Events
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The Future of the World is Mobile: What can we learn from pastoralists?
European University Institute Florence, Italy Listen to this event About this event Can the experience of pastoralists, who have long relied on mobility, help us address the challenges of global...
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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...
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Matteo Caravani: Disciplinary Diversification in Karamoja: The Case of Charcoal
Room 221, IDS Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomPASTRES/STEPS Seminar with Matteo Caravani, Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) Room 221, Institute of Development Studies All welcome Following the Karamojong’s historical transition away from transhumant pastoralism – in...
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STEPS Annual Lecture: Derek Wall – What would Elinor do (about climate change)?
Fulton Lecture Theatre A University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomFulton A Lecture Theatre University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, UK Watch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYV7IpcCtTQ * * * About the lecture What would Elinor do (about climate change)? Elinor Ostrom was...
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PASTRES seminar: Pastoralism in the Arabian Peninsula – Reflections on contemporary challenges and adaptations to land use rights
Room 100, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, United KingdomRoom 100, Institute of Development Studies Seminar with Dawn Chatty, co-hosted by the PASTRES project and the STEPS Centre All welcome Watch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK53HSwe5PM&width=700&height=525 About the seminar Nomadic pastoralism in...
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Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development
Ester Boserup Prize Lecture by Ian Scoones, ESRC STEPS Centre / PASTRES project Watch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGgGGxdDZBY Lecture details A1-01.01 Festauditoriet Bülowsvej 17, 1870 Frederiksberg C Copenhagen This lecture will draw...
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Researching Pastoral Mobilities: Exploring Methods and Frameworks
18 – 21 June 2019 Friedensau University (Germany/Möckern) The “Pastoral Mobilities: Exploring Frameworks and Methods” writing workshop responds to the need to revisit our methodological infrastructure, as researchers of mobile...
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The Politics of Uncertainty: Practical Challenges for Transformative Action
Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomThis international academic symposium, held at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK, explored the theme of uncertainty - the STEPS Centre's theme for 2019. Book | Blog series...
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Transformation Laboratories as spaces for co-designing social-ecological transformation: learning from different contexts and approaches
The workshop will propose tools not only to academics but also to policy makers, practitioners, activists and everyone who is interested in designing multi-stakeholder spaces of transformation in the context of sustainability challenges in general and in extractive sectors such as mining and agriculture in particular.
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Negotiating Epistemological Frameworks and Normative Commitments Across a Transformative Knowledge Network
This is a session organised by the Pathways network for the Transformations 2019 conference in Sanitago, Chile.
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Relational and Psychological Dimensions of Agency
This is a session organised with members of the STEPS Global Consortium for the Transformations 2019 conference in Sanitago, Chile.
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Exhibition: ‘Hidden Paths’
ONCA Gallery 14 St George’s Place, Brighton, United KingdomONCA Gallery 14 St George’s Place, Brighton, BN1 4GB, UK 12.00 - 18.00 daily 16-20 October 2019 Free entry, donations to gallery welcome Global climate strikes are calling for ‘system...
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Applying Technologies of the Self in Transformation Labs to Mobilize Agency
This is a presentation from members of the Pathways network as part of the Parallel T-Practice Sessions at the Transformations 2019 conference in Sanitago, Chile.
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Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development and reimagining the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wkL_5h1-o4 CRC Future Rural Africa Lecture Series Universität Bonn, GIUB Lecture by Ian Scoones, Institute of Development Studies/ESRC STEPS Centre/ERC PASTRES project This talk makes the argument for putting uncertainty...
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[Postponed] STEPS Summer School 2020
Institute of Development Studies , United KingdomThe ninth and final STEPS Summer School on Pathways to Sustainability was due to take place on 11-22 May 2020, but has been postponed until the following year due to...
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*Postponed* STEPS Annual Lecture: Andrea J Nightingale
Fulton A Lecture Theatre, University of Sussex Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom* UPDATE, 18 MARCH 2020 * We are sorry that this event has been indefinitely postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bounding unruly landscapes: future imaginaries and socioenvironmental change 2020...
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ONLINE SEMINAR: Sango Mahanty – ‘Rupture: Conceptualising Nature-Society Transformation’
This event is the first in a series of online talks on the STEPS Centre’s ‘Natures’ theme. Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHjQyVEXB-c About this event Rupture: Conceptualising Nature-Society Transformation* Sango Mahanty Resources, Environment...
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Webinar: Transformations in and beyond Covid-19 in India and Bangladesh
11.00 UTC · 12.00 UK · 16.30 India · 17.00 Bangladesh Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u87JAXv5HZo About this event Flyer (PDF) This event is convened by the TAPESTRY project. The coronavirus outbreak has...
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Contested Natures: POLLEN 2020 conference
Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) 22-25 September 2020 Brighton, UK #POLLEN20 The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network, Contested...
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Politics of Nature reading group: Indigenous Climate Change Studies
Join us for an online discussion on readings related to the politics of nature. This month, the readings are: Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene by Kyle...
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Communities, technologies and democratic innovation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UGbxHNiMR0 Fusebox director Phil Jones interviewed Prof Andy Stirling and Prof Adrian Smith in a roundtable discussion. They talked about the importance and challenges around democratising innovation, and how people...
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Covid-19 and development: the politics of uncertainty
This event was part of the Sussex Development Lectures. Why is uncertainty so important to politics today? From finance and technology to climate change, pandemics, migration and security, what the...
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Politics of Nature reading group: Infrastructural Brutalism
Join us for an online discussion on readings related to the politics of nature. This month, the reading is Infrastructural Brutalism: Art and the Necropolitics of Infrastructure by Michael Truscello...
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Enchanting nature: tentacular storytelling in the Great African Kelp Forest
Roundtable with My Octopus Teacher director Pippa Ehrlich and others from the Sea Change Project Video recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNL-TDa31ks About this event There is a forest beneath the waves off the...
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Politics of Nature reading group: Hope Against Hope
Join us for an online discussion on readings related to the politics of nature. The reading for this session is the book by the Out of the Woods Collective, Hope...
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The Truth About Nature: Environmental politics in a post-truth, digital world
A presentation by Bram Büscher, author of The Truth about Nature: Environmentalism in the Era of Post-Truth Politics and Platform Capitalism, followed by roundtable discussion with Elizabeth Havice and Max...
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Transforming Environments from the Bottom Up – Examples from Marginal Environments in India
This is the first of two virtual sessions convened by the TAPESTRY project at the Gobeshona Conference on Locally Led Adaptation Action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy88UA9CBuU Speakers: Ketaki Bhadgaonkar (Bombay 61) Jai Bhadgaonkar...
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Sundarbans without boundaries
The second of two virtual sessions convened by the TAPESTRY project at the Gobeshona Conference on Locally Led Adaptation Action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfsB6zG3GLA Speakers: Shababa Haque (ICCCAD) Upasona Ghosh (Indian Institute of...
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Webinar: What can we learn from the world of pastoralism for wider agrarian struggles?
27 January at 12-13.30 (UTC) Speakers: -Ian Scoones, PASTRES Programme, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex, U.K. -Maryam Rahmanian (IPES) -Rahma Hassan PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen and University of...
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The Politics of Uncertainty – webinar with Natalie Burns and Andy Stirling
About this Event Register online This roundtable discussion is part of a project with the University of Sussex that looks beyond Silicon Valley to try and develop more effective and...
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Webinar: Ethics of quantification
14.00-16.45 CET, online This webinar features a panel including STEPS co-director Andy Stirling, alongside Andrea Saltelli and Wendy Espeland. Details & joining instructions About the event Numbers are at the...
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Challenging Research for sustainability: transdisciplinary methods, relationships, politics and praxis
As the ESRC STEPS Centre enters its final year, join us for the first in a series of virtual dialogues on methodologies, exploring the theme of ‘Challenging Research’ for sustainability. ...
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Power and Methods (ARIN webinar)
14.30-16.30 (East Africa Time/Nairobi) 5 March 2021, online Subscribe to our Events newsletter During 2021, the African Research and Impact Network (ARIN) are convening a series of events and engagements...
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Valuing Diversity in Methods – ARIN webinar
April 15 @ 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm EAT (East African Time) Organised by Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoRaaKT682g In 2021, the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) and...
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SRI 2021: Showing leadership in sustainability science – Lessons from the Global South and beyond the academy
The upcoming 2021 Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI) is hosting a session on leadership in sustainability science, narrowing in on what lessons can be drawn from the Global South....
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Transformations conference: Transformative Responses to Climate Uncertainties in South Asia
This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. In this session we present and open for debate experiences and challenges (methodological and conceptual) from carrying out...
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Transformations Conference: Theories and Perspectives of Transformations
This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. A live Q&A session with the authors of the presentations in this Interactive Session will take place at the...
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T-Lab: Transformation As Praxis – Responding To Climate Change Uncertainties In Marginal Environments In South Asia
This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. In this session we present and open for debate experiences and challenges (methodological and conceptual) from carrying out project...
