The emergence of novel infectious diseases has increased significantly in recent decades, and this is a consequence of climate change and the eco-modernist paradigm of development worldwide. Agrarian transformations are the key nexus of this process. In this lecture, I discuss the origins of COVID-19 and other novel coronavirus diseases (SARS and MERS), focusing on the connections between climate change and the transformation of development paradigms in China in recent decades.

The Oxford Syria Society is pleased to invite you to a discussion with Syrian women's rights civil society leaders to discuss the nature and challenges of their work in time of revolution and war. In a discussion with Maria Alabdeh and Ameenah Sawwan, moderated by Zeina Kanawati, we will hear about women's rights organizing, challenges, and lessons learned. We will also learn about the disproportionate impact of war on women, and about a feminist perspective on justice and representation.

On the occasion of the publication of Venizelos: The Making of a Greek Statesman 1864-1914 (Hurst & Co 2021), and the re-issue of Ionian Vision: Greece in Asia Minor 1919 - 1922 (Hurst & Co new edition 2022).

Seminar series: Rupture and Reconciliation in Contexts of Displacement

Convened by Cory Rodgers (Oxford University) and Elias Lopez (Comillas Pontifical University).

Campion Hall and the Refugee Studies Centre present a seven-part seminar series on reconciliation in the contexts of displacement

Artificial intelligence is frequently cited as a threat. As the Singularity. As killer robots. As the mass production engines of misinformation and social division. But what if there is another implacable threat to democracy dependent on none of these; one we are paying little attention to, and as a result one far more threatening to democracy as we understand it today?

The Winant Lecture in American Government

Europe is inseparable from its history. That history has been extensively studied in terms of its political history, its economic history, its religious history, its literary and cultural history, and so on. In this talk Simon Glendinning will explore the idea of pursuing a distinctively philosophical history of Europe. At issue is a history of Europe that focuses on what, in Europe’s history and identity, ties it to philosophy. Here we are concerned not with a distinctive history of philosophy in Europe, but the significance in Europe of a distinctive philosophy of history.