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The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State |
This talk examines the Shi‘ite political parties linked to Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) and their influence over the state, exploring their strategies for legitimacy in politics, religion, and society. |
Inna Rudolf, Maryam Alemzadeh |
11 Jul 2023 |
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Creative Commons |
The Popular Mobilisation Units and their Pursuit of Power and Legitimacy within the Iraqi State |
This talk examines the Shi‘ite political parties linked to Iraq's Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) and their influence over the state, exploring their strategies for legitimacy in politics, religion, and society. |
Inna Rudolf, Maryam Alemzadeh |
10 Jul 2023 |
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Creative Commons |
The Pandemic People: Professor Neil Ferguson |
Sir Andrew Pollard's podcast features Professor Neil Ferguson, an expert in the mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. They discuss how mathematical models help understand disease transmission, vaccines, and immunity. |
Andrew Pollard, Neil Ferguson |
28 May 2023 |
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Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large Scale Randomised Trials in Five Countries |
Education systems need to withstand shocks that routinely close schools. Researchers discuss results from randomised trials evaluating the provision of education in emergency settings across 5 countries. |
Noam Angrist, Claire Cullen, Thato Letsomo, Michael Ainomugisha |
11 May 2023 |
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The Pandemic People: Dame Catherine Elizabeth Bingham |
Kate Bingham, a British venture capitalist, discussed her role in the UK's COVID-19 vaccine rollout and her leadership of the vaccine task force and the importance of diplomacy in the global fight against COVID-19. |
Andrew Pollard, Kate Bingham |
15 Apr 2023 |
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The state of the African state: Where has it come from and where is it going |
Nick Westcott, Director of the Royal African Society, discusses the African State. |
Nick Westcott, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
07 Dec 2022 |
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Why is trust in the government so vital during a pandemic? (Jamie Webb) |
During the pandemic, there were social gatherings in Number 10. This seriously undermined trust in government. But what exactly is trust? And why is trust so vital during a pandemic? Jamie Webb explains. |
Jamie Webb, David Edmonds |
05 Dec 2022 |
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Assessing public attitudes to both the pandemic and the government's response (Sarah Cunningham Burley) |
At the start of the covid pandemic there was little time for officials to consult the public. Sarah Cunningham Burley oversaw some public dialogues to assess public attitudes to the pandemic, and to the government’s response. |
Sarah Cunningham Burley, David Edmonds |
05 Dec 2022 |
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Illicit finance and the role of professional enablers in the United Kingdom: are things finally changing? |
MPs Andrew Mitchell and Margaret Hodge discuss illicit finance and their work on improving regulations. |
Andrew Mitchell, Margaret Hodge, John Heathershaw, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira |
21 Jun 2022 |
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Navigating non-market forces in a nascent entrepreneurship ecosystem |
Rudolph Okai talks to Ashraf Mizo about his entrepreneurship experience and what the company (Nayla) he founded is doing. |
Ashraf Mizo, Rudolph Okai |
10 Jun 2022 |
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The Blue-Clad Fennec: Authoritarian Environmentalism in Tunisia, and its afterlives |
This is a recording of a live webinar held on 29th October 2021 for the MEC Friday Seminar Michaelmas Term 2021 series on the overall theme of The Environment and The Middle East. |
jamie furniss, Walter Armbrust |
17 Nov 2021 |
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Book Launch: 'Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World' |
In the book launch for Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World, Ian Goldin, Author, and Nik Gowing, Founder at Thinking the Unthinkable, will discuss how the pandemic provides a unique opportunity to tackle today’s challenges. |
Ian Goldin, Nik Gowing |
16 Jun 2021 |
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National infrastructure for the recovery and the long term |
In this conversation, Sir John Armitt, who is chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, joins Professor Jim Hall to explore the vision and practicalities of providing infrastructure systems that meets society’s goals. |
John Armitt, Jim Hall |
07 May 2021 |
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The Laws of War in International Thought |
Professor Pablo Kalmanovitz, International Studies Division at CIDE, Mexico City, gives a talk for the Oxford PIL discussion group. |
Pablo Kalmanovitz |
29 Mar 2021 |
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Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa |
In this seminar, Rogers Orock (University of Witwatersrand) and Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam) jointly provide a lecture titled: Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa. |
Rogers Orock and Peter Geschiere |
04 Feb 2021 |
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The UK government's childhood obesity plan |
A presentation given by Mike Rayner (Professor of Population Health and Director of the Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Oxford) at the UBVO Green Templeton College Obesity Conference, 16 September 2019 |
Mike Rayner |
20 Jan 2020 |
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Advancing the Rule of Law as part of the International Landscape |
The 21st century has seen significant progress and recent regression in terms of entrenchment of the rule of law. These developments have occurred not only in the domestic context but also within the international sphere. |
Kimberly Prost |
22 May 2018 |
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A Changing World: The Future of the Energy Industry |
The Annual Hands Lecture is a very important moment in Mansfield's calendar, held to honour Guy and Julia Hands and their generous and continued support of Mansfield College. |
John Browne |
22 Mar 2017 |
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Gender, violence and vulnerability: Examining the politics of protection in the current refugee 'crisis' |
Examining the ways in which gender has been used as a category of analysis in the current refugee 'crisis', and whether in effect international organisations, NGOs, and EU governments have really offered any protection to victims of gender violence |
Jane Freedman |
05 Dec 2016 |
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Book Launch: 'Citizens' Wealth' |
Author Angela Cummine gives a brief overview of her book on Sovereign Wealth Funds: what they are, and who actually owns them. |
Angela Cummine, Charles Conn |
29 Sep 2016 |
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There Ain't No 'e' in PPE - How do we fill the digital skills gap at the top levels of government and politics? |
Interview with Tom Steinberg on the topics of his talk "There Ain't No 'e' in PPE - How do we fill the digital skills gap at the top levels of government and politics?" |
Tom Steinberg |
09 Jan 2015 |
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Accountability and Globalisation |
Panel 6 from the Human Rights and the Post-2015 Agenda Conference. The views expressed in this presentation are personal and not those of the individual’s institution. |
Fiona de Londras, Kate Donald |
15 Dec 2014 |
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The Major Assumptions of Evidence-Based Policy: Bringing Empirical Evidence to Bear |
The Sidney Ball Memorial Lecture 2014 given by Professor Tom Cook. |
Tom Cook |
04 Nov 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Searching for Reflective Armed Forces: A Lithuanian Civil-Military Relations Perspective |
CCW Visiting Fellow, Deividas Slekys analyses civil-military relations, using Lithuania as a case study. |
Deividas Slekys |
01 Apr 2014 |
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Creative Commons |
Rise of the Operaters |
Discussion of Internet surveillance, parliamentary oversight of security services, the Digital Economy Act, communications data, and government data sharing. |
Mike Bracken |
17 Jan 2014 |
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Why is Britain so Badly Governed |
Sir Ivor Crewe, Master of University College, Oxford gives the Durham Club Lecture 2013 on 29th October 2013. |
Sir Ivor Crewe |
06 Nov 2013 |
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Party games: coalition government in British politics |
This session will look at the history of coalition government in British politics over the past 200 years and discuss some of the constitutional implications of the current Conservative-Liberal Democrat government under David Cameron and Nick Clegg. |
Angus Hawkins |
07 Oct 2013 |
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What the World Needs Now from the Environmental Movement |
Dr Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, gives a talk for the Oxford Alumni Weekend 2013. |
Kumi Naidoo |
03 Oct 2013 |
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New Questions in Regulation: Regulatory Capture Revisited |
Max Watson, a former Director of the Central Bank of Ireland and senior official of the IMF, argues that the capture of regulators by the financial sector led to 'serious trespasses against the public interest in the last two decades.'. |
Max Watson, Chris Decker, Robert Baldwin, Karen Yeung |
06 Mar 2013 |
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New Questions in Regulation - Panel Discussion |
Max Watson, a former Director of the Central Bank of Ireland and senior official of the International Monetary Fund, heads an expert panel to assess the fallout of the financial crisis and propose new regulatory approaches to tackle the underlying causes. |
Max Watson, Chris Decker, Robert Baldwin, Karen Yeung |
06 Mar 2013 |
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IPP 2012 (Big Data): Welcome and Plenary Panel |
Panellists discuss the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making at the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges". |
Lance Bennett, Theo Bertram, Helen Margetts, Patrick McSharry |
02 Jan 2013 |
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IPP 2012 (Big Data) Keynote: Nigel Shadbolt |
Nigel Shadbolt discusses the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making during his opening keynote of the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges". |
Nigel Shadbolt |
02 Jan 2013 |
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IPP 2012 (Big Data) Keynote: Duncan Watts |
Duncan Watts discusses the opportunities and challenges posed by big data for research and public policy-making during his opening keynote of the conference "IPP2012: Big Data: Big Challenges". |
Duncan Watts |
02 Jan 2013 |
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More News is Good News: Democracy and Media in India |
Prannoy Roy, director of New Delhi Television, gives a lecture on the history of NDTV and Indian television and the part democracy and rulership has played it's development. |
Prannoy Roy, John Lloyd, Daya Thussu, Geert Linnebank |
29 Nov 2012 |
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11. Does Government belong in the bedroom? |
There are many examples, from the ancient world to Nazi Germany, of attempts to protect or to increase the birth rate and hence population size. Slides to accompany Prof David Coleman's talk on birth control from governments. |
David Coleman |
18 Jul 2012 |
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The People's Planet: Reconnecting climate science, climate policy and reality |
Myles Allen (Professor of Geosystem Science, School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics) delivers his inaugural lecture on 28 Nov 2011. |
Myles Allen |
07 Feb 2012 |
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The People's Planet: Reconnecting climate science, climate policy and reality |
Myles Allen (Professor of Geosystem Science, School of Geography and the Environment and Department of Physics) delivers his inaugural lecture on 28 Nov 2011. |
Myles Allen |
07 Feb 2012 |
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Transformations of the State: Interdisciplinary Perspectives |
Professor Saskia Sassen delivers the keynote speech of the 'Transformations of the State: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' conference held by the Anglo-German State of the State Fellowship Programme on 21st May 2011. |
Saskia Sassen |
05 Jan 2012 |
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Governing the 21st Century: Oxford's new Blavatnik School of Government |
With a generous donation from Len Blavatnik, the new Blavatnik School of Government has been set up. Professor Ngaire Woods explains the history and progress of this bold and high-profile new school. |
Ngaire Woods |
21 Oct 2011 |
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In the Pursuit of Purity, reflections on the BBC |
Mark Damazer, Master of St Peter's Collge and Former Controller of BBC Radio 4 and John Lloyd, give a talk for the Reuters Institute on 14th June 2011. |
Mark Damazer, John Lloyd |
19 Jul 2011 |
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The State, Tolerance and Rationalism in Spinoza, Mendelssohn and Kant |
Stefan Bird-Pollan (University of Kentucky) delivers a lecture as part of the Anglo-German 'State of the State' Fellowship Programme on the ideas of The State, Tolerance and Rationalism as seen in the philosophies of Kant, Spinoza and Mendelssohn. |
Stefan Bird-Pollan |
06 Jul 2011 |
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Opinion Formation and Democratic Legitimacy |
Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University) delivers this lecture on government, opinion formation, the media and direct democracy as part of the Anglo-German 'State of the State' Fellowship Programme, given by Creative media and direct democracy. |
Nadia Urbanati |
06 Jul 2011 |
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Globalisation, Inequality, and the State |
Thomas Pogge (Yale University) presents this lecture as part of the Anglo-German 'State of the State' Fellowship Programme, given by on May 24th, 2011. |
Thomas Pogge |
06 Jul 2011 |
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Fiscal Policy in an Emerging Market Economy |
Former Chilean Minister of Finance and Fellow of the Center for International Development at Harvard, Andres Velasco, delivered a lecture on the subject 'Fiscal policy in natural resource intensive countries: some theory and the experience of Chile.'. |
Andrés Velasco |
10 May 2011 |
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Government and press relations in South Africa |
Seminar delivered by Professor Anton Harber, Caxton Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and visiting fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. |
Anton Harber |
04 Mar 2011 |
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Creative Commons |
Living with the Coalition - 2 Schools |
Professor Chris Husbands, Director of the Institute of Education, University of London, gives a talk examining how the policies and practice of the new Coalition government affect the schools system. |
Chris Husbands |
28 Feb 2011 |
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Living with the Coalition - The Health System |
Sir John Tooke gives a lecture at Green Templeton College on 17th January 2011 entitled Living with the Coalition - The Health System. |
Sir John Tooke |
08 Feb 2011 |
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The History of Modern Constitutionalism |
This lecture establishes the ten essentials of modern constitutionalism, as first developed in the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776. |
Horst Dipple |
22 Nov 2010 |
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The Idea of the State: a Genealogy |
Quentin Skinner gives a genealogy of the modern state, arguing that we should not understand the state simply as the government, but rather as a fictional person, enabling us to explain such things as shared responsibility for debt over generations. |
Quentin Skinner |
11 May 2010 |
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2.4 John Locke |
Part 2.4. Introduction to the philosophy of John Locke, 'England's first Empiricist', he also gives a very simplistic definition of Empiricism; we obtain knowledge through experience of the world, through sensory data (what we see, hear, etc). |
Peter Millican |
16 Mar 2010 |
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Mandelson: Enterprise-led Recovery |
Lord Peter Mandelson gave a key-note speech following an invitation by the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Said Business School. |
Lord Peter Mandelson |
10 Dec 2009 |
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The crisis of global capitalism: towards a new economic culture? |
Manuel Castells draws on arguments from his book Communication Power in discussing the structural causes and implications of the 2008 economic crisis, and in claiming that we are moving, without much understanding, towards a new form of global capitalism. |
Manuel Castells |
09 Nov 2009 |
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Mandelson: Enterprise-led Recovery |
Lord Peter Mandelson gave a key-note speech following an invitation by the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Said Business School. |
Lord Peter Mandelson |
30 Oct 2009 |
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Internet Governance and Regulation: The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It |
What lies around the corner for the Internet .. and how do we avoid it? How can we study and affect the future of the Internet using the distributed power of the network itself? This is Jonathan Zittrain's inaugural lecture at the University of Oxford. |
Jonathan Zittrain |
09 Oct 2009 |
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Internet Governance and Regulation: The Future of the Internet - and How to Stop It |
What lies around the corner for the Internet .. and how do we avoid it? How can we study and affect the future of the Internet using the distributed power of the network itself? This is Jonathan Zittrain's inaugural lecture at the University of Oxford. |
Jonathan Zittrain |
09 Oct 2009 |
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Through the Network (of Networks): The Fifth Estate |
The Internet and web are creating a new space for networking people, information and other resources: this has the potential to become an important 'fifth estate' to support greater accountability in politics, the media and other institutional arenas. |
William Dutton |
12 Sep 2008 |
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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 |
