Department: School of Geography and the Environment
Talks:

Tuesday 22 April 2025

What is the role of academia in addressing the biodiversity crisis?
Date: 22 April 2025, 15:30 - 17:00
Speaker s: Professor Tim Coulson (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford), EJ Milner-Gulland (Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity), Professor Leah Gerber (Arizona State University)
Venue Details: ONLINE
Organiser: Carlyn Samuel (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Leah Gerber (Arizona State University)

Friday 2 May 2025

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)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

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)

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)

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

Tuesday 20 May 2025

The Tourism Geopolitics of China’s Arctic Interventions
Date: 20 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Dr Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto (Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Desert Room
Organiser: Dr Debbie Hopkins (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Debbie Hopkins (School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford)

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

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)