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: https://gwu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvc-CrrjMiGdxu_pt563OZHLp1WZWKzmKw.

We are delighted to welcome Cahal McLaughlin, Queen's University Belfast, and Siobhán Wills, Ulster University for a screening and discussion of their documentary film 'Right Now I Want To Scream: Police and Army Killings in Rio – The Brazil Haiti Connection'. All registered participants will be sent a link to the documentary, which will be available for streaming between 7 May and 10 May. At 1pm BST on 10 May, we will be joined by the filmmakers for a discussion about the film and the applicable law.

Film Synopsis

On the 2nd February 2021 The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review was published, an independent, global review on the Economics of Biodiversity led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta.

"We are facing a global crisis. We are totally dependent upon the natural world. It supplies us with every oxygen-laden breath we take and every mouthful of food we eat. But we are currently damaging it so profoundly that many of its natural systems are now on the verge of breakdown."
David Attenborough writes in the foreword of the The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review.

Maison Française d'Oxford (MFO) / Worcester College, Oxford, with the support of the Political Quarterly and the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung.

The relevance of Aristotle’s philosophy to modern politics is not immediately evident. This lecture focuses on three core elements where his thought seems to be incompatible with our present experience: the stress on consensus, law’s moral purpose, and the preferred normative language. Developing these elements allows for a reconstruction of Aristotle’s approach to meet our needs.

The series

For Trinity Term we are focussing on research methods. The aim of these sessions is really to excite an interdisciplinary audience of graduates to understand how different methods are being used creatively across the social sciences. The panel discussions will be held during the first four weeks of term and will focus on ‘interviews’ in week 1, ‘numbers’ (quant methods) in week 2, ‘archives’ in week 3, and ‘ethnogrpahy’ in week 4.

Panellists: