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Automated Decision Making and its Impact on Human Rights in a Time of COVID-19

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This seminar will consider how to achieve meaningful algorithmic accountability that contains appropriate safeguards for fundamental rights and freedoms of online users. The EU Digital Services Act proposal (DSA) establishes a new set of due diligence obligations for very large online platforms (VLOP). Newly proposed measures require VLOPs to conduct risk assessment of significant systemic risks stemming from the functioning and use of their services in the EU.

Who is Being Left Behind? Closing the Horizontal Inequality Gap

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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

start@ox | Creandum: Hiring and Talent Acquisition for Pre-Seed Ventures

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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.

How Communist Is the People’s Republic of China?

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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.

Conflict in print: British soldiers and satirists on the Eastern Question, 1853-56

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The Victorian regiment as a social institution: studying a soldier’s identity and belongingness

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“Not since the Wars of the Roses had so many patricians died so suddenly and so violently”: a closer look at aristocratic casualties in the Great War

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The Afterlives of Return and the Limits of Refugee Protection | Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture

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Women's Rights on The Altar of a Strategic Stake: The New Population Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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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.

Is Liberalism the Enemy?

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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.