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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and resulting sanctions regime has shed light on the United Kingdom’s harbouring of illicit wealth from around the world.It has also revealed the centrality of enablers in the legal and financial sectors in laundering oligarchs’ monies and reputations. As co-chairs of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Tax, Andrew Mitchell and Margaret Hodge have been at the forefront of the UK’s fight against dirty money, illicit finance and money laundering.In this event, Andrew Mitchell and Margaret Hodge will discuss with Ricardo Soares de Oliveira past attempts at curbing professional facilitators, the inadequacy of present regulations and the prospect of improvement through the upcoming Economic Crime Bill, among other ongoing efforts. Most pressingly, they will be asking: after a decade of signalling reform intent, is change really about to happen?REGISTRATIONThis talk is live in-person and onlineTo register to attend this talk in-person at the Oxford Martin School, please use the registration form here.To watch this talk live online register on crowdcast here.
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The event marks 100 years since the lecture by the first woman to lecture at the University of Oxford on Theology, Evelyn Underhill, who spoke on the same theme.The lecture will be livestreamed for those unable to attend in person, email kate.wilson@hmc.ox.ac.uk for the link.
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The fifth lecture in The D'Arcy Lectures 2022 series exploring the theme "Preparing for the Moral Life".SYNOPSIS What type of Catholic Theological Ethics do we need to develop as the 21st century unfolds?Echoing the insight that the first lesson of life is to prepare for death, we investigate Grief to uncover the embodied, experiential claims of human connectedness. In that light, we investigate the rich philosophical contributions of Levinas, Butler, Honneth and Fraser on Vulnerability and Recognition.With these ontological, moral and theological claims, we explore the birth of Conscience as the acknowledgement of guilt, but through a theological anthropology that is constitutively social, looking at matters of collective responsibility and restoration. Jesus' proclamation of the Kingdom of God then becomes the pivot to hear the Call to Discipleship.The three remaining lectures address a connected and collective understanding of humanity in terms of the structures of Grace and Sin, the Virtues and the Beatitudes, and the works of Mercy throughout the World Church.
London School of Economics: Online public event
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The “Swedish” or “Nordic” model has in recent years risen to the centre of anti-trafficking and prostitution policy debates. It claims to revolutionise the policy field by criminalising the buying instead of the selling of sex. Sweden implemented this policy in 1999, relying on radical feminist arguments of commercial sex as a form of violence against women and a hindrance to gender equality. Since then, this policy approach has been adopted in several countries across Europe and America. But how does this policy affect the people it claims to protect, sex workers and people in the sex trade? What does it mean that commercial sex is increasingly governed through feminist arguments of gender equality? Who is most affected by this approach, and with what consequences? This event provides a unique opportunity to find answers to these questions and to understand how the “Nordic model” functions in various geographic locations. In this event, Niina Vuolajärvi will outline the main outcomes and recommendations of a policy brief on sex buyer criminalization and its intersections with immigration controls in the Nordic region. The brief is based on Vuolajärvi’s large-scale ethnographic research that includes 210 interviews conducted between 2012-2019 in Sweden, Norway, and Finland. The panel will discuss how the “Nordic model” style regulation looks like in other countries and from a perspective of anti-trafficking efforts. Meet our speakers and chair Anna Błuś (@AnnaMBlus) is a Researcher on Western Europe and Women’s Rights at Amnesty International’s Europe Regional Office based at the International Secretariat in London. She was the lead researcher on women’s access to justice for rape in Europe as part of Amnesty’s Let’s Talk About Yes project and is the author of Amnesty’s recently released report on sex workers’ human rights in Ireland. Julian Curico (@RedUmbrellaSwe) is a Swedish current full service sex worker and is currently the chair of Red Umbrella Sweden*. He has worked as a sex worker in conditions such as the Swedish model (Nordic model, client criminalisation etc) and different types of regulated legalisation. Since 2004, Suzanne Hoff (@LaStradaInterna) is International Coordinator of La Strada International, the European NGO Platform against trafficking in human beings. As International Coordinator, Suzanne Hoff manages a broad range of tasks including strategy planning, lobby & advocacy and representation of the Platform, next to coordination of European projects and research on the issue of human trafficking. She coordinated projects, campaigns and research. Elene Lam (@ButterflyCSW) is an activist, community organizer, educator, and human rights defender. She has devoted herself to defending the rights of and empowering marginalized communities: particularly sex workers, migrants, and precarious workers for over 20 years. She is the founder of Butterfly (Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network) in Canada. She holds a Master of Laws and Master of Social Work. Charlotte Lee and Niki Adams (@ProstitutesColl) are spokeswoman for the English Collective of Prostitutes. Niina Vuolajärvi (@NiinaVu) is an Assistant Professor in International Migration at the LSE European Institute. Her interdisciplinary research is situated in the fields of migration, feminist and socio-legal studies. Niina received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Rutgers University in 2021. Dr Oula Kadhum (@OulaKadhum) is an LSE Fellow in International Migration at the European Institute. Her research explores political and religious transnationalism of diasporic migrant communities between the Middle East and Europe, with a special focus on Iraq. More about this event The LSE European Institute (@LSEEI) is a centre for research and graduate teaching on the processes of integration and fragmentation within Europe. Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEEurope
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Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly executes tasks that previously only humans could do, such as driving a car, fighting in war, or performing a medical operation.However, as the very best AI systems tend to be the least controllable and the least transparent, some scholars argued that humans could no longer be morally responsible for some of the AI-caused outcomes, which would then result in a 'responsibility gap'.In this presentation, I assume, for the sake of argument, that at least some of the most sophisticated AI systems do indeed create responsibility gaps, and I ask whether we can bridge these gaps at will, viz. whether certain people could take responsibility for AI-caused harm simply by communicating the intention to do so, just as people can give permission for something (via consent) simply by communicating the intention to do so. So understood, taking responsibility would be a genuine normative power.I first discuss and reject the view of Champagne and Tonkens, who advocate a view of taking prospective liability. According to this view, a military commander can and must, ahead of time, accept liability to blame and punishment for any harm caused by autonomous weapon systems under her command. I then defend my own proposal of taking retrospective answerability, viz. the view that people can make themselves morally answerable for the harm caused by AI systems, not only ahead of time but also when harm has already been caused.
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The second event in the Cultural Justice Lecture Series will be presented by Keith Magee who will be joined in conversation by Ijeoma Okoli a finance, securities, and regulatory lawyer. This talk will examine approaches and strategies to ensure
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If one takes a systems approach to healthcare, it is obvious that it should be predictive, preventive, personalised and participatory (P4).This can be accomplished, in part, by a vision which includes following the health trajectory of each individual with a data-driven (genome/longitudinal phenome) approach to, after proper analyses, optimise wellness and avoid disease. This is the essence of what precision population health should be. To achieve this object, Dr Leroy Hood, CEO of Phenome Health, has proposed a “2nd human genome project”, termed Beyond the Human Genome, to analyse the genomes and longitudinal phenomes of one million individuals over ten years with federal support. He has founded a non-profit company, Phenome Health, to develop the strategies and accumulate effective partners to carry out this initiative, which he will discuss in this talk.The first three Ps have to do with science and they lead to what Dr Hood calls the science of wellness and prevention. The fourth P, participatory, has to do with education, psychology and sociology and is far the most difficult to achieve. How does one persuade patients, physicians, healthcare leaders, regulators, and industrial members of the current healthcare ecosystems to accept this paradigm change in how medicine is practiced?One clear need is a broad-scale education program to bring an understanding of just what P4 medicine is and how it can be achieved through the Beyond the Human Genome project. A second approach is to offer viable solutions to each of the five largest challenges of contemporary medicine - quality, aging population, exploding chronic diseases, racial equity and excessive costs. The ten-year demonstration project of Beyond the Human Genome will provide striking new solutions to each of these challenges, as Dr Hood will discuss.This talk is live in-person and online.To register to attend this talk in-person at the Oxford Martin School, please use the registration form here.To watch this talk live online register on crowdcast here.
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What you’ll doCome and watch performers slalom towards a future affected by climate change as artist Sena Başöz investigates how reconsidering the past can be a generative, healing act. This live performance uses movement, sound and our collections to explore the role of archives in practising ‘care’ and regenerating the future. The performances on Friday 27 May at 13:00 and on Saturday 28 May at 15.00 will be relaxed events. There will be comfortable seating, cushions, blankets and mats in the room. Ear defenders, earplugs, board games and fidget toys will also be available. You are welcome to move around and make noise at any time.The performance on Thursday 26 May will be filmed and the performance on Friday 27 May will be photographed. Slalom is commissioned by Block Universe in partnership with Delfina Foundation and SAHA Association. For more about Block Universe, sign up to their Newsletter.
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London School of Economics: Online and in-person public event (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building)
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The three recent winners of the Pritzker Prize, considered the highest honour in the architectural profession, will debate how the design of the built environment is fundamental to shaping more democratic and sustainable contexts at a time of increased fragility and vulnerability of urban and ecological systems. From innovative uses of local resources and participatory design methods in Africa, to the exploration of generosity of space and economic use of materials in educational and residential buildings in cities of the global North, the speakers will argue that architecture plays an increasingly critical role in constructing more open, resilient and healthy places for people. Meet our speakers and chair Yvonne Farrell is co-founder of Grafton Architects, Dublin, winner of the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize and designer of LSE's Marshall Building. Diébédo Francis Kéré is founder of Kéré Architecture, Burkina Faso/Germany and winner of the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Anne Lacaton is co-founder of Lacaton and Vassal Architects, Paris and winner of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Shelley McNamara is co-founder of Grafton Architects, Dublin, winner of the 2020 Pritzker Architecture Prize and designer of LSE's Marshall Building. Jeanne-Philippe Vassal is co-founder of Lacaton and Vassal Architects, Paris and winner of the 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Ricky Burdett (@BURDETTR) is Professor of Urban Studies at LSE and Director of LSE Cities. Minouche Shafik is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to this, she was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. She is an alumna of LSE. Her new book, What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract, is out now. She is co-chair of the Economy 2030 Inquiry commission. More about this event LSE Cities (@LSECities) is an international centre that investigates the complexities of the contemporary city. It carries out research, graduate and executive education, outreach and advisory activities in London and abroad. The Pritzker Architecture Prize is presented annually to honour a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture. Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEPritzkerPrize Featured image (used in source code with watermark added): Photo by Francis Kéré.
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This lecture centres changing human-nonhuman relations in the Indian Himalaya to probe the role of anthropology in the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene is taken to constitute not just a new geologic age of the planet characterised by extreme events, biodiversity loss, the melting of glaciers, etc. – the climate crisis – but also as an imperative of finding new ways of doing and communicating anthropological labour. Meet our speaker and chair Nayanika Mathur (@NayanikaM) is Associate Professor in Anthropology, Fellow of Wolfson College, and Director of the South Asian Studies Programme at the University of Oxford. Laura Bear is Head of the Department of Anthropology at LSE and specializes in the anthropology of the economy, infrastructures and time. More about this event LSE Anthropology (@LSEAnthropology) is world famous and world leading. Our work is based on ethnographic research: detailed studies of societies and communities in which we have immersed ourselves via long term fieldwork. Placing the everyday lives and meanings of ordinary people - whoever and wherever they are - at the heart of the discipline, we take nothing for granted. This event is the Malinowski Memorial Lecture 2022. Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEMalinowski
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The Equity, Diversity and Belonging (EDB) Committee invite you to the Inaugural EDB lecture on Thursday 26 May at 17:00.The lecture will be given by Caleb Gayle. Caleb was a student in our department and is now a Professor at Northeastern University, Boston. Caleb is an award-winning journalist who writes about the impact of history on race and identity.If you wish to join online, pre-registration is required. Once your registration has been approved, you will receive a confirmation email with joining instructions.
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Join us for a free film screening of Independent Miss Craigie followed by Q&A with director Lizzie Thynne. Independent Miss Craigie uses its subject’s own films extensively as well as other fiction and propaganda of the period to reflect on, and contextualise, her life and career. It draws on the director’s unseen papers, along with her films, letters, and photographs to reveal her energetic struggles to get her radical films made and distributed. Dual narrative voices – from actual interviews and from a script performed by Hayley Atwell – evoke the split between Craigie’s persona as a young, apparently confident film-maker and her later dismissal of her work. The film echoes Craigie’s hybrid mix of drama and documentary and use of the first person to represent women’s experiences and subjectivities, previously marginalised within the British Documentary Movement. The film is narrated by Hayley Atwell and directed by Lizzie Thynne (93 mins). More about this event Jill Craigie (1911–1999) was one of the first women to direct documentaries in the UK. Working outside the British Documentary Movement in the 1940s and early 1950s, her films such as To Be Woman (1951) on equal pay, and Out of Chaos (1944), the first film about artists at work, featuring Henry Moore and Paul Nash, broke new ground. Jill Craigie’s work is often eclipsed by her marriage to former Labour party leader, Michael Foot in 1949. The challenges of supporting her husband, while retaining her own goals and identity, were a challenge faced by many women in the media business, then and now. This film was produced as part of a four-year research project, Jill Craigie: Film Pioneer, generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, led by Lizzie Thynne with Sadie Wearing, Yvonne Tasker, Hollie Price, Adele Tulli. The project drew on Jill Craigie’s archive held in the Women’s Library at LSE Library. Watch the film trailer. Find out more about the project. Meet our speaker and chair Lizzie Thynne is a film-maker and writer on media and film. She is Professor of Film at Sussex University. Her work often focuses women’s life histories and has been widely shown in galleries, exhibitions and festivals and on television. Her feature documentaries include On the Border, 2012 (on her Finnish mother’s history) JMP Screenworks 4 and Brighton: Symphony of A City, (Brighton Festival 2016) Symphonic Visions, (Metier 2018) and Playing a Part: The Story of Claude Cahun (2005). Sadie Wearing is Associate Professor in gender theory, culture and media at the Gender Studies Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests are in gender and cultural production and in feminist and gender theory, with a specific focus on aging, memory and temporality. She has published extensively on these themes in relation to both popular culture (film and television) and literature in both contemporary and historical contexts. She is the author with Niall Richardson of Gender in the Media (Palgrave, 2014) and the co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory (Sage, 2014). She is a member of the editorial collective for Feminist Review. Twitter hashtag for this event: #LSEMissCraigie. The British Library of Political and Economic Science (@LSELibrary) was founded in 1896, a year after the London School of Economics and Political Science. It has been based in the Lionel Robbins Building since 1978 and houses many world class collections, including The Women's Library.
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The next decade promises a transformation in our insights and understanding of the Universe thanks to a suite of innovative facilities. Among this suite are the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT).These distinct facilities will observe the universe on the widest and smallest scales, addressing multiple science questions in complementary ways. The Rubin Observatory’s ambitious Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), with an unprecedented combination of areal coverage and sensitivity, will make the first ever 10-year movie of all the sky visible to it. In contrast, the ELT will provide some of the sharpest vistas into our Universe near and far, exceeding the spatial resolution of the James Webb Telescope by a factor of ~6. Among their science goals, they will further our understanding of the dark universe, galaxies that formed soon after Big Bang to those in the present day and the history of the Milky Way and Solar System. Uniquely, LSST will open a new window into the transient Universe and the ELT presents the tantalising opportunity to directly image rocky planets in solar systems beyond our own.In this talk, I will describe these forthcoming ground-breaking facilities along with highlights of the amazing science we can expect from them.
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In this event, Financial Times columnist Simon Kuper traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere of Britain’s oldest university - and the friendships and worldviews it created – has shaped the nation and helped make Brexit. Drawing on his forthcoming book, Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK, Kuper will discuss the dynamics and effects of Britain’s ruling class and its ‘chumocracy’, with responses from Mike Savage – a sociologist of elites – and Jane Gingrich, Professor of Comparative Political Economy. In his new book, Simon details how Oxford University has produced most of the most powerful Conservative politicians of our time. They aren't just colleagues - they are peers, rivals, friends. And, when they walked out of the world of student debates onto the national stage, they brought their university politics with them. How has this reality helped define and design modern Britain? Meet our speakers and chair Simon Kuper (@KuperSimon) is an author and Financial Times journalist, born in Uganda and raised around the world. An Oxford graduate, he later attended Harvard as a Kennedy Scholar. He has written for the Observer, The Times and Guardian, and is also the author of The Happy Traitor and Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK. Jane Gingrich (@jrgingrich) is Professor in Comparative Political Economy at the University of Oxford. Her main research interests involve comparative political economy and comparative social policy. In particular, she is interested in contemporary restructuring of the welfare state, and the politics of institutional change. She is currently the PI of the ERC-Project "SchoolPol", which studies variation and effects of educational regimes across countries. Mike Savage (@MikeSav47032563) is Martin White Professor of Sociology at LSE. He is co-founder and former director of LSE International Inequalities Institute, leading the 'Wealth, Elites and Tax Justice' research theme. Neil Lee (@ndrlee) is Professor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE and leads the Cities, Jobs and Economic Change Research Theme at the International Inequalities Institute. More about this event The International Inequalities Institute (@LSEInequalities) at LSE brings together experts from many of the School's departments and centres to lead cutting-edge research focused on understanding why inequalities are escalating in numerous arenas across the world, and to develop critical tools to address these challenges. You can order the book Power, Privilege, Parties: the shaping of modern Britain (UK delivery only) from our official LSE Events independent book shop, Pages of Hackney. Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEKuper
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Professor Robert Walker is Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford. In 2006, he became a Professor of Social Policy with the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford. He was previously Professor of Social Policy at the University of Nottingham, and before that, Professor of Social Policy Research at Loughborough University where he was Director of the Centre for Research in Social Policy. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2012, Professor Walker was awarded an MBE for his services to social policy research. He took up a position at Beijing Normal University in October 2018 and is now professor there in the China Academy of Social Management/School of Sociology. He was a 2020/1 Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. His principal research currently centres on the experience of poverty in China during the era of the 14th Five Year Plan.
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