Spring 2021 Schedule
| Time | Title | Location |
| Tuesday, Jan 26 10:15-12 | Constitutional Meeting – Affiliates and participants | Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 588 340 2135 |
| TueFeb 9 10:15-12 | Workshop: The Future for CEFO A workshop where we talk about what we want CEFO to be in the future. Anneli Ekblom as well as Laila and Isabel from CCL will join us in this. | Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 588 340 2135 |
| Tuesday, Feb 23 10:15-12 | Seminar: “Sustainability: past, present, and future” The PhD candidates; Pascoal João Gota and Anselmo Matusse will present their studies of the past and the present which might help find solutions for the future. | Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 588 340 2135 |
| Tuesday, March 9 10:15-12 | Who doesn’t like cycling? Reconsidering the governance of urban cycling in Uppsala Daniel Valentini, PhD Candidate in landscape architecture the SLU Who’s not in favour of biking? Cycling and the bicycle play increasingly dominant roles in discourses on sustainable urban mobility. While actors in urban areas and beyond principally approve of increased urban cycling levels, crucial questions revolve around the strategies, policies, plans and instruments to promote cycling. My PhD-research hones in on these issues on the governance for urban cycling by studying Uppsala as a case city. Valentini is particularly interested in the role of innovations in reconsidering who governs cycling and through which means. This talk will provide a broad overview of his PhD-research. He will present preliminary findings on the governance of cycling as directed by Uppsala Kommun, as well as the engagement of various actor groups to provide new perspectives on cycling advancement in the city. Theoretically, he will draw on theories of sustainability transitions but also test early ideas on urban planning at the intersection to degrowth scholarship | Zoom Meeting ID 588 340 2135 |
| Friday, March 12, 15.15- 18.00 | Writing applications for funding 15.15-16 short introduction, thinking strategically around funding applications 16 -18 we review each other’s applications, prepare texts for the event and speedread and comment text. You will be grouped according to where you are in the process (Ma students applying for PhD positions OR PhDs applying for research projects, or those writing small grant applications), and we will also review applications that have received funding Anneli Ekblom, Associate Professor at Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Archaeology | Zoom Meeting ID 655 344 0340 |
| Tuesday, March 23 10:15-12 | Walk and talk in Stadsskogen | |
| Tuesday, April 6 10:15-12 | ‘Climate Change Leadership in Negotiations: How the IPCC navigates climate action.’ Youba Sokona, vice chair of IPCC Joint session with the course Climate Change Leadership- strategies and actors for change | Open for CEFO affiliates/ members and CCL course participants |
| Tuesday, April 20 10:15 -12 | ‘Decolonising Climate Change Leadership’ Stefania Barca, Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership Joint session with the course Climate Change Leadership- strategies and actors for change | Open for CEFO affiliates/ members and CCL course participants |
| Tuesday, May 4 10:15 -12 | ‘Thriving Cities Initiative: Scaling down Doughnut Economics’ Andrew Fanning, Data & Analysis Lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab, and a Visiting Research Fellow in the Sustainability Research Institute Joint session with the course Climate Change Leadership- strategies and actors for change | Open for CEFO affiliates/ members and CCL course participants |
| Tuesday, May 18 10:15 -12.00 | Lakin Anderson, Ph.D. student at the Department of Business Studies [Cancelled] | Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 588 340 2135 |
| Tuesday, June 20 10:15 -12.00 | Constitutional meeting – election of new coordinator | Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 588 340 2135 |
Fall 2020 Schedule
The interdisciplinary seminar takes place Tuesdays 10:15-12:00 twice per month during term time via zoom or/and in the Baltic Library, at the Department of Earth Sciences, Villavägen 16. We end at 12.00 and go on to eat lunch together. The first and last seminar each term includes planning discussions where PhD-students and researchers suggest future activities. The seminar is hosted by affiliated CEFO Members and supported by CEMUS, NRHU and the Climate Change Leadership Node at Uppsala University.
| Time | Title | Location |
| Tuesday, Aug 25 10:15-12 | Opening Meeting for semester – Affiliates and participants | Zoom meeting |
| Tuesday, Sep 8 15:15-17 | Afternoon Outdoor fika – CEFO, CEMUS and CCL We will provide coffee/tea and a cookie as well as some (social distanced) facilitated activities. Download a PDF with more info here Please sign up here before the 4th of Sep, so we know how much fika to order | The entrance of Blåsenhus facing the Botanical Garden. A fika trolley will be placed outside, We will grab fika and then walk together to a nearby lawn (probably this one). Bring a thermos cup if you have one! |
| Tuesday, Sep 22 10:15-12 | Workshop/Seminar “(Escape) games for environmental communication and education: theoretical, practice-based and experimental perspectives” Emmy Pater introduces us to her work on developing an escape game for environmental communication and education. Then she let us try some digital puzzles that are cooperative, creative, interactive and sustainability-themed. We end it all with a discussion. You can find more infoabout her the game here Emmy Pater, teaching assistant at Department of Earth Sciences, Centre for Environment and Development Studies (CEMUS) (Bregje van Veelen reschedule to the 17th of Nov) | Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 630 2409 8501 Join via this link |
| Tuesday, Oct 6 10:15-12 | Research Seminar “Urban building energy modeling of future cities” Addressing the complexity of climate change, local governments and municipalities require a systematic approach that identifies problems, formulates possible strategies, and evaluates resulting benefits. In this context, urban planning and in particular, urban energy planning seems like a pivotal approach that can be moved to the forefront of the transition to sustainability and carbon neutrality. Urban energy planning is an inclusive concept that targets many individual components of urban energy systems contributing to the interactive process of using and producing energy. With buildings being one of the most energy-intensive components of the urban energy system, opportunities for accelerated transformation towards sustainability are enormous only if best-practices in energy efficiency and integrated renewable energy technologies in buildings are efficiently used. However, in order to plan for more resource-efficient buildings, understanding of flows of energy in buildings and synergies between buildings and the other components of urban energy systems is crucial. Bottom-up engineering-based models of energy use in buildings, refer to as “urban building energy model (UBEM)”, is a new concept that has been flourished during the last two decades. The UBEMs are analytical tools that highlight patterns of energy use in buildings and give an insight into urban energy system behavior. Using a broader definition, the UBEMs reflect on utilization as well as generation of energy and provide an estimation of sptio-temporal information of energy over the whole city. These models are also capable of designing and investigating new and existing systems which makes them an attractive tool for city planners and policymakers in the analysis of existing as well as new districts in cities. Overall, the extent and applicability of UBEMs, motivates the need and growing trend for development of such models to evolve towards sustainability and energy efficiency in cities Fatemeh Johari PhD Candidate at Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Civil Engineering and Built Environment | Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 686 9047 1755 Join via this link |
| Tuesday, Oct 20 10:15-12 | Research Seminar “Low carbon energy narratives and futures in Africa: Dissonant times?” It is widely recognized that energy production and use is both a key reflection of the socio-economic landscape as well as a major driver of the climate challenge. Africa finds itself at the heart of a momentous global energy and climate conversation. The energy and development reality across the region evokes deep emotions about the importance of doing something about the scandal of energy poverty. As if this was not complex enough, there is a call for the region to chart out a new and responsible energy pathway: one that does not impact on the global climate system. To this end, numerous real world experiments are taking place across Africa on various ‘energy futures’ to simultaneously unlock local (and national) energy potentials and deal with major global challenges. What is also emerging is how ideas around the ‘energy-climate challenge’ play out is highly dependent on the multi-level political context and dynamics, and is thus deeply influenced by competing framings and narratives. These dominant and competing accounts, in turn, interact to shape the specific interventions and policies. This presentation/discussion will explore the dominant narratives that are shaping the African energy landscape, how these narratives are constructed and mobilized, and discuss ways to open alternative and energy possibilities that protect the wellbeing of poor communities and their climate. The talk will also sketch out the research and policy opportunities in this area. Yacob Mulugetta Professor of Energy and Development Policy, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering & Public Policy, University College London | Baltic Library Room, NRHU, Earth Sciences Department Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 610 7138 4789 Join via this link |
| Tuesday, Nov 3 10:15-12 | Research Seminar “A Green New Deal beyond growth” The emerging political discourse of the Green New Deal postulates the need for an active role of the State in the economy to drive the ecological transition by deploying the power of public investment and coordination. However, a truly transformative Green New Deal must also move beyond the ‘growth paradigm’ by decreasing energy and material use in affluent countries, decommodifying the basic necessities of life, and democratizing economic production. Riccardo Mastini PhD Candidate at Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona. Riccardo is a policy advisor for the international campaign Green New Deal for Europe. He is a member of the academic collective Research & Degrowth and of the international network Wellbeing Economy Alliance. You can follow him on Twitter and Facebook. | Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 611 2910 1298 Join via this link |
| Tuesday, Nov 17 10:15 -12 | Research Seminar “New frontiers of climate governance: imagining the modern timber city” Climate governance must be a project of not only regulatory undertaking, but also of deep-rooted societal and spatial (re)imagination. But how do we re-imagine our world, who is involved, and what is left out? In this presentation, I explore these questions in relation to a still underexplored front of climate action: proposals for a revolution in low-carbon materials, that seek to establish a 21st century bio-economy. Specifically, I will do this through the emergent imaginary of the ‘plyscraper’, which put timber skyscrapers at the heart of the vision for low-carbon living of the future. While the use of wood in construction has long been practiced (as evidenced by the red timber houses that dot the Swedish country side), what makes the new timber imaginary different is that it positions itself as distinctly urban and modern. But how ‘green’ is it? How does the imaginary establish timber’s green qualities and with what effect? By exploring the jostling involved in bringing this imaginary into being, I consider a number of yet unresolved issues around establishing the green/low-carbon qualities of this new frontier of climate action, and the broader implications for climate governance Bregje van Veelen Researcher at Department of Earth Sciences, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development | Baltic Library Room, NRHU, Earth Sciences Departmen Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 685 8941 8794 Join via this link |
| Tuesday, Dec 1 10:15 -12 | Research Seminar “The good life is in the rural? Moving to the countryside in post-growth Japan” What is a good life? What role does place play in this? This seminar discusses initial results on why people move to rural areas and how they experience this lifestyle, based on ethnographic fieldwork in Yakushima, an island in western Japan. Do these stories express new notions of a good life, something that’s not based on economic and material prosperity? Sachiko Ishihara PhD Candidate at Department of Social and Economic Geography | Baltic Library Room, NRHU, Earth Sciences Departmen Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 641 7817 4670 Join via this link |
| Tuesday, Dec 15 10:15 -12.00 | Research Seminar “Rivers in the sky – key features for understanding extreme hydrometeorological events” Atmospheric rivers are long narrow bands of large integrated water vapor transport in the troposphere. At land fall they are usually associated with extreme conditions in terms of wind and precipitation. In recent years there has been a growing interest in atmospheric rivers, concerning their regional impacts on water availability, the modulation by climate variability and their representation in weather and forecast models. Air-sea processes are major modulators by two aspects of describing and understanding atmospheric rivers, (i) in the source area over the large oceans and by (ii) coastal processes at land fall. When atmospheric rivers land fall they interact with coastal processes, uplift of the moisture-rich air in the atmospheric rivers over the land (mountains) and the dynamics of the largescale flow. These features frequently act to generate high precipitation totals and extreme wind conditions Venugopal Reddy Thandlam, PhD Candidate at Department of Earth Sciences | Baltic Library Room, NRHU, Earth Sciences Department Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 682 7370 6018 Join via this link |
Spring 2020 Schedule
| Time | Title | Location |
| Tuesday, Feb 4 10:15-12 | Opening Meeting for semester – Affiliates and participants | Baltic Library Room, NRHU, Earth Sciences Department |
| Tuesday, Feb 18 10:15-12 | Open Workshop Hosted by CEFO – Critical sustainability input for Uppsala University’s development of their ‘Vision 2050’ plan. Conveners, Helena Fornstedt and Lakin Anderson. In Collaboration with Official Project Group for UU Vision. FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/182438952821404/ | CEMUS Library |
| Tuesday, Mar 3 10:15-12 | Research Seminar Isak Stoddard, Phd Student and Researcher, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, Climate Change Leadership Node,Uppsala University “A factor of two: how the mitigation plans of ‘climate progressive nations’ fall far short of Paris-compliant pathways” | Baltic Library Room, NRHU, Earth Sciences Department |
| Tuesday, Mar 17 10:15-12 | Research Seminar Sven Widmalm, Professor at Dept. History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University “Interdisciplinarity: historical reflections and reflexions on contemporary policy” | Zoom Meeting (Link via email) |
| Tuesday, April 7 10:15-12 | Research Seminar [CANCELLED] Foad El Gohary, PhD Student and Researcher, Industrial Technology and Management, Dept. Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University “Demand side management in the electricity sector” | Zoom Meeting (Link via email) |
| Tuesday, April 21 10:15-12 | Research Seminar Jennifer Hinton Stockholm Resilience Center “Profit-Orientation and Post-Growth Economies: Connecting the Dots” | Zoom Meeting (Link via email) |
| Tuesday, May 5 10:15 -12 | Seminar: Cross-Disciplinary Concept Sharing CEFO Affiliates, Members and Participants | Zoom Meeting (Link via email) |
| Tuesday, May 19 10:15 -12 | Artistic / Research Seminar Helena Fonstedt, Institutionen för samhällsbyggnad och industriell teknik, Uppsala University ‘”Building climate transition narratives through sequential arts” | Zoom meeting (Link via email) |
| Tuesday, June 2 10:15 -13:30 | Final Research Seminar (Guest TBC) + Affiliates meeting lunch. Constitutional voting and planning for next semester., New Coordinator selection. | Baltic Library Room, NRHU, Earth Sciences Department |
Autumn 2019 Seminar and Workshop Schedule
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| Time | Title | Location |
| Sep 10 10:15-12 | Autumn start-up meeting, Welcome! Discussion of plans and activities for CEFO group, new affiliated PhD students signing on. | Baltic Library, NRHU, Earth Sciences Department |
| Sep 24 10:15-12 | Derk Loorbach Research Seminar Director of DRIFT and Professor of Socio-economic Transitions at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Derk is one of the founders of the transition management approach as new form of governance for sustainable development. | Baltic Library, NRHU, Earth Sciences Department |
| Oct 8 10:15-12 | Affiliates and Participants CEFO Meeting Concrete projects, CEFO guidelines and statutes, various proposed activities, updates on CCL course. | Baltic Library, NRHU, Earth Sciences Department |
| Oct 22 10:15-12 | Klas Palm Seminar and Discussion Coordinator of Uppsala University Sustainability Initiatives will talk about what they are doing for sustainability research at UU, and how it is being envisioned, structured, funded, etc. | Baltic Library, NRHU, Earth Sciences Department |
| Nov 12 10:15-12 | Keri Facer Workshop (Theme TBA) Keri Facer, Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University, Prof. of Educational and Social Futures at Uni of Bristol , UK ‘Values in Academia’ Skills workshop for young scholars interested in sustainable development and crossing disciplinary boundaries | Kollaboratoriet, Östra Ågatan |
| Nov 26 10:15-12 | CEFO Seminar, projects meeting, and spring planning Incl. Short Presentation from Climate Existance Conference organisers | Baltic Library, NRHU, Earth Sciences Department |
| Dec 10 10:15 -12 | Interdisciplinary PhD Seminar, double talk! 1.Holly Jayne Redman, Depart. of Chemistry. Building Hydrogenase Mimics as Potential Sources of Hydrogen as an Energy Carrier 2. Tobias Olofsson, Dept. Sociology Turning Rocks Into Money – Predictions and Uncertain Futures in Swedish Mineral Exploration | Baltic Library, NRHU, Earth Sciences Department |