There is growing awareness of the importance of addressing the interwoven crises of climate change, inequality and biodiversity loss. Education, as always, is seen as a critical component in addressing these challenges. The Green Templeton Lecture series 2025 will explore the topic of sustainability education with speakers reflecting, in dialogue, on three critical and central issues.

In this talk anthropologist Munira Khayyat revisits the South Lebanon borderland, where she has conducted longterm fieldwork in the wake of its almost total destruction after the latest season of war there. This talk reflects on ecologies of resistance and survival through storms of war and the steadfastness of life after the end of the world.

How do we know when we are investing wisely in security? Answering this question requires investigating what things are worth securing (and why); what threatens them; how best to protect them; and how to think about it. Is it possible to protect them? How best go about protecting them? What trade-offs are involved in allocating resources to security problems? This book responds to these questions by stripping down our preconceptions and rebuilding an understanding of security from the ground up on the basis of a common-sense ontology and an explicit theory of value.

📢 Exciting Talk Alert! 📢

The Europeanist Society (EUSOC) of the University of Oxford is thrilled to invite you to a fascinating discussion:

🔹 " Inside the Brussels System: How do the EU institutions really work – and can and should they be reformed?"

🗣 Speaker: Anthony Teasdale, former Director General of the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) (2013-22), Visiting Professor at LSE & Columbia, and Director of the Europaeum in Oxford.