Public Lectures and Seminars from the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. Humanity at the crossroads: Bringing together the best minds to tackle the toughest challenges of the 21st century.
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| 1 | Creative Commons | Pandemics - Can we eliminate major worldwide epidemics? | Larry Brilliant, President of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School | 0:55:31 | Larry Brilliant | 06 Nov 2012 |
| 2 | Creative Commons | Doing capitalism in the innovation economy | William H. Janeway CBE, Senior Advisor and Managing Director at Warburg Pincus, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School. | 0:48:23 | William H Janeway | 06 Nov 2012 |
| 3 | Hybrid reality: the emerging human-technology co-evolution | Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna; Directors of The Hybrid Reality Institute, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School public lecture series. With Professor Ian Goldin; Director, Oxford Martin Institute | 0:42:35 | Parag Khanna, Ayesha Khanna, Ian Goldin | 19 May 2012 | |
| 4 | Creative Commons | Catastrophic dehumanization | Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon gives a talk on Dehumanization for the Oxford Martin School Public Lectures series. Introduced by Professor Ian Goldin | 0:48:28 | Thomas Homer-Dixon | 19 May 2012 |
| 5 | Can Globalization work for the Poor? | Panel discussion on whether Globalisation can benefit the poor with Alex Gennie, Ian Goldin, Rushanara Ali MP, James Drummond and Nick Gowing. | 0:55:28 | Alex Gennie, Ian Goldin, Rushanara Ali, James Drummond | 21 Mar 2012 | |
| 6 | Creative Commons | The War and Peace of the Nuclear Age | Dr James Martin, Founder of the Oxford Martin School and founder of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies | 1:40:14 | James Martin | 21 Mar 2012 |
| 7 | Global governance, local governments | Distinguished Public Lecture. Globalization has created a more interconnected, interdependent and complex world than ever witnessed before. | 0:44:00 | Pascal Lamy, Ian Goldin, Lord Patten of Barnes | 09 Mar 2012 | |
| 8 | The price of civilization | Sachs argues that for the U.S. to regain sound fiscal health the country must also reform its politics. | 1:40:03 | Jeff Sachs | 16 Dec 2011 | |
| 9 | A Global Community Search for Evidence of Extraterrestrial Technologies | Dr Jill Tarter, Director, Center for SETI Research, SETI Institute gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School Seminar Series | 0:37:32 | Jill Tarter | 24 Aug 2011 | |
| 10 | Creative Commons | Rethinking Geoengineering and the Meaning of the Climate Crisis | Professor Clive Hamilton delivers a critique of the consequentialist approach to the ethics of geoengineering, the approach that deploys assessment of costs and benefits in a risk framework to justify climatic intervention. | 0:55:52 | Clive Hamilton | 02 Aug 2011 |
| 11 | Creative Commons | Who speaks for climate? | Mass media serve vital roles in communication processes between science, policy and the public, and often stitch together perceptions, intentions, considerations, and actions regarding climate change. | 0:53:53 | Maxwell T. Boykoff | 28 Jul 2011 |
| 12 | Creative Commons | A new capitalism for a big society | Bishop and Green led a discussion based on their recent book, "The Road From Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society". | 0:38:16 | Matthew Bishop, Michael Green | 03 Feb 2011 |
| 13 | Creative Commons | Assessing the economic rise of China and India | The recent economic rise of China and India has attracted a great deal of attention--and justifiably so. | 0:29:45 | Pranab Bardhan | 03 Feb 2011 |
| 14 | Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales | Dealing with The New Normal: Resilience in systems that must cope with uncertainty | Part of the School's intergrative seminar series. Delivered by Professor Patricia Hirl Longstaff, James Martin Senior Visiting Fellow, Professor, Syracuse University, Research Associate, Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy. | 0:45:49 | Patricia Hirl Longstaff | 03 Feb 2011 |
| 15 | Creative Commons | Integrating Technology, Science, Law, Economics, and Politics: Development of Practical Policy for Carbon Capture and Storage | Dr Kenneth Richards, James Martin Senior Visiting Fellow on how carbon capture and storage (CCS) provides a potentially promising approach to mitigating carbon dioxide emissions. | 0:51:56 | Kenneth Richards | 24 Nov 2010 |
| 16 | Creative Commons | Working with the crowd : 21st century citizen science | Galaxy Zoo PI and James Martin Fellow Chris Lintott will review the technologies available to researchers seeking to rescue themselves from drowning in data by recruiting the help of tens or even hundreds of thousands of volunteers. | 1:01:33 | Chris Lintott | 27 Oct 2010 |
| 17 | Creative Commons | Climate Shocks: Turning Crisis into Opportunity | Thomas F. Homer-Dixon, CIGI Chair of Global Systems, Balsillie School of International Affairs; full Professor, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo on Climate Shocks: Turning Crisis into Opportunity | 0:58:39 | Thomas Homer-Dixon | 15 Oct 2010 |
| 18 | Creative Commons | Climate change and marine ecosystems: have dangerous changes already begun? | Special seminar from the James Martin 21st Century School: Climate change and marine ecosystems: have dangerous changes already begun? | 0:56:26 | Ove Hoegh-Guldberg | 07 Sep 2010 |
| 19 | Creative Commons | The Plundered Planet | Paul Collier, Oxford Professor and author of The Bottom Billion, launched a discussion based on his latest publication, The Plundered Planet. | 1:03:00 | Paul Collier, Charles Badenoch, Jamie Drummond, Gideon Rachman | 17 Jun 2010 |
| 20 | Creative Commons | A Panel Discussion with George Soros | Lessons from Financial Crises: Paradigm Failure and the Future of Financial Regulation | 1:53:10 | Paul Beaudry, Ian Goldin, Roger Goodman, Anatole Kaletsky | 17 Dec 2009 |
| 21 | Creative Commons | Geoengineering the climate | Geoengineering the climate: Science, Governance and Uncertainty: The Royal Society Study - John Shepherd (NOCS) | 0:58:54 | John Shepherd | 19 Nov 2009 |
| 22 | 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. | 0:44:22 | Mohamed El-Erian | 18 Nov 2009 |
| 23 | 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. | 0:40:00 | Rebecca Johnson | 11 Nov 2009 |
| 24 | 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. | 1:11:45 | Jeffrey Sachs | 23 Oct 2009 |
| 25 | 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". | 0:53:52 | Nicholas Stern | 08 May 2009 | |
| 26 | 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? | 0:44:21 | Ian Goldin | 18 Mar 2009 | |
| 27 | 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. | 0:45:00 | Ian Goldin | 15 Oct 2008 | |
| 28 | What is Science for? | What is science for, what good does it do and should it do good? | 0:57:38 | John Sulston, John Harris, Richard Dawkins | 10 Jun 2008 | |
| 29 | 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. | 0:45:00 | Joseph Stiglitz | 10 Jun 2008 | |
| 30 | 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. | 1:08:32 | James Martin | 10 Jun 2008 | |
| 31 | 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. | 0:42:52 | David Sandalow | 14 Apr 2008 | |
| 32 | 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. | 0:41:42 | Paul Collier | 14 Apr 2008 | |
| 33 | 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. | 1:07:02 | J Craig Venter | 14 Apr 2008 | |
| 34 | 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. | 1:00:34 | Nicholas Stern | 14 Apr 2008 |