Wednesday 11 February 2015

• 16:15 - History of niche evolution drives patterns of lineage diversity in tropical tree communities
  Dr Kyle Dexter (Lecturer, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 13 February 2015

• 16:15 - Protecting elephants, biodiversity, livelihoods & people through community empowerment in Mali
  Susan Canney (Research Associate, Dept of Zoology, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 20 February 2015

• 16:15 - Measuring levels of forest dependence: a key data precursor for REDD+ and Alternative Livelihoods projects
  Gill Shepherd (Visiting Senior Fellow, International Development Department, LSE/Special Adviser Ecosystems, Commission for Ecosystem Management, IUCN)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 25 February 2015

• 17:00 - Paris and Beyond Series - Seminar 6
  Prof. Cameron Hepburn
  Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

Thursday 26 February 2015

• 16:15 - Ecological consequences of tropical forest fragmentation
  Prof. Jane Hill (Department of Biology, University of York)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 2 March 2015

• 17:00 - The Urbanising Water World in Africa
  Dr Samuel Godfrey (Chief of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), UNICEF Ethiopia)
  Oxford Water Network

Wednesday 4 March 2015

• 17:00 - Paris and Beyond Series - Seminar 7
  Prof. Doyne Farmer
  Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
• 17:00 - Paris and Beyond Series - Seminar 7
  Prof. Doyne Farmer
  Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

Friday 6 March 2015

• 14:00 - Oxford Environment and Enterprise Forum
  TBA
  Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
• 16:15 - Converting the Global Palm Oil Market to Sustainability Ð potential and limits of private sector driven sustainability standards
  Dr Reinier de Man (Consultant, Leiden, The Netherlands)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 11 March 2015

• 15:00 - Webinar: Carbon Disclosure and the Cost of Debt - in partnership with the European Centre for Corporate Engagement
  Dr Michael Viehs, Dr Stephanie Kleimeir
  Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
• 17:00 - Paris and Beyond Series - Seminar 8
  Dr Artur Runge-Metzger (Head of Unit, DG Environment of the European Commission.)
  Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

Thursday 12 March 2015

• 17:00 - Considering the human right to water in the context of transboundary river basins
  Dr Christina Leb (Senior Water Resources Specialist, World Bank)
  Oxford Water Network
• 17:00 - Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
  Dr Gernot Wagner
  Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment

Friday 10 April 2015

• 16:15 - Wildfire and tree population dynamics in the boreal forest of North America
  Edward A Johnson (University of Calgary)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 24 April 2015

• 16:15 - Naturalists In Paradise (talk followed by drinks and book signing)
  John Hemming (Author and explorer)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 1 May 2015

• 16:15 - Assessing the importance of termites in global ecosystem processes and services
  Dr Paul Eggleton (Natural History Museum)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 5 May 2015

• 15:00 - Technocracies of care: facts and values in the practice of medical humanitarian emergency
  Darryl Stellmach (University of Oxford)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise

Friday 8 May 2015

• 16:15 - Future of Production Forests and Forestry in the Tropics
  Professor Francis E (Jack) Putz (University of Florida)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 12 May 2015

• 15:00 - The ethos of science advice
  Professor Arthur Petersen (University College London)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise

Wednesday 13 May 2015

• 13:00 - Elephant Research Afternoon
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Thursday 14 May 2015

• 11:00 - ‘Climate as a driver of tundra shrub expansion’
  TBA
  Environmental Change Institute
• 17:30 - Benefits of Integrated Planning and Modelling
  Ed Byers (Environmental Change Institute), Adam Cambridge (Atkins)
  Oxford Water Network

Friday 15 May 2015

• 16:15 - Biodiversity, People and Policy
  Dr Robert Bloomfield (bioDiverse.org)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 18 May 2015

• 17:00 - Inside climate negotiations: a personal perspective
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Tuesday 19 May 2015

• 15:00 - The politics of advisory expertise: chief scientific advisers in UK Government, 1990-2010
  Dr James Palmer (University of Oxford)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise
• 16:15 - Linking roots to regions: how root functions alter ecological, hydrological and biogeochemical processes
  Professor Todd Dawson (University of California)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 20 May 2015

• 12:30 - Gendered Mobility and Life-­‐Course Pathways in Palestine
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Friday 22 May 2015

• 10:00 - Peace-scapes: exploring Landscapes of Peace and Peacebulding
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Tuesday 26 May 2015

• 15:00 - Different knowledge regimes and some consequences for sustainability
  Professor Signe Howell (University of Oslo)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise

Friday 29 May 2015

• 16:15 - Amazon: Forests, Floods and Food security
  Dr Luke Parry (Lancaster University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 1 June 2015

• 13:30 - GOTO Thirsty Multinationals Corporate Water Risk and Return
  Dr Alex Money (University of Oxford), Laurent Bellet (EDF Group), Piet Klop (PGGM), Cate Lamb (Carbon Disclosure Project), Alexandre Le Vernoy (SABMIller plc), Conor Linstead (WWF-UK), Felix Ockborn (Bergans of Norway)
  GOTO (Global Opportunities and Threats: Oxford)
• 13:30 - GOTO - Thirsty Multinationals: Corporate Water Risk and Return
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Tuesday 2 June 2015

• 15:00 - Gender, Knowledge and Discourses of Environmental Risk
  Professor Karen Henwood (University of Cardiff), Professor Nick Pidgeon (University of Cardiff)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise
• 15:00 - Gender, Knowledge and Discourses of Environmental Risk
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:00 - Concentrated Solar Power and Thermal Energy Storage (Part of the Energy Colloquium series)
  Nick Jelley
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 3 June 2015

• 16:00 - Natural capital – how to protect and enhance the natural environment
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 16:00 - Natural capital – how to protect and enhance the natural environment
  Prof. Dieter Helm (University of Oxford)
  Biodiversity Institute talks
• 18:00 - The Societalization of Social Problems: Recent Social Crises and the Civil Sphere
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Friday 5 June 2015

• 10:15 - The Anthropocene Project at the Tate Modern
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 16:15 - Bushmeat crisis in the Congo Basin: more than a conservation crisis
  Robert Nasi (CIFOR)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:00 - The Oxford Energy Innovation Weekend - Fuel Poverty Hackathon
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Energy Events
• 17:00 - The Oxford Energy Innovation Weekend - Fuel Poverty Hackathon
  TBA
  Environmental Change Institute

Monday 8 June 2015

• 11:00 - ‘Hydrology, Remote Sensing and Data Analytics for Infrastructure – Case Studies from South East Asia’
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Environmental Change Institute
• 11:00 - Hydrology, Remote Sensing and Data Analytics for Infrastructure – Case Studies from South East Asia
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 11:00 - Hydrology, Remote Sensing and Data Analytics for Infrastructure – Case Studies from South East Asia
  Dr James Lau (Imperial College London, University of Exeter)
  Oxford Water Network
• 16:00 - India's Sustainable Development: the Role of the Private Sector
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 16:00 - India's Sustainable Development: the Role of the Private Sector
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 16:00 - India's Sustainable Development: the Role of the Private Sector
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Tuesday 9 June 2015

• 15:00 - Thinking about expertise differently: GM risk assessment as an ecology of regulatory knowledge
  Dr David Demortain (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise

Wednesday 10 June 2015

• 17:00 - Natural capital - sustaining economic growth
  TBA
  General Talks

Thursday 11 June 2015

• 10:00 - Towards New Farming and Food Systems: Sustainable Intensification and Food Democracy
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Friday 12 June 2015

• 17:00 - The Anthropocene and the Rupture of Climate Change
  Clive Hamilton (Charles Sturt University, Canberra)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Saturday 13 June 2015

• 09:00 - Low Carbon Week
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Monday 15 June 2015

• 12:00 - What’s going on in the climate talks? UNFCCC Debrief Session
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:00 - Deadlines: Weds 17th June 2015 to attend COP21 Paris. Mon 15th June for Side Events and Exhibits
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Tuesday 16 June 2015

• 17:00 - The challenges and opportunities offered by renewables for Utility companies
  Catherine Bremner (Global Head of Environmental Sustainability at ANZ)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Thursday 18 June 2015

• 09:30 - Successes and failures
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Friday 19 June 2015

• 09:30 - Strategies in comparison
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 14:00 - Time(s) of changes
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Monday 22 June 2015

• 09:00 - Oxford Summer School in Ecological Economics 2015
  Registration is open at: http://environmenteurope.org/education/5 for school - 30 August - 5 September
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 16:00 - Mass Transit Needs Mass: Urban Density Thresholds for Cost-Effective Fixed-Guideway Investments
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Tuesday 23 June 2015

• 16:00 - Weighing trees with lasers: new 3D measurements and models of tropical forests
  Dr Mathias Disney (UCL)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 24 June 2015

• 13:00 - Small farmers from India and Malawi: climate change, fair trade
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 13:00 - Small farmers from India and Malawi: climate change, fair trade
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Sunday 28 June 2015

• 09:00 - The Water, Food and Energy Nexus: the 5th Oxford Water and Membranes Research Event
  TBA
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 2 July 2015

• 09:00 - Infrastructure Investment in Emerging Markets and Developing Economies - Systems Thinking for New Institutions and Global Challenges
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 15:00 - Who Is Responsible for Climate Change?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Wednesday 29 July 2015

• 16:00 - Savannas of Asia: biogeography, history and current day ecology
  Jayashree Ratnam (National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 8 September 2015

• 09:30 - Drought Risk and Decision Making
  TBA
  Oxford Water Network

Wednesday 16 September 2015

• 17:00 - The Wind in the Bamboo: Indigenous People Historically defined as “Negrito” Survive in Asia
  Edith Mirante
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 24 September 2015

• 09:00 - 1st Global Conference on Stranded Assets and the Environment
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Thursday 1 October 2015

• 09:00 - Title TBC
  TBA
  Biodiversity Network Seminars, Michaelmas Term 2015

Monday 5 October 2015

• 09:30 - 4th Oxford Energy Conference: Integrating Renewables
  TBA
  Environmental Change Institute

Tuesday 6 October 2015

• 17:00 - Are Emerging Markets Still Developing? And What is Development Anyway?
  Professor Jayati Ghosh (School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India)
  ONE

Wednesday 7 October 2015

• 13:00 - Urban morphology and climate change: Isobenefit Urbanism evolutions for future human habitats
  Luca D'Acci (Coodinator of Urban Environment and Climate Change at IHS in Erasmus University of Rotterdam)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 19:30 - Alok Jha & The extraordinary story of water, our most ordinary substance
  Alok Jha (Science correspondent for ITV News)
  ONE

Thursday 8 October 2015

• 17:30 - Launch event of new report from the University of Oxford's Project for Protected Area Resilience
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 18:00 - Jim Baggot on Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation
  Jim Baggot
  ONE

Monday 12 October 2015

• 17:00 - What happens to land and property rights in the Anthropocene - winners & losers?
  Camilla Toulmin
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:30 - Annual Oxford Global Justice Lecture: State Immunity and Human Rights
  Judge Sir Christopher Greenwood KCMG QC (International Court of Justice)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Tuesday 13 October 2015

• 15:00 - Technocratic utopianism in American policy in the interwar period and today
  Dr Tiago Mata (University College London)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise
• 17:00 - Water risks and insecurity
  Professor David Grey (University of Oxford)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:00 - Feeding the World: Why Malthus is Still Wrong
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Elaine Graham-Leigh
  ONE
• 17:30 - Estate: A Reverie
  TBA
  Future of Cities Film Series

Wednesday 14 October 2015

• 17:00 - Climate change: did journalism fail?
  Alan Rusbridger (University of Oxford)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Thursday 15 October 2015

• 10:00 - Controlling Environments Workshop
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:00 - Demographic change – the evolving health challenges
  Prof Sarah Harper (Director of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing), Professor Robyn Norton (Co-Director of The George Institute for Global Health)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:00 - Anthropocenic Geosociality: the geopolitics of volcanoes
  Gísli Pálsson
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:00 - Demographic change – the evolving health challenges
  Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford), Professor Robyn Norton (Co-Director of The George Institute for Global Health)
  Ideas Into Action: 10 years of ground-breaking research
• 19:00 - OBU Documentary Club: Chasing Ice
  James Balog
  ONE
• 19:30 - Oil Justice Now! Stop Corporate Impunity
  Please note the event starts at 7.30pm
  Various Speakers
  ONE

Friday 16 October 2015

• 10:30 - Carbon Innovation Programme Launch Event
  Various Speakers
  Environmental Change Institute
• 12:00 - Microbial Sulfur Cycling & The Impacts of Depositional Environment on δ34S Records: Rethinking Stratigraphic Trends and Biogeochemical Interpretations
  Prof David Fike (Washington University)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:00 - Global to Local: Practicing Change and Changing Practice
  Dr Nick Brown (Principal, Linacre College), Nicky Chambers (Strategy Advisor, Anthesis), Professor Jim Hall (Director, Environmental Change Institute), Barbara Hammond (CEO Low Carbon Hub), Nick Mottram (Environmental Strategy Officer, Oxfordshire County Council), Dr Benito Mueller (Oxford Climate Policy)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Monday 19 October 2015

• 15:00 - Tales from the Territory: Fires, storms, land use change and north Australian savanna
  Prof Lindsay Hutley (Charles Darwin University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:00 - Why are we waiting? The logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change
  Nicholas Stern (I. G. Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, Member of the Oxford Martin School Advisory Council; President of the British Academy, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, and former Chief Economist at the World Bank.)
  Environmental Change Institute
• 17:00 - Why are we waiting? The logic, urgency, and promise of tackling climate change
  Nicholas Stern (I. G. Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics, Member of the Oxford Martin School Advisory Council; President of the British Academy, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, and former Chief Economist at the World Bank.)
• 19:30 - Andrew Ritchie MBE, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle
  Andrew Ritchie MBE (Inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle)
  ONE

Tuesday 20 October 2015

• 14:30 - Exclusion & Inclusion in Contemporary Oxford
  Danny Dorling (Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, Oxford University )
  Future of Cities
• 15:00 - A second opinion on second opinions. From Mambila divination to the world
  Professor David Zeitlyn (University of Oxford)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise
• 16:00 - Decolonising urban imaginaries: Land justice, memory-work and care in wounded cities
  Dr Karen Till (National University of Ireland Maynooth)
  Transformations and Technological Natures Seminars
• 17:00 - Mobility of the Future
  Gernot Spiegelberg (Siemens)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 21 October 2015

• 13:00 - Can our future energy needs be met sustainably?
  Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith (University of Oxford), Prof Malcolm McCulloch (Head of the University of Oxford’s Electrical Power Group and Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy)
  NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers
• 17:00 - A new economics for the Anthropocene
  Professor Giorgos Kallis
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:30 - Does cultural diversity boost innovation?
  Professor Jacques Poot (Professor of Population Economics at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Thursday 22 October 2015

• 17:00 - Powering the world: can solar energy tackle climate change?
  Prof Malcolm McCulloch (Head of the University of Oxford’s Electrical Power Group and Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy), Prof Henry Snaith (Co-Director of the Programme on Solar Energy: Organic Photovoltaics)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:00 - Powering the world: can solar energy tackle climate change?
  Prof Malcolm McCulloch (Head of the University of Oxford’s Electrical Power Group and Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy), Prof Henry Snaith (Co-Director of the Programme on Solar Energy: Organic Photovoltaics)
  Ideas Into Action: 10 years of ground-breaking research
• 17:00 - Powering the world: can solar energy tackle climate change?
  Prof Malcolm McCulloch (University of Oxford), Prof Henry Snaith (Co-Director of the Programme on Solar Energy)
  ONE

Friday 23 October 2015

• 12:00 - Understanding sulfur isotopes in modern and ancient marine sediments: From the microbial to the global scale
  Prof Itay Halevy (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 13:00 - Muddied Waters: The World Bank and transboundary water governance in the Ganges-Brahmaputra problemshed
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Monday 26 October 2015

• 12:00 - The migrant and refugee crisis - A panel discussion on responses and solutions
  Professor Ian Goldin ( Director, Oxford Martin School)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 16:00 - The Imperative of a Global Climate Deal
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Christiana Figueres (Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) )
  ONE

Tuesday 27 October 2015

• 15:00 - Expert advice and environmental policy: the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution 1970-2011
  Professor Susan Owens (University of Cambridge)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise
• 17:00 - Do the Right Thing
  TBA
  Future of Cities Film Series
• 17:00 - What’s wrong with UK energy policy and how to fix it
  Prof. Dieter Helm (University of Oxford)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:00 - Can Resource Prosperity be Shared?
  Dr Rob Hope (University of Oxford), Richard Morgan (AngloAmerican), Ed O'Keefe (Synergy Global Consulting), Ross Hamilton (International Council on Mining and Metals)
• 17:00 - Can Resource Prosperity be Shared?
  Various (See programme)
  ONE

Wednesday 28 October 2015

• 09:00 - Data Analysis in Ecology: Statistics for Field Biologists and Ecologists
  Various Speakers
  Continuing Education Courses
• 09:30 - An Introduction to Small Area Statistics and Geodemographic Segmentation
  Guy Lansley
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 13:00 - The changing face of social protection in Africa’s cities
  Oliver Bakewell (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series

Thursday 29 October 2015

• 17:00 - Facing the unknown: the future of humanity
  Professor Nick Bostrom (Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School)
  Ideas Into Action: 10 years of ground-breaking research
• 18:30 - Behaviour change from the inside out: Psychosocial approaches to sustainability, energy and climate change
  Dr Renee Lertzman (Anglia Ruskin University), Dr Rosie Robison (Anglia Ruskin University)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Friday 30 October 2015

• 12:00 - Geological cycles and a two-stage history of the Continental Crust
  Prof chris Hawkesworth (University of Bristol)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 17:00 - Carbon Innovation Programme Event
  Networking Event
  Environmental Change Institute

Saturday 31 October 2015

• 12:00 - China’s Embedded Activism: Conflict, Civic action and Environment in a Semi-Authoritarian Context
  Peter Ho (Chair Professor of Chinese Economy and Development and Director of the European Research Council (ERC) Project on Land Policy and Administration in China)
  ONE

Monday 2 November 2015

• 09:00 - TOSCA Map event in Oxford
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 09:00 - Introduction to Multivariate Ecological Statistics
  Various Speakers
  Continuing Education Courses
• 17:00 - Replacing Plastics as a Solution for a Healthier Planet
  Paulo Antonio Pereira (MHG), Dr Isao Noda (MHG Bio)
• 17:00 - 'European Climate Leadership and COP21: Assessing EU Relations With China And India'
  Dr Diarmuid Torney (Dublin City University), Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Dr Hartmut Mayer (St Peter's College, Oxford)
  ONE

Tuesday 3 November 2015

• 14:30 - Racialized citizens, security and the paradox of exclusion and inclusion
  Alpa Parmar (Departmental Lecturer in Criminology, Oxford University )
  Future of Cities
• 15:00 - Foresight, failure and the politics of risk-based flood management in Europe
  Professor David Demeritt (King's College London)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise
• 16:00 - Minorities getting in and getting on? Segmented labour geographies of employability, skill development and (im)mobility in India's New Service Economy
  Dr Al James (Queen Mary University of London)
  Transformations and Technological Natures Seminars
• 17:00 - EU climate policy – where are we headed?
  Dr Jos Delbeke ( Director-General of DG CLIMA)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:00 - EU climate policy – where are we headed?
  Dr Jos Delbeke (Directorate-General for Climate Action)
• 17:00 - Integrating Renewables - Challenges and Opportunities?
  Prof Malcolm McCulloch (Head of the University of Oxford’s Electrical Power Group and Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy), Dr Nick Eyre (Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 4 November 2015

• 13:00 - Future energy systems
  Prof Malcolm McCulloch (Head of the University of Oxford’s Electrical Power Group and Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy)
  NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers
• 16:00 - Sharing the results of six years of the Sky Rainforest Rescue Project in Acre state, Brazil
  Sarah Hutchinson (WWF-UK)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:00 - We do not want to become refugees’: Human mobility in the age of climate change | Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture
  Professor Walter Kälin (Envoy of the Chairmanship of the Nansen Initiative, and Professor of Constitutional and International Law, University of Bern)
  ONE

Thursday 5 November 2015

• 17:00 - Mind the gap: inequality and its impacts
  Professor Brian Nolan (Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School), Professor John Muellbauer (Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School)
  Ideas Into Action: 10 years of ground-breaking research
• 17:15 - What is systems thinking and how might we use it to confront the ‘wicked problem(s) of food?’
  Dr Harley Pope (Reading University)
  ONE

Friday 6 November 2015

• 12:00 - Precursors and properties of small earthquakes in California
  Jessica Hawthorne (University of Leeds)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 14:00 - Discussion to Launch the State of the World’s Volunteerism Report 2015 – Transforming Governance
  Various Speakers
  ONE
• 16:15 - Deciphering Richard Spruce’s legacy: people and plants in the Brazilian Amazon
  Dr William Milliken (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Sunday 8 November 2015

• 16:30 - A conjunction of crises – the challenges of managing human impacts on the ocean
  Alan Simcock (Joint coordinator of the United Nations’ Group of Experts of the Regular Process for the Assessment of the State of the World’s Oceans)
  ONE

Monday 9 November 2015

• 17:00 - Cartography and Cultural Revolution: Maps, Modernity and the New Soviet Man
  Nick Baron (Nottingham)
  Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre Seminar
• 17:00 - Making policies and markets benefit forest communities: participatory forest management in Ethopia
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Mulugeta Lemenih (Farm Africa)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 10 November 2015

• 11:00 - Mokoro seminar on New Research on Women’s Land Rights
  Helen Dancer (University of Brighton), Kristina Lanz (University of Berne)
  ONE
• 12:00 - Roundtable on coal-to-liquids, coal-to-gas, and underground coal gasification
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 12:30 - Exchanging Natural Objects: The Performance of Nature in Edwardian Natural History and Photography
  Damian Hughes (De Montfort)
  The Photography Seminar
• 15:00 - Civil engineering expertise and the provision of public infrastructures: challenges of partial translation between social regimes of fact making
  Professor Penny Harvey (University of Manchester)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise
• 15:30 - Saturating the Desert: The Management of Rising Groundwater Levels in the Eastern Alluvium Aquifer of Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia
  Professor Gamal Abdo (Director of the Water Research Centre at the University of Khartoum)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 16:00 - Incongruent migration categorisations and competing citizenship claims: 'Return' and hypermigration in transnational migration circuits
  Dr Elaine Ho (National University of Singapore)
  Transformations and Technological Natures Seminars
• 16:00 - Shaping Britain's Road Network (Experiences of a planner in DfT)
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Eike Ndiweni-Muller (Department for Transport)
  Planning Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Behind the headlines: investigating the drivers and impacts of global migration
  Hein de Haas (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - The Energy Future - Disruption and Data
  Paul Massara (Senior Energy Executive)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:30 - Of time and the city
  TBA
  Future of Cities Film Series

Wednesday 11 November 2015

• 17:00 - 4th Trapnell Lecture: Revisiting the Green Sahara
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Jessica Tierney (University of Arizona)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Thursday 12 November 2015

• 17:00 - Understanding emerging infections
  Professor Angela McLean (Institute for Emerging Infections, Oxford Martin School)
  Ideas Into Action: 10 years of ground-breaking research

Friday 13 November 2015

• 12:00 - Exploration of the Deep Hydrosphere and Subsurface Life in the Precambrian Continents’
  Prof Barbara Sherwood-Lollar (Univeristy of Toronto)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:15 - Spatiotemporal analytics for regional low-carbon development: linking LCA and GIS to assess GHG from cocoa farming and deforestation in Peru
  Giancarlo Raschio (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:00 - Oxford Climate Forum
  Various (See programme)
  ONE

Monday 16 November 2015

• 16:15 - Agricultural Land-use Dynamics in Kenya: Institutional, Biophysical, and Socio-Economic Drivers
  Mike Norton-Griffiths (World Agroforestry Centre)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 17 November 2015

• 14:30 - Black Atlantis
  Ayesha Hameed (Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Goldsmith, University of London)
  Future of Cities
• 15:00 - Science advice in the EU - the politics of expertise between europeanisation and transnationalisation
  Dr Maria Weimer (University of Amsterdam)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise
• 17:00 - The Impact of Renewables
  Dr Phil Hare (Pöyry Management Consulting )
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:30 - The Superficial Nature of Maps: Digital Mediation and Cartographic Interpretation
  Prof Jerry Brotton (Queen Mary University of London), Adam Lowe (The Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Conservation)
  ONE
• 19:30 - If you build it, will they come?
  Carlton Reid (author of Roads Were Not Built for Cars)
  ONE

Wednesday 18 November 2015

• 13:00 - Unpacking energy demand: what it is and how it changes
  Dr Sarah Darby (Senior Researcher and deputy leader, Lower Carbon Futures group, University of Oxford)
  NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers

Thursday 19 November 2015

• 12:00 - Crustal-scale degassing and igneous mush re-organisation: a generic concept applied to episodic volcanism at the Soufrière Hills Volcano Montserrat
  Prof Stephen Sparks (University of Bristol)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 17:00 - Creating the perfect human? The ethics of enhancement
  Professor Julian Savulescu (Institute for Science and Ethics, Oxford Martin School)
  Ideas Into Action: 10 years of ground-breaking research
• 17:15 - Who or what is involved in the food system and what are they doing?
  Dr Barbara Haesler (Royal Veterinary College and LCIRAH)
  ONE

Friday 20 November 2015

• 16:15 - The biodiversity value of degraded tropical forests
  Dr David Edwards (University of Sheffield)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 19:30 - Global trends to 2030: Can the EU meet the challenges ahead?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  James Elles (former MEP and Honorary President of ESPAS), Anthony Teasdale (Director General of the European Parliamentary Research Service), David Blackman (Chairman of the Oxford Region Branch of the European Movement)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 20:00 - Syria Fundraiser for Jusoor
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment

Saturday 21 November 2015

• 09:40 - Combat Climate Change because we CAN CAN CAN!
  Various Speakers
  ONE
• 10:00 - How to Read Geological Maps
  Professor Paul Smith (Director and Geologist)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Monday 23 November 2015

• 16:30 - Debate: This House Believes Time and Space are the Enemies of Business Sustainability
  Leo Johnson (Author), Peter Lacy (Global MD, Accenture), J. B. Bentham (Scenarios Leader, Shell), Jamie Butterworth (Partner, Circularity Capital), Emma Howard Boyd (Deputy Chair, Environment Agency)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:00 - The Oxford Martin School 10th Anniversary Lecture - Will technology's dark side eclipse humanity's bright future?
  Martin Rees, Lord Rees of Ludlow (University of Cambridge)
• 19:00 - Land, Democracy and the Economy
  Andy Wightman (Scottish Green Party )
  ONE

Tuesday 24 November 2015

• 15:00 - Ecosystems of expertise: design elements for robust science advice
  Dr Justus Lentsch (Goethe University)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise
• 16:00 - Heathrow, power stations, HS2: national infrastructure in the Osborne/Adonis era
  Tim Marshall (School of the Built Environment, Oxford Brookes University )
  Planning Seminar Series
• 17:00 - The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research: New Paradigms for Next Generation Energy Storage
  Professor George Crabtree (University of Illinois)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:30 - Ekumenopolis: City without limits
  TBA
  Future of Cities Film Series

Wednesday 25 November 2015

• 10:00 - Strategic Environmental Assessment and Sustainability Appraisal
  Various (See programme), Riki Therivel (visiting professor at Oxford Brookes University’s Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment, and a partner of Levett-Therivel sustainability consultants)
  ONE
• 17:00 - Natural capital - sustaining economic growth
  Professor Dieter Helm, CBE (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Natural capital - sustaining economic growth
  Professor Dieter Helm, CBE (University of Oxford)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:30 - Radical Requiems: The return of the past in British agriculture
  Professor Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity University )
  ONE
• 19:00 - An Atlas of Countries That Don't Exist
  Nick Middleton (Supernumerary Fellow in Physical Geography at St Anne's College)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Thursday 26 November 2015

• 16:30 - Cartography of the Anthropocene: the World as you’ve never seen it before
  Dr Benjamin D. Hennig (Researcher, Member of the Transformations: Economy, Society and Place research cluster)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:00 - Prevent and protect: vaccines and immune responses
  Prof Adrian Hill (Jenner Institute, University of Oxford)
  Ideas Into Action: 10 years of ground-breaking research
• 17:00 - Climate Change and the Law
  Lord Carnworth (Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)
  ONE

Friday 27 November 2015

• 12:00 - How seismic waves can be used to constrain landslide dynamics and rheology’
  Prof Anne Mangenay (Institut de Physique du globe de Partis )
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:15 - The potential for Natural Climate Solutions to address climate change
  Justin Adams (The Nature Conservancy)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 30 November 2015

• 16:15 - Using Maps to Contest Power: The Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) Group’s efforts to create tools to support a third space beyond ‘development’
  Jerome Lewis (University College London)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 1 December 2015

• 14:00 - Research Skills Toolkit
  Various Speakers
  ONE
• 14:30 - Neighbourhood Place- identities through Urban Design
  Georgia Butina Watson (Head of the Department of Planning, Oxford Brookes University)
  Future of Cities
• 15:00 - Is ‘effective altruism’ actually effective?
  Dr Linsey McGoey (University of Essex)
  InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise
• 16:00 - On the waterfront: experimentation, innovation and speculation in the financing of urban infrastructure
  Prof Kevin Ward (University of Manchester)
  Transformations and Technological Natures Seminars
• 16:00 - Planning strategically in England now
  Catriona Riddell ( Catriona Riddell Associates (former director of planning at South East of England Regional Assembly))
  Planning Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Negative Emissions - Distilling the Hope from the Hype
  Tim Kruger (James Martin Fellow, Oxford Geoengineering Programme)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:30 - Graduate Research Seminar
  Various (See programme)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:45 - Carbon's Den
  Various Speakers
  Environmental Change Institute

Wednesday 2 December 2015

• 13:00 - Challenges of decarbonising the UK energy system
  Juliet Davenport (CEO and Founder, Good Energy)
  NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers
• 13:00 - Modes of enfleshment: Refiguring the cyclist as a body of work
  Anna Davidson (TSU - SOGE - Oxford)
  Transport Studies Unit (TSU) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 16:30 - Speedy Sandscapes: TED-style talks
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Various (See programme)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 16:30 - Speedy Sandscapes
  Various (See programme)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Thursday 3 December 2015

• 17:00 - Climate prediction in the 2020s
  Professor Tim Palmer (Programme on Modelling and Predicting Climate, Oxford Martin School)
  Ideas Into Action: 10 years of ground-breaking research
• 17:00 - Explorations in Food System Outcomes: food security, the environment and economy
  Dr Rosemary Collier (Warwick University), Dr Kelly Reed ( Warwick University), Professor Mike Rayner ( Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:15 - Explorations in Food System Outcomes: food security, the environment and economy
  Dr Rosemary Collier (Warwick University)
  ONE

Friday 4 December 2015

• 12:00 - The role of the mantle in oceanic transform fault deformation’
  Prof Jessica Warren (University of Delaware)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 7 December 2015

• 21:00 - Film Screening: Warriors
  No Speaker, screening only
  ONE

Tuesday 8 December 2015

• 10:00 - Innovation and Enterprise: Add Impact to your Research
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Various (See programme)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Wednesday 9 December 2015

• 14:00 - Water Security 2015
  TBA
  Oxford Water Network

Friday 11 December 2015

• 12:00 - Making policies and markets benefit forest communities: participatory forest management in Ethiopia
  Dr Mulugeta Lemenih (Farm Africa)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 21 December 2015

• 09:00 - Planning for Climate Change Conference
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Various (See programme)
  ONE

Tuesday 12 January 2016

• 17:00 - Environmental Sustainability, Population and Intergenerational Justice
  Prof. Simon Caney (University of Oxford)
  ONE

Friday 15 January 2016

• 16:00 - The Ecomodernism Debate with Mark Lynas
  Mark Lynas
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 18 January 2016

• 12:00 - COP 21 Debrief
  Various Speakers
  ONE
• 15:30 - Festival of Lost Cities
  Various (See programme)
  ONE

Tuesday 19 January 2016

• 16:00 - Technical Efficiency, Social Deficiency?
  Geoff Vigar (Professor of Urban Planning and Director of Research, Newcastle University), Michael Batty (Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London)
  TSU Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Designing cities with nature in mind
  TBA
  ONE
• 17:00 - Designing cities with nature in mind
  Dr Peter Shepherd (BSG Ecology)
  Grand Challenges Seminar Series
• 17:15 - Doors and Walls - On Boundaries and Democracy - Book Launch in the presence of the author
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Astrid von Busekist (Sciences Po)
  ONE

Thursday 21 January 2016

• 14:00 - Precarious Women Workers in Montreal: The relationship between paid and unpaid labour.
  Dr Carmen Teeple Hopkins (School of Geography and the Environment)
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 17:30 - Energy Businesses in a post-COP21 world
  Juliet Davenport (CEO Good Energy)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Friday 22 January 2016

• 12:00 - Radiocarbon as a carbon cycle tracer in the 21st century
  Dr Heather Graven (Imperial College London)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:15 - Targeting conservation to safeguard tropical biodiversity: insights from Borneo
  Dr Matthew Struebig (University of Kent)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 25 January 2016

• 19:30 - Climate Careers: Climate in the Media
  Alan Rusbridger (University of Oxford)
  Climate Careers

Tuesday 26 January 2016

• 13:00 - Sugar Shift: Toward a Healthier and Fairer Food System
  Dr Ben Richardson (University of Warwick)
  Future of Food Lunchtime Talk Series
• 17:00 - Rethinking hydro-power
  Dr Michael Mason (University of Oxford)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Friday 29 January 2016

• 12:00 - Super volcanoes and their deposits: insights into the dynamics of large magma reservoirs
  TBA
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:30 - Linking the ecology and evolution of the savanna biome
  Dr Caroline Lehmann (University of Edinburgh)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 2 February 2016

• 14:15 - Plankton-climate Interactions
  Roger Cropp (Griffith University)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars
• 17:00 - Geothermal Energy: present and future
  Tony Batchelor (GeoScience Limited)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Thursday 4 February 2016

• 16:45 - The circular economy, responsible business, and careers in sustainability. A conversation with the Business Fellows.
  Peter Lacy (Global MD, Accenture), Andy Wales (Corporate Affairs Director, SABMiller)
  Smith School Business Fellows

Friday 5 February 2016

• 11:30 - NEST energy challenge workshop
  TBA
  NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers
• 12:00 - Ecology, Extinction, and Development: Assessing the drivers of deep-time diversity dynamics with phenomics
  Dr Anjali Goswami (University College London)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:15 - From science to policy: understanding, conserving and restoring the Atlantic forest of Brazil
  Dr Carlos Joly (State University of Campinas/UNICAMP, Brazil)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:00 - Pedalling Innovation: Oxford's First Cycling Hackathon
  Various Speakers
  ONE

Sunday 7 February 2016

• 10:00 - 21 CC Oxford
  Various (See programme)
  ONE

Monday 8 February 2016

• 17:00 - Reducing regional water supply vulnerabilities and multi-city robustness conflicts when confronting a deeply uncertain future
  TBA
  Oxford Water Network
• 18:00 - Big Data, Food Consumption and Food Policy
  Professor Tim Lang (Professor of Food Policy, City University London)
  The 2016 Green Templeton College Lecture Series: Living by numbers: Big data and society

Tuesday 9 February 2016

• 17:00 - The prediction, perception and prevention of natural hazards
  TBA
  Grand Challenges Seminar Series
• 17:00 - National Grid’s Future Energy Scenarios
  Marcus Stewart (National Grid)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Thursday 11 February 2016

• 17:00 - Strategies for change in the food system: news from the front line (Panel Discussion)
  Barbara Gallani (Food and Drinks Federation), Stephen Devlin (New Economics Foundation), Angela Wright (Compassion in World Farming)
  IFSTAL Lecture Series

Friday 12 February 2016

• 12:00 - Using polarities, amplitudes and waveforms of seismic waves to understand mantle structure
  Prof Christine Thomas (University of Muenster)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:15 - Pre-Columbian Amazon-Scale Transformations
  Dr Jose Iriarte (University of Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 16 February 2016

• 13:00 - Al Sulh (Domain of Conciliation): Iraqi-Jewish Cuisin's (Brief) Return to the Middle East
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  DHil Candidate Sophie Chamas (University of Oxford)
  Future of Food Lunchtime Talk Series
• 16:00 - Autonomous Vehicles - Beyond the Hype
  Graham Parkhurst (Director, Centre for Transport and Society, University of the West of England), Paul Newman (Professor, Department of Engineering Science)
  TSU Seminar Series
• 17:00 - How to feed 9 billion people: Exploring the future of sustainable food
  TBA
  Grand Challenges Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Decarbonising Heat
  Dr Nick Eyre (Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 17 February 2016

• 12:00 - Disgust and desire: how to Improve Global WASH
  Dr Val Curtis (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  Oxford Water Network
• 17:00 - Apres Paris: Can the New Climate Agreement Save the World?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Thursday 18 February 2016

• 09:00 - Urban Governance and Its Discontents - Oxford City Debates
  Various (See programme)
  ONE

Friday 19 February 2016

• 12:00 - New insights into climate, carbon cycle and biological dynamics during the Paleocene-Eocene Greenhouse World
  Prof Appy Sluijs (University of Utrecht)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 13:00 - COP21 – Paris – Next Steps Panel Discussion
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Cameron Hepburn, Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Prof Gordon Clark (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)
• 16:15 - Film screening: I am Chut Wutty
  PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE POSTPONED AND A NEW DATE WILL BE ARRANGED FOR LATER IN THE YEAR
  TBA
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 22 February 2016

• 17:00 - “Constructing Space for Tourism: the role and impacts of trans-frontier conservation areas in Southern and Eastern Africa”
  Christine Noe (Dar es Salaam)
  African History & Politics Seminars
• 19:30 - Climate Careers: Finance
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  John Bromley (Legal & General Capital), James Hulse (CDP)

Tuesday 23 February 2016

• 12:00 - Introduction to sustainability in the laboratory environment
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 13:00 - Global and regional health impact of climate change mediated by changes in diet
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Peter Scarborough (University of Oxford), Dr Marco Springmann (University of Oxford)
  Future of Food Lunchtime Talk Series
• 13:00 - Global and regional health impact of climate change mediated by changes in diet
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Peter Scarborough (University of Oxford), Dr Marco Springmann (University of Oxford)
  Future of Food Lunchtime Talk Series
• 13:00 - Are the Humanities more Digital than the Sciences?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Howard Hotson (University of Oxford), Dr Kathryn Eccles (Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford), Andrew Prescott, Dave De Roure, Heather Viles (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Resilience and risk in the energy transition - leveraging opportunities from demand flexibility
  TBA
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 24 February 2016

• 09:00 - LAUNCH Social Impact Careers Conference
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 17:30 - Ten years gone: urban political ecology in prospect and retrospect
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge)
• 18:30 - Governing Climate Change After the Paris Agreement
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Mike Hulme, Dr Oliver Geden, Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Dr Eva Lövbrand, Professor Mark Pelling

Thursday 25 February 2016

• 14:00 - Ecosystem services: from mapping to markets
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Peter Long
• 17:15 - Decision makers and influence in food systems – a critical engagement’
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 18:00 - A new map of the financial world and why it matters - Annual Lecture 2016
  Professor Dariusz Wójcik (University of Oxford)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Friday 26 February 2016

• 12:00 - CANCELLED: Pulp Friction: How water weakens and destabilizes faults in the seismogenic zone (Replacement tba SOON!)
  Prof Chris Spiers (University of Utrecht)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Saturday 27 February 2016

• 09:00 - 21CC: Challenges of our Century
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Monday 29 February 2016

• 17:00 - Climate Engineering in a multi-polar world. Why CE will be an issue for global policy-making
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford), Judith Kreuter (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
• 17:00 - The International Energy Agency (IEA) and the post-Paris landscape
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Philippe Benoit (International Energy Agency), Ben Caldecott (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)

Tuesday 1 March 2016

• 13:00 - Sweet Potato Wild Relatives
  Dr Robert Scotland (University of Oxford)
  Future of Food Lunchtime Talk Series
• 16:00 - Smart Technologies and Public Participation in Transport Planning
  Bryan Marshall (Research Fellow at Nominet UK), Richard Kingston (Head of Planning and Environmental Management, University of Manchester)
  TSU Seminar Series
• 16:00 - Forward from Paris: Using Law to save the planet
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 17:00 - Challenges to the electricity network of a low carbon Cornwall
  Nigel Turvey (Western Power Distribution)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:00 - The Nature Framing debate
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Erik Gomez-Baggethun, Pam Berry
• 17:00 - The Nature Debate: How should we frame and value Nature?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Erik Gomez-Baggethun, Pam Berry, Dr Mark Hirons (ECI, University of Oxford)

Thursday 3 March 2016

• 14:00 - Is Green Growth Possible?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Erik Gomez-Baggethun, Kate Raworth (Environmental Change Institute), Frank Sperling (Environmental Change Institute)
• 16:00 - Oceans Symposium 2016
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Erik van Sebille (Grantham Institute & Department of Physics, Imperial College London), Prof Richard Thompson (School of Marine Science and Engineering, Plymouth University), Dr Lucy Woodall (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and Scientific Associate Natural History Museum, London)

Friday 4 March 2016

• 12:00 - Expanding InSAR into new areas - from upstate New York to the Cascades
  Prof Rowena Lohman (Cornell Unversity)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 15:30 - Oxford Climate Research Network Annual Lecture: Hurricanes and Climate Change
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Monday 7 March 2016

• 12:30 - The tragedy of well-meant valuation in environmental conservation
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Erik Gomez-Baggethun

Tuesday 8 March 2016

• 13:00 - Fungal Foodways: mushrooms and livelihoods in East Africa
  Neil Carrier (University of Oxford)
  Future of Food Lunchtime Talk Series
• 16:30 - Big Data, Human Development and Valuing Voices: Innovation and Ethical Challenges in the work of Africa's Voices Foundation
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Claudia Abreu Lope, Sharath Srinivasan
• 17:00 - Green Ammonia - a carbon free economy?
  Tim Hughes (Siemens)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:45 - LMH Conversations: Writing about science, health and climate
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Sarah Boseley, James Randerson, Dr Hannah Devlin

Thursday 10 March 2016

• 09:30 - Slow Cities? The revitalisation of Shrinking Communities in Japan
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 09:30 - Slow Cities? The Revitalisation of Shrinking Communities in Japan
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 15:30 - Global hydrodynamic modelling of flood inundation in continental rivers
  Dr Dai Yamazaki (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC))
  Oxford Water Network
• 16:00 - Geographies of Exploration, Necessity, and Desire: Using Mobile Technologies to Collaborate with Homeless Youth on the Line and on the Rails
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Amy Donovan Blondell
• 17:00 - Food System Futures: Dealing with Uncertainty and Complexity
  Professor Charles Godfray (University of Oxford), Dr Monika Zurek (University of Oxford), Dr Joost Vervoort (University of Oxford)
  IFSTAL Lecture Series
• 17:00 - Food System Futures: Dealing with Uncertainty and Complexity
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Professor Charles Godfray (University of Oxford), Dr Monika Zurek (University of Oxford), Dr Joost Vervoort (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - 'Predicting technological progress'
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Prof. Doyne Farmer

Friday 11 March 2016

• 12:00 - Title TBC
  Dr Sasha Turchyn (Unviersity of Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:00 - Diesel Deception - the Volkswagen emission scandal and its aftermath (Panel Discussion)
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Ben Caldecott (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment), Dr Bettina Wittneben (Strategic Environmental Management), Professor Frances Bowen (University of London), David Powell (Environment New Economics Foundation), Professor Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit University of Oxford )
• 16:00 - Diesel Deception – the Volkswagen emission scandal and its aermath
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford), Ben Caldecott (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment), Professor Frances Bowen (University of London), David Powell (Environment New Economics Foundation), Dr Bettina Wittneben (Strategic Environmental Management)

Sunday 13 March 2016

• 09:00 - Politics and Ethics of Climate Change
  Various (See programme)
  ONE
• 17:00 - The Media and the Environment: New and Old Challenges
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Fiona Harvey (The Guardian), Milene Larsson (Vice News), Kelly Oakes (BuzzFeed UK), Alister Doyle (Thomson Reuters), Tom Sheldon (Science Media Centre)

Monday 14 March 2016

• 13:00 - Organics and plastics in rivers and oceans
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Luca Nizzetto ( NIVA (The Norwegian Institute for Water Research in Oslo))
  Oxford Water Network

Wednesday 16 March 2016

• 17:30 - Water Resources, Water Quality and Future Changes
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Liz Coulson (Atkins), Henry Leveson-Gower (Defra), Andy Gill (Atkins)

Monday 21 March 2016

• 09:00 - Oxford Symposium on Population, Migration, and the Environment
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Tuesday 12 April 2016

• 14:30 - Mechanisms of SST-driven Sahel rainfall variability and relevance to local climate services
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Catherine Pomposi (Columbia University)
• 17:00 - A world powered by renewable energy
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Nick Eyre (University of Oxford), Prof Malcolm McCulloch (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 April 2016

• 10:00 - Marmalade’s OSEP Design Challenges – Community Transport; Food Surplus & Affordable Food
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Friday 15 April 2016

• 10:00 - Promoting Transboundary Water Management: Opportunity for Change and Stability
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Munqueth Mehyar (Jordanian Director, Ecopeace), Nader Al-Khateeb (Palestinian Director, Ecopeace), Gidon Bromberg (Israeli Director, Ecopeace)
• 10:00 - Promoting Transboundary Water Management: Opportunity for Change and Stability
  Munqueth Mehyar ((Jordanian Director, Ecopeace)), Nader Al-Khateeb ( (Palestinian Director, Ecopeace)), Gidon Bromberg ((Israeli Director, Ecopeace))
  Oxford Water Network

Saturday 16 April 2016

• 10:00 - Air pollution in Oxford: towards solutions
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Thursday 28 April 2016

• 17:00 - Save the planet: invest in fossil fuels?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment)

Friday 29 April 2016

• 12:00 - Noble gas geochronology: a tale of two triangles
  Dr Pieter Vermeesch (UCL)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 14:00 - Mitigating Risks and Vulnerabilities in the Energy-Food-Water Nexus in Developing Countries – Report Launch
  Dr Jeremy Wakeford (Sustainability Institute (Stellenbosch, RSA))
  Oxford Water Network
• 14:00 - Launch event for “Mitigating risks and vulnerabilities in the energy-food-water nexus in developing countries”
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Jeremy Wakeford (Sustainability Institute )
• 14:00 - Mitigating Risks and Vulnerabilities in the Energy-Food-Water Nexus in Developing Countries – Report Launch
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 16:15 - Something's rotten: Multiple views into how wood rots
  Amy Zanne (George Washington University)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 3 May 2016

• 17:00 - The outlook for global energy markets
  Spencer Dale (BP)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 17:00 - Annual Socio-Legal Lecture: Who owns the world? Landscapes of Sovereignty, Property, Dispossession
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 17:00 - Can we deliver nutrition security and climate change mitigation without wrecking the planet?
  Part of ECI25 Big Ideas Seminar Series
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Prof Pete Smith (Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen)

Thursday 5 May 2016

• 16:00 - Considering “fermented landscapes” an inquiry into how fermentation drives social and environmental change in (un)expected places and ways
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 17:00 - How can we achieve a sustainable future for the global oceans?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Richard Bailey (School of Geography and the Environment), Prof Catherine Redgwell (Oxford Martin School), Prof Alex Rogers (Oxford Martin School)

Friday 6 May 2016

• 12:00 - Multi-sensor geophysical constraints on crustal melt in the central Andes: the PLUTONS project
  Prof Matt Pritchard (Cornell University)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:15 - The Scale Property of Tropical Forest Disturbances
  Dr Fernando Espírito-Santo (University of Lancaster)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Saturday 7 May 2016

• 09:00 - Technological Frontiers in Food Security and Sustainability
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr. Monika Zurek (Environmental Change Institute)

Monday 9 May 2016

• 12:30 - UBS-Smith School Essay Competition 2016
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Tuesday 10 May 2016

• 17:00 - Energising Smart Villages in Developing Countries
  John Holmes (Smart Villages)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 11 May 2016

• 16:00 - Adrian Fernando Memorial Lecture 2016
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Robert Stavins

Friday 13 May 2016

• 12:00 - Mixing it up in the Proterozoic: oxygen, animals and marine ventilation
  Prof Nick Butterfield (University of Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 17:00 - Media & the Environment: Old and New Challenges
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Fiona Harvey (The Guardian), Milene Larsson (Vice News), Kelly Oakes (BuzzFeed UK), Alister Doyle (Thomson Reuters), Tom Sheldon (Science Media Centre)

Tuesday 17 May 2016

• 15:00 - Regulating for energy markets in an evolving system
  Andrew Wright (Ofgem)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 15:00 - Regulating for energy markets in an evolving system
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Andrew Wright (Ofgem)
• 17:00 - The clean energy revolution: science and policy
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Prof Daniel Kammen (University of California)

Wednesday 18 May 2016

• 13:00 - The development of the Neighborhood Level Walkability Assessment Tool and some preliminary findings
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Eric Chan (TSU / Oxford)

Thursday 19 May 2016

• 17:00 - Agrarian change, climate stress and shifting class relations in the Nepal-Bihar borderlands
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 18:00 - Educating for climate justice after the Paris climate agreement
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Friday 20 May 2016

• 12:00 - The Rock-Atmosphere interface, the Critical Zone of the Earth
  Prof Jerome Gaillardet (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 24 May 2016

• 13:15 - Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme: Option Choice and Standards
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  Oxford Water Network
• 13:15 - Oxford Flood Alleviation Scheme: Option Choice and Standards
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 17:00 - Lessons from the history of nuclear power in the UK
  Simon Taylor (University of Cambridge)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 25 May 2016

• 13:00 - Competitive railways in Europe
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Torben Holvad (TSU, DTU and European Railway Agency)
  TSU Seminar Series Trinity 2016

Thursday 26 May 2016

• 17:00 - 'Our shared world: reconciling individual need and collective responsibility' - panel discussion
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Prof. Cameron Hepburn, Professor Ian Goldin ( Director, Oxford Martin School), Professor Angela McLean (Institute for Emerging Infections, Oxford Martin School), Dr Nick Eyre (University of Oxford), Dr Richard Bailey (School of Geography and the Environment)
• 18:00 - How can researchers & Oxfordshire’s local food sector make the most of each other?
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Rebecca White (University of Oxford)

Friday 27 May 2016

• 16:00 - The Origins and Evolution of Exoplanet Atmospheres and Oceans
  This also is a 3rd Annual Lobanov-Rostovsky Lecture in Planetary Geology
  Prof Ray Pierrehumbert (AOPP)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:15 - Brazilian Protected Areas: assessment and prospect
  Sergio H C Carvalho (Ministry of the Environment, Brazil)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 31 May 2016

• 17:00 - Brexit: does EU energy policy matter for the UK?
  Malcolm Keay (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:30 - Capital versus Output Subsidies: Implications of Alternative Incentives for Wind Energy
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Joseph Aldy (Harvard Kennedy School)

Wednesday 1 June 2016

• 12:00 - Magnetic microscopy of metallic meteorites: probing the magnetic state of the early solar system (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN DATE!)
  Dr Richard Harrison (University of Oxford)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 17:00 - Economic Growth, Structural Transformation and the Evolving Food Security Challenge
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Prabhu Pingali (Cornell University)

Thursday 2 June 2016

• 17:30 - Markets and morals
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Michael J. Sandel (Harvard University)

Friday 3 June 2016

• 16:15 - Development Without Destruction: Scientists, NGOs, and indigenous activists chart a sustainable alternative to mega-dams in Malaysian, Borneo
  Joe Lamb (The Borneo Project)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:00 - Governing the North American Arctic: Sovereignty, Security, and Institutions
  Halbert Jones (St. Antony’s College), Dr Nigel Bowles (Corpus Christi College), Dr Dawn Alexandrea Berry (Cornell University)
  North American Studies Programme Seminar Series
• 17:45 - Development without destruction: scientists, NGOs, and indigenous activists chart a sustainable alternative to mega-dams in Malaysian, Borneo - Film Screening
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Joe Lamb (Founder, The Borneo Project)

Wednesday 8 June 2016

• 13:00 - Bus rapid transit: the wider economic impacts
  Fiona Ferbrache (Oxford Brookes University)
  TSU Seminar Series Trinity 2016

Thursday 9 June 2016

• 09:00 - Third Contemporary Challenges of International Environmental Law Conference - GREENING THE URBAN LIVING
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 09:00 - Advancing Good Governance in International Development: PEACE, SECURITY, AND GOVERNANCE
  TBA
• 14:00 - Earth Observation Research Forum
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
• 14:00 - Earth Observation Research Forum
  TBA

Friday 10 June 2016

• 12:00 - Curiosity's geological exploration of Gale crater, Mars
  Prof Sanjeev Gupta (Imperial College London)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:15 - What controls sensitivity to drought-induced mortality in tropical forests?
  Dr Lucy Rowland (University of Exeter)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:00 - Security, solidarity and systems in global health: what prospects for the SDGs?
  TBA

Saturday 11 June 2016

• 14:00 - Can people flourish alongside the environment?
  Michael Morpurgo, Professor Ian Goldin ( Director, Oxford Martin School)

Sunday 12 June 2016

• 09:00 - Low Carbon Oxford Week
  TBA

Monday 13 June 2016

• 13:30 - NGOs at a Crossroads: Critical Choices in Response to Environmental Challenges
  Nathalie Berny (Centre Emile Durkheim & Maison française d'Oxford), Chris Rootes (University of Kent), Stefan Bargheer ((University of California at Los Angeles), Neil Carter (Department of Politics), Peter Harper (University of Bath), Geoffrey Pleyers (FNRS- Université de Louvain, Belgium), Adam Fagan (Queen Mary University of London), Cassandra Star (Flinders University, Australia), Laurent Mermet (AgroParisTech, France), Michael Hammer (INTRAC, UK), Jenny Pickerill (University of Sheffield), Martin Goodman (University of Hull, UK)
• 14:00 - The Environmental NGOs at a Crossroads
  Various Speakers
• 17:30 - A beginner’s guide to understanding the link between climate change and flooding in Oxford
  Dr Friederike Otto (University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute)

Tuesday 14 June 2016

• 15:00 - How a Minimum Carbon Price Commitment Might Help to Internalize the Global Warming Externality
  Martin L. Weitzman (Harvard University)
• 17:00 - Roundtable : How has the EU shaped the environment in the UK? Assessment and perspectives after the 23 June
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Viviane Gravey (University of East Anglia), Neil Carter (University of York), Nathalie Berny (Centre Emile Durkheim & Maison française d'Oxford), Liz Fisher (University of Oxford), Claudia Havranek (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - How has the EU shaped the environment in the UK? Assessment and perspectives after the 23 June
  Viviane Gravey (University of East Anglia), Neil Carter (University of York), Nathalie Berny (Centre Emile Durkheim & Maison française d'Oxford), Liz Fisher (University of Oxford), Claudia Havranek (University of Oxford)
• 18:30 - Geography, Pollution and Inequality
  Professor Danny Dorling (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 15 June 2016

• 13:00 - Macronutrient Cycles
  TBA
  Oxford Water Network
• 16:00 - How does conservation impact local people's wellbeing (and how can we know?)
  Julia Jones (Professor in conservation science, Bangor University)
• 18:30 - Watermark screening and water research showcase
  TBA

Thursday 16 June 2016

• 19:30 - POWER STRUGGLE: how to cut peak energy demand with your community
  Dr Philipp Grunewald (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)

Friday 17 June 2016

• 12:00 - Freezing! Snowball-Earth events: Biologically induced initiation and ocean circulation
  Prof Eli Tziperman (Harvard Universtiy, USA)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Sunday 19 June 2016

• 10:00 - Amazon Forest Film Workshop
  TBA

Monday 20 June 2016

• 09:00 - Science and Engineering in Arts Heritage and Archaeology Conference 2016
  TBA
• 19:00 - Why Vote Remain? The social and environmental case for the EU
  George Monbiot, Keith Taylor (Green MEP for South East), Hazel Dawe

Tuesday 21 June 2016

• 18:15 - Declining The Future (Play)
  TBA

Wednesday 22 June 2016

• 16:15 - The Verified Conservation Area Approach
  Frank Vorhies (Earthmind)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 16:15 - The Verified Conservation Area Approach
  Dr Frank Vorhies (Executive Director, Earthmind)

Sunday 26 June 2016

• 13:00 - Seven new maps of the world
  Dr. Ben Hennig (School of geography and the Environment), Professor Danny Dorling (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 28 June 2016

• 10:30 - Application of the WRF mesoscale model to investigate weather and climate variability in vineyard regions
  Professor Andrew Sturman (Univ of Canterbury)
• 17:00 - Energy Policy in India
  Radhika Khosla (Centre for Policy Research, Delhi)
• 17:00 - Unpacking India’s Energy and Emissions Future
  Dr Radhika Khosla (Centre for Policy Research, Delhi)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:00 - Unpacking India’s Energy and Emissions Future
  Radhika Khosla (Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development / Centre for Policy Research, Delhi)

Wednesday 29 June 2016

• 13:00 - Behind the climate curve: Why are leading finance journals so quiet on climate change?
  Dr. Ivan Diaz-Rainey (Department of Accountancy & Finance, University of Otago )

Friday 1 July 2016

• 09:00 - Second Oxford Global Infrastructure Conference
  TBA
• 13:00 - King Coal in Decline: Long live the King!
  Dr Adam Lucas (Science and Technology Studies, University of Wollongong)
• 16:15 - Variation of climate and ecosystem properties along an elevation gradient in Ecuador
  Professor Jorg Bendix (Philipps University of Marburg, Germany), Dr Jurgen Homeier (Georg-August-Universität, Gottingen)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Friday 9 September 2016

• 12:00 - Local food's large geophysical potential and resource conservation capacity
  Elliott Campbell (University of California Merced)

Saturday 10 September 2016

• 17:00 - Flood recovery and resilience from the perspectives of children and young people
  Prof Maggie Mort (Lancaster University)

Saturday 17 September 2016

• 11:45 - Improving water security for the poor
  Following the talk, there will be an opportunity for SoGE alumni to meet and mingle at an informal lunch, from 1pm-2pm, in the School’s Herbertson Room. You do not need to attend the talk to go to the lunch, but please book a place for the lunch (capacity 60 places, £5 donations at the door).
  Dr Katrina Charles (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Water Network

Monday 19 September 2016

• 16:15 - Humans are at the centre. But at the centre of what? A new anthropocentrism for the Anthropocene
  Clive Hamilton (Charles Sturt University, Canberra)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:00 - Big Ideas Seminar
  Craig Bennett (CEO, Friends of the Earth)

Tuesday 20 September 2016

• 17:00 - The Paris Climate Deal: Origins, Ambitions and Implications
  Laurence Tubiana (French Ambassador for climate negotiations), Tony de Brum (Marshall Islands ambassador for climate change ), Nebojsa Nakicenovic (IIASA and IPCC scientist), Janos Pasztor (UN Assistant Secretary General to Climate Change), Pilita Clark (Environment Correspondent at the Financial Times)

Friday 23 September 2016

• 09:00 - Rewilding in abandoned agricultural landscapes: opportunities and impacts
  TBA

Tuesday 27 September 2016

• 09:30 - Drought Science and Management
  TBA

Friday 30 September 2016

• 19:00 - Adaptation to Climate Change
  Dr Mike SImpson (Environmental Change Institute), Dr Julian Cottee (Environmental Change Institute)
  Oxford Water Network

Friday 7 October 2016

• 13:00 - Low Carbon Summit in Brighton
  TBA

Saturday 8 October 2016

• 18:00 - Achieving sustainable flood-risk management in the UK
  Martin Rogers (National Farmers’ Union), Carly Rose (Mary Dhonau Associates), Professor David Sear (University of Southampton), Professor Colin Thorne (University of Nottingham), Professor Sarah Whatmore (University of Oxford), Hazel Durant (Head of Water and Flood Integration at Defra)

Monday 10 October 2016

• 17:00 - Water Security, Migration, and Infrastructural Conflicts in the Middle East
  Prof Erika Weinthal (Duke University)
  Oxford Water Network

Tuesday 11 October 2016

• 13:00 - Stories of Success and Failure in Conservation
  Professor Hugh Possingham (Director of The Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science at the University of Queensland)
• 17:00 - Lowest Cost Decarbonisation for the UK; the Critical Role of Carbon Capture and Storage
  Lord Oxburgh (Parliamentary Advisory Group on Carbon Capture and Storage)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 12 October 2016

• 13:00 - Innovation and automation in urban freight delivery
  Dr. Debbie Hopkins (TSU, School of Geography and the Environment)
  TSU Lunchtime Seminar Series: Michaelmas Term 2016

Thursday 13 October 2016

• 16:30 - High latitude dust: sources, transport pathways and impacts
  prof Joanna Bullard (Loughborough University)
  Sandscapes
• 17:00 - Climate extremes, floods and modelling approaches
  Dr Friederike Otto (University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute)
  Oxford Water Network

Friday 14 October 2016

• 12:00 - Biotic and abiotic controls on the origin of a modern grassland ecosystem over the last five million years
  Prof David Fox (University of Minnesota)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 13:00 - Energy Systems
  Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith (University of Oxford)
  NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers

Monday 17 October 2016

• 17:00 - Why is there a handpump in the car park?
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Water Network

Tuesday 18 October 2016

• 17:00 - Tidal Lagoons: a corner stone of Britain’s electricity system
  Mark Shorrock (Tidal Lagoon Power)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:00 - Carbon Innovation Programme Launch
  TBA
• 17:30 - IFSTAL (Innovative Food Systems Teaching And Learning) - 2016/17 launch event
  For more information about IFSTAL go to www.ifstal.ac.uk and find out how to sign up to the programme
  Dr John Ingram (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• 13:00 - Can the Slow City approach enhance the resilience of Japanese shrinking communities?
  Heuishil Chang (School of Geography and the Environment)
  TSU Lunchtime Seminar Series: Michaelmas Term 2016
• 16:00 - Just adding water? The Water Act, sustainable diversion limits and environmental health in the Murray-Darling Basin
  Stefanie Schulte (Policy Manager at the New South Wales Irrigators’ Council)
  Oxford Water Network
• 17:00 - Are universities & research councils doing nearly enough to tackle climate change?
  Craig Bennett (CEO, Friends of the Earth)
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar
• 17:30 - The future of oil politics
  Michael L. Ross

Thursday 20 October 2016

• 16:30 - The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem: Implications for Social Science and Geographic Research
  Prof Mei-Po Kwan (The University of Illinois)
  Technological Natures & Transformations Michaelmas 2016 Seminar Series

Friday 21 October 2016

• 12:00 - 'Blobs in the bowels of the Earth'
  Prof Jeroen Ritsema (University of Michigan)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 13:00 - Energy and Development
  Prof Malcolm McCulloch (Head of the University of Oxford’s Electrical Power Group and Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy)
  NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers
• 14:00 - Real-time event attribution: the recipe applied to the extreme rainfall in France and Germany last May
  Dr Geert Jan van Oldenborgh (KNMI, Netherlands)
• 16:15 - Rethinking Ancient Woodland
  Dr Gerry Barnes (University of East Anglia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 25 October 2016

• 17:00 - Moixa : distributed (home) energy storage and aggregate grid services
  Simon Daniel (Moixa)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:00 - Water, politics, and the “art of hydro-diplomacy”: how the US government came to care about water across the world.
  Dr Aaron Salzberg ( US Department of State)
  Oxford Water Network
• 17:00 - Climate & History Redux
  Nicola Di Cosmo (Institute for Advanced Study)

Wednesday 26 October 2016

• 13:00 - Age and generational effects in travel behaviour
  Gordon Stokes
  TSU Lunchtime Seminar Series: Michaelmas Term 2016

Thursday 27 October 2016

• 16:15 - Saving Coral Reefs from Global Warming
  Thomas J. F. Goreau (President, Global Coral Reef Alliance; President, Biorock Technology Inc.)
• 17:00 - Women's health: a new global agenda
  Professor Robyn Norton (The George Institute for Global Health)

Friday 28 October 2016

• 12:00 - Reaction-induced cracking during mineral carbonation: Evidence from time-resolved microtomography
  Prof Wen-Lu Zhou (University of Maryland)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 13:00 - The Carbon Problem
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment)
  NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers

Monday 31 October 2016

• 17:00 - From Gridlock to Catalyst: The Surprising Evolution of the Climate Regime
  Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
• 19:45 - Oxford Climate Society talks to Mark Campanale (Carbon Tracker)
  Mark Campanale (Founder and Executive Director of Carbon Tracker)

Tuesday 1 November 2016

• 17:00 - Nuclear energy and society, radiation and life – the evidence
  Prof Wade Allison (University of Oxford)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:00 - Carbon Innovation Programme Workshop 2 (Design Thinking)
  TBA
• 19:00 - Visioning food after Brexit
  Duncan Williamson (Head of Food Policy at WWF-UK ), Julian Cottee (Environmental Change Institute), Peter Scarborough (Oxford University, Nuffield Dept. of Population Health)

Wednesday 2 November 2016

• 13:00 - Research proposal for the optimal combination of Electric Vehicle (EV) policies
  Kezhen Hu
  TSU Lunchtime Seminar Series: Michaelmas Term 2016
• 17:00 - Policy for Environmental Change: Info-Gap Response to Uncertainty
  Yakov Ben-Haim (Israel Institute of Technology)
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Yakov Ben-Haim (Israel Institute of Technology)
• 17:00 - Policy for Environmental Change: Info-Gap Response to Uncertainty
  Yakov Ben-Haim (Israel Institute of technology)
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Thursday 3 November 2016

• 17:00 - W. Mike Edmunds Memorial Lecture
  Prof Alan MacDonald (British Geological Survey and University of Dundee)
  Oxford Water Network
• 17:15 - Food systems - big issues and challenges (IFSTAL workshop)
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  IFSTAL

Friday 4 November 2016

• 12:00 - ‘Space Instrumentation in Oxford Physics: To the Moon, Mars and beyond then back again’
  Dr Neil Bowles (Oxford University)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 13:00 - Decarbonising Heat
  Dr Nick Eyre (Co-Director of The Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy)
  NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers
• 16:15 - Wallace’s ARCs – identifying refugia for biodiversity under climate changes of 1.5° - 7°C
  POSTPONED - please note that this seminar has been postponed due to speaker illness. A new date will be scheduled as soon as possible.
  Dr Jeff Price (University of East Anglia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 18:30 - 'We’ll always have Paris': Progress on climate change from COP21 to Marrakech
  Achim Steiner (Oxford Martin School)

Tuesday 8 November 2016

• 16:45 - The business case for climate resilience in water projects on the African continent
  Dr Thomas E. Downing (President of the Global Climate Adaptation Partnership)
• 17:00 - Renewable Energy and the Smart Grid
  Dr Allan Miller (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 18:00 - Achieving sustainable flood-risk management in the UK
  Martin Rogers (National Farmers’ Union), Carly Rose (Mary Dhonau Associates), Professor David Sear (University of Southampton), Professor Colin Thorne (University of Nottingham), Professor Sarah Whatmore (University of Oxford), Hazel Durant (Head of Water and Flood Integration at Defra)
• 18:30 - Gender Diversity in Politics: Are We There Yet?
  Baroness Goudie

Wednesday 9 November 2016

• 13:00 - HEAT(ing) up PASTA
  Dr Christian Brand (TSU)
  TSU Lunchtime Seminar Series: Michaelmas Term 2016
• 16:15 - Climate Change and Global Food Production
  David Battisti (University of Washington)
• 17:15 - The India Idea Room
  Various Speakers

Thursday 10 November 2016

• 14:00 - Is age a factor in financial exclusion? How the older old manage their daily finances in todays’ increasingly digital world
  Ms Hilary Cooper
• 16:15 - Facing the Mountain Screening
  TBA
• 16:30 - Living Root Bridge Ecosystems of India
  Sanjeev Shankar
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 16:30 - A thousand wadis up the Nile: Shifting sediment sources in the world’s longest river
  Prof Jamie Woodward (University of Manchester)
  Sandscapes
• 17:00 - Flood recovery and resilience from the perspectives of children and young people
  Prof Maggie Mort (Dept of Sociology, Lancaster University)
  Oxford Water Network

Friday 11 November 2016

• 12:00 - Modern-day uptake of CO2
  Prof Andrew Watson (University of Exeter)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:15 - Madagascar’s orphans of extinction
  Wolfgang Stuppy (Royal Botanic Gardens Kew)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Saturday 12 November 2016

• 09:00 - Oxford Nature Conservation Society Symposium: Providing for the planet without costing the earth
  TBA
• 09:00 - Providing for the Planet without Costing the Earth
  Tony Juniper, Charles Godfray, Ian Bateman, Catherine Redgwell

Sunday 13 November 2016

• 17:00 - Emerge Conference 2016
  TBA

Tuesday 15 November 2016

• 17:00 - Future Nuclear – do we need Generation IV and/or Fusion?
  Steve Cowley
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 13:00 - Mobility in Manila at the intersection of flooding and transport
  Dr. Anna Plyushteva (TSU)
  TSU Lunchtime Seminar Series: Michaelmas Term 2016

Thursday 17 November 2016

• 15:30 - Seeing beneath the surface: ground-penetrating radar in sand dunes
  Prof Charlie Bristow (University of Londo)
  Sandscapes
• 17:15 - Scoping intervenetions - a system approach (IFSTAL workshop)
  TBA
  IFSTAL

Friday 18 November 2016

• 12:00 - New insights into the (paleo)sulfur cycle’
  Although you can still find Guillaume on the Caltech webpage, he is now affiliated to the Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, CRPG, University Lorraine
  Dr Guillaume Paris (University of Lorraine)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 13:00 - Storage and Demand Response
  Dr Philipp Grunewald (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
  NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers
• 16:15 - Exploring the mechanisms by which ancient forests interact with the environment
  Dr Sandra Nogué (University of Southampton)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 21 November 2016

• 17:30 - Skoll Centre Research for Action Network Launch
  TBA
• 19:00 - The World in Your Hands
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 22 November 2016

• 14:15 - Intermittency in precipitation: duration, frequency, intensity and amounts of precipitation using hourly data.
  Kevin Trenberth (NCAR)
  Geophysical & Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Seminars
• 17:00 - Redox Flow Batteries for Large-Scale Storage
  Professor Charles Monroe (University of Oxford)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 18:30 - The Naked Planner
  TBA

Thursday 24 November 2016

• 10:00 - Religion, mobility, and urban change in Britain and France today
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Global flood risk and adaptation
  Prof Philip Ward (Institute for Environmental Studies)
  Oxford Water Network
• 17:30 - Impact of climate change policies on the European energy industry
  Juan Alario (former Director at the European Investment Bank)

Friday 25 November 2016

• 12:00 - Of fossils and genes – amphibian evolution through deep time
  Dr Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institut Berlin)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 13:00 - Fluid driven generation: wind and tides
  Dr Richard Willden (Engineering, University of Oxford)
  NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers
• 14:00 - Impact of shoreline morphological change in West Africa: Ghana DECCMA project.
  Prof Kwasi Appeaning Addo (University of Ghana)
  Oxford Water Network
• 16:15 - Integrating Discourse and Practice in Nature Rights and Natural Resources Management: Challenges and Opportunities in Bolivia
  Dr Bernardo Peredo
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Saturday 26 November 2016

• 16:25 - A Plastic Ocean (feature length documentary)
  TBA

Monday 28 November 2016

• 18:00 - Biodiversity Network Launch Evening
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 29 November 2016

• 15:00 - Geographies of Degrowth
  Federico Demaria (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Kate Raworth (Environmental Change Institute - Oxford)
• 17:00 - Towards a green economy: pathways through politics, culture and economics
  Achim Steiner (Oxford Martin School)
• 17:00 - Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System
  Prof Alexander Betts (University of Oxford)

Thursday 1 December 2016

• 16:15 - Climate change and catastrophic Amazon die-back – genuine threat or crying wolf?
  Dr Richard Betts (Met Office)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 16:30 - Using aeolianites to understand Land-Ocean Transitions in coastal landscapes"
  Prof Mark Bateman (University of Sheffield)

Friday 2 December 2016

• 12:00 - ‘Reconstructing fracture opening histories and timing using structural diagenesis'
  Dr Stephen Laubach (University of Texas at Austin)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 13:30 - Energy Economics
  Professor Cameron Hepburn
  NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers

Monday 5 December 2016

• 18:00 - IFSTAL Public lecture 2016 - Sheila Dillon - Food systems in the media
  Sheila Dillon (BBC)
  IFSTAL

Tuesday 6 December 2016

• 18:00 - Blue Sky Research for Grey Sky Days: science tackling air pollution health effects
  Professor Tom McLeish FRS (Durham University), Dr John Oblong (Procter & Gamble Company), Professor Stefan Przyborski (Durham University), Professor Barbara Maher (University of Lancaster)

Wednesday 7 December 2016

• 09:45 - Conference on Localising Food Systems: The food-energy-water nexus issues of re-distributed manufacturing
  TBA

Thursday 8 December 2016

• 17:00 - Insuring Against Humanitarian Disasters
  Sufi Ahmed (Senior Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister, Ethiopia), Owen Barder (Centre for Global Development), Daniel J. Clarke (Government Actuary’s Department , UK), Stefan Dercon (DFID), Rowan Douglas (Willis Group Limited), Debbie Hillier (Oxfam)
• 18:00 - Young People and the Future of Emerging Markets
  Mihika Chatterjee (Green Templeton College), Irina Fedorenko (School of Geography and the Environment), Ian Scott (Emerging Markets Symposium, Green Templeton College)
• 19:00 - The Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance
  Doors open at 6.30pm. Please reserve a ticket through Eventbrite.
  Dr Angela Brueggemann

Saturday 10 December 2016

• 10:30 -  GREEN WALLS, to be or not to be… 
  Laurent Châtel (Université Paris-Sorbonne), Anna Lambertini (University of Florence), Gary Grant (Green Infrastructure Consultancy), Marc Barra (Natureparif, Regional Agency for Nature and Biodiversity, Paris), Camilla J. Allen (Sheffield University), Clare Greenslade (Hestercombe Centre for Art and Landscape), Philip White (Hestercombe Centre for Art and Landscape)

Monday 9 January 2017

• 16:00 - The Island Digital Ecosystem Avatar (IDEA) Consortium: Simulating Coral Reefs, Mosquito-borne Diseases, and other Coupled Natural-Human Interactions
  Neil Davies (University of California Berkeley)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 16 January 2017

• 19:15 - Panel: Trump's Climate Agenda
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Dr Thomas Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Tuesday 17 January 2017

• 12:00 - Transformative Learning: Addressing vulnerability by challenging what you think you know!
  Justin Sharpe (King’s College London)
• 17:00 - Water, the economy and development: a high-level panel with the World Bank
  Various Speakers
  Oxford Water Network

Wednesday 18 January 2017

• 17:30 - Latest dispatch from the front lines of The Carbon War: dramatic progress in the climate-energy-information nexus
  Dr Jeremy Leggett (Carbon Tracker, SolarAid, solarcentury)

Thursday 19 January 2017

• 14:00 - The effects of heatwave on the health of the ageing: climate change in the post-Trump era?
  Professor Deborah Black (University of Sydney)
  Contemporary Medical Perspectives on Ageing

Friday 20 January 2017

• 12:00 - Seconds after impact: Insights into the thermal history of tektites
  Prof Ed Stolper (California Institute of Technology)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 23 January 2017

• 17:30 - 'Thank you for being late: an optimist’s guide to thriving in the age of accelerations' with Thomas L. Friedman
  Thomas L. Friedman (New York Times)

Tuesday 24 January 2017

• 17:00 - Understanding the H21 Project
  Dan Sadler (Special Advisor to Northern Gas Networks)
  Energy Colloquia

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• 17:00 - Panel Discussion: 'Is a post-truth world a post-expert world?'
  Achim Steiner (Oxford Martin School), Stefan Dercon (DFID), Professor Sir Peter Gluckman (International Network for Government Science Advice), Dr Gemma Harper (DEFRA)

Thursday 26 January 2017

• 09:00 - Reducing Food Waste in the UK
  Natalie Bennett (Green Party), Jeremy Jacobs (Renewable Energy Association), Lindsay Boswell (FareShare), Katy Anderson (Shrewsbury Food Hub), Alison Thomas (Shrewsbury Food Hub)
• 16:00 - Tenant trouble: Resisting precarity in Berlin’s Märkisches Viertel, 1968-1974
  Dr Alex Vasudevan (University of Oxford)
  Technological Natures & Transformations Hilary 2017 Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Oxford Water Network seminar with Prof Philippe Cullet, SOAS.
  Prof Philippe Cullet (SOAS)
  Oxford Water Network

Friday 27 January 2017

• 12:00 - 'Greater than the sum of the parts: grain boundaries in the mantle’
  Prof David Dobson (University College London)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 13:10 - Where does all that plant stuff go – a trophic web for Wytham
  Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)
• 16:15 - Dynamics of tropical vegetation transitions under global change
  Dr Imma Oliveras (ECI, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 18:30 - Public Meeting with Oxford MP and Panel on Brexit
  Andrew Smith (Labour MP for Oxford East), Alistair Fitt (Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University), Craig Simmons (Green City Councillor and member of the Environmental Law Brexit working group), John Cotton (Leader of South Oxfordshire District Council), Liz Leffman (Liberal Democrat District Councillor and local businesswoman), Bob Price (Leader of the Oxford City Council)

Monday 30 January 2017

• 17:00 - Beyond technology: the role of innovation in achieving universal access to drinking water
  Peter Harvey (UNICEF)
  Oxford Water Network
• 19:15 - OCS Talk: Jonathan Porritt
  Jonathan Porritt

Tuesday 31 January 2017

• 11:00 - Children and armed conflict: an agenda for change
  Kevin Watkins (CEO, Save the Children)
• 17:00 - Prosperity without Growth - 7 years on
  Professor Tim Jackson (University of Surrey)
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Thursday 2 February 2017

• 14:00 - Implications of policy on AMR in the environment, and vice versa
  Andrew Singer (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology )
  Oxford Interdisciplinary Microbiome Project

Friday 3 February 2017

• 13:00 - Adaptation regimes: confronting climate change and environmental crisis in Bangladesh
  Kasia Paprocki is a PhD Candidate in Development Sociology at Cornell University. She has worked in Bangladesh for over a decade, where her work has focused on the political economy of development and agrarian change
  Kasia Paprocki (Cornell University)
• 14:00 - ‘An astrophysicists’ view of the emergence of terrestrial vertebrates’
  TBA
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Monday 6 February 2017

• 18:00 - Dugald Clerk Lecture 2017: The resilience of Britain's water supplies in an uncertain future
  Various Speakers
• 19:15 - OCS Talk - Michael Sheren, Bank of England
  Michael Sheren (Bank of England)

Tuesday 7 February 2017

• 17:00 - Invisible energy policy – the role of materials and products in mitigating GHG emissions
  Professor John Barrett (University of Leeds)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:00 - Invisible energy policy – the role of materials and products in mitigating GHG emissions
  John Barrett
  Energy Colloquia
• 17:00 - The Role of Materials and products in mitigating GHG emissions
  John Barrett (Professor in Energy and Climate Policy, University of Leeds)
• 17:15 - Gaming the Food System: IFSTAL Game Jam
  TBA
  IFSTAL

Wednesday 8 February 2017

• 11:30 - Can technology unlock unburnable carbon?
  Sara Budinis (Sustainable Gas Institute, Imperial College)
• 18:00 - What about food poverty in Oxford?
  Frances Hansford (Good Food Oxford)

Thursday 9 February 2017

• 17:00 - Cities as First Responders of Climate Change
  Cynthia Rosenzweig (NASA)
• 17:00 - Exploring our inner space: discovering the deep sea and assessing human impact
  Prof Alex Rogers (Oxford Martin School)

Friday 10 February 2017

• 12:00 - ‘Controls on the distribution of Phanerozoic tin and tungsten mineralization’
  Prof Rolf Romer (German Research Centre for Geosciences)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 13:00 - 10th Oceans Symposium
  Dr Catherine Head (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford), Dr Prue Addison (Interdisciplinary Centre for Conservation Science, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford), Ms Claire Hanratty (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford), Ms Emma McIntosh (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

Monday 13 February 2017

• 16:00 - International development financing: current priorities, policies and practices on water resources, environmental and social issues.
  Prof Stephen Lintner (King’s College London)
  Oxford Water Network

Tuesday 14 February 2017

• 13:00 - Hakanai (儚い): The Transformation of Transport Organisations in Japan from Archaic Times – Searching for Conceptual Frameworks
  Professor John Black (The University of New South Wales, Sydney)
• 17:00 - Energy futures, air pollution, and health
  Martin Williams (KCL)
  Energy Colloquia

Wednesday 15 February 2017

• 14:00 - The Food of our Food: Microbial Lessons from the History of Growth Promoters
  Hannah Landecker (UCLA)
  Oxford Interdisciplinary Microbiome Project

Thursday 16 February 2017

• 17:00 - "Can future energy needs be met sustainably?" with Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith
  Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith (University of Oxford)
  New frontiers: pushing the boundaries of science and technology
• 17:00 - From Flint to the Rio Grande: water insecurity in the United States.
  Prof Wendy Jepson (University of Texas A&M)
  Oxford Water Network
• 17:00 - INET Panel Discussion: Developing Equality?
  Professor Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government), Dr Craig Holmes (Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School)

Friday 17 February 2017

• 12:00 - ‘Are the Zinc Isotopes Sensitive Tracers of the Mantle Differentiation Processes?’
  Prof Nadine Matielli (Université Libre de Bruxelles )
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:15 - Report from the Frontier: securing forest peoples’ rights to curb tropical deforestation
  Dr Marcus Colchester (Forest Peoples Programme)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 20 February 2017

• 19:15 - Talk and Networking Event with Environmental Law Organization Client Earth
  James Thornton (Founder and CEO, ClientEarth)

Tuesday 21 February 2017

• 12:30 - Climate change: what’s new, what’s next?
  Karen Florini (Former U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Climate Change)
• 17:00 - Energy Policy seen from number 10
  Stephen Heidari-Robinson (Oxford Martin School)
  Energy Colloquia
• 19:00 - Australia’s climate change policies (or lack of them)
  Prof David Karoly (School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne)

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 08:30 - Social Impact Careers Conference
  TBA
• 11:30 - The Future of Gas in Decarbonising European Energy Markets
  Jonathan Stern (Oxford Institute for Energy Studies)
• 16:15 - Biomass recovery and carbon mitigation potential in regenerating Neotropical forests following agricultural land use
  Robin L Chazdon (University of Connecticut)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:00 - Why India needs monsoon scientists
  Sunita Narain (Director General, Centre for Science and Environment)
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar
• 17:00 - "The global refugee crisis and what to do about it" with Rt Hon David Miliband
  Rt Hon David Miliband (International Rescue Committee)
• 17:00 - The global refugee crisis and what to do about it
  TBA

Thursday 23 February 2017

• 14:00 - Fact and Fuss: Implications for Microbiota Research
  Dr Lindsay Hall (Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Institute of Food Research Norwich)
  Oxford Interdisciplinary Microbiome Project
• 17:15 - Shaping change and developing solutions in the food system
  TBA
  IFSTAL
• 17:30 - Land, Outdoors & Nature
  Prof Heather Viles (Head of The School of Geography & the Environment ), Peter Nixon (National Trust’s Director of Land, Landscape and Nature)

Friday 24 February 2017

• 12:00 - ‘Magnetite pollution nanoparticles in the human brain: possible links with Alzheimer’s disease?’
  Prof Barbara Maher (University of Lancaster)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 28 February 2017

• 16:30 - What makes cities successful? A complex systems approach to modelling urban economies
  Dr Neave O’Clery

Wednesday 1 March 2017

• 13:00 - Hydrological prediction for drought and flood early warning in sub-Saharan Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Justin Sheffield (University of Southampton)
  Oxford Water Network
• 13:00 - 'All the money I raised, I raised from Ghana': Understanding reverse remittance practice among Ghanaian migrants in the UK and their relatives in Ghana
  Geraldine Adiku (University of Oxford)
  International Migration Institute Seminar Series
• 13:00 - Rethinking transport infrastructure planning to extend its value over time
  Dr Moshe Givoni (Tel Aviv University)
• 17:00 - Reducing Car Dependence: Lessons from Western Europe and the USA
  Dr Ralph Buehler (Virginia Tech, Alexandria)
• 17:00 - Collapsing Rural Japan - A New Approach for Revival
  Alex Kerr (writer and Japanologist)
• 17:30 - Mitigating climate change: The Paris Agreement and the 1.5C target
  Alice Chautard (University of Oxford), Dr Mathew Ives (University of Oxford), Dr Monika Zurek (University of Oxford)
• 18:00 - Evening Meeting - Climate Change Climate Change: mitigation and adaptation
  Alice Chautard (Environmental Change Institute), Matt Ives (Environmental Change Institute), Dr Monika Zurek (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 March 2017

• 15:00 - The ‘pause’ in global warming in historical and conceptual context
  Professor Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol)

Friday 3 March 2017

• 12:00 - ‘The mantle transition zone structure beneath Europe: from slab to plume and beyond’
  Dr Sanne Cottaar (University of Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:15 - Symbiotic nitrogen fixation and the tropical carbon sink
  Dr Sarah Batterman (University of Leeds)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:45 - Heron Allen Lecture 2017: Conservation, Development: Rhetoric and Reality
  Rory Stewart OBE MP (Minister of State at the Department for International Development and Conservative MP for penrith and the Border)

Monday 6 March 2017

• 17:00 - The resilience of Britain’s water supplies in an uncertain future
  Professor Jim Hall (Director, Environmental Change Institute)
  Oxford Water Network
• 17:30 - Creating our pathway to 2050
  Dr Tom Hale (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University), Rachel Huxley (C40 Global Cities Network), Cllr. John Tanner (Oxford City Council), Dr Malcolm McCulloch (Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University)

Tuesday 7 March 2017

• 17:00 - Photovoltaics: The present and future of mainstream and new perovskite solar energy technology
  Henry Snaith (University of Oxford)
  Energy Colloquia
• 17:30 - Urban shrinkage with Chinese characteristics
  Dr. Vlad Mykhnenko (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 March 2017

• 18:00 - Intrepid Explorers
  TBA

Thursday 9 March 2017

• 14:00 - The immunological side of emotions and feelings. What’s s..t got to do with it?
  TBA
  Oxford Interdisciplinary Microbiome Project
• 15:30 - Ethnobiology Seminars
  Jean Wencélius (London School of Economics)

Friday 10 March 2017

• 12:00 - ‘Evidence for an ancient redox-stratified lake in Gale crater, Mars’
  Dr Joel Hurowitz (Stony Brook University )
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 13:00 - COMPLICIT Film-Screening & Panel
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Climate Change Morphing into an Existential Problem
  Prof. Veerabhadran 'Ram' Ramanathan (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD)

Monday 13 March 2017

• 13:00 - Evidence-based policy in an age of alternative facts: the life of a chief science advisor in New Zealand
  Prof Ken Hughey (Department of Conservation, New Zealand & Professor of Environmental Management at Lincoln University, Christchurch.)
  Oxford Water Network

Wednesday 15 March 2017

• 17:30 - The end of global cooperation? A debate on global governance in the emerging world order
  Dr Carlos Lopes (Oxford Martin School), Achim Steiner (Oxford Martin School), Professor Karthik Ramanna (Blavatnik School of Government), Professor Ngaire Woods (Dean, Blavatnik School of Government)

Thursday 16 March 2017

• 11:00 - She Is Sustainable Oxfordshire
  Various Speakers

Friday 24 March 2017

• 16:15 - Setting conservation priorities in Indonesian New Guinea
  Dr Rodrigo Camara Leret (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Sunday 26 March 2017

• 16:00 - The well tempered city: the future of urban life
  Jonathan Rose

Wednesday 29 March 2017

• 09:00 - Workshop: Soviet and Post-Soviet Imaginings of Climate
  Various Speakers

Friday 31 March 2017

• 16:15 - Holocene climate change and the domestication of SW Amazonia
  Prof Frank Mayle (University of Reading)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Thursday 6 April 2017

• 08:30 - Research for Action Connections Breakfast
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 11 April 2017

• 16:15 - Moths, Mountains and Canopy Cranes: or, how to keep busy in your declining years!
  Roger Kitching (Griffith University, Australia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 24 April 2017

• 18:00 - Measuring Carbon: The Maths Behind Climate Change
  Joanna Read (RSK)

Tuesday 25 April 2017

• 17:00 - DONG Energy – from coal and oil to competitive offshore wind: the story of a global leader’s transformation
  Benj Sykes (DONG UK)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:30 - How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Big Chocolate
  Kate Roll (Said School of Business)
  Skoll Centre Research for Action Seminar Series

Friday 28 April 2017

• 16:15 - Droughts and woody plants: Safety, efficiency and whole-plant economics
  Prof Maurizio Mencuccini (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Saturday 29 April 2017

• 09:00 - 2017 Oxford Food Forum - Beyond the silo: Understanding and building linkages across the food system
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 17:00 - Next Generation Grid Management
  Jens Madrian (Reactive Technologies)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:30 - The challenges of setting up partnerships in action-oriented research
  Anna Custers (Saïd Business School)
  Skoll Centre Research for Action Seminar Series

Wednesday 3 May 2017

• 12:30 - Cultivating a Sustainable and Resilient Food Future
  Dr Laura Lengnick (Cultivating Resilience, LLC)
• 12:30 - Climate justice in the UK
  Katharine Knox (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
• 19:15 - Carbon Capture and Storage: A Climate Cure?
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Sara Budinis (Sustainable Gas Institute, Imperial College), Tim Dixon (International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme )

Friday 5 May 2017

• 16:15 - Developing predictive trait-based scaling theory applied to forests that span broad temperature gradients
  Dr Brian Enquist (University of Arizona)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 8 May 2017

• 13:00 - University of Oxford: JMP Academic Workshop
  Volker Kraft (Ph.D., JMP Sr Academic Ambassador)

Tuesday 9 May 2017

• 17:30 - NGOs, research and smart waterpumps
  Heloise Greeff (Institute of Biomedical Engineering), Alex Fischer (Smith School of Enterprise and Environment)
  Skoll Centre Research for Action Seminar Series

Wednesday 10 May 2017

• 09:30 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Bringing Oxford ideas to life
  Various Speakers
• 12:30 - Lunch time seminar: David Novillo's marine restoration work in Tenerife
  David Novillo (Sustainable Oceans Foundation )
• 17:30 - Drawdown - A Pathway for Reversing Global Warming
  Chad Frischmann (Vice President and Research Director)

Thursday 11 May 2017

• 17:00 - The lithium ion battery supply chain in an energy storage revolution - Impact on critical raw materials: lithium, graphite and cobalt
  Simon Moores (Benchmark Mineral Intelligence )
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:00 - Climate Violence?
  Professor Clionadh Raleigh (Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sussex)

Friday 12 May 2017

• 13:00 - Fear, disgust and loathing: the emotional qualities of public policies
  Dr Leong Ching (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.)
  Oxford Water Network
• 16:15 - Shifting from a fertilization-dominated to a warming-dominated period: processes involved. The case for the Tropical forests
  Prof Josep Penuelas (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 17:00 - The Sustainable Development Goals at Risk?
  Richard Manning (Former Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee)

Wednesday 17 May 2017

• 12:00 - Structures of Coastal Resilience
  Guy Nordenson (Professor of Structural Engineering at Princeton University and partner at Guy Nordenson and Associates, New York)
• 12:30 - Marine rewilding: making it happen!
  David Novillo (Sustainable Oceans Foundation )

Thursday 18 May 2017

• 17:00 - Food security and conflict: narratives and interventions
  Professor Gunnar Sørbø (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway)
• 17:00 - Oxford Development Studies Annual Lecture: Conservation and Development in the Digital Era
  James Fairhead (University of Sussex)

Friday 19 May 2017

• 12:00 - China's Frontier: Institutions, Infrastructure and Landscapes in Pakistan's CPEC
  TBA
• 16:15 - Nature's contributions to people: a pluralistic approach to the societal benefits of biodiversity
  Prof Sandra Diaz (Co-Chair of the Global Assessment of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 18:00 - T.R.E.V.E.: Europe's Energy Transition
  TBA

Monday 22 May 2017

• 12:30 - Environment, conflict and peacebuilding: a personal journey of change within the United Nations
  David Jensen (Head of the Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding (ECP) Initiative at UN Environment)
• 16:15 - The shaping of savannas: fire versus the mammalian megafauna
  Emeritus Professor William Bond (University of Capetown)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 17:00 - Status and Challenges of the German Energiewende
  Andreas Löschel (University of Münster)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 24 May 2017

• 18:00 - Gifts, entitlements, benefits and surplus: interrogating food poverty and food aid in the UK
  Professor Pat Caplan (Goldsmiths, University of London)

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 13:00 - Stepping out of the ‘water-box’: re-thinking transboundary water cooperation
  TBA
  Oxford Water Network
• 17:00 - The ecology of war: an evolutionary perspective on conflict over resources and prospects for peace
  Dominic Johnson (Department of Politics and International Relations)
• 17:00 - Freshwater and citizen science: A research hackathon
  Various Speakers

Friday 26 May 2017

• 13:00 - Different Ways to Get to the Same Workplace? How Workplace Location Relates to Commuting by Different Income Groups
  Lingqian (Ivy) Hu (Associate Professor Urban Planning Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 17:30 - Sustainable Diets In The 21st Century
  Professor Charles Godfray (University of Oxford), Professor Mike Rayner ( Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford), Helen Browning (Chief Executive of the Soil Association), Sir Peter Kendall (Former NFU President, Chairman of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board)

Wednesday 31 May 2017

• 13:00 - Visualising urban affective atmospheres in Santiago, Chile. A visual methodological proposition for constructing information using people experiences
  Luis Iturra

Friday 2 June 2017

• 12:15 - Food Thinkers Lunch: "Food Futures"
  Various Speakers
• 16:15 - Why does structure matter for forest productivity
  Dr Alexander Shenkin (ECI, University of Oxford)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 15:30 - Challenges of the Energy Transition
  Brian Davis (Shell)
  Energy Colloquia Series
• 17:00 - Disruptive oil and electricity futures
  Amory Lovins (Rocky Mountain Institute)

Wednesday 7 June 2017

• 11:00 - Built environment and travel behaviour in mega cities: evidence from Beijing
  TBA

Thursday 8 June 2017

• 09:00 - 4th Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference
  Various Speakers

Saturday 10 June 2017

• 09:00 - 12th Annual Green Economics Institute Conference
  Various Speakers

Monday 12 June 2017

• 16:00 - Where do you draw the line? (Film Screening)
  TBA

Tuesday 13 June 2017

• 12:30 - Adaptation Risk Ownership Framework | Adaptation in practice seminar series 2017
  Celeste Young (Victoria Institute of Economic Studies )
• 15:00 - The dynamics of vulnerability: what droughts and flooding can teach us about adapting to climate change
  Professor Lisa Dilling (University of Colorado)
  Oxford Water Network
• 17:00 - Driving the Technology For Driving the Driverless Cars
  Paul Newman (Professor, Department of Engineering Science)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 13:00 - The diffusion of peer-to-peer ridesharing in Southeast Asia
  Nina Teng

Thursday 15 June 2017

• 12:15 - Plants, Power, and Social Change for Sustainable Food Futures
  Dr Katharine Legun (University of Otago, New Zealand)
• 15:00 - Fire interactions with climate, deforestation and forest fragmentation in NW Amazonia
  Dr Dolors Armenteras (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 19 June 2017

• 11:00 - Reducing Vehicle Travel: The California Experiment
  Professor Susan Handy (University of California, Davis)
• 17:15 - Climate Policy: the world needs to prepare for a risky future
  Janos Pasztor (UN Assistant Secretary General to Climate Change)

Tuesday 20 June 2017

• 09:00 - Two-way Tickets: Travel, Home, and War
  Professor Philip Shaw (University of Leicester), Dr Debbie Lisle (Queen’s University Belfast)
• 17:30 - Global Threats to Environmental Human Rights Defenders
  Professor John Knox (UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights & the Environment)
  The Linacre Lectures
• 18:30 - 2017 Stamford Raffles Lecture
  Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 21 June 2017

• 08:30 - Forest Defenders Conference
  Prof John Knox (United Nations Human Rights), Sir Ian Redmond (The Ape Alliance), Claudelice da Silva (Forest Defender), Ouch Leng (Cambodian Human Rights Task Force), Justino Sa (National Assembly of Guinea-Bissau), Dr Constance McDermott (University of Oxford), John Vidal (The Guardian), Marie Manson (Civil Rights Defenders), Billy Kyte (Global Witness), Fiachra Kearney (Epsilar Group), Richard Rogers (Global Diligence), Marc Limon (Universal Rights Group)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 13:00 - Developing a heatwave adaptation index
  Pierre Valois (Université Laval, Québec, Canada)
• 18:30 - How low can it go? The state of our waters in England
  Dr Helen Gavin (University of Oxford), Prof Steven Loiselle (The Earthwatch Institute)

Thursday 22 June 2017

• 18:30 - Thinking Food Outside the Box
  Dr Monika Zurek (University of Oxford), Colin Tudge

Friday 23 June 2017

• 16:00 - From Woods to Goods: How consumer choices affect our forests
  Dr Connie McDermott (ECI, University of Oxford), Andrew Mitchell (CEO of the Global Canopy Programme)

Monday 3 July 2017

• 18:30 - Dougnut Economics for One-Planet Living
  Kate Raworth (Environmental Change Institute)

Wednesday 12 July 2017

• 12:00 - UK climate change policies and their impact on air pollution and health
  Martin Williams (KCL)

Monday 11 September 2017

• 12:00 - AllianzGI-Oxford Pensions Conference 2017: Coping with Disruptive Change
  Various Speakers

Monday 9 October 2017

• 12:30 - Rethinking Intensive Agriculture from an Ecosystem Perspective
  Professor Evan H. DeLucia (University of Illinois Department of Plant Biology Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment)
• 13:00 - Vectors, rasters and voxels: how to simulate evolving digital terrain models of the coast
  Dr Dave Favis-Mortlock (University of Oxford), Dr Andres Payo (British Geological Survey)
  Oxford Water Network

Tuesday 10 October 2017

• 12:15 - Can rapid technological progress decouple the economy from the environment?
  Professor Christopher Magee (MIT)

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 16:15 - Doughnut Economics: How to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
  SOLD OUT
  Kate Raworth (Environmental Change Institute)
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 12:30 - Planetary Defence: Asteroids, Nuclear Weapons and International Law
  Professor James Green (University of Reading)
• 16:30 - Geoconservation in Oman: proposal to set up new GeoParks & SSSIs.
  Prof Mike Searle (Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)
  Rockscapes

Friday 13 October 2017

• 12:15 - Land and food insecurity in relation to livelihood and land use change of the Maasai
  Lilian Looloitai (Managing Director of the NGO CORDS Limited (Community Research and Development Services), in northern Tanzania)
  Environmental Change Institute
• 14:00 - ‘What terminated the Boring Billion?’
  Prof Raymond Pierrehumbert (AOPP)
  Earth Sciences Seminars

Tuesday 17 October 2017

• 17:00 - Decoupling national water needs for national water supplies: insights and potential for countries in the Jordan Basin
  Dr Michael Gilmont (Environmental Change Institute)
  Oxford Water Network

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 11:00 - Viking Economics: How the Scandanavians got it right and how we can too
  George Lakey (Quaker and campaigner)
• 12:30 - Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture
  Christopher Udry (Northwestern University)
  CSAE Lunchtime Seminars
• 13:00 - Diversity of urban millennial life course and travel preference: Japan and Austalia
  Dr Hitomi Nakanishi (Kagawa University, Japan)
  Transport Studies Unit (TSU) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Big History: Humans and their Environment
  Sir Crispen Tickell (University of Oxford)
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar
• 19:00 - Time is running out! Strategy to accelerate the climate justice movement
  George Lakey (Quaker and campaigner)

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 09:00 - Interdisciplinary Conference on Extraction and Exclusion
  Various Speakers
• 12:30 - Direct interactions between invasive plants and native pollinators
  Dr Jane Stout (Trinity Collge Dublin)
• 12:30 - Mobile Indigenous Peoples Use of the 2006 Forest Rights Act in India: Access to Justice, Gender Equality, and Forest Governance
  Indrani Sigamany (University of York)
• 17:00 - IFSTAL 2017/18 Launch Event
  Various Speakers
• 17:30 - Extraction and Exclusion - A Necessary Relationship?
  Prof Gavin Bridge (University of Durham)
  School of Geography and the Environment

Friday 20 October 2017

• 12:00 - A path beyond plate tectonics
  Prof Nicolas Coltice (Université Claude Bernard,Lyon)
  Friday Seminars Earth Sciences
• 12:00 - ‘A path beyond plate tectonics?’
  Prof Nicolas Coltice (Université Claude Bernard,Lyon)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:15 - Operationalizing REDD+: examples of REDD+ design and implementation in Cameroon
  Sophia Carodenuto (UNIQUE forestry and land use)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 23 October 2017

• 19:15 - Decarbonising Transportation: The Future on Our Roads
  Dr Tim Schwanen (Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford), Mike Thompson (Committee on Climate Change), James Arbib (RethinkX)

Tuesday 24 October 2017

• 16:30 - The Future of Climate Change and Financial Regulation: A Perspective from the Dutch Central Bank
  Frank Elderson (Dutch Central Bank)

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 13:00 - Collaborative consumption behaviours in the B2C carsharing system: the case study of Shanghai EVCARD
  Jing Lang (Tongji University)
  Transport Studies Unit (TSU) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Transformation for All - Implementing the Agenda 2030 in Germany from a Practical Policy Perspective
  Dr. Joerg Mayer-Ries
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar
• 17:00 - Limits of predictability: forecasting weather driven natural hazards
  Prof Florian Pappenberger (ECMWF)
  Oxford Water Network

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 16:30 - Rock slope instability in alpine geomorphic systems – a matter of scale.
  Karoline Messenzehl (Universität Bonn)
  Rockscapes
• 17:00 - On hippos, tigers, pancakes and soufflés: trends and challenges for African governance
  Professor Stefan Dercon (Blavatnik School of Government)
  Great Transitions: navigating 21st century challenges

Friday 27 October 2017

• 12:00 - ‘Sources and fluxes of carbon from arc volcanoes’
  Dr Marie Edmonds (University of Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 12:15 - Food Thinkers Lunch: Nutrition and Society
  Dr Alex Richardson (University of Oxford)
  Food Thinkers Lunches
• 13:00 - Basin Futures: a tool for simplifying basin planning and the assessment of water SDGs using global and local datasets
  Dr Carmel Pollino (CSIRO)
  Oxford Water Network
• 16:00 - 'Empire Forestry, famines and communities; Eastern India in the nineteenth and twentieth century'
  Vinita Damodaran (Sussex)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Using grasses to puzzle out ancient Madagascar, and debunking 6 misleading stories
  Dr Maria Vorontsova (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Saturday 28 October 2017

• 10:00 - Researchers@ Science, Engineering and Technology Careers Fair
  Various Speakers
• 16:00 - Environmental justice and sustainability in Palestine
  Mazin Qumsiyeh (Bethlehem & Birzeit Universities)

Monday 30 October 2017

• 17:00 - Estimating the benefits of environmental protection and sustainable water resources infrastructure development on the economic growth of Uganda
  Prof Kenneth M. Strzepek (MIT-KACST Center for Complex Engineering Systems)
  Oxford Water Network

Tuesday 31 October 2017

• 17:00 - ‘Under Pressure: Political Geography of Mobilization’
  Alexandra Cirone (LSE)
  Nuffield College Political Science Seminars
• 17:00 - Sustainable energy initiatives in the community in Oxfordshire
  Barbara Hammond (CEO Low Carbon Hub)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 13:00 - Future energy use and CO2 emissions of urban passenger transport in China: a travel behaviour and urban form based approach
  Peilin Li
  Transport Studies Unit (TSU) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 15:00 - Biodiversity Cluster seminar: Biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services in developing countries under stress.
  Professor and Director Mazin Qumsiyeh (Palestine Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability)

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 12:30 - International Law and the Sustainable Development Goals – shaping the rules for our common future
  Dr Markus Gehring (British Institute of International and Comparative Law University of Cambridge)
• 17:00 - W. Mike Edmunds Memorial Lecture
  Dr Abigail Stone (University of Manchester)
  Oxford Water Network
• 18:30 - Towards a low-carbon future
  Lord Stern of Brentford (London School of Economics and Politics)

Friday 3 November 2017

• 12:00 - ‘Geological emissions of methane to the atmosphere: an updated overview’
  Giuseppe Etiope (Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 14:00 - Mining and Environmental Change in African History
  Gavin Bridge (Durham), Deborah Bryceson (Edinburgh), Iva Peša (Oxford), Corey Ross (Birmingham)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - C4 photosynthesis: from leaf evolution to global ecology
  Prof Colin Osborne (University of Sheffield)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Tuesday 7 November 2017

• 08:30 - Valuing Water for Sustainable Development
  Dr Fred Boltz (Rockefeller Foundation), Dr Nicholas Brozovic (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Dr Richard Damania (World Bank), Kathleen Dominique (OECD), Prof Michael Hanemann (University of California - Berkeley), Prof Cameron Hepburn (University of Oxford), Dr Guy Hutton (UNICEF), Ambika Jindal (ING ), Dr Xavier Laflaive (OECD), Dr Xavier Laflaive (Global Resilience Partnership), Stuart Orr (WWF-International), Henk Ovink (Government of the Netherlands), Jennifer Sara (World Bank)
  Oxford Water Network
• 12:15 - Food Thinkers Lunch: Institutional Food Waste
  Hannah Fenton (Good Food Oxford), Aaron Hanson (Good Food Oxford)
  Food Thinkers Lunches
• 15:00 - Making electric mobility happen: Insights from a reflexive, multi-method research program
  This talk has been changed to the 7th November rather than the 6th and the room has changed.
  Dr Jonn Axsen (Simon Fraser University)
• 17:00 - Solar cells made of crystalline silicon: successful mainstream thanks to intense research and development
  Pietro Altermatt (Principal Scientist, Trina Solar, China)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 13:00 - Mobility and the right to the city in Bogotá's bicycle advocacy
  Paola Castaneda (University of Oxford)
  Transport Studies Unit (TSU) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 16:15 - Culture's role in hazard and climate change risk: worldviews, belief systems and 'alternative facts'
  Dr Lisa Schipper (Overseas Development Institute)
  ECI Big Ideas Seminar

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 14:00 - Novel prospects in malaria control
  Professor Charles Godfray (University of Oxford)
  The Geopolitical Implications of Global Population Change
• 17:00 - Tipping points to the post-carbon society
  Professor Doyne Farmer (Oxford Martin Programme on the Post-Carbon Transition), Professor Cameron Hepburn
  Great Transitions: navigating 21st century challenges

Friday 10 November 2017

• 12:00 - ‘Reef boom and doom in deep time: explaining the rise and fall of Phanerozoic reef systems’
  Prof Wolfgang Kiessling (Friedrich-Alexander University, Germany )
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:00 - 'The Amerikan Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s-1930s'
  David Moon (York)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Are past human activities related to observed biodiversity and carbon dynamics in Amazonian forests?
  Crystal Mcmichael, PhD (University of Amsterdam)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Saturday 11 November 2017

• 09:00 - Emerge 2017
  TBA
• 12:00 - Oxford @ COP23 Bonn: Sub-national action on adaptation in and for Lease Developed Countries: The role of the LDCF
  Dr Benito Mueller (Oxford Climate Policy)
• 18:00 - SoGE@COP23 gathering
  TBA

Sunday 12 November 2017

• 14:00 - Oxford @ COP23 Bonn: Q&A Session: Emission budgets and pathways to 1.5 degrees in the context of the global stocktake
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment)

Monday 13 November 2017

• 13:00 - NEWS FROM A SCIENTIFIC FRONTIER: THE COMPLEXITY OF FIELD-TO-RIVER CONNECTIVITY IN THE ROTHER CATCHMENT
  Professor John Boardman (University of Oxford), Dr Dave Favis-Mortlock (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Water Network
• 15:00 - Oxford @ COP23 Bonn: Measuring progress towards Paris Agreement: Aligning policy and science in global stocktakes. Official Side Event for COP23, Bonn
  Please note this event is in Bonn, Germany.
  Prof Myles Allen (School of Geography and the Environment), Honourable Mr. Tshekedi Khama, Professor Keith Shine, Dr. Jan Fuglestvedt, Dr. Adrian Macey (Chair)
  Environmental Change Institute

Tuesday 14 November 2017

• 17:00 - Energy Research in Oxford - Highlights and Opportunities
  Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith (University of Oxford)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 11:15 - Oxford @ COP23: High-end climate change scenarios: impacts and adaptation above 2oC global warming
  TBA
• 13:00 - Exploring the relationships between perceived environment and walking behaviour for three types of walking in a rapidly developing city, Shenzhen, China
  Eric T.H. Chan (University of Oxford)
  Transport Studies Unit (TSU) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:30 - Sustainable Drainage Systems: urban and rural applications
  Chris Uttley ( Stroud District Council), Joshua Arnott (Atkins), Dr Helen Gavin (University of Oxford)
• 19:00 - Talking Climate in Texas - And Living to Tell the Tale
  Katherine Hayhoe

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 11:00 - Chinese seafood consumption and trade
  Michael Fabinyi (University of Technology Sydney )
• 14:00 - Climate change, agriculture and human health
  Dr Marco Springmann (University of Oxford)
  The Geopolitical Implications of Global Population Change
• 16:30 - The response of rockscapes to extreme events.
  Dr Mary Bourke (Trinity College Dublin)
  Rockscapes
• 17:00 - Energy transition - when?
  Professor Steve Cowley FRS, FREng (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
  Great Transitions: navigating 21st century challenges
• 17:00 - "Energy transition - when?" with Prof Steve Cowley, Great Transitions: navigating 21st century challenges
  Steve Cowley
  Great Transitions: navigating 21st century challenges

Friday 17 November 2017

• 12:00 - ‘Small things matter: nanoscale control of geological processes’
  Dr Oliver Plümper (Utrecht University)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:00 - 'A Thirsty Empire: Water Scarcity in the British Indian Ocean World 1850-1945'
  Ruth Morgan (Monash)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Governing Amazonia: Power, Politics, and Contested Landscapes
  Dr Mary Menton (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 13:00 - Network property of bicycle sharing system
  Yifan Han (University of Oxford)
  Transport Studies Unit (TSU) Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 17:00 - "The cost of energy review" with Prof Dieter Helm
  Registration is required for this event.
  Professor Dieter Helm, CBE (University of Oxford)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 14:00 - The Ageing of the Myanmar Farming population: awareness and expectations
  Professor Sarah Harper (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford)
  The Geopolitical Implications of Global Population Change
• 16:15 - Supply chain ‘no deforestation’ commitments: plugging the implementation gap
  Mike Senior (Proforest)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:00 - Clearing our thinking about water and health
  Dr Jamie Bartram (Gillings School of Global Public Health University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  Oxford Water Network
• 17:00 - Responding to emerging epidemics: how can pathogen genomics help?
  Professor Oliver Pybus ( Oxford Martin Programme on Pandemic Genomics)
  Great Transitions: navigating 21st century challenges

Friday 24 November 2017

• 12:00 - ‘On the origins of recent intraplate volcanism in eastern Australia: Insights from seismic imaging and geodynamic modelling’
  Prof Nicholas Rawlinson (University of Cambridge)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 12:15 - Food Thinkers Lunch: Food foresights
  Dr. Monika Zurek (Environmental Change Institute)
  Food Thinkers Lunches
• 16:00 - Waiting for the barbarians: what archaeology has to say about southern hemisphere equestrians
  Peter Mitchell (Oxford)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - The recovery of Murchison Falls
  Michael Keigwin (Uganda Conservation Foundation)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests

Monday 27 November 2017

• 12:00 - OXFORD ANTHROPOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
  Hannah Dawson (ISCS/ODID)
• 16:00 - ONE Networking Event
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 17:00 - Finding the balance – New System Flexibility with Storage and Demand Response
  Dr Philipp Grunewald (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
  Energy Colloquia Series

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 14:00 - The next global volcanic catastrophe
  Professor David Pyle (University of Oxford)
  The Geopolitical Implications of Global Population Change
• 16:00 - Beyond inclusion: identifying and addressing the gender dimensions of water projects.
  Speaker: Professor Margreet Zwarteveen (UNESCO-IHE)
  Oxford Water Network
• 16:30 - Rock stress: The ‘eminence grise’ of sandstone weathering and erosion.
  Dr Jiří Bruthans (Charles University Prague)
  Rockscapes
• 17:00 - Production, reproduction and empowerment: the future of women in Africa
  Professor Sandra Fredman (Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations), Professor Jo Boyden (Director, Young Lives Study, Oxford Department of International Development)
  Great Transitions: navigating 21st century challenges
• 17:00 - "Production, reproduction and empowerment: the future of women in Africa" with Prof Jo Boyden & Prof Sandy Fredman, Great Transitions: navigating 21st century challenges
  Professor Jo Boyden (Director, Young Lives Study, Oxford Department of International Development), Prof Sandy Fredman
  Great Transitions: navigating 21st century challenges

Friday 1 December 2017

• 12:00 - 'The obvious and the weaker aspects of the deep carbon cycle'
  Prof Pierre Cartigny (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
  Earth Sciences Seminars
• 16:00 - 'The Imperial Zoo. The commodification of wildlife, colonial propaganda, and transimperial conservationism (London, Paris, and Antwerp zoos, nineteenth century-ca. 1960)'
  Violette Pouillard (Ghent)
  Global and Imperial History Research Seminar
• 16:15 - Innovations in financing conservation
  Adam Gibbon (Althelia Ecosphere)
  Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
• 17:45 - Sustainable Diets for all: academic pie-in-the-sky or ecological public health inevitability?
  Professor Tim Lang (Professor of Food Policy, City University London)

Monday 4 December 2017

• 13:00 - The role of social factors in environmental decsion making
  Sam Lloyd (University of Oxford)

Thursday 7 December 2017

• 11:00 - Identifying Climate and Natural Capital Risks in Finance: Latest Approaches from Oxford and Monash Universities
  Prof Gordon Clark (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment)
• 13:10 - Alexander Shenkin Wytham in 3-D – using Lidar to look at forest structure
  Dr Alexander Shenkin (ECI, University of Oxford)
• 16:00 - Climate science following the Paris Agreement: what next?
  Professor Stephen Belcher (Met Office)

Friday 8 December 2017

• 12:15 - Food Thinkers Lunch: Food change
  Anthony Warner (The Angry Chef), Carmen Piernas-Sanchez (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences Postdoctoral Researcher - Diet and Population Health)
  Food Thinkers Lunches
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