In complex room settings, machine listening systems may experience a degradation in performance due to factors like room reverberations, background noise, and unwanted sounds. Concurrently, machine vision systems can suffer from issues like visual occlusions, insufficient lighting, and background clutter. Combining audio and visual data has the potential to overcome these limitations and enhance machine perception in complex audio-visual environments.

Very small states in continental Europe are not EU members yet have crafted successive strategies of close cooperation with the EU. Liechtenstein is a member of the EEA, and Andorra and San Marino have concluded comprehensive association agreements that will soon enter into force. Dr Minoves negotiated the 2004 agreements between Andorra and the EU and initiated a paragraph of the Lisbon treaty that created a juridical basis for specific agreements between the EU and small states (declaration 3 on article 8).

The Embassy of Uzbekistan to the United Kingdom and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford are delighted to hold a roundtable discussion on the topic 'Uzbekistan: a roadmap to the future – Poverty reduction, cooperation and connectivity' on 28 May 2024.

Nationalism has long been overlooked by scholars who study international relations or civil wars.

This talk highlights the crucial role of nationalism - the demand that states be ruled by representatives of the nation - in the political transformations of the world during the past 250 years and the wars between and within states that have accompanied this process. The talk also contains two short excursus that seek to understand the Ukraine war and the Gaza conflict from this global comparative and long-term historical perspective.

Human migration presents both opportunities and challenges for economies, societies, and politics around the world. This is particularly resonant in a global moment characterised by overlapping crises of conflict, COVID-19, and climate change, which all have implications for the scale and dynamics of migration. Several decades of diverse research have productively explored how, why, and with what consequences people move.

*Friday 24 May* – Nissan Lecture Theatre

09:00-10:00 Sovereignty
Chair: Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot (Sciences Po and King’s College London)

Tibet and the Dalai Lama in the India-China Dispute: Buffer, Irritant and Future Prospects? - Prof. Tsering Topgyal (University of Birmingham)
The Xinjiang factor in Sino-Indian ties in the early 1950s - Mr. Prateek Joshi (Oxford University)

10:00-11:00 Bilateralism
Chair: Prof. Kate Sullivan de Estrada (Oxford University)