Events

This is an archival page for the series of online lectures that GCRI hosted during 2012-2013. See also our events page.

The October 2013 post Online Lecture Reflections And Plans discusses GCRI’s generally positive experience with the online lectures.

The Lectures:

25 Sept 2013, 17:00 GMT: Tony Milligan, Virtue, Risk and Space Colonization. Pre-Lecture Announcement * Post-Lecture Summary

18 Sept 2013, 17:00 GMT: Grant Wilson, Murky Waters: Ambiguous International Law for Ocean Fertilization and Other Geoengineering. Pre-Lecture Announcement * Post-Lecture Summary

22 Aug 2013, 16:00 GMT: Dave Denkenberger, Feeding Everyone: Solving the Food Crisis in Event of Global Catastrophes that Kill the Sun or Crops. Pre-Lecture Announcement (private; no summary available)

15 Aug 2013, 16:00 GMT: Nick Beckstead, On The Overwhelming Importance Of Shaping The Far Future. Pre-Lecture Announcement * Post-Lecture Summary
28 Aug 2013, 15:00 GMT Reprise Pre-Lecture Announcement * Audio Recording

1 Aug 2013, 17:00 GMT (RESCHEDULED FROM 11 July 17:00 GMT): Tim Maher, Ambient Intelligence: Implications for Global Environmental Change and Totalitarianism Risk. With discussants Maurits Kaptein and Arden Rowell. Announcement About The Rescheduling * Original Pre-Lecture Announcement * Post-Lecture Summary

25 July 2013, 17:00 GMT: Miles Brundage, A Social Science Perspective on Global Catastrophic Risk Debates: The Case of Artificial General Intelligence. Pre-Lecture Announcement * Post-Lecture Summary

25-26 June 2013, 0:00 GMT: Itsuki Handoh, Phosphorus and Chemical Pollution as Global Catastrophic Risks. Pre-Lecture Announcement * Post-Lecture Summary

19 June 2013, 18:00 GMT: Eric Talbot Jensen, The Future Of The Law Of Armed Conflict: Ostriches, Butterflies, And Nanobots. Pre-Lecture Announcement * Post-Lecture Summary

11 June 2013, 17:00 GMT: Catherine Rhodes, Sovereign Wrongs: Ethics in the Governance of Pathogenic Genetic Resources. Pre-Lecture Announcement * Post-Lecture Summary

16 May 2013: Aladdin Diakun, Towards the Effective Governance of Geoengineering: What Role for Intellectual Property? Post-Lecture Summary

17 January 2013: Robert Lee, asteroids risk (private; no summary available)

26 November 2012: Katherine Thompson, What We Think About When We Think About Probability: How Our Experience Affects the Way We Perceive the Risk of Rare Events. Post-Lecture Summary

24 October 2012: Wei Luo, Geo-Social Visual Analytics with Applications to Catastrophic Risk Management. Post-Lecture Summary