024'. It seeks to better understand how conflicting views over public lands have evolved over time, namely by examining empirically a newly developed dataset to assess competing narratives that have driven legal battles in the U.S. in the modern era of environmental policy.

The Alpha-Alliance: A new explanation for the persistent maleness of human institutions

Many small-scale societies, including mobile hunter-gatherers, are commonly referred to as “egalitarian,” meaning that equality of political influence is valued and enforced by societal norms. The term “egalitarian” is misleading, however, because in general the egalitarian principle applies only to married men. Married men tend to dominate both bachelors and women, partly by controlling coercive institutions such as law and religion, and ultimately by their monopolizing the legitimate use of execution to punish norm violators.

OxPeace Annual Conference 2026 'The Design of Peace'

This, the eighteenth annual OxPeace Day- Conference, takes place in the 80th year since the inaugural meeting of the UN General Assembly. That meeting, held in the Methodist Centrall Hall in post-war London in January-February 1946, designed how the UN would operate to carry out its Charter, to establish peace and prevent further wars. We look back on considerable success as well as shortcomings, and we ask: where are we and the world, in this present moment marked by challenge and crisis? What should we aim for, and what resources can we call upon?

The Past, Present, and Future of the US and the Western Hemisphere

The Trump administration’s actions and rhetoric toward Venezuela, Cuba, Greenland, and the proclamation of the so-called 'Donroe Doctrine' in recent months have cast doubt over long- standing assumptions about the geopolitics of the Western Hemisphere. In this event, a panel of experts will examine the past, present, and possible futures of power, alliances, and democratic governance across the region. What has US power in the Western Hemisphere meant historically? What does it mean today? Where might it be heading next?

Panellists include:

'Market humanism: towards a new paradigm for the economy and economics'

Is there an alternative to the failed orthodoxies of neoliberalism or the chaos of economic populism? Yes, according to Oxford economist Professor Eric Beinhocker and technology entrepreneur and civic activist Nick Hanauer. A new paradigm is emerging that they call ‘Market Humanism” which has the potential to reshape our economy and our politics.
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