{"670525":{"#nid":"670525","#data":{"type":"event","title":"BBC Reith Lectures 2023 \u2013 Our Democratic Future: \u0022The Future of Prosperity\u0022","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis year\u0027s BBC Radio 4 Reith lecturer is Ben Ansell, professor of comparative democratic institutions at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. His four lectures, titled \u0022Our Democratic Future,\u0022 will consider how to build political systems that work for all and are robust enough to face the wide-ranging challenges of the 21st century,\u0026nbsp;from climate change to artificial intelligence. The Reith Lectures build on Professor Ansell\u0027s recent book, \u0022Why Politics Fails,\u0022 which identifies a series of traps that prevent us from attaining our collective goals and presents solutions to help us overcome those traps.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe four lectures in \u0022Our Democratic Future\u0022 each focus on a specific goal: democracy, security, solidarity, and prosperity. Each lecture starts by asking where we are now and how we are faring today in achieving these ambitions. Next, each lecture looks at where we are going. What are the likely future challenges that we face? Finally, the lectures end by asking what we can do to accomplish our collective goals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this final lecture, recorded at Georgia Tech, called \u0022The Future of Prosperity,\u0022 Professor Ansell engages with a crucial question: can we continue to grow our economies without despoiling the earth? Focusing on the existential threats created by our own innovation \u2013 from climate change to out-of-control artificial intelligence \u2013 the lecture asks whether our politics is up to the task of supporting sustainable growth. It concludes by showing that the political lessons of past technological revolutions provide important lessons for today\u0027s challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAdmission is by invitation only. Numbers are limited, so RSVP to the BBC at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ReithLecturesRSVP@bbc.co.uk\u0022 target=\u0022_new\u0022\u003EReithLecturesRSVP@bbc.co.uk\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFeaturing Ben Ansell, professor of comparative democratic institutions at Nuffield College, Oxford University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Featuring Ben Ansell, professor of comparative democratic institutions at Nuffield College, Oxford University."}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2023-10-19 19:32:22","changed_gmt":"2023-10-19 19:41:28","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2023-11-28T18:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2023-11-28T20:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2023-11-28T20:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2023-11-28 23:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2023-11-29 01:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2023-11-29 01:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"The Historic Academy of Medicine, 875 W Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30309","extras":[],"hg_media":{"672105":{"id":"672105","type":"image","title":"reith lecturers.png","body":"\u003Cp\u003EBen Ansell, professor of comparative democratic institutions at Nuffield College, Oxford University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1697744213","gmt_created":"2023-10-19 19:36:53","changed":"1697749554","gmt_changed":"2023-10-19 21:05:54","alt":"Professor Ben Ansell","file":{"fid":"255292","name":"reith lecturers.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/19\/reith%20lecturers.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/10\/19\/reith%20lecturers.png","mime":"image\/png","size":980661,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/10\/19\/reith%20lecturers.png?itok=7VJjiZiS"}}},"media_ids":["672105"],"related_links":[{"url":"mailto:ReithLecturesRSVP@bbc.co.uk","title":"RSVP via email"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/articles\/5sPfPYCxr6C999L5bDwrdkb\/bbc-reith-lectures-2023-our-democratic-future","title":"The Reith Lectures Website"}],"groups":[{"id":"1285","name":"Sam Nunn School of International Affairs"},{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBrenda Brown\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nbrenda.brown@bbc.co.uk\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}