Human Development Report 2022 - Uncertain Times, Unsettled Lives. Shaping Our Future in a Transforming World

We live in a world of worry. The ongoing Covid-19 pan­demic, having driven reversals in human development in almost every country, continues to spin off variants unpre­dictably. War in Ukraine and elsewhere has created more human suffering. Record-breaking temperatures, fires, storms and floods sound the alarm of planetary systems increasingly out of whack. Together, they are fuelling a cost-of-living crisis felt around the world, painting a pic­ture of uncertain times and unsettled lives.Uncertainty is not new, but its dimensions are taking om­inous new forms today.

Day 2: Sustainable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop

Chair: Madeleine Dungy
*Session I*: 09:00-10:00
1. *Patricia Clavin*, "Winston Thinks there’s Pots of Money in it". Artificial Nitrates and the Management of Future Shocks.
2. *Michael Drolet*, The Logic of Industrialisation: Uniformalisation and the Imperative of Efficiency, or La Fin du Monde par la Science.

10:00-10:30 Coffee and Tea Break

*Session II*: 10:30-11:30
3. *Laurent Brassart*, State, Market and Sustainability: how Agronomic Innovations failed during the Napoleonic Empire. A tale about cattle, trees and dye plants.

Day 1: Sustaintable Pasts and Resilient Futures Workshop

Chair: Michael Drolet
*Session I:* 14:00-15:30
1. *Isabelle Oakes*, A History of Green Ordoliberalism: The Theoretical Foundation of an Eco-Social Market Economy?
2. *Madeleine Dungy*, Working at the Troubled Intersection between Business History and Environmental History.
3. *Michael Roberts*, European Law, Global Norms and Food: The Genesis of the U.N. F.A.O., 1930-1950 ?
Discussion

15:30-16:00 Tea

*Session II*: 16:00-18:00
1. *Graduate Student Workshop*, Future Directions: Sources and Historiography
2. *Drinks Reception*

Maximilian Klinger

I am a DPhil candidate in Political Theory. My thesis, supported by Nuffield College, explores several issues relating to the ethics of trade: (i) Under what conditions is consensual and mutually beneficial trade nevertheless wrongful? (ii)What is the moral force of wrongful trade? (iii) How should consumers, producers, and the government respond to wrongful trade?

Fikayo Akeredolu

I am currently pursuing a DPhil in Politics, focusing on "The Political Economy of Energy Transition in Nigeria." My research interests and areas of expertise include climate change in the Global South and trade, finance, and development within the Sino-African relationship.

I have a Master's in Contemporary Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford and a Master's in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University in China, where I studied as a Schwarzman Scholar.

The Moral Machine Experiment

I describe the Moral Machine, an internet-based serious game exploring the many-dimensional ethical dilemmas faced by autonomous vehicles. The game enabled us to gather 40 million decisions from 3 million people in 200 countries/territories. I report the various preferences estimated from this data, and document interpersonal differences in the strength of these preferences. I also report cross-cultural ethical variation and uncover major clusters of countries exhibiting substantial differences along key moral preferences.

The League of Nations, International Law, and the Current Ecological Crisis

The role of international law – and international lawyers – in managing environmental problems is understood to be very new. This lecture reveals its deeper history, showing how international law was mobilized to address environmental challenges in the era of the two world wars. In particular, it uncovers the pivotal role of the League of Nations in determining an emergent environmental agenda in the 1920s and 1930s.
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