Seminar recordings and slides
Time and place: –, Harald Schjelderups hus
Andrea began her career on sailboats, mountaintops, and swamps, teaching environmental education to school children and adults in the USA. She interspersed outdoor education with work for the US Forest Service as a Ranger and Fisheries Technician. In the mid-1990s, she trained as a geographer at the Department of Geography, University of Minnesota (2001). She was a MacArthur Fellow in an interdisciplinary global studies training program and held National Science Foundation Graduate Student awards, and a Fulbright award in Nepal for her research. After finishing her Ph.D., Andrea had a faculty position as an Environmental Geographer at the University of Edinburgh from 2002-2012. In 2012 she joined the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and helped found their Environmental Social Science research program. In 2015 she moved to the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences as Chair of Rural Development in the Global South before coming to the University of Oslo in February of 2019.
Time and place: –, Aud. 1, Harald Schjeldrups hus
Many people are worried about climate change. They are concerned not only about the impacts, but also our inability to respond at the rate, scale, speed, and depth that is called for by international agreements. Climate anxiety, climate trauma, and climate depression are rapidly becoming part of our vocabulary. A growing field of research on transformative change looks at how we can shift systems and cultures at scale to meet the 2030 Agenda, and emphasizes the need to think, act, and design differently. How do we do this? In this talk, O'Brien discusses the practical, political, and personal spheres of transformation and present a relational approach to scaling solutions to climate change. She argues that we need to make a “quantum leap,” which involves a recognition that each of us matters more than we think.
Time and place: Nov. 15, 2022 12:15 PM–1:30 PM, Auditorium 1, Harald Schjeldrups hus
As climate change, habitat loss, and extinction of species go from bad to worse, it seems that politics, ethics, and business-usual combine to reinforce the multiple crises rather than slow, let alone stop them. This being so, is it necessary, or even imperative, to seek alternatives? If so, how radical should they be? Do groups like Extinction Rebellion point in the right direction? And what are the pitfalls?
Time and place: October 26. 2022 12:00 - 13:00, Auditorium 1, Harald Schjelderups hus
Elin will give a talk on the 6th Assessment report of the IPCC as well as the process of writing it. She will also discuss the role of psychology and social science in the report and if IPCC can ever be able to appropriately summarize the social science research on climate governance.
Discussant: Charles Dana Samuelson