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Public Lectures and Seminars from the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. The Oxford Martin School brings together the best minds from different fields to tackle the most pressing issues of the 21st century.
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101 | Creative Commons | The End of Business as Usual | Distinguished Public Lecture: The end of business as usual by Dr Mohamed El-Erian, Co-CIO of PIMCO. | Mohamed El-Erian | 18 Nov 2009 |
102 | Creative Commons | Dealing with doctrines: time to outlaw nuclear weapon use? | Achieving an end-state of "zero" has emerged as an important policy goal for a number of 21st Century challenges. The most prominent example is the "Global Zero" campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons. | Rebecca Johnson | 11 Nov 2009 |
103 | Creative Commons | Repairing Economic Governance | Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and internationally renowned economic advisor, talks about the need to take a systematic long view in repairing international economic governance structures. | Jeffrey Sachs | 23 Oct 2009 |
104 | Blueprint for a Safer Planet | Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, a world renowned economist and leading authority on climate change, came to the 21st Century School on Thursday 7 May to give a lecture about his "Blueprint for a Safer Planet". | Nicholas Stern | 08 May 2009 | |
105 | Ian Goldin at University of Cape Town | Speaking at the Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture, Dr Ian Goldin asked: Are the world's leading thinkers anticipating the risks and opportunities of the 21st century, or will humanity be overtaken by its own medical, technological and scientific successes? | Ian Goldin | 18 Mar 2009 | |
106 | 21st Century Challenges: Humanity at the Crossroads? | Dr Ian Goldin provides an overview of the work of the James Martin 21st Century School and looks at the challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century. | Ian Goldin | 15 Oct 2008 | |
107 | What is Science for? | What is science for, what good does it do and should it do good? | John Sulston, John Harris, Richard Dawkins | 10 Jun 2008 | |
108 | Stiglitz on Credit Crunch - Global Financial Debacle: Meeting the Challenges of Global Governance in the 21st Century | The global financial crisis reflects a failure of global economic governance. The failure of America's regulatory system has not only ramifications for the American economy, but for the global economy. | Joseph Stiglitz | 10 Jun 2008 | |
109 | Target Earth: The Grand Scale Problems of the 21st Century | At the start of the 21st century, humankind finds itself on a non-sustainable course - a course that, unless it is changed, will lead to catastrophes of awesome consequences. | James Martin | 10 Jun 2008 | |
110 | Freedom from Oil | Based on his book, Freedom from Oil, Sandalow gives a public lecture which draws on both his government experience and energy expertise to explore options, shape solutions and create national policy to address the United States' oil addiction. | David Sandalow | 14 Apr 2008 | |
111 | The Bottom Billion | Based on his book of the same name, in this lecture Paul Collier will point out how global poverty is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. | Paul Collier | 14 Apr 2008 | |
112 | Craig Venter on Genomics: From humans to the environment | In the second of the Distinguished Public Lecture Series run by the James Martin 21st Century School, Dr Craig Venter will discuss his work at the J Craig Venter Institute and its implications for the future of our culture, society and science. | J Craig Venter | 14 Apr 2008 | |
113 | Economics of Climate Change | Professor Sir Nicholas Stern, HM Treasury: The economics of climate change Introduced by: Dr John Hood, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. Chaired by: Dr Ian Goldin, Director of the James Martin 21st Century School. | Nicholas Stern | 14 Apr 2008 |
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