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Climate change - who should we sue?

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Futuremakers
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In this episode of Futuremakers, we’re asking what does a rise in litigious climate action mean for society as we race to meet climate targets?
To date, there have been climate change legal cases in at least 28 countries. From Greta Thunberg leading a group of young people in filing a lawsuit against five countries at the UN, to the Hague Court of Appeals upholding a historic ruling against the Dutch government, increasing numbers of people are taking legal action together to demand governments do more. And with various oil and gas companies being sued by US cities for costs of climate-related damages, today on Futuremakers, we’re asking: what does this rise in litigious climate action mean for society as we race to meet climate targets?
Joining Peter Millican on the panel today - Fredi Otto, Acting Director of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford, and a lead author on extremes in weather in the ongoing assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC). Liz Fisher, Professor of Environmental Law at Oxford and General Editor of the Journal of Environmental Law. Myles Allen, Professor of Geosystem Science, and a lead author on the IPCC’s Special Report on 1.5 degrees.

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Futuremakers
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Peter Millican
Fredi Otto
Liz Fisher
Myles Allen
Keywords
law
court
sue
Litigation
environmental law
lawsuit
legal
legal action
climate change
global warming
climate
Environment
Energy
food
Waste
Plastics
water
biodiversity
Department: Oxford University Development Office
Date Added: 13/12/2019
Duration: 00:56:52

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The Future of UK-Africa Research Partnerships Development Research and Beyond

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Africa Oxford Initiative
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Gill Wells is the Head of Research Services European and International Team and Strategic Lead on GCRF at the University of Oxford.
Gill talks about the meaning of development research and funds available in the UK to form international research collaborations.

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Africa Oxford Initiative
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Gill Wells
Keywords
politics
Health
research
research partnerships
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 13/12/2019
Duration: 00:24:58

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Communicating the Diagnosis of Life Threatening Conditions to Children

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Africa Oxford Initiative
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Professor Alan Stein, Head of Section, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Oxford delivered this talk at an AfOx insaka.
Alan talks about the importance of using appropriate guidelines while talking to children about the diagnosis of life threatening diseases.

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Africa Oxford Initiative
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Alan Stein
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Africa
politics
Health
children
childhood diseases
Department: Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine
Date Added: 13/12/2019
Duration: 00:25:23

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Future of Cannabusiness

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Future of Business
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As restrictions on medical cannabis use loosen around the world, companies and entrepreneurs are entering the marijuana market in a big way. We learn more from leading players in this space and the first publicly-listed cannabis company.
As restrictions on medical cannabis use loosen around the world, companies and entrepreneurs are entering the marijuana market in a big way. To learn more, we spoke with Tejinder Verk and Paul Steckler of Canopy Growth, one of the leading players in this space and the first publicly-listed cannabis company.

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Future of Business
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Tejinder Verk
Paul Steckler
Keywords
Said Business School
cannabis
regulation
Health
marijuana
Department: Saïd Business School
Date Added: 12/12/2019
Duration: 00:17:52

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The 2019 Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters

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Rothermere American Institute
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New Yorker fiction through the decades

Deborah Treisman has been fiction editor at The New Yorker since 2003, having joined the magazine in 1998. She hosts the award-winning New Yorker Fiction Podcast. She has edited the anthology 20 Under 40: Stories from The New Yorker (2010) and most recently (with Anne Doran), Walter Hopps’s The Dream Colony: A Life in Art (2017).
Published since 1925, The New Yorker features journalism, commentary, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. It has a wide audience beyond New York and is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric Americana, and its attention to modern fiction. It is published weekly for most of the year, with some issues covering a fortnight.
The annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters is the centrepiece of the Oxford’s American literary calendar. Made possible by the generosity of Esmond V. Harmsworth, the lecture has been given by some of America’s leading novelists, poets, playwrights, and literary critics.

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Rothermere American Institute
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Deborah Treisman
Keywords
journalism
commentary
fiction
Satire
cartoons
poetry
Department: Rothermere American Institute
Date Added: 12/12/2019
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The Origins of the American Economy

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Harmsworth Lecture series
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Professor Peter Mancall (University of Southern California) delivered the 2019 Harmsworth Lecture in American History at 5 pm on Tuesday 19 November.
Peter C. Mancall is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at the University of Southern California. He is the author of six books and an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians and the Royal Historical Society. He gained his PhD from Harvard University in 1986.

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Harmsworth Lecture series
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Peter Mancall
Keywords
harmsworth
American history
economy
Rothermere American Institute
Department: The Queen's College
Date Added: 12/12/2019
Duration: 00:41:59

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Health Policy Evaluation

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Professor Karla Hemming discusses using evidence-based policy in the evaluation of policy interventions and answers the question 'how useful is the stepped-wedge study as an evaluation design?
Professor Karla Hemming is the Professor of Biostatistics at the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham.

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Evidence-Based Health Care
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Karla Hemming
Keywords
healthcare
Department: Medical Sciences Division
Date Added: 12/12/2019
Duration: 01:03:52

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Strachey Lecture: Can one Define Intelligence as a Computational Phenomenon?

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Strachey Lectures
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Can we build on our understanding of supervised learning to define broader aspects of the intelligence phenomenon. Strachey Lecture delivered by Leslie Valiant.
Supervised learning is a cognitive phenomenon that has proved amenable to mathematical definition and analysis, as well as to exploitation as a technology. The question we ask is whether one can build on our understanding of supervised learning to define broader aspects of the intelligence phenomenon. We regard reasoning as the major component that needs to be added. We suggest that the central challenge therefore is to unify the formulation of these two phenomena, learning and reasoning, into a single framework with a common semantics. Based on such semantics one would aim to learn rules with the same success that predicates can be learned, and then to reason with them in a manner that is as principled as conventional logic offers. We discuss how Robust Logic fits such a role. We also discuss the challenges of exploiting such an approach for creating artificial systems with greater power, for example, with regard to common sense capabilities, than those currently realized by end-to-end learning.

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Strachey Lectures
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Leslie Valiant
Keywords
computer science
logic
Department: Department of Computer Science
Date Added: 11/12/2019
Duration: 01:05:08

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Post-Conflict Landscapes 22 Nov 2019 Buildings and Collections panel

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Post-Conflict Landscapes
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Sarah Kay (National Trust), 'Conflict and Conscience project' and Professor Lynda Mugglestone (Oxford), 'Langscapes of War'.

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Post-Conflict Landscapes
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Sarah Kay
Lynda Mugglestone
Keywords
literature
war
post conflict
national trust
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 11/12/2019
Duration: 00:36:28

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Post-Conflict Landscapes 22 Nov 2019 Seascapes panel

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Post-Conflict Landscapes
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Professor Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford), Writing after Waterloo: Jane Austen’s Late Fiction and Jonathan Wallis and Kiki Claxton (National Trust), 'Easington Colliery: Conflict in the Landscape'.

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Post-Conflict Landscapes
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Kathryn Sutherland
Jonathan Wallis
Kiki Claxton
Keywords
literature
war
conflict
national trust
landscapes
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 11/12/2019
Duration: 00:30:54

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