As the impacts of climate change accelerate, human societies will face a set of cascading and interrelated challenges. This event will assess the challenges we will increasingly encounter and consider how the next generation of leaders can best prepare to navigate them.  

Dr Greg Walton (Stanford University) discusses psychologically “wise” interventions, how they work and how we can develop and use wise interventions in diverse contexts to help people flourish.

Political pollster and strategist Frank Luntz asks whether the future of democracy in the US is at stake and explores the parallels that can be drawn between the US, the UK and beyond. 

How to react to a change in cosmology

A journey through computer science.

For this special online session as part of the Kyoto Prize at Oxford, Professor Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Professor Bruno Latour and Professor Robert G. Roeder join Professor Ngaire Woods to discuss the challenges of academic leadership in extraordinary times.

Regulation of transcription in animal cells: a 50-year journey revealing an expanding universe of factors and mechanisms.

This one-day symposium includes two roundtables on the politics of Muslim societies to mark the publication of the Oxford Handbook of Politics in Muslim Societies.

Building on three decades’ experience across around 40 countries, Stefan Dercon's new book asks why some countries have prospered in reducing poverty and transforming their economies, while others have failed?