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 3 June 2025

Public attitudes towards energy infrastructure and technologies: Why it matters what people think and feel about the energy transition
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:15
Speaker : Christina Demski (CAST ISCC)
Venue Details: Diversity Room
Organisers: Dr Tina Fawcett (ECI, University of Oxford), Karen Parry (Coordinator, Oxford Energy Network)
Hosts: Dr Tina Fawcett (ECI, University of Oxford), Karen Parry (Coordinator, Oxford Energy Network)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Right Here, Right Now, Global Climate Summit
Date: 4 June 2025, 9:00 - 10:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Various
Organisers: TBA
Host: University of Oxford

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

Migration through Time: Individual and Collective Memories
Date: 4 June 2025, 14:30 - 16:30
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: East Lab, School of Geography and the Environment
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Has it come to this? An Interactive Workshop on Power, Justice, and CO₂ Removal
Date: 4 June 2025, 16:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Diversity Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Episode 1: For Edward Said (2004)
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Host: Stuart Hall Foundation

Friday 6 June 2025

REECON-UK (Rare Earth Element forum)
Date: 6 June 2025, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Decolonising Environmental Research: Rethinking Knowledge and Power
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Dr Carol Ibe (JR Biotek Foundation), Dr Ricardo Roche, Dr Catherine Souch (Royal Geographical Society), Dr Monique Mulder
Venue: Ship Street Centre, 4 Ship Street OX1 3DA
Venue Details: Jesus College
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Addressing equity challenges in the environmental governance of food supply chains: the case of deforestation-risk commodities in the tropics
Date: 18 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Professor Rachael Garrett (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street OX1 3BD
Venue Details: Seminar room 1
Organiser: Dr Lexi Earl (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 June 2025

From Carbon Funds to Carbon Markets: Mobilising Finance for Low-Carbon and Resilient Development
Date: 24 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Olivier Mahul (The World Bank)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Atmosphere Room, ECI
Organiser: Andrey Levitskiy (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 June 2025

Beyond the EV Fix: Rethinking Low-Carbon Transitions in Popular Transport
Date: 26 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Gaurav Mittal (University of Oxford), Dr Varsolo Sunio (University of Asia and the Pacific), Dr Sandy Mae Gaspay (University of the Philippines Diliman), Dr Herrie Schalekamp (Mtracs Educational Institute for Knowledge Creation & Dissemination), Dr Rutul Joshi (CEPT University, India), https://csud.climate.columbia.edu/people/jacqueline-m-klopp (Columbia University)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Transport Studies Unit (TSU) (Transport Studies Unit (TSU))

Friday 4 July 2025

Rethinking Human–Nature Relations Through Indigenous Epistemologies
Date: 4 July 2025, 16:15 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Helina Jolly (University of Vermont)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Atmosphere Room, 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)

Thursday 10 July 2025

Aspirational Transport Infrastructure and Emerging Narratives of City-making in India
Date: 10 July 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Rutul Joshi (CEPT University)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Diversity Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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