Lessons in resilience – nature, heritage and sustainability

What can nature and our shared past teach us about surviving change? Are we overlooking simple lessons from history and nature in our search for sustainability?

Bringing diverse perspectives to a shared stage, this conversation will explore how insights from our cultural heritage and the natural world can help shape a more sustainable future. Drawing on evidence from the habits and habitats of the human and animal worlds, speakers will examine what resilience, adaptation and resourcefulness look like across time and species – and how these lessons might inform more balanced, sustainable responses to today’s challenges. 

Chaired by: 

• Dr Gavin Svenson, Kellogg Fellow; Director of the OU Museum of Natural History  

Panellists: 

• Dr Joanna Bagniewska, Kellogg Fellow; Departmental Lecturer in Environmental Science, University of Oxford 

• Professor Nathalie Seddon, Professor of Biodiversity and Founding Director of the Nature-based Solutions Initiative in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford 

• Dr Hannah Fluck, Senior National Archaeologist at the National Trust 

• Ben Bolgar, Kellogg Visiting Fellow; Executive Director of Projects for The King’s Foundation 

This event is part of a series of Kellogg Conversations exploring sustainability and the leadership, evidence and collective action needed to build a thriving world.

Additional information 

• Tea and coffee offered from 5.00pm 

• Main discussion, 5.30–6.30pm 

• Drinks reception for speakers and attendees, 6.30/6.45pm-7.15pm

Open to: General Public, Members of Kellogg College,