Eric Kaufmann: Academic Freedom in an Age of Extremes

With the UK's Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act put on hold by the new government over the summer, and both pro-Palestine activists and 'cancelled' conservatives frequently claiming that their freedom has been infringed, academic freedom is making headlines.

Dr Eric Kaufmann, Director of Buckingham University's Centre for Heterodox Social Science, has co-authored an influential report arguing that a "hostile climate" is chilling academic freedom in Britain.

Technology and the Rise of Great Powers

Will China or the US lead the way in the Fourth Industrial Revolution? To answer this question, leading thinkers and policymakers in both countries draw lessons from past technology-driven power transitions that centre the moment of innovation – the eureka moment that sparks astonishing technological feats. In this book, Jeffrey Ding offers a different explanation of how technological revolutions affect competition among great powers.

Conor Walsh

Conor Walsh is an MPhil Political Theory student at the DPIR. Prior to studying at Oxford, Conor attended University College London where he graduated with first-class honours in BSc Philosophy, Politics and Economics with Social Data Science.

David N. Lyon Lecture 2024

In light of the UK government’s recent commitment to a “full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices”, this year the David N. Lyon lecture will bring together an esteemed panel who will discuss the topic from both a national and global perspective.

Our panel, chaired by Professor Tim Soutphommasane, Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Oxford, will speak on “Banning LGBTQ+ Conversion Practices; UK and Global Perspectives”

Samu/elle Striewski

Samu/elle Striewski is a graduate student reading for the MPhil in Political Theory at the DPIR. Previously, they studied political and social philosophy as well as mathematics, comparative literature, and gender studies in Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, and New York. At Oxford, they are continuing to work on Critical Theory in relation to queer and trans* struggled for/against recognition.

Research interests:

  • Frankfurt School of Critical Theory
  • Post-structuralist thought
  • Queer/Trans* Studies

Unidimensional Underpinnings of Multidimensional Counting Measures

Traditional unidimensional measures aggregate information at the individual level then gauge poverty in the distribution of a single variable using a poverty line and measurement methodology. This paper provides an intuitive parallel procedure for creating a multidimensional poverty measure from a distribution of aggregate attainments of persons in across dimensions.

Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty amid conflict

The global MPI is an international comparable measure of acute multidimensional poverty across more than 100 countries in developing regions. Each year a thematic report is jointly produced by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative in ODID and the United Nations Development Programme exploring the data. In this seminar, Sabina Alkire will discuss the findings from this year’s report ‘Global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2024: Poverty amid conflict’ which examines some of the ways in which poverty and conflict intersect and reflects on what this means for poverty reduction.
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