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LUCSUS seminars

Thursdays, 11.00-12.00 CET at LUCSUS

Join our research seminar with LUCSUS researchers and invited guests presenting their latest research

Spring programme 2025

The programme is updated continously. 

23 January 2025
Social-ecological systems modeling and scenario planning in the context of China. Case studies from (costal zones, basin, etc; from various scales)
Speaker: Yafei Wang
11.00-12.00, in Carson

30 January 2025 
Support for work in transition
Speaker: Felix Schulz (LUCSUS)
11.00-12.00, in Maathai

Abstract: In this seminar Felix Schulz will present his main research areas, which can be subsumed under the header “support for work in transition”. 
These include:

  1. AI: transforming workers and workplaces
  2. Labour and the just transition: worker and union perspectives
  3. Public support for climate policies and their ideological predictors
  4. Lost in transition? Untangling worker identities in a decarbonised future

6 February 2025
Who controls the future of agriculture? Investigation of the political economy of agriculture.
Speakers: Lennart Olsson (LUCSUS), Maria Lucchetta and Minahil Malik (Social Sciences Methods Centre)
11.00-12.00, in Maathai 

13 February 2025  *CANCELLED*
Protecting while promoting? Scrutinizing an agroindustry-led initiative for ‘safe use’ of pesticides in Uganda
Speakers: Elina Andersson and Ellinor Isgren (LUCSUS)
11.00-12.00, in Maathai 

13 March 2025
Climate change policies, do they motivate people to engage? Investigation of policies in five European cities
Speaker: Hannah Andersson ( LTH)  
11.00-12.00, in Carson

20 March 2025
Speaker: Torsten Krause   
11.00-12.00, in Maathai

10 April 2025
Taboo Waste - The embodied experiences of managing menstrual waste among sanitation workers in Kisumu, Kenya
Speaker: Sara Gabrielsson (LUCSUS)
11.00-12.00, in Maathai 

17 April 2025
Speaker: Santiago Gorostiza Langa
11.00-12.00, in Maathai 

15 May 2025
The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late
Speaker: Wim Carton (LUCSUS)
11.00 - 12.00, in Maathai

Abstract: Warming is about to hit one and a half degrees, perhaps two degrees soon after. What do we do then? In the overshoot era, schemes abound for muscular adaptation or for turning the heat down at a later date, by means of technologies for removing CO2 from the air or blocking sunlight. Such technologies are by no means safe: they come with immense risks. Like magical promises of future redemption, they provide reasons for continuing emissions in the present. But do they also hold some potentials? Can climate breakdown be reversed, masked or simply adapted to, as their advocates promise? Or will any such diversions rather make things worse? The book that this talk is based on maps the new frontlines in the struggle for a liveable planet and insists on the climate revolution long overdue. In the end, no technologies can absolve us of its tasks.

22 May 2025
The role(s) of history in sustainability research
Speakers: Bregje van Veelen (LUCSUS) and Kristoffer Ekberg ( KEG)
11.00-12.00, in Carson

Abstract: In this seminar Kristoffer Ekberg and Bregje van Veelen will discuss their experiences of integrating historical perspectives in sustainability research. Kristoffer Ekberg is a historian by background who now works in Human Ecology, while Bregje van Veelen is currently collaborating with historians in a project on low-carbon transitions. In this seminar they will use their own experiences as a starting point to think through some of the following questions: What is the role of history in sustainability research? Is it all about 'learning from the past'? What other insights can historical research offer? And what are some of the challenges around integrating historical and contemporary perspectives?

About the seminars

The LUCSUS seminars are open for the public. We aim for it to be an open, reflective and interdisciplinary academic forum for new ideas and research on sustainability. 

Time:
Thursdays, 11.00-12.00 

Place:
Josephson building (room Vandana, Carson or Maathai), Biskopsgatan 5

Contact: Sahana Subramanian, sahana [dot] subramanian [at] LUCSUS [dot] lu [dot] se (sahana[dot]subramanian[at]LUCSUS[dot]lu[dot]se).