Speaker(s):
Vladimir Mau (Rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration); Andrey Kazmin (former Chairman of Sberbank); Peter Tabak (Lead Economist, EBRD); Richard Luddington (Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley) and others

Convenor:
Professor Roy Allison (St Antony's) & Professor Paul Chaisty (St Antony's)

There will be two panels:

‘Recent developments in the Russian and post-Soviet economies: performance, challenges and reforms’;

Friday, May 19, 2017 -
1:00pm to 7:00pm
History Faculty, George Street
Colin Matthew Room


TORCH's Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network are hosting a seminar on the topic of sacrifice. This will involve a revisitation of the concept of Sacrifice in late modernity in its various configurations, philosophical and ideological.

The seminar will include the following:

Faisal Devji (Oxford) ‘Gandhi, Sacrifice and the Ambiguities of non-violence’
Martin Crowley (Cambridge) ‘Bruno Latour's Anti-sacrificial Politics’

In terms of international security dynamics, we live in a world of nuclear prominence and, simultaneously, a world of growing cyber persistence. This presentation will explore the distribution of power dynamics associated with these two distinct strategic environments and the different approaches to national security they necessitate. The talk will then examine the crucial question of how these two strategic environments might intersect, and how the radically shifting technological terrain of cyberspace, including the advent of more powerful machine learning, will impact this intersection.