A panel discussion to launch the Oxford Critical Theory Network with Professor Lois McNay, Professor Alice Crary, and Dr Eleni Philippou, followed by a drinks reception.

Itinerary:
16:00-17:00: Coffee/tea reception (the Buttery)
17:00: Introduction (Investcorp Lecture Theatre)
17:10: Talk
17:40: Q&A session
18:30-19:00: Book signing

Jennifer M. Welsh is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). She was previously Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict. From 2013-2016, she served as the Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, on the Responsibility to Protect.

In India, there persists a striking gender gap in political participation and representation. This political gender gap persists despite decades of democracy and universal adult suffrage, rapid economic development, and large-scale policies aimed at women's political empowerment. Women's political participation is important not only on normative grounds of inclusion, but because we know that when women do participate, politics changes. Why does this gender gap in political participation persist and how do women become active political participants?

More than eight years after the signing of the first bailout package, Greece has now returned to positive - albeit eager - growth rates. However, is the Greek crisis over? Using data from a series of studies conducted by the Greek think tank diaNEOsis, the case will be made that Greece is facing four existential challenges in the years ahead: the second worst demographic profile in the EU, a slow adaption to climate change and to the forces of technological change, along with the lowest level of social capital in the EU.

Modern retail banking creates a kind of panopticon for consumer behaviour, ultimately promising to implement a mechanism that binds all of the financial activities undertaken by an individual to a single, unitary identity. In the age of Big Data, consumers have legitimate reasons to resist such surveillance, particularly in cases wherein monitoring is carried out without their knowledge and judgments based upon such monitoring are used to disincentivise or punish legitimate activities.