Seminars
‘The ethos of scientific advice’ Seminar
SPRU Jubilee Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomArthur Peterson, from STEaPP, UCL, will give a seminar on ‘The ethos of scientific advice’ as part of the SPRU Friday Seminar Series on Friday, 20th November 2015. The seminar will be chaired by Andy Stirling (SPRU), and followed by a Roundtable on 'Dilemmas of Uncertainty in the Politics of Science and Innovation’, with James Wilsdon and Erik Millstone...
Seminar: ‘Development without Growth?’
Room 221, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom‘Development without Growth?’ Ray Cunningham, Jonathan Essex, Tom Lines Friday 27th November, 13.00 - 14.30, Room 221, Institute of Development Studies This seminar is jointly held with the Resource Politics cluster at IDS. In 2013, the green think tank Green House published ‘The Post-Growth Project’, which argues that economic growth, as conventionally measured, is over for the UK in...
STEPS Lunchtime Seminar: ‘The Making and Unmaking of Agricultural Knowledge’
Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomPlease join us for an upcoming STEPS lunchtime seminar on ‘The Making and Unmaking of Agricultural Knowledge’, given by Professor Glenn Davis Stone, Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL), on Thursday, 10th December 2015, from 12.30-2pm, at the IDS Convening Space. In this talk, Glenn Stone will draw on long-term research on various technological regimes in agriculture...
How can the ecological impact of the richest 1% be reduced at a time of extreme inequality?
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomSeminar with Dario Kenner 1.00-2.30 Friday 26 February 2016, IDS room 221 Recent research by Oxfam and French economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel indicates that the richest 1% of people in many countries, including the United Kingdom, have huge per capita carbon footprints compared to the rest of the population. The fact that richer...
Seminar: Helene Ahlborg on power and politics in energy transitions
Global Studies Resource Centre Arts C175, University of Sussex, United KingdomTowards a conceptualization of power and micro-level politics in energy transitions STEPS Centre Seminar: Helene Ahlborg 12.00-1.30, Monday 11 April 2016 Room C175 (Global Studies Resources Centre meeting room), Arts C, University of Sussex Helene Ahlborg will share her research about rural mini-hydropower electrification in Tanzania and societal transformation. She will explain why and how...
Seminar: Connor Cavanagh on responses to violent eviction
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomDifferentiated dispossession: ‘Hunter-gatherer’ responses to violent eviction from Embobut Forest Reserve, western Kenya Seminar by Connor Joseph Cavanagh Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, UK Critical scholarship on global land and ‘green’ grabbing has begun to examine the politics of variegation in diverse ‘responses from below’, or the ways in which various...
CANCELLED: Towards a class-based approach to global energy transition
Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSeminar with Kolya Abramsky on a class-based approach to energy transition.
STEPS: to a systemic ecology of mind – seminar with Ray Ison
Convening Space, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomConvening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, UK This seminar will cover a broad sweep of issues under the general rubric of building systemic governing capability in the context of the Anthropocene. Prof Ison's starting point will be to lay down a challenge as to whether those present have a systemic ecology of...
Tania Li: ‘What is politics?’
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSTEPS Seminar, all welcome Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RE Listen to the seminar Hear Tania Li's seminar below, including questions and answers with the audience. Abstract: My seminar will cover a broad sweep of issues under the general rubric of building systemic governing. In my discipline of anthropology,...
Kolya Abramsky: ‘Towards a Class-Based Approach to Global Energy Transition: Shifting Energy Demand, Expanding the Renewable Energy Sector and Phasing Out Fossil Fuel’
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSTEPS Seminar - all welcome Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, BN1 9RE Abstract: Terms such as “energy democracy” and “climate justice” have gained increasingly widespread usage and acceptance over the last 5 years. In order to give weight to these slogans, it is necessary to understand the class relations behind the...
Seminar – Ruth Hall: The Reinvention of Land Reform in South Africa: State, Market and Citizens
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomInstitute of Development Studies seminar with Ruth Hall, Institute of Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), South Africa This event will be accompanied by a live audio stream and online discussion. Land reform, one of post-apartheid governments’ main transformatory programmes, has itself been transformed over the past twenty years, reflecting changing policy agendas and ideological...
‘A New Politics From The Left’ – Book launch seminar with Hilary Wainwright
Convening Space Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom31 October 2018 at 1.00 – 2.30pm Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies, UK Chaired by John Gaventa, IDS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAOpMurI510 Millions of people passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity, authoritarianism and fear. They reject both corporate capitalism and an elite political system over which they have no control, but they are sceptical of the...
Dalit women’s narratives of the Green Revolution in rural South India
Room 119, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomRoom 119, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer BN1 9RE, UK Speakers: Divya Sharma (Research Fellow, SPRU) Saurabh Arora (Senior Lecturer, SPRU) Since the 1960s, the dominant narratives of the Green Revolution (GR) in India have focussed on state-led agricultural intensification through groundwater extraction, hybrid varieties of rice, synthetic agrochemicals and mechanisation. These narratives...
STEPS Seminar – Bioleft: experimenting with an open source seed system in Latin America
Room 100, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomRoom 100, Institute of Development Studies Brighton, UK Everyone welcome Speaker: Anabel Marin (CENIT/STEPS America Latina) This seminar reports on work carried out in the STEPS America Latina hub as part of the ‘Pathways’ Transformative Knowledge Network. In her talk, Anabel Marin will outline the sustainability challenges facing Argentinean agriculture and describe the processes of...
Agency and social-ecological system (SES) pathways: The Transformation Lab in the Xochimilco SES
Room 101, Institute of Development Studies University of Sussex, BrightonRoom 101, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, UK 13:00 - 14:30 Speaker: Mario Siqueiros-García (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/STEPS North America hub). All welcome Slides Agency and social-ecological system (SES) pathways: the Transformation Lab in the Xochimilco SES from STEPS Centre About the seminar Xochimilco is a wetland in the southern part of Mexico City. It...
STEPS Uncertainty series: Ilene Grabel – When Things Don’t Fall Apart
Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomIlene Grabel Professor of International Finance University of Denver Free entry, all welcome Watch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T-vQb5Nja4 About the lecture In When Things Don’t Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel makes a simple but controversial claim, based on the work of the eminent social scientist Albert O. Hirschman. Grabel argues that as concerns global financial governance and development...