Previous Events
Open Politics webinar series: Can we make migration reporting better? If so, how?
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 18:00 to 19:00
Online via MS Teams
Rob McNeil will explore how migration is reported, the challenges around doing so, and whether it can be improved.
Inaugural Lecture: Rose Capdevila, Professor of Psychology
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 17:30 to 18:30
Berrill Lecture Theatre, and Online via Teams
In her inaugural lecture, Rose Capdevila, Professor of Psychology at the OU, will discuss research around the gendering of power in three contexts: activism, the history of psychology and social media.
China/Europe and the Changing Global Order seminar series: Democracy, distributive politics, and development finance: evidence from Africa
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:30
Online via MS Teams
Come along to our seminar and hear Dr Keyi Tang from the Boston University Global Development Policy Center, speak on: Democracy, Distributive Politics, and Development Finance: Evidence from Africa.
Economistic Thinking and Environmental Breakdown: The limitations of pricing nature loss and stress-testing climate disaster
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:30
Online via MS Teams
This OU Economics Seminar, joint with IKD, will explore the direction economists are taking in with environmental breakdown.
The Long and the Short of it: MK Lit Fest
Monday, March 4, 2024 - 19:30 to Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 12:00
Online, via Zoom
"The Long and the Short of it” is an OU series of discussions online in-person as part of MK Lit Fest.
GCSJ seminar series: Making sense of global China
Wednesday, February 28, 2024 - 12:00 to 14:00
Online via MS Teams
The roundtable presents ongoing work of the REDEFINE project based in SSGS. Our take on the political economy of global China moves beyond the grand geopolitical narratives to explore the often long-standing and hidden processes of connection.
GCSJ Seminar series: Irreversible enlightenments
Friday, February 23, 2024 - 12:00 to 13:00
Online, via Eventbrite
At least from Hegel on, indeed perhaps since Plato and Aristotle, philosophers have cherished the idea of a form of rational progress that is rationally irreversible
Economics seminar series - Inflation: Price Shocks, Profits and Conflict
Thursday, February 22, 2024 - 13:00 to 14:30
Online, via Microsoft Teams
Inflation in the UK reached their highest rates in 2022 and 2023 for three decades, putting an end to over a decade of historically low interest rates and pushing many into a cost of living crisis with poverty deepening for many. Drawing from recent publications, the seminar explores evidence based understanding of recent hikes in inflation and the distributional conflict between wages and profit that ensue.
Open Politics webinar series: Are you influential? How to have your voice heard in Parliament (Part 2)
Monday, February 19, 2024 - 18:00 to 19:00
Online via MS Teams
This interactive workshop is the second in a two-part series and will assume you have attended the first part on February 7. It will help you develop a deeper understanding of how to raise the issues which mean the most to you.
Book launch - Tobias Smollett After 300 Years
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 17:00 to 18:00
Online via MS Teams
Tobias Smollett After 300 Years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century: the Scottish writer, Tobias Smollett (1721–1771). Join the contributors to the book as they take this opportunity to reflect on Smollett’s life, writing and reputation.
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