This seminar is organised jointly with the Institute for International Economic Policy at George Washington University and the UNDP Human Development Report Office. This seminar will be held online. Registration via: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcodeyhrTooGNFV5740BEutxRQ4YM8CYrkt

Peter Specht from Creandum will be giving a much anticipated talk on Thursday 13th May at 6PM via Zoom about how to think about talent acquisition and hiring for pre-seed ventures. Creandum is a venture capital advisory firm based in Stockholm, San Francisco, and Berlin, and has funded 100 companies including Spotify, Klarna, and Bolt. As Principal of the Berlin office, Peter is responsible for discovering Europe’s most innovative startup companies and for strategically advising the fund’s portfolio companies on their international journey.

Oxford China Conversations 2, chaired by Professor Patricia Thornton. The Oxford China Conversations series will be inviting scholars at the University of Oxford and beyond to engage in discussions of key questions within the study of Chinese politics, history, and contemporary society. Each session will feature three world-renowned experts offering their views on a select question, moderated by a faculty member of the University of Oxford China Centre. Our goal is to foster conversation and debate that will be of interest to specialists while remaining accessible to a broad public audience.

About the talk:

Bio:

Marie Ladier-Fouladi is a senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)/ CETOBaC (Centre d’Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques) and professor of Political Sociology and Population Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris.

Many contemporary appeals to the common good are couched within the critique of liberalism in political thought and neo-liberalism in economics. Situating the common good in opposition to liberalism is in danger of misunderstanding the concept and its theological usage. This lecture challenges the supposed polarisation and argues that liberal principles can be defended in terms of common goods.