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  • STEPS Annual Lecture: Achim Steiner

    Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    DOOMED TO FAIL OR BOUND TO SUCCEED? Sustainable Development and the Green Economy Agenda - Revisited Achim Steiner delivered the 2017 STEPS Annual lecture at the University of Sussex on...

    Free

  • The Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative: Launch Event

    Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Seminar & launch event with Ruth Hall (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies) and Ian Scoones (Institute of Development Studies/STEPS Centre). All welcome - registration is not required. Deepening...

  • Transformations 2017: Transformations in Practice

    Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus, Melbourne, Australia

    Members of the STEPS Centre, along with colleagues from the Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium, will be attending the Transformations 2017: Transformations in Practice conference in August. The Transformations conference...

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    4th BICAS Conference: New Extractivism, Peasantries and Social Dynamics, Moscow 2017

    Bacchus Room, New Orleans Marriott 555 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA, United States

    New Extractivism, Peasantries and Social Dynamics: Critical Perspectives and Debates BRICS Initiative in Critical Agrarian Studies fourth conference Moscow, 13-16 October 2017 A call for abstracts has been published, with...

  • Precaution in the Governance of Technology

    UCL Roberts 106 LT Roberts Building, Torrington Place, London, United Kingdom

    STEPS co-director Andy Stirling will give the Centre for Law and the Environment's 2017 Annual Lecture, entitled 'Precaution in the Governance of Technology'. Details: Tuesday 31 October 2017, 18:00 -...

  • How are the pathways to resilience in pastoralist areas of Eastern Africa evolving?

    Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus, Melbourne, Australia

    Webinar panel discussion organised by the Feinstein International Centre at Tufts University from 9 - 10am EST, 10 January 2018. Register here (Tufts website) Another ongoing and severe drought in...

  • A Crisis of Expertise? Legitimacy and the challenge of policymaking

    Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus Forum Theatre, Level 1, Arts West The University of Melbourne, Parkville campus, Melbourne, Australia

    STEPS Co-Director Andy Stirling  will deliver the Keynote address on the final day of The 2018 Melbourne School of Government's conference, talking about expertise and democracy: from adversarial crisis to...

    $150

  • International conference: ‘Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World’

    Institute of Social Studies The Hague, Netherlands

    17-18 March 2018 International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) The Hague Netherlands Authoritarian populism is on the rise, boosted by support from rural areas. This conference examines why, and explores...

  • STEPS Annual Lecture: Kate Raworth

    Jubilee Lecture Theatre University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Economics as if we wanted to survive the 21st century The economist Kate Raworth, author of the bestselling book Doughnut Economics, gave the 2018 STEPS Annual Lecture at the University...

    Free

  • Report from Rojava: Revolution at a Crossroads

    Friends Meeting House Ship St, Brighton, United Kingdom

    This free public event features panellists Lloyd Russell-Moyle (MP, Kemptown Brighton), Elif Sarican (Kurdistan Students Union UK), Simon Dubbins (UNITE the union) and Janet Biehl (writer and artist, translator of...

    Free

  • Public event: Meeting Energy – EASST 2018 conference panel

    Lancaster Town Hall Dalton Square, Lancaster, United Kingdom

    Lancaster Town Hall, Dalton Square Lancaster LA1 1PJ STEPS member Prof Andy Stirling (SPRU) is among the panel for this public event on energy, as part of the annual EASST...

  • Transformations to Sustainability programme workshop

    Fukuoka, Japan

    Researchers from two STEPS-related projects will attend this workshop, which brings together the projects of the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) programme. The Pathways Network, now in its final year, will...

  • ‘A New Politics From The Left’ – Book launch seminar with Hilary Wainwright

    Convening Space Institute of Development Studies, United Kingdom

    31 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,...

  • Discussion: Transformations to Sustainability

    Room 115, Jubilee Building, University of Sussex

    This event will discuss transdisciplinary methods, global collaborations and the politics of transformative action for sustainability, drawing on experiences from around the University of Sussex campus. Through making meaningful connections...

  • Dalit women’s narratives of the Green Revolution in rural South India

    Room 119, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Room 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...

  • Can pastoralists help us to respond to global uncertainties?

    College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Peking University, Beijing, China

    Seminar by Ian Scoones, ESRC STEPS Centre director, at the College of Environmental Sciences & Engineering, Peking University Uncertainties are everywhere: climate change, financial crises, migration flows, infrastructure development, disease...

  • Understanding Uncertainty and Climate Change: Views from India

    Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom

    **THE DATE OF THIS EVENT HAS CHANGED** Seminar with Lyla Mehta, Shilpi Srivastava and Lars Otto Naess Research Fellows, IDS The scale and impacts of climate change remain deeply uncertain....