Challenges related to climate, environment and sustainability around the world
ToRS seminar for researchers and students
Many of ToRS’ regions and research fields are challenged by climate change environmental threats and sustainability threats. These can take the form of air or water pollution, threats to living conditions, food production and consumption, waste, or climate-driven damages to environments and natural and cultural heritage. Much of this is expressed in social and political conflicts, public protests, artistic productions and interventions, and local, regional, and global politics.
This seminar aims to investigate and compare how challenges related to climate, environment and sustainability influence people and societies around the world.
We invite researchers from all of ToRS’ regions and disciplines to give short presentations on how these challenges impact the regions and fields they are working on.
The seminar is open to all researchers and students at ToRS. Please join us and bring your students! We will finish the day with refreshments and informal chats.
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10:15 |
Welcome |
Introductory keynote: Katy Overstreet: Leaky categories, leaky bodies, leaky landscapes: environmental humanities in troubling times |
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11:15 |
Panel 1: Resources & politics |
Lill Rastad Bjørst: Greenland’s green transition |
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Trine Brox: Waste, wasters, and wildlife in the Indian Himalayas |
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Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen: Oil in the Middle East |
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Tea Sindbæk Andersen: Relentless politics, public protests and Serbia’s lithium mining projects |
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Discussant: Ravinder Kaur |
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12:15 |
Panel 2: Religion & environment around the world |
Minoo Mirshahvalad: Resilience through Religion: Islamic Strategies for Addressing Water Scarcity in the Middle East |
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Paula Kolata: Fridge Stories: Food waste and Buddhism in Contemporary Japan |
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Peter B. Andersen: Religious attitudes to ecology and climate risks |
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Discussant: Annika Hvithamar |
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13:00 |
Lunch (available for anyone who has signed up) |
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13:30 |
Panel 3: Fear & Hope |
Marie Højlund Roesgaard: “The price of cabbage and other stories of climate related consumer angst in Japan” |
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Frank Sejersen: Creating scales of hope |
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Frederikke Bencke in dialogue with Tea Sindbæk Andersen: Between anxiety, hope and politicized research |
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Discussant: Yi Ma |
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14:15 |
Panel 4: Teaching about environment, sustainability and climate change around the globe? |
Tim Rudbøg: On the course ‘Nature, Humanity, and Global Perspectives in Modern Spirituality and Esotericism’ |
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Paula Kolata: Reflections on teaching the Anthropocene |
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Jesper Nielsen: Environment, sustainability and climate as part of ToRS’ teaching? |
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Discussant: Frank Sejersen |
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15:00 |
Informal chat and drinks |
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