Oxford Events, the new replacement for OxTalks, will launch on 16th March. The two-week OxTalks freeze period starts on Monday 2nd March. During this time, there will be no facility to publish or edit events. The existing OxTalks site will remain available to view during this period. Once Oxford Events launches, you will need a Halo login to submit events. Full details are available on the Staff Gateway.
As researchers, writers, and communicators, we often take on projects because we want our work to matter. We aim to shift conversations, unsettle norms, inform decisions, normalize alternatives, or open up new possibilities. But how does change actually happen? And how can we design our work so it genuinely engages the problems we hope to address?
Dr Max Liboiron is a Professor of Geography at Memorial University and Director of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR), a lab recognized for its inventive blend of feminist, anti-colonial, and community-led science. Their work moves fluidly between grassroots practice and national policy, from creating new tools for plastics monitoring to reshaping how Canada understands plastics and Indigenous research. Liboiron is the award-winning author of Pollution is Colonialism (Duke, 2021) and co-author of Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power (MIT, 2022).
