For the first time ever, TEDxWarwick is hosting a dynamic virtual conference. Global speakers, diverse topics, a fluid timetable - all free of charge and to be viewed in the comfort of your own home.

The ASIA Careers Insight Series (ACIS) of 30+ webinars, takes place during all of March 2021 and will help you connect with employers recruiting in mainland China, Hong Kong, South East Asia & India, plus provide you with application and interview tips and give you a chance to ask questions to graduate recruiters directly.

You can choose to join just one webinar, or all of them. Recordings will also be available.

This new series of events by the GLOBE Centre is aimed at discussing decisions in landmark legal cases and other cases of interest to the GLOBE Centre community. This session will be focused on Okpabi and others v Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Another (2021). The session will be led by GLOBE Centre Co-Director, Dr Stephen Connelly. You may wish to read Stephen’s expert comment on the case here.

The Department of Economics is delighted to be hosting a live (virtual) comedy show by Stand-Up Economist Yoram Bauman, Ph.D. which will include economics jokes, some time spent talking seriously about climate change and then a few more economics jokes.

Economics, comedy and climate change

Date: Friday 5 March 15:00-16:00 (UK Time)
Location: Microsoft Teams

This event is for staff and students only and registration is required in order to attend.

About the speaker

Yoram Bauman, “the world’s first and only stand-up economist”, is the co-author of the Cartoon Introduction to Calculus, the Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change and the two-volume Cartoon Introduction to Economics. He is also the organiser of the humour session at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association, the largest economics conference in the world.

Yoram lives in Salt Lake City, USA but spent the prior two decades in Seattle, where he was the founder of Carbon Washington, which in 2016 placed the first-ever carbon tax measure on the ballot in the United States. He also co-founded an organisation in Utah called Clean the Darn Air that aims to put clean-air-and-climate measures on ballot in that state.

He has a BA in mathematics from Reed College and a PhD in economics from the University of Washington, 2003. His goals in life are to spread joy to the world through economics comedy; to reform economics education; and to implement carbon pricing.

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his group will focus on reading key Moral and Political philosophical texts. This year we are reading Hegel's Philosophy of Right published in 1821. This work has been described by Stephen Houlgate as 'one of the greatest works of social and political philosophy ever written.' The book traces the true realization of freedom and free will via Hegel's immanent process of dialectics. Arguably, this book is still pertinent and relevant for our times: not only does it acknowledge that freedom can be enhanced by economic opportunities, but, moreover, it recognizes that unregulated capitalism is a cause of alienation, inequality and poverty.

Everybody welcome! Please contact Andrew Paull for further information.