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Gender experts respond to EC reforms
Social media and the culture of connectivity
Lessons in constitutional order and crisis management
FLJS Films: The Act of Killing
Latest policy brief: Populism or pluralism?
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Our investigation into the implications of life in the digital age opens a full programme of events over the coming months, and we have a round-up of all our latest activities and resources.

Gender experts respond to EC reforms to male-dominated boardrooms

Are gender quotas the best way forward?

 

Last week, academics from the UK, US, and Norway convened at Wolfson College to outline their responses to controversial policy proposals by the European Commission to introduce quotas as a means of addressing gender imbalances in corporate boardrooms.

 

Read more and download podcasts 

 

 

Social media and the culture of connectivity
What cost the pervasive influence of global social media platforms?

Our next event to start Trinity term will focus on the implications of the rise of social media platforms in recent decades, exploring issues of privacy, free speech, and the commercialization of social life.
Social Media and the Culture of Connectivity
Monday 28 April

The following day, a roundtable of experts will explore the issues raised in greater depth.

See all 2014 events

Lessons in constitutional order and crisis management

Analyses of the Eurocrisis and the Bard's view of the nature of authority

 

Earlier this month, Professor Denis Galligan examined the nature of authority and the fragility of constitutional order as revealed in Shakespeare's plays.

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In February, Max Watson drew on his three decades of experience at the IMF and EU to outline the key lessons that were forgotten in the handling of the Eurozone crisis. 

Can We Save Countries from Economic Crises?

Mr Watson also featured on a panel of experts who assessed the growing trend for governments to delegate regulatory duties to the private sector, described in the award-winning book, The New Global Rulers.
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FLJS Films: The Act of Killing

BAFTA-winning documentary provoking calls for justice in Indonesia

 

Our next free FLJS Film in Trinity term will be The Act of Killing, named the Guardian's best film of 2013. 

 

The BAFTA-winning documentary, which confronts the perpetrators of mass killings in Indonesia, has sparked a public debate over the need for justice and the effects of Western interventionism.

Watch trailer and reserve your place

 

The following day, 7 May, will offer an opportunity to reflect on the film as part of a discussion of what we can learn about development issues from literature, films, and other non-conventional forms of representation. 

Popular Representations of Development 

 

Opinion: The Business of Traffic in Humans
Human trafficking on the rise, plus all the latest from our Opinion page

As a forthcoming workshop is set to uncover the rise of human trafficking, we examine the problem over the past decade in our latest Op-Ed, and provide a round-up of recent contributions to our thought-provoking Opinion pages.

A decade on from the Morecambe Bay cockling tragedy, the business of human trafficking is thriving

More from our Opinion pages

Twenty-five years since the Velvet Revolutions, how much has changed in the Eastern Bloc?

 

Blue-sky thinking needed to bolster battered flood management policies 

 


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