Part of the 2025-2026 series ‘How can we respond to this systemic crisis?’. A series of master classes, seminars, workshops and talks with Professor Laura Rival, research collaborators and colleagues.

Michaelmas Term series titled: ‘In Latin America, by greening the state at the top and from below’.

Laura Rival will use her 40 years of research experience in Ecuador to offer an overview of the country’s efforts to develop a post-oil economy. She will show that by pioneering new thinking on co-responsibility, the Yasuní Initiative (2007-2013) has opened a new policy era. In collaboration with local researchers, former students, well-known political activists, world-leading specialists on Ecuador, and fossil fuel experts, she will examine the contradictions that have plagued efforts to reconcile ‘extractivism’ with ecological wealth. Finally, she will highlight the continuing significance of the 2008 Constitution as a blueprint to reimagine the role of the state in relation to fundamental collective rights.

Followed by refreshments.