Talks of Interest to the School of Geography and the Environment
Description: The School undertakes world-class interdisciplinary research, addresses societal and environmental problems, and advances knowledge within an intellectually vibrant, interdisciplinary research environment that combines natural and social sciences and has geography at its core.

In addition to world leading education and research in the School, we host three internationally recognised research centres and lead cross-university initiatives and collaborative networks:
Environmental Change Institute
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
Transport Studies Unit
Talks:

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Engineering the Environment and Imagining Nature in the Early Modern World
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker s: Dr Thomas Murphy (New College), Dr Elly Dezateux (Christ Church)
Venue: Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: Third Floor Seminar Room
Organiser: Environmental Humanities Research Hub (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 30 April 2025

The Next Crisis - Danny Dorling X Oxford China Forum
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Pichette Auditorium
Organiser: Danny Dorling and the China Forum
Hosts: TBA

Friday 2 May 2025

UK systemic resilience to international climate and nature risks
Date: 2 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Economics of Nature-Based Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change
Date: 2 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Edward Barbier (Colorado State University)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Main lecture theatre (1st floor, lift available)
Organisers: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford), Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Who cares about deltas? Growth vs. culture vs. climate change
Date: 2 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:15
Speaker s: Professor Jim Hall (Director, Environmental Change Institute), Professor Veronica Strang (Environmental Anthropologist), Professor Katherine Ibbett (University of Oxford), Dilip da Cunha (Architect)
Venue: St Edmund Hall, Queen's Lane OX1 4AR
Venue Details: Doctorow Hall
Organiser: St Edmund Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 5 May 2025

Global Conversations on the Movement for Reparations
Date: 5 May 2025, 18:00 - 20:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Rhodes House, South Parks Road OX1 3RG
Organiser: Black Association of Rhodes Scholars, Rhodes Scholars Africa Forum and Oxford Africa Society
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Classical-evolutionary technological change
Date: 7 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Eric Kemp-Benedict (University of Leeds)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Natural Connection: What Indigenous Wisdom & Marginalised People Teach us about Environmental Action
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Joycelyn Longdon (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organiser: Lila Stewart-Roberts (Department of Biology)
Host: Lila Stewart-Roberts (Department of Biology)

Climate Realism: time for a reset
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:15 - 18:45
Speaker s: Professor Dieter Helm, CBE (University of Oxford), Professor Cameron Hepburn, Professor Mette Morsing (Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Friday 9 May 2025

Earth System Dynamics Research Day
Date: 9 May 2025, 9:30 - 16:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: East Lab
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 May 2025

Transport, Science and Policy: Reflections on being an Aotearoa New Zealand Government Transport Chief Science Advisor - Prof Simon Kingham
Date: 12 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Simon Kingham (Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha/the University of Canterbury)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Diversity Room, SOGE
Organiser: Dr Debbie Hopkins (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Debbie Hopkins (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Prevention first vs. cap-and-trade policies in an agent-based integrated assessment model with GHG emissions
Date: 14 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Lilit Popoyan (Queen Mary University London)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Thursday 15 May 2025

Walking Lahore’s Orange Line
Date: 15 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Dr Chris Moffat (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Ammara Maqsood (UCL), Fizzah Sajjad (The London School of Economics and Poltical Science)
Venue Details: Online only
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"The Role of Fungi in Solving Planetary Crises"
Date: 15 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Andrea Hinwood (Chief Scientist, United Nations Environment Programme)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Organiser: Lorna Casselton Memorial Lecture Series
Hosts: TBA

Friday 16 May 2025

Transforming Nature-based Solutions
Date: 16 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Prof Nathalie Seddon (Director, Nature-based Solutions Initiative)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Main lecture theatre (1st floor, lift available)
Organisers: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford), Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 May 2025

ONE Annual Lecture and briefing event
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Danny Sriskandarajah (Chief Executive at New Economics Foundation)
Venue: Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details: L1
Organiser: Environmental Change Institute (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Macro-financial dynamics in energy transitions: a stock-flow consistent, input-output approach
Date: 21 May 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Andrew Jackson (University of Surrey)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

Friday 30 May 2025

Megafauna recovery and relevance amidst people and poverty in India
Date: 30 May 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Ninad Mungi (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Main lecture theatre (1st floor, lift available)
Organisers: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford), Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

The trouble with rational expectations in heterogeneous agent models: A challenge for macroeconomics
Date: 4 June 2025, 14:30 - 15:30
Speaker : Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar Room G and online via Zoom
Organisers: Dorothy Nicholas (INET Oxford), Francois Lafond (INET Oxford)
Host: Prof. Doyne Farmer

This list contains talks from the following series:
Biodiversity Institute talks
Biodiversity Network Coffee Seminar Series
Biodiversity Network Seminars, Michaelmas Term 2015
Climate Careers
Climate Change and the Challenges of Development
ECI Big Ideas Seminar
Energy Colloquia
Energy Colloquia Series
Energy Events
Environmental Change Institute
Food Thinkers Lunches - Trinity Term 2018
Future of Cities Programme
Future of Food Lunchtime Talk Series
Geographies of informal and precarious labour - Transformations & Technological Natures Seminars
Grand Challenges in Environmental Research
Grand Challenges Seminar Series
IFSTAL
IFSTAL Lecture Series
InSIS seminar series: Ecologies of Expertise
Life after the Anthropocene
Model Truths: modelling, evidence, and truth in science and policy?
NatureFinance@Oxford Seminar Series
NEST - New Energy Systems Thinkers
Net Zero Home School
ONE
Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
Oxford Interdisciplinary Microbiome Project
Oxford Water Network
Oxford Water Networks Water Quality Series (2019-2020)
Sandscapes
School of Geography and the Environment
Smith School Business Fellows
Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
SoGE Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation Cluster Events
SoGE Climate Systems and Policy Cluster Events
SoGE Economy and Society Cluster Events
SoGE Landscape Dynamics Cluster events
SoGE Political Worlds Cluster Events
SoGE Technological Life Cluster events
Technological Natures & Transformations Hilary 2017 Seminar Series
Technological Natures & Transformations Michaelmas 2016 Seminar Series
The Agile Initiative Research Planning workshop series (online)
Thinking Through Toxicity
Transport Studies Seminar Series 2025
Transport Studies Unit Hilary Term Seminar Series
Transport Studies Unit (TSU) Lunchtime Seminar Series
TSU Seminar Series
TSU Seminar Series, Hilary Term 2017 : Transport & Mobilities Across the Life Course
TSU Seminar Series Trinity 2016