BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//STEPS Centre - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://steps-centre.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for STEPS Centre
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Africa/Nairobi
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0300
TZOFFSETTO:+0300
TZNAME:EAT
DTSTART:20200101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/London
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20200329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20201025T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20210328T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20211031T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20220327T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20221030T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:BST
DTSTART:20230326T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20231029T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Asia/Kolkata
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0530
TZOFFSETTO:+0530
TZNAME:IST
DTSTART:20200101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20210305T143000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20210305T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210226T143501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T105032Z
UID:15051-1614954600-1614961800@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Power and Methods (ARIN webinar)
DESCRIPTION:14.30-16.30 (East Africa Time/Nairobi)\n5 March 2021\, online \nSubscribe to our Events newsletter \nDuring 2021\, the African Research and Impact Network (ARIN) are convening a series of events and engagements on Methods. The ARIN events explore the question of Decolonising Methodologies to Sustainability in Africa. \nIn the Global South\, ‘coloniality’ has long been associated with political rule over subordinated countries. Struggles for ‘decoloniality’ have evolved from the undoing of colonial rule to the even more fundamental challenge of freeing knowledge\, practice\, and culture from deeper worldwide concentrations of incumbent power. \nThis webinar\, on 5 March 2021\, focused on how larger theories about methodologies have been applied to engage\, challenge and shift power\, and rein in hierarchical authorities (coloniality) associated with methods in Africa. \nWatch video \n \n  \nClips from the Webinar: \nDr Joel Onyango: Overview of Decolonising Sustainability Research \nKennedy Mbeva reflects on how he has engaged with power and methods. \nDr Laura Pereira: has her work challenged power/reinforced the idea of coloniality over decoloniality \nDr Mathew Mabefam shares his experience on how he creates the space to decolonise through research \nDr Joanes Atela: Why are we talking about decoloniality? \nResson Kantai Duff and Irene Amoke: Conservation\, sustainability and decoloniality – how it looks in practice. \n\nThis event is linked to a series of events entitled Challenging Research\, as part of the STEPS Centre’s theme for 2021: Methods. \n\nAbout the Methods theme\nMany methods offer ways to link knowledge and action for sustainability. But there are intense pressures to close down and narrow the way knowledge is produced and used for instrumental ends. What methodological assemblages\, frameworks\, tools and associated ways of being could help challenge these pressures\, open up to more perspectives and participation in research\, and allow us to pursue more plural pathways to sustainability? \nOur resources on Methods explore the theme through a series of events\, real-life examples and publications. \nFind out more
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/power-and-methods-arin-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Research methods
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://steps-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/power-and-methods.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20210415T143000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Nairobi:20210415T163000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210330T090705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210513T094150Z
UID:15153-1618497000-1618504200@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Valuing Diversity in Methods - ARIN webinar
DESCRIPTION:April 15 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm EAT (East African Time) \nOrganised by Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) \n \n\nIn 2021\, the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN) and partners (ACTS Kenya\, STEPS Centre UK\, Umbela Transformaciones Sostenibles and the Global Sustainability Hubs)\, are exploring what decoloniality would mean for research methods\, and policy (engagement\, co-creation\, etc) processes globally (with experiences in Africa\, North America\, and the UK). \nThe focus of ARIN in the project is on “Decolonising Methodologies to Sustainability in the Global South”. The project will include seminars\, and a book culminating in methods vignettes and video snippets\, and an invite-only ARIN-ASH Summer School. \nWebinar 3: Valuing Diversity in Methods \nThe third webinar in the series\, focuses on how methods have been used to open-up\, broaden-out\, and let-go. The webinar explored how concrete methods have been applied in different (geographical\, social\, political) settings to demonstrate diversity\, with multiple range inputs\, framings\, and voices. Central to this webinar was drawing on theories to illuminate practical examples and reflections. \n\nThis event is linked to our theme on Methods.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/valuing-diversity-in-methods-arin-webinar/
CATEGORIES:Research methods
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210615T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210615T110000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210614T052349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210614T082620Z
UID:15341-1623751200-1623754800@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:SRI 2021: Showing leadership in sustainability science - Lessons from the Global South and beyond the academy
DESCRIPTION: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. Among the session’s speakers are two STEPS Centre colleagues: D. Parthasarathy\, co project leader of the TAPESTRY Project\, and Joanes Atela of the STEPS Africa Sustainability Hub. \nThe event will commence Tuesday 15 June 10:00 – 11:00 AM GMT +1 / 4:00 – 5:00 AM CT/CDT \nSpeakers:\n\nAnupama Nair\nJoanes Atela\nDeborah Darko\nSylvia Croese\nGladman Thondhlana\nD. Parthasarathy\nSarah Moore\nKatsia Paulavets\n\nSummary\nThis session will facilitate learning from experience in the leadership of international sustainability research from the Global South. \nInternational research initiatives on and for sustainability are multiplying\, in response to the growing recognition of the global\, interconnected nature of the challenges of sustainability. There is simultaneously an increasing demand for sustainability research to be done in collaboration with stakeholders or members of society concerned by specific problems (in configurations called ‘transdisciplinary research’)\, to increase the legitimacy and relevance of the research as well as the likelihood of its eventual uptake into policy and action. \nThese new demands give rise to a number of questions: What are the unique benefits of sustainability research designed and led from the Global South\, and/or with societal stakeholders? What are the experiences of Global South and non-academic researchers with leading roles in international\, transdisciplinary research for sustainability? What have the academic establishment got to learn from the Global South and non-academics about doing research for sustainability? How can research funders avoid inadvertently perpetuating inequalities and inequities in the global science system? \nThe discussion will be kicked off by a representatives of international research teams in two pioneering research programmes of the International Science Council: Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa (LIRA 2030) and the Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) programme (a joint programme with the Belmont Forum and NORFACE). The audience will be invited to share their own reflections on experiences of leadership or participation in international or national research initiatives. \nThe outcome of the session will be a rich collection of insights and suggestions for models for more progressive and inclusive organization and funding of internationally collaborative science for sustainability. \nVisit the session page
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/sri2021-showing-leadership-in-sustainability-science-lessons-from-the-global-south-and-beyond-the-academy/
CATEGORIES:Governance & policy,Understanding sustainability
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://steps-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/14.06.2021_00.11.12_REC-1.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210518T090238Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210527T040342Z
UID:15295-1623931200-1623934800@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Transformations conference: Transformative Responses to Climate Uncertainties in South Asia
DESCRIPTION:This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. \nIn this session we present and open for debate experiences and challenges (methodological and conceptual) from carrying out project research on transformation from ‘below’ in marginal environments in South Asia marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties and where transformative changes are being assembled and co-produced on the ground by hybrid and transformative alliances. \nPresentations: \n\nHans Adam: Arresting Environmental Collapse\, Restoring Resource-based Livelihoods: Transforming Koli Fisherfolk in and with Mumbai\nShilpi Srivastava: Dryland transformations: Reviving pastoralist livelihoods in Kutch\, India\nRanit Chatterjee: Integration of New and future Risks into Transformative Adaptation for Sustainability: Case of Milk Businesses in Kutch\nSynne Movik: Transformation as Praxis: Responding to climate change uncertainties in marginal environments in South Asia\n\nThis session is linked to the TAPESTRY project. \nView the Conference programme
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transformations-conference-transformative-responses-to-climate-uncertainties-in-south-asia/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Pastoralism,Understanding sustainability
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210617T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210525T031434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T104701Z
UID:15306-1623956400-1623960000@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Transformations Conference: Theories and Perspectives of Transformations
DESCRIPTION:This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. \nA live Q&A session with the authors of the presentations in this Interactive Session will take place at the scheduled time. Registered participants can watch the pre-recorded presentations from 7/06/2021 until 31/08/2021. \nSpeakers: \n\nBruce Goldstein\nCristina Costa Salavedra\nNeha Mungekar\nPaulina Aldunce\nAndy Stirling\nRose Cairns\n\nThis session is linked to the STEPS Centre’s theme for 2021: Methods \nView Conference Programme
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transformations-conference-theories-and-perspectives-of-transformations/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Research methods,Understanding sustainability
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://steps-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/change-slider.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210618T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210618T093000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210527T034648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210617T093954Z
UID:15311-1624003200-1624008600@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:T-Lab: Transformation As Praxis - Responding To Climate Change Uncertainties In Marginal Environments In South Asia
DESCRIPTION:This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. \nIn this session we present and open for debate experiences and challenges (methodological and conceptual) from carrying out project research on transformation from ‘below’ in marginal environments in South Asia marked by high levels of climate-related uncertainties and where transformative changes are being assembled and co-produced on the ground by hybrid and transformative alliances. \n\nThis session is linked to the TAPESTRY project. \nVIEW THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transformation-conference-2021-transformation-as-praxis-responding-to-climate-change-uncertainties-in-marginal-environments-in-south-asia/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy,Research methods,Understanding sustainability
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210618T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210618T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210505T095520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210617T154838Z
UID:15273-1624010400-1624017600@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Transformations Conference: Africa - ‘Philosophical Underpinnings’ In Decolonizing Research Methods For Transformation Towards Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:This plenary session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. \nThis event is convened by the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN). \nCONVENERS: Joanes Atela and Joel Onyango. With contributions from Andrew Stirling\, Laura Pereira\, Nadia Sitas\, and Jessica Cockburn \nView conference programme \n\nBackground\nIn contributing to the decoloniality imperative\, the session focuses on different ontological and epistemological perspectives associated with decolonizing methodologies. The session will involve a brief introduction on the concept of decolonizing methods for sustainability research to transformation\, followed by a tripartite (academia/research\, practice/practitioners\, policy) engagement to: i) explore what philosophical underpinnings in sustainability research means in the various contexts; ii) define the implications of decolonizing the dominant narratives that are associated with the cultural diversity in the way knowledge is generated\, used\, and passed; iii) develop indicators for practice and policy in decolonizing how evidence in the space may be applicable; and iv) deliver a three-point research agenda for decolonizing research towards transformation sustainability (anchored in the philosophical development of research and practice). \nThis event is linked to the STEPS Centre’s 2021 theme: Methods \n\nAbout Methods: OUR THEME FOR 2021\nMany methods offer ways to link knowledge and action for sustainability. But there are intense pressures to close down and narrow the way knowledge is produced and used for instrumental ends. \nWhat methodological assemblages\, frameworks\, tools and associated ways of being could help challenge these pressures\, open up to more perspectives and participation in research\, and allow us to pursue more plural pathways to sustainability? \nFind out more
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transformations-conference-africa-philosophical-underpinnings-in-decolonizing-research-methods-for-transformation-towards-sustainability/
CATEGORIES:Research methods
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210618T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210618T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210518T091008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T104612Z
UID:15296-1624032000-1624037400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Transformations Conference: Tales of Uncertainty\, Resilience and Transformation Through Visual Stories and Narratives
DESCRIPTION:This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. \nWe focus how participatory storytelling\, through visual methods\, facilitates an engaged process of building knowledge from below by sketching issues of vivencia representing climate change\, uncertainty and transformative actions in South Asia. The participants discuss potential\, limitations and scope for co-creation of knowledge. \nThis session is linked to the TAPESTRY project. \nView the Conference programme
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/tales-of-uncertainty-resilience-and-transformation-through-visual-stories-and-narratives/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://steps-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Shibaji-Bose_crop-4.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210618T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210618T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210518T091954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210617T153600Z
UID:15298-1624032000-1624037400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Transformations Conference: Transformations from within: Towards a 2nd person epistemologies & methodologies
DESCRIPTION:This session is open to registered participants at the Transformations Conference 2021. \nPresenters: \nJesús M. Siqueiros\, Alex Penn; Lakshmi Charli-Joseph; Beth Cullen; Marina Apgar; Andrew Stirling \nAbstract: \nStructural\, systemic and enabling transformations towards sustainability require reconnecting to our local environment and the biosphere in general (i.e.\, Folke et al. 2011\, Scoones et al. 2020\, among others). With the aim of contributing to this notion\, for us the meaning of reconnecting is to acknowledge our position as scientists and society in general as embedded in a world that is experientially meaningful to us. We posit that transformations need to start with our recognition that we are not acting on a world that we are detached from\, but that it is a world in which we live\, we are part of it\, and shared among us meaningfully. \nWe posit that reconnecting to the biosphere needs radical approaches. In this spirit\, we suggest exploring the notion of 2nd person epistemologies and methodologies. We have worked on the idea of 2nd person perspective\, yet is still a primitive intuition that we broadly understand as one that: \n\nIntends to bring together the 3rd person methodologies of science with the 1st person meaningful experiences of the world as we live it –from within; and\nDemands to address others –human and non-human- as subjects\, recognising the authenticity of their experiences as living the system we share\, rather than approach them as mere objects of study\, alien to our existence.\n\nAs part of the STEPS Centre 2021 theme focused on Methods\, this Practice Session will be centred on the exploration of the notion of 2nd person epistemologies and methodologies.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/transformations-conference-transformations-from-within-towards-a-2nd-person-epistemologies-methodologies/
CATEGORIES:Understanding sustainability
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210621T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210621T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210517T090931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210517T091013Z
UID:15294-1624284000-1624289400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Pastoralism and climate change in West Africa: implications for policy and practice
DESCRIPTION:A public webinar event hosted by the Ghana Hub of the Institute of Development Studies. The event includes a contribution from STEPS co-director and PASTRES project convenor Ian Scoones. \nRegister / More info \n\nSpeakers \n\nProfessor Steve William Tonah\, Advanced Researcher\, University of Ghana\nProfessor Gabriel Teye\, Vice-Chancellor\, University for Development Studies\nProfessor Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic\, Professor of agricultural engineering and Director of the Office for International Relationships and Advancement of the UDS\, University for Development Studies\nDr Abukari Abdulai\, Senior Research Fellow\, University for Development Studies\nProfessor Ian Scoones\, Professorial Fellow\, Institute of Development Studies / PASTRES project\n\nAbout the event \nThis event will discuss the intersection of pastoralism and climate change in West Africa. Livestock have a role to play in climate change – but at the same time pastoralism and livestock keeping provide critical livelihood pathways and cultural identity for millions across the region. Simultaneously\, these people are among those seriously affected by climate change. Suggested contemporary policy directions have wide ranging and diverse environmental\, cultural and practical implications for people\, animals and environment across ecological zones in West Africa. Experts from across social\, climate and livestock sciences will provide short provocations based on current research and opinion on these themes. These presentations will be followed by a discussion\, which will touch on issues of emissions mitigation\, range management\, sequestration\, livelihoods\, and ethnoprofessional activities and discourses. It will aim to connect these to policy concerns in Ghana and in the wider region\, with a view to discussing relevant and timely research directions for the coming period.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/pastoralism-and-climate-change-in-west-africa-implications-for-policy-and-practice/
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210708T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210708T143000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210706T081526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210804T154303Z
UID:15388-1625747400-1625754600@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:ARIN Webinar: Multidimensionality of Methods
DESCRIPTION:Webinar organised by the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN).\n8 July 2021\n \n \n\nThis webinar explores multiple facets of research (such as funding flows\, research politics\, and the perceived research power dynamics between female and male researcher)\, and how collectively they promote or undermine decoloniality of methods. Considering that different disciplines have variety in methodological applications\, which are perceived differently among researchers\, practitioners and policy makers\, it follows that aspects such as funding flows\, research politics\, and the perceived research power dynamics between gender groups is likely to tilt decolonizing research into multiple layers of actions. \nFacilitators: Joel Onyango and Joanes Atela \nFor more on this series\, and related resources\, visit the STEPS Methods theme. \nFind out more
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/arin-webinar-multidimensionality-of-methods/
CATEGORIES:Research methods
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210726T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210726T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210720T093949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210727T164248Z
UID:15397-1627300800-1627300800@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:SUNDARBANS WITHOUT BOUNDARIES: Co-creating Transformative Knowledge and Action
DESCRIPTION:Sundarbans Roundtable Session at ICCCAD Roundtable \n26 July 2021  \nCo-hosted by the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and the TAPESTRY project. \n \nThis roundtable discussed the possibilities and results of transboundary research in the Indian and Bangladesh Sundarbans. Speakers shared views from their work on the nature and extent of boundaries; and how transboundary research can lead to transformative knowledge and action around gender\, livelihoods\, and natural resource management. Innovative research methods—including PhotoVoice and digital photo diaries — offered visual context. \nDownload flyer (PDF) \n\nspeakers\nClick to expand image\n\nDr Lars Otto Naess\, Institute of Development Studies\, UK (chair)\nProf Lyla Mehta\, Institute of Development Studies\, UK\nDr Saleemul Huq\, International Centre for Climate Change and Development\, Bangladesh\nDr Sumana Bandyopadhyay\, Calcutta University\, India\nDr Md. Kamrul Hassan\, University of Dhaka\, Bangladesh\nDr Camelia Dewan\, University of Oslo\, Norway\nMs Mahmuda Mity\, International Centre for Climate Change and Development\, Bangladesh\nDr Upasona Ghosh\, Indian Institute of Public Health\, Bhubaneshwar\, India\nMr Shibaji Bose\, TAPESTRY project\, West Bengal\, India\nMr Mihir R. Bhatt\, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute\, India\n\n\nAbout the Roundtable\nThe Sundarbans remain one of the most complex and vulnerable areas in South Asia and an area where multiple socioecological challenges converge. It brings together issues such as sea level rise; delta management; collaborative role of India and Bangladesh in adaptation measures; large scale displacement; adaptive livelihood; and managed retreat. However\, as this delta area is divided between India and Bangladesh\, the action and research initiatives remain partial and recommendations become fractured. One way to address these challenges is to find ways to co-create studies on Sundarbans across the national boundaries\, so that transformative knowledge and action become possible in one of the most important locations in South Asia. \nThe aim of this roundtable is to share insights from recent and ongoing work both in the Indian and Bangladesh Sundarbans. The session is informed by the TAPESTRY project\, which has over six years of experiences of action research around uncertainty and transformation\, with a focus on livelihood and gender\, in the Sundarbans delta. Co-creation of knowledge with researchers by local leaders blur the boundaries—geopolitical and knowledge and ecological—between the two parts of Sundarbans delta. As there are as many similarities as there are dissimilarities\, the ongoing collaborative research work explores multiple Sundarbans\, simultaneous economic and ecological influences\, as well as various ways these influences are interpreted our contextualised by local and non-local individuals. Ultimately\, the project seeks to understand and help support emerging ‘patches’ of transformations\, working with local partner institutions for transformative knowledge and action. \nThe panel will share views from their work on the nature and extent of boundaries; and how transboundary research can lead to transformative knowledge and action around gender\, livelihoods\, and natural resource management. Innovative research methods—including PhotoVoice and digital photo diaries—will offer visual context from the Below to the participants. The roundtable will seek to generate insights on how transformative and transboundary knowledge helps unearth relations—social and economic and ecological—that are otherwise frozen in time between boundaries. This is especially urgent now in view of increasing vulnerabilities and risk due to climate change\, frequent high extreme cyclonic events\, and rapid ecological degradation and loss of habitats. The roundtable is facilitated by ICCCAD\, which is a leading international research organisation rooted in Bangladesh and leads work on local leadership in adaptation. \n\nThe TAPESTRY project includes IDS (UK)\, AIDMI\, IIT Bombay\, NMBU and NIVA (Norway)\, Kyoto University (Japan)\, Caritas\, and nine local organisations in India and Bangladesh.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/sundarbans-without-boundaries-co-creating-transformative-knowledge-and-action/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210815T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210822T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210325T141811Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210325T142128Z
UID:15142-1629014400-1629651600@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:ARIN/ASH Summer School on Decolonizing Sustainability Research
DESCRIPTION:15-22 August 2021\nOrganised by the Africa Research & Impact Network and Africa Sustainability Hub\nDeadline for applications: 1 June 2021\n \nFull details (ARIN website) Application form \n\nBackground\nIn the Global South\, ‘coloniality’ has long been associated with political rule over subordinated countries.\n \n1. Struggles for ‘decoloniality’ have evolved from the undoing of colonial rule\, to the even more fundamental challenge of freeing knowledge\, practice\, and culture from deeper worldwide concentrations of incumbent power.\n \n2. In keeping with the more expansive ambitions of the Sustainable Development Goals\, a decolonisation framework thus encompasses some of the most profound and pervasive critiques of globalising structures and their conditioning effects in every setting.\n \n3. Accordingly\, the neglected imperative to ‘decolonise methodologies’ in research and policy appraisal\, embodies some of the most important and intractable challenges in this sustainability – offering crucial opportunities for thinking\, knowing\, and doing alike.\n \n4. The summer school will allow participants therefore to explore how methods for informing policy decisions and wider political debates can enable learning\, enrich knowledge\, enhance practice and nurture more emancipatory outcomes in the Global South.  \nAbout the summer school\nDrawing from the lessons on the Decoloniality of Methods webinar series (practices)\, and book project (theory)\, the summer school will provide a practical opportunity for participants to explore how methods have been (can be) used to inform\, impact and transform policies\, societies and economies. At the end of the training sessions\, the participants will participate in the STEPS methods year workshop\, as part of their post-summer school alumni engagement. The summer school takes into consideration a learner centred approach\, allowing for theory\, practice\, and practical approaches.   \nTarget participants\nThe participants in the summer school will be drawn from multiple stakeholders and sectors\, and will cut across various actor groups of interest to decolonisation of methods\, and valorisation of next generation of practical methods. Specifically the summer school targets PhD students and early career researchers\, policy makers\, and practitioners contributing to sustainability.  \nMethods of delivery\nThe school will bring together acclaimed scholars of the field of sustainability research\, decoloniality\, and methods\, aiming to offer each participant the opportunity to follow:  \n\nRoundtable discussions and lectures  \nJoint lectures every morning delivered by different international scholars \nCase study course sessions delivered by different international scholars \nWorkshop groups in the afternoon to discuss the research projects contributing to Decoloniality of Sustainability Research of each participant addressed to small groups of 10 to 15 participants \n\n\nApplication details\nDeadline: June 1st\, 2021  \nConfirmation of admission to the summer school: July 15th 2021  \nSchool dates: August 15th to 22nd 2021  \nApply online \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/arin-ash-summer-school-on-decolonizing-sustainability-research/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20210821T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20210821T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210819T092751Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210831T081831Z
UID:15431-1629565200-1629570600@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Through the Eyes of the Kolis: A reflection on Mumbai’s past\, present & future
DESCRIPTION:21 August 2021 at 17.00 – 18.30 (India Time) \nA talk and an open discussion on the future of the Koli community in Mumbai. \nThe panel consists of Kolis who are extremely passionate about the community and enthusiastic to work for the betterment of their people and their culture. Be a part of this discussion to know more about the community-led initiatives that intend to strengthen the identity of the Kolis. \nSpeakers: \n\nGanesh Nakhawa\nRajhans Tapke\nVikas Koli\n\n \n\nRelated\n26 August 2021: Roundtable: Old Cities\, New Risks \nExhibition: Through the Eyes of the Kolis \nExhibition: On Extraction and Debilitating Livelihoods
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/through-the-eyes-of-the-kolis-a-reflection-on-mumbais-past-present-future/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20210826T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20210826T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210819T091509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T153400Z
UID:15427-1629997200-1629997200@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Roundtable: Old Cities\, New Risks
DESCRIPTION:26 August 2021 at 17.00-18.30 (India time) \nThis Roundtable brought together a panel of experts and key stakeholders to discuss the risks faced by India’s cities in the context of climate change and other uncertainties\, and how to respond to them. \nThe main objective of this Roundtable was to work with the participants to co-create a better understanding of future risks to India’s coastal cities. \nWatch the video \n\n \n  \n\nAbout this event\nDownload a flyer for this event (PDF) \nThe IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) underscores the perils of inadequate infrastructure in coastal metropolises. AR6 highlights the compounded climate extremes that would result in urbanised coastal landscapes facing heavy precipitation in conjunction with “extreme sea level events.” \nSevere sea-level events that previously occurred once in a century\, are now likely to occur on an annual basis. In Mumbai\, cascading factors such as extreme rainfall\, mass-urbanisation\, an impermeable concretised landscape\, and sea-level rise will increase the severity of flooding\, impacting the city’s most vulnerable populaces and the ecosystem services that they depend upon. \nThe TAPESTRY project explores how transformation may arise ‘from below’ in marginal environments with high levels of uncertainty. We look at transformative alliances between actors (local communities\, NGOs\, scientists\, and state agencies) that seek socially just\, and ecologically sound alternatives based on local people’s plural understandings of what transformation entails. These ‘patches’ of transformation have the potential to grow\, influence\, and merge with others. \nThe main objective of this Roundtable is to work with the participants to co-create a better understanding of future risks to India’s coastal cities. \nPanel:\nChandni Singh\, IIHS Bangalore\nHitesh Vaidya\, National Institute of Urban Affairs\nMahua Mukherjee\, IIT Roorkee\nMihir Bhatt\, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute\nSridhar Balasubramanian\, IIT Bombay\nS. Janakarajan\, MIDS\, Chennai\nNC Narayanan\, IIT Bombay\nKrishna Achuta Rao\, IIT Delhi \nStakeholders: \nMami Mizutori\, Head UNDRR\nE. Ravendiran (IAS)\, Current GST Commissioner\, Former Secretary\, MPCB\nLahuraj Mali (IAS)\, Director\, Disaster Management\, Government of Maharashtra\nNaman Gupta\, State Project Manager\, UNDP India\nSunil Panchbhai\, Secretary\, Institution of Mechanical Engineers\, India\nAarti Soni\, Scientist Mumbai Zonal Centre\, CSIR NEERI \n\nSee also\n21 August 2021: Panel event – ‘Through the Eyes of the Kolis – A Reflection on Mumbai’s Past\, Present and Future’ \nExhibition: Through the Eyes of the Kolis \nExhibition: On Extraction and Debilitating Livelihoods \nThis roundtable is one of a series of events convened by the TAPESTRY project.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/roundtable-old-cities-new-risks/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211014T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211014T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20211006T095449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T122557Z
UID:15514-1634230800-1634236200@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Lecture: Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development
DESCRIPTION:Sussex Development Lecture by Ian Scoones\, co-director of the STEPS Centre \n \nThis lecture makes the argument for putting uncertainty at the centre of thinking and practice in development. This means rejecting a linear\, technocratic framing and embracing the implications of uncertainty for today’s complex\, dynamic world. Through a number of examples – from the fields of banking\, critical infrastructures and disease control – the elements of new thinking on uncertainty and development are explored. \nThe lecture argues\, however\, that those who live with and from uncertainty day-to-day are best placed to innovate and help refashion development more broadly. Drawing from the PASTRES programme\, examples from pastoralism from around the world are offered to demonstrate the importance learning from the margins. The lecture concludes with a reflection on new directions for development that take uncertainty seriously and help refashion the way we imagine the future. \nspeaker\n\nIan Scoones\, Professor\, Institute of Development Studies\, University of Sussex\, co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre and PI European\, Research Council Advanced Grant\, PASTRES\n\nchair:\n\nPeter Taylor\, Director of Research at the Institute of Development Studies\n\nHow to attend\nThis lecture is held on Zoom\, hosted by the Institute of Development Studies. Online registration is free of charge. \nRegister \n\nMore about uncertainty\nResources and research on uncertainty in relation to sustainability and development is available from the STEPS Centre’s Uncertainty theme. \nTo explore stories and photographs on how pastoralists understand\, experience and respond to uncertainty\, visit the online exhibition\, Seeing Pastoralism.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/lecture-why-embracing-uncertainty-means-rethinking-development/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211103T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20211101T120934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211101T122340Z
UID:15586-1635930000-1636736400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Exhibition: Seeing Pastoralism - Livestock and Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:3-12 November 2021\nCivic House\, 26 Civic Street\, Glasgow G4 9RH \nThis photo exhibition explores how pastoralists from three continents are tackling climate change. \nThe exhibition is linked to a new report that explains why climate assessments need to differentiate between climate-damaging intensive production and extensive\, mobile pastoral production. \nA launch event on 3 November from 15.00-17.00 will include a discussion with pastoral leaders from Jordan\, Mali\, Mongolia\, Norway\, Spain\, Chad and Uganda. \nThis event is co-organised by the PASTRES project and the World Association of Mobile Indigenous Peoples. \n\nFind out more\nTo explore the exhibition online\, visit seeingpastoralism.org. \nRead the report ‘Are livestock always bad for the planet?’. \n  \n 
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/exhibition-seeing-pastoralism/
CATEGORIES:Pastoralism
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211108T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211108T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20210824T155902Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211201T162622Z
UID:15447-1636383600-1636394400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Methods bazaar: Transdisciplinary methods for sustainability
DESCRIPTION:  \nAn online knowledge exchange event for researchers and other participants in sustainability initiatives interested in transdisciplinary methods \n8 November 2021\n15.00 – 18.00 UTC/GMT \n\nBLOG: The Methods ‘bazaar’ – What did we learn about transdisciplinary methods for sustainability?\nVideo and reflections from the event\, including short talks by researchers with experience of using methods in their own work. \nRead more \n\nAbout the event\nWhat methods can help to ‘open up’ and ‘broaden out’ pathways to sustainability\, revealing alternatives to one-track visions of progress and expertise?  \nThis online methods ‘bazaar’ will create a space for early career researchers from diverse countries and contexts to share experiences and learn from case studies of transdisciplinary research in sustainability. Building on contributions from participants we will reflect on ways of using methods\, practices\, actions\, and associated skills in sustainability and transdisciplinary research and practice. In celebrating and sharing experiences\, the event aims to foster connections between early career researchers and practitioners involved in sustainability research across different regions of the world. \nSustainability challenges – from Covid-19 to climate change\, agri-food futures to urbanisation – require thinking carefully about the relationships between power\, knowledge and action. Transdisciplinary methods can offer a way to make new connections between diverse forms of knowledge and action to challenge power. In this event\, we’ll come together to exchange examples of transdisciplinary methods and their practical application\, and reflect on the challenges we encounter\, draw lessons\, and think about how these could inform future initiatives that link research and action for sustainability. \nThis event will be of interest to those who are thinking about or are already using transdisciplinary methods in sustainability initiatives\, in particular early career researchers\, those in the last year of their PhD studies\, and sustainability practitioners who do not identify as researchers\, including those engaged in policy development. \n\nThis is the last event in the series ‘Challenging Research for Sustainability’\, convened by the ESRC STEPS Centre (co-hosted by IDS and SPRU\, University of Sussex)\, ARIN (African Research and Impact Network)\, and events in Mexico coordinated by the NGO Umbela Transformaciones Sostenibles\, co-coordinated by LANCIS-IE-UNAM\, and in association with IIMAS-UNAM and the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University.  \nTo find out more\, visit the STEPS Centre’s Methods theme.
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/methods-bazaar-transdisciplinary-methods-for-sustainability/
CATEGORIES:Research methods
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://steps-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/methods-bazaar-banner-no-date.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211208T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211208T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20211027T101439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211213T144119Z
UID:15562-1638968400-1638975600@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Pathways to sustainability: knowledge\, politics and power
DESCRIPTION:Virtual event\, 8 December 2021 \nThis final event of the ESRC STEPS Centre brought together friends\, collaborators and networks from around the world. We explored the major challenges for sustainability in the present moment\, reflected on lessons from the past fifteen years\, and discussed future possibilities\, plans and initiatives.\n\nVideo playlist: Watch Talks from the event\nThis video playlist includes clips from the plenary and parallel sessions at the event. It begins with short reflections from Alison Park (ESRC Executive Chair) and Melissa Leach (Director\, IDS)\, as well as Line Gordon (Director\, Stockholm Resilience Centre) and Dipak Gyawali (Pragya\, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology). \nThe playlist also features recordings of eight of the parallel sessions\, as well as talks that looked forward to ongoing initiatives and future plans\, including the Mexico-based transdisciplinary collective Umbela – Transformaciones Sociales\, the Africa Research and Impact Network (ARIN)\, the Transdisciplinary Research Cluster on Sustainability Studies (TRCSS) in India\, and the Bioleft initiative on open source commoning in seeds. \n \nView this playlist on YouTube \n\nEvent details\nSince 2006\, the STEPS Centre has focused on multiple challenges around social justice and environmental sustainability\, building on long-standing struggles. From epidemics and pandemics to water\, energy\, food and other resources\, and the politics of innovation and technologies\, multiple ‘pathways to sustainability’ are always influenced by different kinds of knowledge and forms of power. \nAs a research centre\, we understand that knowledge is not neutral. It not only ‘speaks’ to – but is also partly shaped by – politics and power. Powerful interests not only sideline ‘inconvenient truths’\, they also condition what is taken to be true. Through our research programmes and our Pathways Approach\, the STEPS Centre has aimed to highlight this shaping of knowledge by power. We have sought to help establish practical ways to properly address the perspectives of marginalised people. We have helped develop diverse methods\, options and understandings to underpin action to ‘open up’ the politics of sustainability. \nAgenda\n13.00 Setting the stage (PLENARY)\n\nAlison Park\, ESRC Executive Chair\nMelissa Leach\, Director\, IDS\nChair: Ian Scoones\, STEPS Centre\n\nWhat’s next for the politics of knowledge\, in driving radically progressive worldwide transformations to sustainability? \n\nLine Gordon\, Director\, Stockholm Resilience Centre\nDipak Gyawali\, Pragya\, Nepal Academy of Science and Technology\n\n13.30 Key themes: challenges\, lessons and opportunities (PARALLEL)\nRegulating technologies (PDF) \nTransformative space making for urban sustainability (PDF) \nReframing climate technology policy beyond hegemonic discourses of hardware-finance (PDF) \nPower and politics in grassroots innovation (PDF) \nCare vs. control in agri-food system transformations (PDF) \nUncertainty and transformation: looking back and looking forward (PDF) \nPandemics and the politics of knowledge (PDF) \nMoving beyond methods in support of transformative change (PDF) \nNature\, crisis stories and the politics of repair (PDF) \nEnergy transition\, minerals\, conflicts and civil society participation in Latin America and the Caribbean (PDF) \n14.15 Next steps and onward collaborations (PLENARY)\nPlenary with interventions by speakers from initiatives connected to the STEPS Centre\, followed by discussion (Chair: Andy Stirling\, STEPS Centre) \n\nTransformative transdisciplinary experiences as inspirations for next endeavours\nLakshmi Charli-Joseph (LANCIS-IE\, UNAM) & Patricia Pérez-Belmont (Umbela)\nCitizen alliances and ecological democracy for sustainable urbanisation\nRitu Priya Mehrotra (TRCSS-JNU\, India) \nDecolonising methodologies for sustainability\nJoanes Atela and Joel Onyango (Africa Research and Impact Network/ACTS)\nTowards open source commoning on seeds: The BioLeft initiative\nAnabel Marín (IDS)\n\n15.00 Close\n\nRegistration\nVisit our registration form to sign up for this event. When registering\, you will need to indicate which breakout panel you would like to be in. You will be assigned to that breakout group on the day of the event. \nRegister \n\nRelated content\nBOOK: Transformative Pathways to Sustainability: Learning Across Disciplines\, Cultures and Contexts\nEdited by Adrian Ely (2021)\nRoutledge – Pathways to Sustainability Series\, Open Access \nDraws on content and cases from across the ‘Pathways’ Transformative Knowledge Network\, an international group of six regional hubs working on sustainability challenges in their own local or national contexts. Each of these hubs reports on their experiences of ‘transformation laboratory’ processes on food systems\, low carbon energy and industrial transformations\, and water and waste in cities. \nTransformative Pathways to Sustainability: Learning Across Disciplines\, Cultures and Contexts \n \nBook: The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India\nEdited By Lyla Mehta\, Hans Nicolai Adam\, Shilpi Srivastava\nRoutledge – Pathways to Sustainability Series\, Open Access (forthcoming – Winter 2021) \nThis book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. With case studies from coastal Mumbai to dryland Kutch and the Sundarbans delta\, the book unpacks the diverse discourses\, practices and politics of uncertainty and demonstrates profound differences through which the “above”\, “middle” and “below” understand and experience climate change and uncertainty. \nThe Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India \n \nAnimation: What are Pathways to Sustainability?\nWatch our short animation explaining the STEPS Centre’s Pathways Approach and what it means for transformative action for sustainability. \n \nThe STEPS Centre’s final year: reflections on a 15-year journey\nSTEPS Centre co-directors Ian Scoones and Andy Stirling reflect on the story of the Centre\, with a timeline of key events and developments. \nThe STEPS Centre’s final year: reflections on a 15-year journey \n \nStories of Change\nTen stories show what the STEPS Centre learned from our involvement in debates around pandemics\, energy\, food\, nature\, transformations\, uncertainty and more. \nStories of Change
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/pathways-to-sustainability-knowledge-politics-and-power/
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://steps-centre.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/banner-fea.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220216T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220216T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20220203T165314Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220203T171041Z
UID:15958-1645020000-1645027200@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:Populism\, authoritarianism and agrarian struggles
DESCRIPTION:16 February 2022  \n11:00 São Paulo/15:00 Amsterdam/19:30 New Delhi/22:00 Beijing \nRegister  \nAround the world emerging new exclusionary politics are generating deepening inequalities\, jobless ‘growth’\, climate chaos\, and social division. These processes have been intensified or exposed in many places by the Covid-19 pandemic and responses to it\, but they are not new. Since 2017 the Emancipatory Rural Politics Initiative (ERPI) has used engaged research to better understand these destructive dynamics\, and the social and political processes in rural spaces that are generating alternatives to them. \nEngaged researchers have published timely collections on these issues: (a) Routledge book ‘Authoritarianism and the Rural World‘ (Open Access ebook); (b) Special Issue of Sociologia Ruralis on authoritarian populism in Europe; (c) Special Issue of Journal of Rural Studies on North America; (d) a special forum of Latin American Perspectives; and e) A View From The Countryside\, co-published by TNI\, FIAN\, and ERPI. \nThis edition of the Agrarian Conversations Webinar Series will showcase these relevant and urgent publications\, discuss recent events\, and assess the progress of struggles in and from the rural areas in relation to right-wing populism.\nSpeakers: \n\nAchin Vanaik (TNI\, India)\nGarrett Lovelace-Graddy (American University\, USA)\,\nAttila Szocs (Ecoruralis & ECVC\, Romania)\nAyala Ferreira (MST\, Amazonas)\n\nModerators: Ruth Hall (PLAAS) and Katie Sandwell (TNI) \nBackground reading: Preface of ‘Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World’\, pages xv-xxi \nLanguages: English\, Spanish\, French \nContact: c.sandwell@tni.org \nRegister
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/populism-authoritarianism-and-agrarian-struggles/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220331T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220331T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T225430
CREATED:20220201T160424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220209T154046Z
UID:15955-1648746000-1648751400@steps-centre.org
SUMMARY:The politics of climate change and uncertainty in India
DESCRIPTION:31 March 2022\nat 17.00 (UK time)\n**Please note the new time of this event**\n \n\nThis Sussex Development Lecture will introduce the themes of uncertainty explored in the new book The Politics of Climate Change and Uncertainty in India. \nMore information and registration details are on the IDS website. \nFind out more
URL:https://steps-centre.org/event/the-politics-of-climate-change-and-uncertainty-in-india/
CATEGORIES:Climate change & energy
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR