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10 Mar 2022
15:00 – 16:30 CET/ 14:00 – 15:30 UTC

Join the Gold Matters project for the launch of The Anthropology of Resource Extraction (Routledge, 2022) hosted by the Nordic Africa Institute in collaboration with the Gold Matters project and the European Association of Social Anthropologists´ Anthropology of Mining Network.

The launch will bring chapter presentations by all contributing authors together with discussants Professor Jessica M. Smith, Colorado School of Mines, USA, and Dr Jerry Jacka, University of Colorado Boulder, USA.

The Anthropology of Resource Extraction synthesizes and analyses a range of anthropological debates about the ways in which different actors extract, use, manage, and think about resources. Resources play a crucial role in the contemporary economy and society, are required in the production of a vast range of consumer products and are at the core of geopolitical strategies and environmental concerns for the future of humanity. Scholars have widely debated the economic and sociological aspects of resource management, however, anthropologists offer different and fresh perspectives based on field research conducted in close contact with those actors that manipulate, anticipate, fight for, or resist the extractive processes in many creative ways.

The webinar will be moderated by Eleanor Fisher, Head of Research, The Nordic Africa Institute.

This webinar is free and open to all.

An online lecture on 10 February 2022, organized by the Institute of Development Studies and involving members of the TAPESTRY project.

This Sussex Development Lecture will introduce the themes of uncertainty explored in the new book The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India.

The book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national, and local levels. Climate change and events such as cyclones, floods, droughts and changing rainfall patterns create uncertainties that planners, resource managers and local populations are regularly confronted with. In this context, uncertainty has emerged as a “wicked problem” for scientists and policymakers, resulting in highly debated and disputed decision-making.

Focusing on India, one of the most climatically vulnerable countries in the world, the authors unpack the diverse discourses, practices and politics of uncertainty and demonstrate profound differences through which the “above”, “middle” and “below” understand and experience climate change and uncertainty. They make the case for bringing together diverse knowledges and approaches to understand and embrace climate-related uncertainties in order to facilitate transformative change.

Looking at the intersection between local and diverse understandings of climate change and uncertainty with politics, culture, history, and ecology, the book argues for plural and socially just ways to tackle climate change in India and beyond.

Speakers

Professor Lyla Mehta, Research Fellow, IDS and Visiting Professor at Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Dr Shilpi Srivastava, Research Fellow, IDS
Dr Hans Nicolai, Research Scientist, Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Dr Upasona Ghosh, Senior Lecturer, Indian Institute of Public Health
Dr Synne Movik, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Dr Subir Dey, Assistant Professor, Azim Premji University, India
Chair: Melissa Leach, Director, IDS

Find out more and register to attend.

This interdisciplinary and academic conference will be hosted by the IIPM Lab and the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL), Cambridge, UK, as a hybrid event from Wednesday, 14 September to Friday 16 September 2022. The conference will be preceded by a PhD workshop and is aligned with the LML/CeBIL Symposium on Repositioning Drugs.

The conference aims to provoke original Intellectual Property (IP) research from all disciplines that addresses global challenges and climate change, particularly around open approaches to IP and licensing.

Contributions, particularly research papers (or extended abstracts) and proposals for themed sessions are invited with a submission deadline of 15 May. The call for papers and themed sessions is available here.

The conference is kindly supported by the UKIPO, EPO, WIPO, the Chartered Institute for Patent Attorneys (CIPA), the IPACST project, Cambridge Global Challenges and Cambridge Zero. Special discounts will be available for participants from low and middle income countries.

The conference website will be regularly updated with additional details.

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A two-day online multi-stakeholder conference is being organized by the project consortium of the ‘H2O-T2S’ project – South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs), Hyderabad; University of Cologne; and Delft University of Technology – under the Transformations to Sustainability Programme in collaboration with School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India.

The conference will be conducted virtually on the 18th and 19th of January 2022.

The conference will pull together voices and perspectives from multiple sectors and stakeholders –government, academia, international development sector, and the grassroot civil society, – in order to understand both common and contested solutions and directions towards sustainable periurban futures. Understanding of periurban transformations will emanate from the four core themes –

Water
Gender
Governance
Disaster management

The aim of this conference is to provoke discussions on pathways for sustainable transformations of periurban areas. Thus, it aims at exchanging on the complex nature and vulnerabilities of these areas. These analyses will form the basis for discussing the need for specific policies for periurban spaces, which have a very specific character.

The project web page will be available for access and registration by 20 December 2021.

The concept note and schedule of the conference is available online here.

For any queries related to conference please contact:

1. Shreya Chakraborty

2. Sarah Luft

The Belmont Forum, Future Earth, and Future Africa are pleased to announce that the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2022 (SRI2022) will take place from 20-24 June 2022, in Pretoria, South Africa, and online. This year’s Themes are New Horizons, Different Ways of Knowing, Nexus Issues, and African Science and Innovation Cross-Cutting Issues.

The Call for Session Proposals is now open.

Highlight your work on sustainability to a growing global audience and submit a proposal by 5 February 2022.

Those who anticipate holding a mid-term or end-term meeting for a Belmont Forum Research Call are encouraged to hold this at SRI by submitting through the proposal portal. We invite proposals for sessions in English, French, Japanese, Spanish, and Mandarin. The Belmont Forum will also host a variety of exciting events including the popular “Be Belmont Applicable” and the “Idea Market”.

Find out more.

16 December 2021
14:00 – 15:30 UTC/GMT
Language: Portuguese (Brazil)

The AGENTS Project (NEPAM-Unicamp-SP, Brazil) is pleased to invite all interested in transformations to sustainability to a round table on Sustainable land-use practices in the Amazon with local people, where they will present their experience and knowledge in sustainable production. Since 2019, the AGENTS project has documented more than 200 placed-based initiatives in the Amazon. These are mostly small-scale initiatives dedicated to timber and NTFP management and certification, land restauration, agroforestry systems, micro-industries, women’s empowerment processing and commercialization cooperatives, among others.

8 December 2021
13:00 – 15:00 UTC/GMT
Online

This final event of the ESRC STEPS Centre brings together friends, collaborators and networks from around the world. We will explore the major challenges for sustainability in the present moment, reflect on lessons from the past fifteen years, and discuss future possibilities, plans and initiatives.

For full details and registration, see the STEPS Centre website.

Since 2006, the STEPS Centre has focused on multiple challenges around social justice and environmental sustainability, building on long-standing struggles. From epidemics and pandemics to water, energy, food and other resources, and the politics of innovation and technologies, multiple ‘pathways to sustainability’ are always influenced by different kinds of knowledge and forms of power.

As a research centre, STEPS understands that knowledge is not neutral. It not only ‘speaks’ to – but is also partly shaped by – politics and power. Powerful interests not only sideline ‘inconvenient truths’, they also condition what is taken to be true. Through its research programmes and its Pathways Approach, the STEPS Centre has aimed to highlight this shaping of knowledge by power. It has sought to help establish practical ways to properly address the perspectives of marginalised people. It has helped develop diverse methods, options and understandings to underpin action to ‘open up’ the politics of sustainability.

This final event will reflect on what these experiences mean for current challenges, and discuss next steps.

Plenary speakers include:

Alison Park (ESRC Executive Chair),
Melissa Leach (Director, IDS),
Adam Tickell (Vice-Chancellor, University of Sussex),
Line Gordon (Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre),
Dipak Gyawali (Pragya, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology),
Lakshmi Charli-Joseph (LANCIS-IE, UNAM),
Patricia Pérez-Belmont (Umbela),
Ritu Priya Mehrotra (JNU, India),
Joanes Atela and Joel Onyango (Africa Research and Impact Network/ACTS), and
Anabel Marín (IDS).

Parallel panel sessions will include interventions from STEPS researchers, the Pathways to Sustainability global consortium and other collaborators.

Advance registration is essential.

The Pathways to Sustainability global consortium was part of the first phase of the Transformations to Sustainability programme. Find out more about PATHWAYS here.

The International Humanitarian Studies Association (IHSA) and the All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI) will hold a webinar on international research partnerships on 27 October, from 16:00 to 18:00 (IST).

The last few decades have seen a growth in North–South research partnerships, mainly in the context of research programmes funded by Northern governments and global research institutions. The nature of these partnerships varies. There are many occasions of partnerships that have evolved through time and are based on mutual respect, including institutional development and long-term partnerships. However, there are also many occasions where partnerships are introduced because they are compulsory as a condition for funding, or because of instrumental reasons, such as ensuring technical
assistance and cheap data collection.

A commitment drafted by scholars of the World Humanitarian Summit stated: “We commit to localize humanitarian research and education within the regions and communities affected by emergencies by recognizing, establishing, supporting and collaborating with research and educational institutions in crisis- affected areas. Member states should work to remove political, regulatory, and financial barriers that impede research and prevent the development of research institutions in crisis-affected areas.”

Objective

The objective of the webinar is to create a platform for local researchers to share their perspectives of North-South research collaborations and/or their lived experiences in conducting research locally. Issues to be discussed include:

Terms of collaboration and agenda setting
Different types of knowledge and methodologies
Ownership of data
Access to opportunities for publications

Agenda

16:00 to 16:10 Welcoming Participants and Experts; Sharing Objectives of the Webinar by Mr. Kshitij Gupta, India

16:00 to 16:30 Keynote Address: International Research Partnerships by Dr. Dorothea Hilhorst, The Netherlands

16:30 to 17:30 Panel Discussion: Key Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities Chaired by Maj. Gen. Mr. M.K. Bindal, India

Bangladesh – Dr. Mahbuba Nasreen;
India – Prof. D. Parthasarathy;
Nepal – Dr. Rejina Maskey Byanju;
Pakistan – Dr. Mariam Chughtai;
Sri Lanka – Dr. Vagisha Gunasekara

17:30 to 17:50 Question, Answer and Discussions by All

17:50 to 17:55 Conclusion and Way Ahead by Mr. Mihir R. Bhatt, India

17:55 to 18:00 Vote of Thanks by Mr. Mehul Pandya, India

Download the flyer.

What methods can help to ‘open up’ and ‘broaden out’ pathways to sustainability, revealing alternatives to one-track visions of progress and expertise?

A knowledge exchange event for researchers and other participants in sustainability initiatives interested in transdisciplinary methods

This online methods ‘bazaar’ will create a space for early career researchers from diverse countries and contexts to share experiences and learn from case studies of transdisciplinary research in sustainability. Building on contributions from participants we will reflect on ways of using methods, practices, actions, and associated skills in sustainability and transdisciplinary research and practice. In celebrating and sharing experiences, the event aims to foster connections between early career researchers and practitioners involved in sustainability research across different regions of the world.

Sustainability challenges – from Covid-19 to climate change, agri-food futures to urbanisation – require thinking carefully about the relationships between power, knowledge and action. Transdisciplinary methods can offer a way to make new connections between diverse forms of knowledge and action to challenge power. In this event, we’ll come together to exchange examples of transdisciplinary methods and their practical application, and reflect on the challenges we encounter, draw lessons, and think about how these could inform future initiatives that link research and action for sustainability.

This event will be of interest to those who are thinking about or are already using transdisciplinary methods in sustainability initiatives, in particular early career researchers, those in the last year of their PhD studies, and sustainability practitioners who do not identify as researchers, including those engaged in policy development.

This is the last event in the series ‘Challenging Research for Sustainability’, convened by the ESRC STEPS Centre (co-hosted by IDS and SPRU, University of Sussex), ARIN (African Research and Impact Network), and events in Mexico coordinated by the NGO Umbela Transformaciones Sostenibles, co-coordinated by LANCIS-IE-UNAM, and in association with IIMAS-UNAM and the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. To find out more, visit the STEPS Centre’s Methods theme.

To mark the launch of the Gold Matters project virtual exhibition the Nordic Africa Institute will host a webinar on 30 September 2021, 15:00 CEST. The virtual exhibition is a result of collaboration between artists, miners and researchers.

In this webinar, members of the Gold Matters Team will be joined by Professor Elizabeth Ferry to reflect on the exhibition.

This webinar is free and open for all, and you can register in advance here.

Speakers include:
Professor Eleanor Fisher, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden
Dr Sabine Luning, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Mr Christophe Sawadogo, independent painter, Burkina Faso
Mr Nii Obodai, NUKU Studios, Ghana
Dr Jorge Calvimontes, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Dr Ronald Twongyirwe, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda
Ms Esther van de Camp, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Professor Marjo de Theije, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr Cristiano Lanzano, Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden

Discussant
Professor Elizabeth Ferry, Brandeis University, Waltham MA, USA

Moderator
Dr. Patience Mususa, the Nordic Africa Institute, Sweden

Header image by Nii Obodai.

Objective

Agenda

What methods can help to ‘open up’ and ‘broaden out’ pathways to sustainability, revealing alternatives to one-track visions of progress and expertise?

T2S Coordination Office

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