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2020-10-12 13:15: Early Medieval Transitions: An isotopic perspective on change and social complexity (Sam Leggett (University of Cambridge))

2020-10-19 12:30: A Social History of Keynesian Full Employment in Australia, 1936-75 (Cameron Coventry (Federation University))

2020-10-22 16:00: Self-healing cut-off wall materials (Benyi Cao, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-26 13:15: Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The bioarchaeology of an 'agricultural revolution’ (Helena Hamerow, University of Oxford)

2020-11-02 12:30: Pro Bono Publico: James Ashley, Punch, and the Alcoholic Drinks Trade in Eighteenth-Century London (Tyler Rainford (University of Bristol))

2020-11-05 16:00: Seismic behaviour of structures with basements in liquefiable soil (Dr Fiona Hughes, Graduate Geotechnical Engineer at Arup)

2020-11-12 16:00: Biomimetic vascular self-healing systems for cementitious materials (Zijing Li, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-16 12:30: Technological Change and the Inequality of Jobs: American Transport, 1750–1860 (Benjamin Schneider (Merton College, Oxford))

2020-11-16 13:15: Weighty Matters: Bullion economies in Scandinavian Scotland (Tom Horne, University of Glasgow)

2020-11-17 13:00: Conservation finance in a post-covid world (Dr Sophia Cooke, Dr Chris Sandbrook & Prof Bhaskar Vira)

2020-11-19 16:00: Performance of drains in earthquake-induced liquefaction mitigation under new and existing buildings (Samy Garcia-Torres, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.)

2020-11-24 13:00: Democratising infrastructure? Governing energy democracy in South Africa (Dr Jon Phillips)

2020-11-25 13:00: Who moves the Dial on Diversity and Inclusion? (Professor Dame Sandra Dawson)

2020-11-25 17:00: Give me Inspiration! The Paradigm Shift with Professor Dame Janet Thornton (Professor Dame Athene Donald and Professor Dame Janet Thornton)

2020-11-26 16:00: Hydraulic fracturing of artificially generated soft sandstones (Charalampos Konstantinou, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-30 12:30: Embodying Suicidal Emotions, 1700-1850 (Ella Sbaraini (Clare College, Cambridge))

2020-11-30 13:15: Life in Medieval Cambridge: evidence from isotopic analysis (Alice Rose (University of Cambridge))

2020-12-01 13:00: Negotiating the panoptic gaze: power & conservation surveillance (Trishant Simlai, Department of Geography)

2020-12-17 16:00: Multi-functional applications of graphene related materials in cementitious composites (Ioanna Papanikolaou, PhD Research Student at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.)

2021-01-14 14:00: Accelerating energy and low-carbon transitions (Professor Benjamin Sovacool, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex)

2021-01-21 14:00: Real-time monitoring of global CO2 emissions during COVID-19 pandemic (Dr Zhu Liu, Tsinghua University)

2021-01-27 19:00: Innovative design criteria for piled foundations of wind turbines (Professor Luca De Sanctis, University of Naples ‘Parthenope’, Italy)

2021-01-28 14:00: Compliance under the Paris Agreement: The Compliance Committee and the Interplay between Compliance and Transparency (Professor Christina Voigt, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo)

2021-02-04 14:00: The emerging and promised climate change policies of the Biden administration (Professor Michael Gerrard, Columbia University)

2021-02-04 16:00: Collecting Data at the Scene of the Crime: reflecting on and writing about criminalized subcultural lives (Dr Stefano Bloch, University of Arizona)

2021-02-09 13:00: Landscape values, rewilding, and contested discourses of rural change in West Wales. (Dr George Holmes, University of Leeds)

2021-02-10 19:00: Can we estimate the actual stiffness and mass of soil contributing to vibrations of monopiles for offshore wind turbines? (Dr Luke J Prendergast, University of Nottingham, UK)

2021-02-11 14:00: Maximizing Efficiency and Economy of Storage Balance for 100% Renewable Power Supply (Dr Wolfgang Richter, TU Graz)

2021-02-16 13:00: Celia’s ghosts: On biotic loss and recovery in the Pyrenees. (Adam Searle, University of Cambridge)

2021-02-18 14:00: Overstated carbon emission reductions from voluntary REDD+ projects in the Brazilian Amazon   (Dr Thales West, CEENRG Fellow)

2021-02-23 10:00: Defending lands and forests: NGO histories and extraordinary violence in the Philippines. (Dr Wolfram Dressler, University of Melbourne)

2021-02-23 15:00: Innovation Seminar Talk: Academic innovation turned start-up company (Dr Ruizhi Wang, Hexagonfab)

2021-02-24 19:00: The impact of TBM EPB tunnelling on ground surface and existing buildings. (Professor Anna Lewandowska, Warsaw University of Technology)

2021-02-25 14:00: Climate refugees: The big challenge of Public International Law and the European Union (Karla Zambrano, University of Valencia, CEENRG)

2021-03-02 13:00: Pacification and the engineering of ‘green’ extraction in southern Madagascar (Dr Amber Huff, Institute of Development Studies)

2021-03-03 19:00: Seismic soil-pile-structure interaction in soft clays and layered soils (Dr Thejesh Kumar Garala, Research Associate at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham)

2021-03-04 14:00: Issues of transnational environmental law and risk regulation (Professor Veerle Heyvaert, London School of Economics and Political Science)

2021-03-09 13:00: How places matter: A new theory of environmental value. (Dr Simon P. James, University of Durham)

2021-03-11 14:00: tbc (Dr Sabrina Eisenbarth, University of Exeter)

2021-03-17 19:00: Dynamic soil-structure interaction in buildings with oil dampers. (Jad Boksmati, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-18 14:00: How technology spillovers contribute to clean energy innovation (Dr Sergey Kolesnikov, CEENRG, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-18 16:00: Innovation Seminar Talk: From cancer diagnostics to anti-ageing skincare  (Cristiana Banila and Shakiba Kaveh)

2021-03-24 19:00: Securing the (mud)line – considerations in design of offshore foundation (Prof. Richard Whitehouse, Chief Technical Director in Sediment Dynamics, HR Wallingford, UK)

2021-05-04 13:00: The Limits of Stewardship: land rights, legal mobilization by forest-dwelling communities and extraction in Odisha, India. (Arpitha Kodiveri, European University Institute.)

2021-05-11 14:00: John Muir, Indigenous erasure, and conservation reckoning (Paul Robbins, University of Wisconsin-Madison )

2021-05-18 13:00: Subject formation through the influence of conservation governance: A feminist intersectional approach to neoliberal environmentality (Revati Pandya, University of Wageningen)

2021-05-19 19:00: Modelling large deformation problems in geotechnics (MPM) (Dr. Alba Yerro-Colom, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech )

2021-05-25 13:00: The roots of our ecological crisis (Rogelio Luque-Lora, University of Cambridge)

2021-06-01 13:00: More-than-human nationalisms in Catalonia and Scotland (Guillem Rubio Ramón, University of Edinburgh)

2021-06-02 19:00: Experimental unsaturated soil mechanics: Multi-physics and multi-scale outlooks (Prof. Enrique Romero, Director of Research, Head Geotechnical Laboratory, Polytechnic University of Catalonia)

2021-06-04 14:30: de novo gene emergence in cichlid fishes (Emília Santos (University of Cambridge))

2021-06-04 14:55: Forthcoming Museum of Zoology Programme (Dr Rosalyn Wade (University of Cambridge))

2021-06-08 13:00: Situating vegetal lives in political ecology: from plantationocene to planthroposcene (Anna Lawrence, University of Cambridge)

2021-06-09 19:00: Mechanical response of unsaturated expansive soil (Dr. Khalid Abdalla, Lecturer East London University)

2021-06-15 13:00: Mapping and deliberating values for Uplands management (Janet Fisher, University of Edinburgh)

2021-10-12 13:00: Only the orangutans get a life jacket: Uncommoning responsibility in a global conservation nexus (Dr. Liana Chua)

2021-10-19 13:00: Leveraging cultural and scientific knowledge and practices for environmental conservation in Tali, Bhutan (Bruce Huett and Riamsara Knapp)

2021-10-26 13:00: Crafting usable knowledge for sustainable development (Hannah Parris, University of Cambridge )

2021-11-02 13:00: RAI Anthropology & Conservation conference debrief (Speaker to be confirmed)

2021-11-03 19:00: How to produce energy from geostructures (Dr Jean de Sauvage, Université Gustave Eiffel, France)

2021-11-09 13:00: Strange Natures (Prof. Bill Adams)

2021-11-16 13:00: Urban Political Ecology  (Dr. Kate Meehan)

2021-11-23 13:00: Situating mental health within the nature-climate-wellbeing triple challenge: Evidence from rural Uganda (Thomas Pienkowski)

2021-11-30 13:00: Talk by Annette Green (Annette Green)

2022-01-18 13:00: Behavior is a motor and a brake for evolution (Martha Muñoz, Yale University)

2022-01-25 13:00: Endangered Maize: Industrial Agriculture and the Crisis of Extinction (Helen Curry, University of Cambridge)

2022-01-25 19:30: Black holes, galaxies and the Nobel Prize (Professor	Roger Davies, University of Oxford)

2022-02-01 13:00: Before colonization (BC) and after decolonization (AD): The Early Anthropocene, the Biblical Fall, and relational pasts, presents, and futures  (Reading discussion led by Roge Luque-Lora)

2022-02-01 19:30: A celebration of women in astronomy (Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Dundee)

2022-02-08 13:00: Ethnographic citizen science: camera traps and human-fox relations in inner-city London (Tom Fry, University of Cambridge)

2022-02-08 19:30: Celestial Incantations (Dr. Nigel Meredith, British Antarctic Survey)

2022-02-15 13:00: Ringing the alarm for a liveable future: Reproductive anxiety and the climate crisis (Heather McMullen and Katharine Dow   Queen Mary University of London, Institute of Population Health Sciences, Centre for Global Public Health  Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc), University of Cambridge)

2022-02-22 13:00: Smart, Commodified and Encoded: Blockchain Technology for Environmental Sustainability and Nature Conservation (Reading discussion led by Chris Sandbrook)

2022-03-01 13:00: "There is no better place to lie about: Racial capitalism and the urban metabolism of water in U.S. cities (Kate Meehan, King's College London)

2022-03-08 13:00: The Forest That Walks: Digital Fieldwork and Distributions of Site (Jennifer Gabrys, University of Cambridge)

2022-03-15 13:00: Plotting the Coloniality of Conservation - reading discussion  (Victoria Maguire-Rajpaul, Ariadne Collins, Judith Krauss)

2022-05-03 13:00: Women, girls and biodiversity loss: an evidence and policy review (Francesca Booker (IIED), Hilary Alison (Green Goals) and Fleur Nash (University of Cambridge))

2022-05-10 13:00: Silk Road Urbanization: Cities, Infrastructure-led development and Global Inequality (Elia Apostolopoulou (University of Cambridge))

2022-05-17 13:00: Smart, Commodified and Encoded: Blockchain Technology for Environmental Sustainability and Nature Conservation (Chris Sandbrook (University of Cambridge))

2022-05-31 13:00: Ringing the alarm for a liveable future: Reproductive anxiety and the climate crisis (Katie Dow (University of Cambridge) and Heather McMullen (Queen Mary University of London))

2022-06-07 13:00: The trouble with relational values (Rogelio Luque Lora (University of Cambridge))