'The Resurgence of Identity Politics' Session 1: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and New Political Identities

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The launch of the tenth edition of St Antony’s International Review includes panels and presentations on the theme of the resurgence of identity politics.

St Antony's International Review (STAIR) is Oxford's journal of global affairs, a peer-reviewed, academic journal established in 2005 by graduate members of St Antony's College at the University of Oxford.

Featured Panels and Presentations:

Session 1: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and New Political Identities
Dr. Jonathan Leader Maynard, Dr. Aurelien Mondon, and Professor Alexander Betts. Introduced by Katharine Brooks.

Session 2: The Devoted Actor: Pancultural Foundations of Intractable Conflict (in co-operation with the Centre for International Studies)
Dr. Scott Atran (Director of Research, ARTIS and CIS Research Associate). Introduced by Kalypso Nicolaïdis.

Session 3: The Role of Identity in International and Regional Relations
Dr. Bettina Schorr, Professor Erika Harris, Professor Kalypso Nicolaïdis, and Professor Gwendolyn Sasse. Introduced by Emily Tamkin.

Session 4: Keynote presentation by Craig Calhoun, Director, LSE. Introduced by Katharine Brooks.

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Aurelien Mondon

Jonathan Leader Maynard

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Department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)

Date Added: 01/09/2015

Duration: 00:40:59

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Neuroscientist and Alumni Weekend speaker, Baroness Susan Greenfield (St Hilda's, 1970)

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Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE highlights how the unprecedented use of digital technologies is leaving a mark on our brains.

Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE highlights how the unprecedented use of digital technologies is leaving a mark on our brains. She outlines her concerns about the internet, social networking and video games ahead of her lecture, called 'The brain of the future', on Friday 18 September 2015 during the Alumni Weekend in Oxford.

As well as the discussion of her recent book Mind Change, Baroness Greenfield explains how her high-profile scientific career began in an unusual way. Her early interest in philosophy and classics was transformed into a fascination for understanding the brain thanks to her supportive Oxford tutor Dr Jane Mellanby.

In this podcast interview, Baroness Greenfield also emphasises the strength of Oxford's tutorial system, her love of College life, and the importance of interdisciplinary research.

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Department: Alumni Office

Date Added: 01/09/2015

Duration: 00:15:11

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The Right to Strike: A Menace to Hardworking People or Fundamental Human Rights?

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Oxford Human Rights Hub Seminars

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A webcast from the Oxford Human Rights Hub delivered by Professor Alan Bogg (Oxford University) at SCR Parlour, Pembroke College on 30 June 2015 at 2pm.

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Department: Faculty of Law

Date Added: 21/08/2015

Duration: 01:02:36

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Climate change: what science and the IPCC report has to say

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

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Nick Eyre and Myles Allen give a talk for the Oxford Martin School on climate change and the IPCC report.

One of the key objectives of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), completed in 2014, was to provide a comprehensive description of the science of climate change and options for adaptation and mitigation for negotiators preparing for the Paris Conference in 2015.
IPCC authors Myles Allen and Nick Eyre will explain the IPCC process, and ask whether this model of a technical panel giving “policy relevant, not policy prescriptive” advice to governments is still working. They will highlight some key findings, such as the increased level of confidence that human influence is the dominant cause of the warming observed since the mid-20th-century, the importance of cumulative carbon dioxide emissions, the challenges of emission reductions, but also the multiple mitigation pathways still open for achieving the goal of limiting warming to 2oC.
They will also discuss some of the things the IPCC does not do, such as specifically attributing blame for observed climate change impacts, and ask what the options are for the IPCC going forward.

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Date Added: 18/08/2015

Duration: 01:24:40

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Biodiversity and climate change: what happens when we turn up the heat on nature?

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Dr Nathalie Seddon, Director of the Biodiversity Institute, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School.

The future of biodiversity conservation is under increasing threat from both climate change and human impact. Dr Nathalie Seddon, Director of the Biodiversity Institute, will look at how rapid growth of climate change affects our ecosystems, how species’ will be forced to adapt to survive, and how we can reduce the effects of climate change on our planet.

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Date Added: 18/08/2015

Duration: 01:07:08

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The ‘perfect storm’ revisited: food, energy and water security in the context of climate change

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Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, gives a talk on climate change

Some five years ago Sir John Beddington, Senior Adviser at the Oxford Martin School, raised the concept of 'The Perfect Storm' in which the issues of food, water and energy security needed to be addressed at the same time as mitigating and adapting to climate change. In this seminar he highlights changes that have occurred since then and the progress made and challenges that are currently faced.

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Date Added: 18/08/2015

Duration: 01:27:45

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Climate change and our oceans

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Professor Gideon Henderson, Professor of Earth Sciences, and Professor David Marshall, Professor of Physical Oceanography, will explore the role of oceans in climate change.

How are oceans affected by our rapidly changing climate? What can they tell us about the processes controlling climate change? And what role do they play in driving climate?

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Date Added: 18/08/2015

Duration: 01:22:01

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Hopes and fears: why people disagree about how to tackle climate

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In this seminar Dr Rob Bellamy, James Martin Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, will explore how and why people disagree about how to tackle climate change. What hope then is there for a global political agreement in Paris 2015?

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Date Added: 18/08/2015

Duration: 01:09:38

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Climate change: dealing with uncertainty

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In this talk Professor Tim Palmer CBE, Co-Director of the Programme on Modelling and Predicting Climate, gives a talk for the Oxford Martin School.

Tim Palmer will address three related questions. Firstly, what are the physical reasons why predictions of climate change are necessarily uncertain? Secondly, how can we communicate this uncertainty in a simple but rigorous way to those policy makers for whom uncertainty quantification may seem an unnecessary complication. Finally, what is needed to reduce uncertainty about future climate change? For the latter, I will argue that the sort of inspiration and ambition that led to the Large Hadron Collider is now needed for the development of climate-change science.

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Date Added: 18/08/2015

Duration: 01:18:01

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Rich and poor: a cause for social unrest? at the Oxford Literary Festival 2015

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Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

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John Kampfner and Katrine Marçal discuss the growing gap between rich and poor and its implications for society, chaired by Professor Ian Goldin.

This roundtable is part of the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival 2015, the Oxford Martin School is the Festival Ideas Partner
Is it morally justified to allow the creation of a 'super rich' that leave the rest behind? Is the growing gap between rich and poor actually holding back wider economic growth and financial wellbeing? Could it be a cause of social unrest? And what can we do to address the gap between rich and poor?
This panel event is one of a series of roundtable talks and audience question time hosted by the Oxford Martin School.

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