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The (Geo)Political Economy of AI Openness: US and Chinese Open-Source AI Approaches in Historical Context

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Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies.

Please contact Callum Harvey (callum.harvey@oii.ox.ac.uk) in advance to participate or with any questions. Attendance is online only. You do not currently have to be affiliated with the University of Oxford to attend and participate in discussions.

Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age

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In this talk, Jon Penney explores key themes from his new book Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age (Cambridge University Press, 2026), which examines the increasing weaponization of surveillance, censorship, and new technology to repress and control us. With corporations, governments, and extremists employing big data, artificial intelligence, FRT, cyber-mobs, and other technological threats to limit our rights and freedoms, concerns about chilling effects—or how these activities deter us from exercising our rights—have become urgent.

Rethink......Urban regeneration [from 20:02:53]

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Guy Kelleher

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Eura Choi

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Eura Choi is a DPhil candidate in International Relations under the supervision of Professor Todd Hall. Her dissertation examines the evolving institutional architecture of the Asia-Pacific, drawing on an original dataset and typology of economic and security-oriented multilateral organisations. Identifying a shift in regional institution-building practices since around 2010, her work advances a theory of middle-power institutional entrepreneurship in the context of a changing regional order. Her research project is supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.

Stina Lindgren

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Book Discussion: The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms

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A conversation with Dr. Sen Raj (Manchester) about his new book on the role of emotion in political & legal contestations about LGBT+ rights. Drawing from critical socio-legal theory, the book develops the concept of “emotional grammar” to examine how emotions guide efforts to reform anti-discrimination & gender recognition laws, bans on “conversion therapy,” and sex education in the US, UK, and Australia.

Logics of Anti-LGBT Violence during Civil War in Colombia: Evidence from Paramilitarism

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The Colombian Civil War was marked by high levels of civilian victimisation, particularly inflicted by government-aligned paramilitaries against perceived guerrilla sympathisers in the name of counterinsurgency. It is in this landscape that the violent victimisation of LGBT populations produces a puzzle.

Moral responsibilities of the wealthy

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Tribal Politics: How Brexit Divided Britain (lecture 3)

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The tenth anniversary of the EU referendum is fast approaching and many will be focused on how Brexit has, or has not, changed the economic and political world. But what if the most important change was not to institutions, political parties and the economy, but to us? This lecture series explores how the referendum, and its aftermath, sparked a form of ‘tribal politics’ that reshaped how people saw themselves, each other and the wider world.

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