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...
Transformations to Sustainability programme workshop
Fukuoka, JapanResearchers 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...
Transforming Power Relations: Insights from the Transformations to Sustainability programme
Fukuoka, JapanA panel session at the World Social Science Forum 2018 in Fukuoka, Japan, which includes contributions from the Pathways Network.
Pathways to Sustainability – Understanding Sustainability Challenges and Key Research Needs
Nairobi, Kenya This event, hosted by the Africa Sustainability Hub, explored sustainable development challenges and priorities for the African continent. Topics include the role of research and partnerships, what research...
‘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,...
Decolonial Transformations: Imagining, Practising, Collaborating
This event, arising from a collaboration between the University of Sussex and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), aims to create a space for conversations and collaborations around...
Discussion: Transformations to Sustainability
Room 115, Jubilee Building, University of SussexThis 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...
Argentine Congress of Open and Citizen Science (CIACIAR)
CIACIAR (Congreso de Ciencia Abierta y Ciudadana en Argentina) was a one-day congress held at the University of San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The event was convened by CENIT and...
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...
Can pastoralists help us to respond to global uncertainties?
College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering Peking University, Beijing, ChinaSeminar 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....
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...
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:...
Peter Newell: ‘Climate and development: A tale of two crises’ (Sussex Development Lectures)
Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomLecture by Prof Peter Newell (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex). Peter Newell is a member of the STEPS Centre and a founding member of the Rapid Transition Alliance....
STEPS Seminar: Mathilde Gingembre – Bringing moral economy into the study of land deals: reflections from Madagascar
Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomSeminar organised by the Resource Politics and Rural Futures Clusters, in association with the STEPS Centre’s PASTRES project Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Slides View the slides from this...
Ian Scoones: ‘The SDGs: A new politics of transformation?’ (Sussex Development Lectures)
Convening Space, Institute of Development Studies Library Road, Falmer, Brighton, United KingdomLecture by Prof Ian Scoones, STEPS Centre director. This lecture is one of the Sussex Development Lectures. The theme of the current series (2018/19) is Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
[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...
*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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...