• Type: Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Wednesday 7 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:30 - Alok Jha & The extraordinary story of water, our most ordinary substance
  Alok Jha (Science correspondent for ITV News)

Thursday 8 October 2015 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:00 - Jim Baggot on Origins: The Scientific Story of Creation
  Jim Baggot

Tuesday 13 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Feeding the World: Why Malthus is Still Wrong
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Dr Elaine Graham-Leigh

Thursday 15 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - OBU Documentary Club: Chasing Ice
  James Balog
• 19:30 - Oil Justice Now! Stop Corporate Impunity
  Please note the event starts at 7.30pm
  Various Speakers

Monday 19 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:30 - Andrew Ritchie MBE, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle
  Andrew Ritchie MBE (Inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle)

Thursday 22 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Monday 26 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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) )

Tuesday 27 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Can Resource Prosperity be Shared?
  Various (See programme)

Saturday 31 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Monday 2 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Wednesday 4 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Thursday 5 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Friday 6 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Discussion to Launch the State of the World’s Volunteerism Report 2015 – Transforming Governance
  Various Speakers

Sunday 8 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Tuesday 10 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Mokoro seminar on New Research on Women’s Land Rights
  Helen Dancer (University of Brighton), Kristina Lanz (University of Berne)

Friday 13 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Oxford Climate Forum
  Various (See programme)

Tuesday 17 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)
• 19:30 - If you build it, will they come?
  Carlton Reid (author of Roads Were Not Built for Cars)

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Who or what is involved in the food system and what are they doing?
  Dr Barbara Haesler (Royal Veterinary College and LCIRAH)

Saturday 21 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:40 - Combat Climate Change because we CAN CAN CAN!
  Various Speakers

Monday 23 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 19:00 - Land, Democracy and the Economy
  Andy Wightman (Scottish Green Party )

Wednesday 25 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)
• 17:30 - Radical Requiems: The return of the past in British agriculture
  Professor Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity University )

Thursday 26 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Climate Change and the Law
  Lord Carnworth (Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)

Tuesday 1 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Research Skills Toolkit
  Various Speakers

Thursday 3 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Explorations in Food System Outcomes: food security, the environment and economy
  Dr Rosemary Collier (Warwick University)

Monday 7 December 2015 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 21 December 2015 (11th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 12 January 2016 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 18 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Tuesday 19 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Designing cities with nature in mind
  TBA
• 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)

Friday 5 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Pedalling Innovation: Oxford's First Cycling Hackathon
  Various Speakers

Sunday 7 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 18 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Sunday 13 March 2016 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - Politics and Ethics of Climate Change
  Various (See programme)