What do European citizens want the EU to be?

Annual Ralf Dahrendorf Memorial Lecture

This year’s Dahrendorf Lecture will be delivered online by Catherine de Vries (Bocconi University) and is titled: 'What do European citizens want the EU to be?'

Discussants: Matthew Goodwin (University of Kent/Legatum Institute) and Sophie Vériter (Leiden University).
Chair: Timothy Garton Ash (St Antony’s College, Oxford)

For further information please visit: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/what-do-european-citizens-want-eu-be

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva & Ian Goldin in conversation: "Roadmap to the Sustainable Development Goals"

The global pandemic has derailed progress toward the SDGs as developing countries now balance long-term investments in health, education, roads, electricity, and water with spending to protect lives and livelihoods.

Bringing the SDGs within reach by 2030 will take a global effort from all stakeholders.

The UN CESCR's General Comment 25 on the Right to Enjoy the Benefits of Scientific Progress

One of the remarkable aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been how brilliantly science has responded: in tracing the genome of the virus, in understanding how it spreads and in developing vaccines and medical treatments for COVID-19. Yet these scientific gains have not been available to all. Article 15(1)(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights guarantees that: “everyone has the right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress.” And, of course, this right extends to all scientific discoveries.

The way forward for carbon pricing

This online event features as one of several this term which focusses on 'Political economy of European climate action', and is hosted by the European Political Economy Project (EUPEP) at the European Studies Centre.

Speakers: Ian Parry (IMF), Michael Mehling (University of Strathclyde; Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Chair: Daniel Hardy (St Antony’s College, Oxford)
Discussant: Franziska Funke (Oxford Martin School)

For further information please visit: https://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/way-forward-carbon-pricing

Warm Bonds or Functional Transactions? Being Neighbours During Ethnic Pogroms in India

Stories of courage abound during mass violence. Of people saving their neighbours and giving them refuge at a cost to their own lives. However, perpetrators of mass violence are often neighbours, e.g. anti-Jewish pogroms, genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda, and anti-minority violence in South Asia. Neighbour-on-neighbour violence effaces the norms and values that underpin neighbourliness as a social practice given that, during community emergencies, prior hostility does not preclude cooperation between neighbours.
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