STEPS at the SPRU 50 conference – Transforming Innovation
University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomTania 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...
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...
Who is the digital revolution for?
Panel at the event: Ann Light, Kat Braybrooke, Tim Jordan, Caroline Bassett and Andrew Sleigh. Lighthouse, 28 Kensington Street Brighton, BN1 4AJ, UK This public event on 28 September 2016...
Is the future nuclear? Battle of Ideas debate with Andy Stirling
BooksFrobisher Auditorium 1 Battle of Ideas, Barbican Centre, London STEPS co-director Prof Andy Stirling (SPRU) will debate the role of nuclear power in the future of energy, at a debate...
Emancipatory Transformations: Engaging Radical Democracy in Kurdistan
A public event and workshop on 3-4 November in Brighton, UK focused on the remarkable political transformations happening in Rojava (Western/Syrian Kurdistan) in the midst of bloody conflicts and a...
Food Agendas in a Post-Brexit Future: BSUFN Symposium 2017
Brighton , United KingdomBrighton, UK (buy tickets) There has been much talk of the ways in which the United Kingdom leaving the European Union, or ‘Brexit’, will impact British farmers due to changes...
Sustainability in Turbulent Times
Central London‘Sustainability in turbulent times: How can research, policy and business meet global challenges?’ CUSP/Nexus Network/CECAN conference Venue: Central London Twitter: Follow the conference at #SITT2017 Over the next few years,...
Transforming Innovation: Addressing Nexus Challenges with Radical Change
Central LondonWhat kind of innovations are needed to address the interconnected 'nexus' of challenges related to water, food, energy and other resources in a changing world? This event in central London...
STEPS Seminar: Where are the missing co-authors? Authorship practices in participatory research
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomJoin us for a STEPS Seminar with Louise Fortmann (University of California at Berkeley), on 3 April 2017 at the Institute of Development Studies. The increase in publications based on...
Rapid Transitions: how did we do that?
Brighton , United KingdomJoin in on Twitter: #RapidTransitions In the face of environmental crises and global inequality, how can we work together for more sustainable futures? What can we learn from great transitions...
STEPS Seminar: Todd Crane – Interdisciplinary science and subjectivities in research for development
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United Kingdom‘Interdisciplinary science and subjectivities in research for development: What are the implications of methods and measures?’ STEPS Seminar - all welcome Socio-ecological research continues to grapple with how to represent...
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...
STEPS Seminar: Charles Tonui on the co-management of mangrove forest in Gazi Bay, Kenya
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United Kingdom‘The Role of Community Based Organisations and Associations in Co-management of Forests in Kenya: The case of Mikoko Pamoja Community Based Organisation (MPCBO) and Gogoni-Gazi Community Forest Association (GOGACFA) in...
STEPS Annual Lecture: Achim Steiner
Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomDOOMED 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...
The Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative: Launch Event
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSeminar & 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...
Resilience 2017: Resilience Frontiers for Global Sustainability
STEPS Centre members and our partners from the Pathways to Sustainability Global Consortium will be taking part in the Resilience 2017 conference in Stockholm on 20-23 August 2017. The conference...
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, AustraliaMembers 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...
4th BICAS Conference: New Extractivism, Peasantries and Social Dynamics, Moscow 2017
Bacchus Room, New Orleans Marriott 555 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA, United StatesNew 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...
Can we all learn about how to respond to global uncertainties from pastoralists at the margins?
European University Institute Sala Triaria, Villa Schifanoia, Via Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiesole, Florence, ItalyEuropean University Institute, Fiesole, Florence, Italy Lecture by Ian Scoones at the European University Institute as part of the ERC-funded project Pastoralism, Uncertainty and Resilience: Global Lessons from the Margins....
Precaution in the Governance of Technology
UCL Roberts 106 LT Roberts Building, Torrington Place, London, United KingdomSTEPS 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 -...
STEPS Seminar – Channing Arndt: ‘Faster Than You Think: The Global Energy Revolution and Developing Countries’
Room 221, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomSTEPS Centre seminar with Channing Arndt, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute Institute of Development Studies, Room 221, 15 December 2017 An energy revolution is underway. Driven by...
Seminar: Ian Scoones – Can pastoralists help us respond to global uncertainties?
Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSeminar by Ian Scoones, Director, ESRC STEPS Centre and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. Watch video of this event Tuesday 9 January 2018 13:00 to 14:30 IDS...
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, AustraliaWebinar 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, AustraliaSTEPS 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...
Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation in Urbanising India
National Agriculture Science Complex, Pusa Delhi, India This event in Delhi explores how urban authorities and other parts of civil society can improve their approaches to ecosystems and the services...
International conference: ‘Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World’
Institute of Social Studies The Hague, Netherlands17-18 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...
When the Wolf Guards the Sheep: Green extractivism and confronting the industrial machine
Room G22, Jubilee Building University of Sussex, Brighton, United KingdomAs part of the Politics of Nature reading group, Dr Alexander Dunlap, co-hosted by the CGPE and STEPS centre, presents a seminar on the merits of an anarchist political ecology in assessing...
Emancipatory rural politics I: contextualizing authoritarian populism and emancipatory rural politics
Bacchus Room, New Orleans Marriott 555 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA, United StatesSTEPS Member Amber Huff will chair a Panel Conference at The American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018. ABOUT THE EVENT Deepening inequalities, socioeconomic exclusion, persistent poverty, fractured identity...
Emancipatory rural politics II: resisting, mobilizing and creating alternatives
Bacchus Room, New Orleans Marriott 555 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA, United StatesThe second Panel Conference at The American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2018. ABOUT THE EVENT The current political conjuncture has given rise to new forms and manifestations of...
Workshop: Maps, Measures and Narratives for Transdisciplinary ‘Grand Challenge’ Research
Tuesday 1st May UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, London This full-day workshop will consider the capacity of research communities, such as but not limited to those supported by The Nexus...
STEPS Annual Lecture: Kate Raworth
Jubilee Lecture Theatre University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomEconomics 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...
Report from Rojava: Revolution at a Crossroads
Friends Meeting House Ship St, Brighton, United KingdomThis 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...
Public event: Meeting Energy – EASST 2018 conference panel
Lancaster Town Hall Dalton Square, Lancaster, United KingdomLancaster 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...
The Sustainable Development Goals: What are they and will they make a difference?
STEPS Co-director Ian Scoones will be delivering a talk in ‘The Lyceum’ tent at Wilderness festival on Sat Aug 4 (hosted by the School of Global Studies at the University...