The Integral Ecology Dialogues are a series of live events centred on a scholarly conversation. They allow us to address key themes in integral ecology by means of discussion and exchange. 

Integral Ecology Dialogues take place once per term in the beautiful setting of Campion Hall library, University of Oxford. We welcome a number of in-person guests . But all Dialogues are also broadcast so as to be available to as wide an audience as possible. We invite you to join us via the livestream (which is delivered on a YouTube channel after registration) or to enjoy "clips" of particular segments that we share afterwards. 

The host for all our Dialogues is Dr Austen Ivereigh. Austen is a writer, commentator and speaker on contemporary church affairs, and a Fellow in Contemporary Church History at Campion Hall, Oxford. He is known above all for his writings on, and with, Pope Francis. Dr Ivereigh lives on a small farm in Herefordshire, where he practises small-scale regenerative horticuture. His reflections on ecological conversion appear in a regular column in The Tablet, called ‘Wild Faith’. Since 2021, he has been closely involved in the global Catholic synod on synodality as a theological expert, and is at the concluding assembly in Rome this October.

Our guests for this particular Dialogue are:

The Revd Canon Dr Charlotte Bannister-Parker

Charlotte is the Associate Vicar of St. John's, Notting Hill, and was an Associate Priest at The University Church of St. Mary the Virgin. She is also a faculty member of the Senior Faith Leadership Programme, St George’s House, Windsor, a member of the Oxford Diocese’s Environment Task Group, and a Research Affiliate here at the Laudato Si' Research Institute.

Ordained in 2005, Charlotte has served the Diocese of Oxford in numerous capacities for 17 years. In addition to varied roles within the University Church, Charlotte has been the Bishop of Oxford's Adviser for Overseas Programmes; a visiting priest at Oxford’s twinned diocese Kimberley and Kuruman, South Africa; Catechist at Exeter College and Chaplain to the Mayor of Oxford. She is a member of the Oxford 3 Faiths Encounters and founder on the Oxford Annual Interfaith Friendship Walk.

Recently, she founded Hope4Creation, an innovative programme designed to move faith communities from theory to action in the sphere of climate justice. She facilitates highly-regarded faith-based and inter-faith conferences and workshops in Oxford together with her Hope4Creation colleagues.

Dr Adam Parr

Adam Parr is an Anglo-French barrister and businessman, and former chairman and chief executive of the Williams Formula One team. Since leaving Formula One, Adam’s main activity has been venture capital, and he has co-founded, invested in and chaired several businesses. These include Oxford Semantic Technologies Limited, an AI spin-out of the University of Oxford and Cheesecake Energy Limited, a spin-out from the University of Nottingham.

Adam founded and chairs The Downforce Trust, a UK charity dedicated to accelerating action on climate change. The Trust has helped launch Downforce®, an innovative technology for measuring natural capital; and SRI-2030, which is dedicated to rapidly expanding agroecological farming practices, and particularly the System of Rice Intensification co-created by Fr. Henri de Laulanié SJ and Malagasy rice farmers in the 1980s.

Adam is Business Fellow at the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford and Research Associate at the John Porter Diplomacy Centre, Hertford College, Oxford.

You are invited to register for free to watch the online livestream: here.