Radical hope: Reimagining capitalism for climate crisis

Please join us for the 2024 Battcock Lecture.

Smith School Director, Professor Mette Morsing, welcomes Professor Rebecca Henderson, HEEP Faculty Fellow, John and Natty McArthur University Professor, Harvard University, as this year’s guest speaker.

"It’s the most successful economic system to have ever existed, but capitalism is in danger of destroying itself — and our world."

With *Evelyn Goh*, Shedden Professor of Strategic Policy Studies, Australian National University; *John Ikenberry*, Albert G Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, and *Andrew Hurrell*, Montague Burton Emeritus Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford. Chaired by *Louise Fawcett*, Professor and Senior Research Fellow in International Relations and Fellow of St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford.

Stephen Roach, a faculty member at Yale and formerly chair of Morgan Stanley Asia, said in February, that 'it pains me to say Hong Kong is over'. For many people inside and outside Hong Kong, it is also difficult not to believe that the Hong Kong, as they know it, is already gone. Since Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, the Chinese Communist Party gradually ate up all promises to Hong Kong people and the international community, it even ignored what had been agreed in the Sino British Declaration and stipulated in the Basic Law of The HKSAR.

In 1904, six years after the great Franco-British crisis over Fashoda, the Entente Cordiale was not a given.

Professor Robert Frank will describe the particular background that allowed the two countries’ relations to improve so quickly at the beginning of the 20th century. He will analyse the limited agreements on which the Entente Cordiale is based but do not constitute an alliance.

The event will be followed by a drinks reception in New College.

Join us for an interesting talk where Elaine builds off of her previous research and experience to explore how digital democracy is being transformed by emerging technologies, especially through the development and use of generative AI. While AI may have numerous positive impacts for society, it may also undermine trust. This poses serious questions for the future of democracy. During the talk, Elaine will explore three primary areas. 1) Citizenship and digital rights, 2) Elections and political parties, and 3) Government and public policies.