November-December 2013 Newsletter

Dear friends, GCRI is actively shifting its focus towards activities related to our four GCR synthesis research topics: integrated assessment, interaction effects, research priorities, and response options. Some other activities, including online lectures, will pause...

Online Lecture Reflections and Plans

This past May, we kicked off a series of online lectures with Aladdin Diakun’s Towards the Effective Governance of Geoengineering: What Role for Intellectual Property?. Since then, we have held 11 different lectures, including a reprise lecture, on diverse...

Tony Milligan Gives Lecture on Virtue Ethics

On Wednesday 25 September, GCRI hosted an online lecture by Tony Milligan entitled ‘Virtue, Risk and Space Colonization’. Milligan is a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Hertfordshire. Discussions of the ethics of risk and space colonization...

Beckstead Reprise Lecture Audio Online

The mp3 audio file for Nick Beckstead’s reprise lecture is now online here. The reprise lecture was held 28 Aug 2013, titled On The Overwhelming Importance Of Shaping The Far Future. An online summary for the original lecture is already online here. The audio...

GCRI Welcomes Research Associate Caroline Zaw-Mon

We’re pleased to announce our newest affiliate, Research Associate Caroline Zaw-Mon. Here’s his bio from the GCRI People page. Caroline is a Risk Project Manager at the University of Denver. Caroline holds an M.A. in International Studies from the Josef Korbel School...