Join us for a captivating conversation with John Demers, Fernanda Domingos, Chimène Keitner (Maritimes & New College 1996), and Tarah Wheeler and on cross-border cyber threats, the new frontier where the challenges of national security, international law, privacy, and human rights collide. On May 7, 2021, for the first time in its history, Colonial Pipeline had to shut down the entirety of its gasoline pipeline system. The US-based company had come under a ransomware attack. Hackers had infiltrated the systems, stolen data, and were demanding millions of dollars in ransom.

AI poses a risk of automating and degrading jobs around the world, creating harmful effects to vulnerable workers’ livelihoods and well-being. How can we deliberately account for the impacts on workers when designing and commercializing AI products in order to benefit workers’ prospects while simultaneously boosting companies’ bottom lines and increasing overall productivity? The Partnership on AI’s recently released report Redesigning AI for Shared Prosperity: An Agenda puts forward a proposal for such accounting.

Nature-based solutions (NbS) can contribute to the fight against climate change up to the end of our century.

But the world must invest now in nature-based solutions that are ecologically sound, socially equitable, and designed to deliver multiple benefits to society over a century or more. Properly managed, the protection, restoration and sustainable management of our working lands could benefit many generations to come.

The Principal and Fellows of St Edmund Hall bring you the Pontigny Lecture 2021 where guest speaker and Hall alumnus Lord Mark Sedwill (1987, MPhil Economics) will speak on ‘Global Governance in a Contested World’. This is a free public online lecture.

Can the analysis of common goods as presented in these lectures contribute to discussions of typical problems today? There is no simple deduction of solutions from an account of common goods. The issues call for regulation; regulation follows on debate within legislative assemblies; a wider political conversation is needed to sustain the focused debate. Review of experience in our societies in dealing with regulation, and de-regulation, points to urgent need for reform and revisioning if our political institutions are to support and serve the common good when dealing with current issues.

This online event features as one of several this term which focusses on 'Political economy of European climate action', and is hosted by the European Political Economy Project (EUPEP) at the European Studies Centre.

Speakers: Selwin Hart (United Nations) and Benito Muller (Environmental Change Institute, Oxford)

Chair: Hartmut Mayer (Director, European Studies Centre, St Antony’s, Oxford) [TBC]

Discussant: Adrienne Cheasty (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

In this seminar Diego Nieto presents his PhD thesis on the disjuncture between young people’s experiences of war and their school curricula
+ Presenter: Dr. Diego Nieto Sáchica, Researcher, Instituto de Estudios Interculturales, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali & PhD in Comparative, International and Development Education, University of Toronto

+ Discussant: Dr. Julia Paulson, Associate Professor in Education, Peace and Conflict, School of Education, University of Bristol

The political handling of conflict presupposes its own standards. These are less precise than the technical languages of law and economics, and there is a persistent danger that the political realm be colonized by the standards of legality or economic efficiency. This lecture explores the tension, relying on Aquinas’s account of law, and drawing on his analogical discussion of the many types of law to underline the importance of preserving a distinct realm of political reasonableness as a requirement of the common good.