Climate Change Leadership

How to Listen #2: Co-shaping an exchange of narratives and learning together.
2021-06-09 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Stockholm)
Hunt out wild flowers,
reach out, not to pick them
but as an offer of intimacy.
Stay open-hearted,
don’t put your ear
to the ground to listen
for sap or soil, instead
tune into the words
written between the lines –
visible in the way bluebell,
pink campion, stitchwort
offer up their secrets,
have made themselves
vulnerable against
pale and dark greens.
This is an offering –
last chance to hear
this moment’s prayer.
Veronica Aaronson, from Nothing about the birds is ordinary this morning (Indigo Dreams, 2019)

The Living Library is a conversational space that takes place in the intersection between fiction, action and research. Over a series of three online sessions facilitated by Pernilla Glaser, academics, activists and artists will gather to share understandings of climate justice, unpacking the scheduled themes of knowledge, listening and action.
The Living Library is a Talk Up. You are invited to listen to a conversation between a group with various practices of knowledge. The conversation is followed by a participatory space where you reflect with other participants.

Registration is free and you are welcome to attend all three conversations or any of your own choosing. Please note, you only need to register once.
REGISTER HERE FOR THE ZOOM LINKhttp://doit.medfarm.uu.se/kurt20747
In this second session of The Living Library we will be exploring the dynamic of listening as a tool for transformation, raising questions such as:

What can a practice of listening look like?
From what position is it possible to be an involved listener?
What happens when you put the art of listening in focus of dialogue and collaboration?
How can we learn about listening from different contexts and practices?
What is essential in order to support an environment where listening is possible?
How can we actively listen and co-shape an exchange of narratives?

The Living Library is a collaboration between the following organisations: Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, Uppsala konstmuseum and Mistra Environmental Communication
You can read more about contributors and the background to The Living Library below and on our website here. Find the Facebook event here
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Guests
Michele-Lee Moore | Researcher | Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Michele-Lee Moore’s research focus is on social innovations and transformations. She seeks to build and mobilize knowledge about social innovations – ones that allow us to transform and build positive paths towards social-ecological-cultural resilience. Primarily, she has focused on topics of transnational and local water governance, social innovation, and transformation. Beyond her water governance research, she also collaborates with scholars to examine case studies in other domains to gain insights on social innovation and transformation. Throughout this work, Moore remains deeply committed to growing her own knowledge about decolonization, two-eyed seeing methodologies, and developing her capacity for understanding and implementing, both truth and reconciliation.
Learn more about Michele-Lee and her work here:

SRC Profile
Talk on the perils and promises of transformative change

Maria Thereza Alves | Artist
Heralding from São Paulo, Brazil, Maria Thereza Alves has worked and exhibited internationally since the 1980s, creating a body of work investigating the histories and circumstances of particular localities to give witness to silenced histories. Her projects are researched-based and develop out of her interactions with the physical and social environments of the places she lives, or visits for exhibitions and residencies. These projects begin in response to local needs and proceed through a process of dialogue that is often facilitated between material and environmental realities and social circumstances. While aware of Western binaries between nature and culture, art and politics, or art and daily life, she deliberately refuses to acknowledge them in her practice. She chooses instead to work with people in communities as equals through relational practices of collaboration that require constant movement across all of these boundaries.
Learn more about Maria and her work here:

Maria’s page

Johannes Heldén | Artist and Poet
Johannes Heldén is a visual artist, writer and musician. His interdisciplinary practice deals with poetry, ecology, artificial intelligence, sentience, interspecies communication and narrative structures. Recent projects include Astroecology which was published simultaneously in three languages, made into an interdisciplinary performance at The Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and a digital artwork published by Bonniers Konsthall, and New New Hampshire & Clouds (for the Momentum biennial, hybrid installation/publication). He has published four music albums, recently Takträdgårdar (OEI) and System (Irrlicht), and seven digital works of poetry and visual art.
Learn more about Johannes and his work here:

Johannes’ page

Facilitator
Rebecca Vinthagen | Researcher and Facilitator

Rebecca Vinthagen is a lecturer, method developer and process leader within issues related to organizational development, leadership and artistic staging. Her educational background is within political science, gender studies, leadership and cultural production.
Rebecca is the author of the concept of norm-creative, and the book of the same name. Norm-creativity is a playful, compassionate and visionary method to explore how to translate theories around human rights and environmental issues into concrete and creative practice.
She is also a teacher with a focus on norm creative perspectives in artistic processes and has been part of developing a Master’s course in Visual Communication at Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and design.
Rebecca is the initiator of the app “Micro Action Movement – Everyday actions to change the world (M.A.M)”. M.A.M. is a collaboration with NGOs, social justice groups and artists who contribute suggestions of everyday “micro-actions” to change the world into a kinder and more sustainable place.

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Library Shelf
The Civil Conversations Project
David Bohm on Dialogue
Susan Bickford on The Dissonance of Democracy: Listening, Conflict and Citizenship

Remembering Maria and Zé Cláudio : Earth Defenders from Amazonia, 10 Years On
2021-05-27 14:00 - 15:30
(Photo credit: Felipe Milanez, 2010)
(Para o português, veja abaixo)
** Registration for the zoom event in advance here **
On May 24, 2011, Maria do Espirito Santo and Zé Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, nut collectors and members of the agroforestry project (Projeto Agro-Extractivista, PAE) of Praialta Piranheira in the Brazilian Amazon, were brutally murdered as a consequence of their engagement in protecting the forest from illegal logging and timber trafficking. Making their lives out of a non-exploitative and regenerative relationship with the forest, and passionate about the defence of the rights of both Amazonia and its people, Maria’s and Zé Cláudio’s deaths belong to the number of earth defenders whose lives are being taken, year after year, for opposing the infinite expansion of global economic growth and social metabolism (Global Witness 2019). In 2012, the pair were posthumously recognised as Forest Heroes by the United Nations Forum on Forests Secretariat for their work fighting illegal forestry.

This May 27 14 – 15:30 CEST 2021, ten years later, we honor their memory and talk about their legacy for environmental justice struggles in Brazil and beyond. Join Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership, Stefania Barca, and Bartira Fortes, representative of Latinamerikagrupperna, in a moderated discussion with:

Claudelice de Silva Santos, Zé Cláudio’s sister and frontline defender, who continues to oppose the human rights and land violations happening in the wake of land grabbing and logging. Claudelice fights for, in her words, the ‘the right to land and to life’, and was nominated for the 2019 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, organised by the European Parliament. She is completing a law degree at the Federal University of South and Southeast Pará.
Felipe Milanez, one of Brazil’s leading journalists documenting the Amazon, regular contributor to CartaCapital and VICE magazine, and former editor of National Geographic Brazil. He lived and worked closely with Maria and Zé Claudio before their murders, his documentary 2011 film Toxic Amazon tells their story. Felipe is now a professor at the Institute of Humanities, Arts and Sciences and the multidisciplinary Culture and Society graduate program at the Federal University of Bahia.

Registration for the zoom event is free and open to all but should be made in advance here. The webinar will be limited to 500 participants. The event will be in Portuguese with English interpretation. The event will be recorded.
The tragedy of Zé Cláudio and Maria’s murder is not in isolation. In 2019 alone, it is estimated that over 200 environmental defenders were killed as a consequence of their commitment to protect the environment and indigenous lands. Indigenous leaders and Indigenous women leaders in particular have been at the forefront of this struggle. How can we make sense of the violence against earth defenders in a time when their work is all the more important in the context of climate change? What can we learn from their stories about the transition to a post-carbon future?
We strongly encourage watching the freely available 60min documentary film from Vice Magazine, Toxic Amazon, to give context for the discussion. You can also watch Claudelice’s speech at the European Parliament here (begins at approximately 15:25, select your choice of language.) We also recommend reading more about Maria and Zé Cláudio’s story and other environmental defenders to learn more about the context. This recent book, Environmental Defenders : Deadly Struggles for Life and Territory, includes contributions by Claudelice and Felipe.
This event is a collaboration between Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University and Latinamerikagrupperna.
Facebook event here

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Em memória de Maria e Zé Cláudio: Defensores da Terra da Amazônia, 10 anos depois
Em 24 de maio de 2011, Maria do Espírito Santo e Zé Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, castanheira/o e integrantes do projeto agroflorestal (Projeto Agro-Extractivista, PAE) de Praialta Piranheira, na Amazônia brasileira, foram brutalmente assassinados em conseqüência do seu compromisso com a proteção da floresta contra os cortes ilegais e o tráfico de madeira. Re-existindo numa relação não exploradora e regeneradora com a floresta, e apaixonado/a pela defesa dos direitos da Amazônia e de seus povos, Maria e Zé Cláudio são entre os e as muito/as defensore/as da terra cujas vidas estão sendo tiradas, ano após ano, por se opor à expansão infinita do crescimento econômico global e do metabolismo social. Em 2012, o casal foi reconhecido postumamente como Heróis da Floresta pelo Fórum das Nações Unidas no Secretariado de Florestas por seu trabalho no combate à desflorestação.

Em 27 de maio de 2021 14 – 15:30 CEST, dez anos depois, honramos sua memória e falamos sobre seu legado para as lutas pela justiça ambiental no Brasil e no exterior. Junte-se à Stefania Barca, Professora Zennström em Liderança das Mudanças Climáticas, e ao Bartira Fortes, da Latinamerikagrupperna em uma discussão moderada com:

Claudelice de Silva Santos, irmã de Zé Cláudio e defensora ambiental, que continua a se opor às violações dos direitos humanos e da terra que acontecem na sequência da grilagem e extração de madeira. Claudelice luta, nas suas palavras, pelo «direito à terra e à vida», e foi nomeada para o Prémio Sakharov de 2019 para a Liberdade de Pensamento, organizado pelo Parlamento Europeu. É formada em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará.
Felipe Milanez, um dos principais jornalistas brasileiros que documenta a Amazônia, colaborador regular da CartaCapital e da revista VICE e ex-editor da National Geographic Brasil. Ele trabalhou de perto com Maria e Zé Claudio antes de seus assassinatos, e seu documentário Toxic Amazon (2011) conta a história dela/e. Felipe hoje é professor do Instituto de Humanidades, Artes e Ciências e do programa multidisciplinar de pós-graduação em Cultura e Sociedade da Universidade Federal da Bahia.

As inscrições para o evento de zoom são gratuitas e abertas a todo/as, mas devem ser feitas com antecedência aqui.
https://uu-se.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MBMGclJKQUOuEzEzhsEPGg
O webinar será limitado a 500 participantes. O evento será em português com interpretação em inglês. O evento será gravado.

A tragédia do assassinato de Zé Cláudio e Maria não é isolada. Somente em 2019, estima-se que mais de 200 defensores/as ambientais foram mortos/as em consequência de seu compromisso com a proteção do meio ambiente e das terras indígenas. As lideranças indígenas e camponesas estão na vanguarda dessa luta. Como podemos entender a violência contra os/as defensores/as da Terra em uma época em que seu trabalho é ainda mais importante no contexto das mudanças climáticas? O que podemos aprender com suas histórias sobre a transição para um futuro pós-carbono?

Recomendamos assistir ao documentário de 60 minutos Toxic Amazon, disponível gratuitamente, para contextualizar a discussão.
https://video.vice.com/…/defor…/560166f201fdd3af33a24ae1
Também pode-se assistir ao discurso de Claudelice no Parlamento Europeu aqui, por volta das 15:25 (selecione o idioma de sua escolha).
https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/…/delegation-for…
Ler sobre a história de Maria e Zé Cláudio e outros defensores ambientais para aprender mais sobre o contexto.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7bevgy/toxic-amazon-part-1
https://www.globalwitness.org/…/environmental-activists/

Este evento é uma colaboração entre a Climate Change Leadership da Universidade de Uppsala e a Latinamerikagrupperna.
Facebook event aqui
https://fb.me/e/jsFcqQMAK

CO2-Budget 2021 Conference
2021-05-26 14:00 - 2021-05-28 17:00
CO2-BUDGET 2021 is a new conference that brings together municipalities, regions, researchers, climate engaged organizations and the public. The concept of carbon budgets are at the heart of the conference. Through seminars, workshops and panel discussions, we share – and create – knowledge about how the necessary reductions in emissions can be computed and achieved on a scientific base.
CO2-BUDGET 2021 is organised by Klimatriksdagen, Klimatsekretariatet and Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University.

Why arrange this conference?
The towns, countries, regions and municipalities of the world need to adjust to UN’s panel for the climate and the climate science by setting up goals and forming strategies and policies respecting our remaining global carbon budget. In practice, this means we must realize that we have our own share of this remaining budget. We need to establish, keep up to date, publish and follow up this budget in our ongoing climate ambitions. We need to set up local carbon budgets.
Sweden is already far ahead, and it is the civil society, municipalities and regions that are the front runners. In a short amount of time, they have adopted carbon budgets as an important framework. Now we need to get tools, education, information and cooperation in place. We are also facing a historic task educating the world.
We need your support and engagement.

CO2-BUDGET is an on-line conference running for three days. Day one is held in English, the remaining two in Swedish. Day one (May 26) relates to research and understanding the carbon budget concept. Day two (May 27) is aimed mostly at municipalities and regions that would like to get, or already established, a carbon budget. The third day (May 28) has civil society in focus, and for that day we particularly invite the environmental and climate movements. There are many touch points between these three days, so we certainly welcome everyone to participate in all three days!

Read more and register here.

Living Library #1 Whose Knowledge? Othering knowledge, people and power.
2021-05-11 15:00 - 16:30
We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn – we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way they live. They teach us by example. They´ve been on earth far longer than we have been, and had time to figure things out. Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Living Library is a conversational space that takes place in the intersection between fiction, action and research. Over a series of three online sessions facilitated by Pernilla Glaser, academics, activists and artists will gather to share understandings of climate justice, unpacking the scheduled themes of knowledge, listening and action. The Living Library is a Talk Up. You are invited to listen to a conversation between a group with various practices of knowledge. The conversation is followed by a participatory space where you reflect with other participants. Registration is free and you are welcome to attend all three conversations or any of your own choosing.
REGISTER HERE FOR THE ZOOM LINK http://doit.medfarm.uu.se/kurt20747
In the first Living Library we will be exploring a variety of notions of knowledge, engaging with questions such as:

Which knowledge is prioritised?
What is the relationship to power and the othering of people?
How can knowledge be identified and shared with a diversity of perspectives and experiences?
How is knowledge given space or becoming blocked by stories and images that sets different hierarchy´s and norms for what counts as knowledge?
How can artistic practice, research and civil society activism become allies in exploring and understanding knowledge
What are the systemic repercussions of transformation in the way knowledge is framed and co-developed?

The Living Library is a collaboration between the following organisations: Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University, Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, Uppsala konstmuseum and Mistra Environmental Communication

You can read more about contributors and the background to The Living Library below and on our website here . Find the Facebook event here
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Guests
Anselmo Matusse | PhD Candidate | University of Cape Town Anelmo Matusse is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, within the Environmental Humanities – South Project at the University of Cape Town. He is currently working on his thesis Environmental and Ecological Justice in Mozambique, focusing specifically on Mount Mabo and the communities that live in and around it. His research interests include climate change policy and science, militarization of conservation, green grabbing, indigenous knowledges, commons, water-energy-food nexus and landscapes of violence. His master’s degree was in Environmental Science in Sweden, with the thesis focused on the Swedish Innovation System. Read more about Anselmo and the stories of Mount Mabu here:

On Mount Mabu
Anselmo’s webpage
UCT Profile

Per Olsson | Researcher | Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University Per Olsson is a transdisciplinary researcher who leads the SRC’s work on transformations for sustainability, working with agency and system entrepreneurship. His current research focuses on agency and system entrepreneurship, social-ecological innovations, transformations to sustainability, and how to reverse current trends of crossing critical thresholds and tipping points in the Earth system. He has co-authored several book chapters, and in 2019 he was recognized by the Web of Science as one of the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade. Olsson has invested heavily in facilitating interactions among scientists, policy makers, artists, businesses, and the public through a variety of initiatives. He has developed the concept of T-labs (Transformation labs), a new methodology for generating innovative approaches for re-wiring social-ecological systems. Read more about Per and his research here:

SRC Profile
Report: Effects of transformations to climate-neutral societies on low- and middle- income countries

Maria Tengö | Researcher | Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University Maria Tengö’s research focuses on human-nature connections and implications for stewardship. Tengö is a research leader of the Biosphere Stewardship stream at SRC, and is currently leading research projects on co-production of knowledge for syntheses across scientific, local and indigenous knowledge systems; sense of place and cultural ecosystems services in Southern Africa; and emerging stewardship networks in Bangalore, India. As an underlying theme, Tengö’s research sets out to understand how positive connections between people and nature matter for moving towards trajectories of ecosystem-based management for human well-being. In particular, she is interested in the in-tangible, non-material aspects of human-nature interactions, such as local knowledge, sense of place, and biocultural connections, and the implications for building social-ecological resilience and transformative capacity. She has been working with aspects in social-ecological systems in Tanzania, Madagascar, South Africa, India, and Sweden. Read and watch more of Maria’s work here:

SRC Profile
Watch Maria’s talk on weaving diverse knowledges and evidences here

Ingela Ihrman | Artist Ingela Ihrman lives and works in Malmö. Her work is sparked by the strong emotions of everyday life and a desire to understand, question or express certain aspects of being alive, social and human. It is particularly the pleasures and pain that come with co-existence, autonomy, loneliness and longing for belonging that intrigues her. She has a constant gaze towards the lifeforms and landscapes we refer to as Nature. Her practice includes sculpture, installation, performance, video and writing as well as collaborations within the fields of science, theatre and dance. Read more about Ingela and her pieces here:

Artist page

Facilitator
Pernilla Glaser | Writer, method-developer and teacher | Boiler | RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden) Pernilla Glaser is a writer, method-developer and teacher. She works as Creative Research Force at Interactive Institute and at the University Collage of Arts and Craft.Her background is as a theatre-director. She has worked a lot with participation, place and urban sustainability and has been a recurring guest-teacher at The Institution of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Art. She is currently teaching storytelling at the University College of Arts, Craft and Design Interior Architects. During 2014 she has developed The intersection, a space and toolbox for innovation and collaboration for Luleå University of Technology and two projects for the Swedish county government; toolbox for spatial exploration and toolbox for an inclusive cultural heritage.Pernilla Glaser is also the initiator of Academy of Risk, a network that works with prototyping risk-taking in academia.She is an experienced moderator, frequently working with universities and government agencies hosting seminars and various events. See here to learn more about Pernilla and her work, play and all things between:

Pernilla’s webpage
Forest of Thought Podcast with Pernilla
Navigating Complexity (2020). Report for RISE by Pernilla Glaser and Lisa Carlgren

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Library Shelf

John Law and Annemarie Mol Complexities: Social studies of knowledge practices Kevin K. Kumashiro Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice Helga Nowotny The cunning of uncertainty

Forces of Reproduction: A Feminist Dialogue
2021-04-29 18:00 - 20:00
The Pufendorf IAS Advanced Study Group on Social Reproduction and Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) are hosting a feminist dialogue on Stefania Barca’s latest book Forces of Reproduction: Notes for a counter-hegemonic Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press).

The dialogue will feature a book presentation by Stefania Barca followed by a discussion by Nancy Fraser (Hedda Andersson visiting professor at LUCSUS, Lund University). The event will be moderated by Vasna Ramasar (Associate Senior Lecturer at Lund University).
Forces of Reproduction brings to the fore the historical agency of reproductive and subsistence workers as those subjects that, through both daily practices and organized political action, take care of the biophysical conditions for human reproduction, thus keeping the world alive.
Read more about the book Forces of Reproduction on Cambridge.org
POSTER (PDF)
Join the event online here: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/64269086162

Thank you Lund University for organising this seminar! We look forward to attending.

Decolonising Climate Change Leadership, with Zennström Professor Dr. Stefania Barca
2021-03-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Uppsala, Sweden
What do we (think we) mean by the “Anthropocene”? What are the politics behind climate change and climate (in)action? These are the sorts of questions we will be discussing during a short talk and Q & A with Uppsala University’s fourth Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership during Uppsala climate week.
The event will take place digitally via Zoom. Registration is free but must be done in advance through this link
Stefania Barca is the fourth Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership. She is an Environmental Historian, whose recent work on Degrowth and Political Ecology has fed into the Just Transition Movement.
This event is part of series of events for Uppsala Klimatvecka. You can find out more about the program here

Remembering Berta Cáceres : Lenca Woman and Environmental Defender
2021-03-08 16:00 - 17:30
This International Women’s Day we remember Berta Cáceres, Indigenous leader and environmental defender from the Lenca people of Honduras. Berta’s murder on March 2nd 2016 was directly associated with her campaign in the defence of the Gualcarque river, the site of a proposed dam in Lenca territory.
Join Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership, Stefania Barca, in conversation with Berta’s daughter, Bertha Zuñiga, in order to understand how her work lives on and the continued struggle for justice in the region. Bertha is also a social activist and coordinator of the Civil Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras (COPINH), founded by her mother in 1993. This conversation will be moderated by Grettel Navas Obando, PhD researcher in Environmental Justice at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. The event will be held in English and Spanish with interpretation by Azucena Moran.
Registration for the zoom webinar is free and open to all but should be made in advance here.
https://uu-se.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ml6sLbUlSJyM2MnGd1yy9w
The webinar will be limited to 500 participants. However, a livestream of the event will also be aired on Facebook live without need for sign up.
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This tragedy of Berta’s murder is not in isolation. In 2019 alone, it is estimated that over 200 environmental defenders were killed as a consequence of their commitment to protect the environment and indigenous lands. Indigenous leaders and Indigenous women leaders in particular have been at the forefront of this struggle. How can we make sense of the violence against these earth defenders in a time when their work is all the more relevant to climate and ecological politics? What can we learn, from their stories, about the post-carbon transition?
This event also joins a louder chorus of voices and events this March, which marks 5 years since Berta’s murder. We strongly encourage watching the 30min documentary ‘Berta Vive’ in advance, to give context for the discussion. The filmmaker Katia Lara has generously made this available for attendees, with subtitles in English, Spanish, French and more. The film has won several awards including special mention at the Guadalajara International Film Festival. Information for accessing this film will be available upon registration.
The following materials are also recommended to learn more:
https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-berta-c%C3%A1ceres
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/
Who Killed Berta Cáceres?
Katia also has an upcoming documentary ‘Berta soy yo’ that will be released in July 2021. You can find the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/239019942
You can follow the conversation and demand for justice at #JusticeForBerta and #5AñosJuntoABerta.
Zennström Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University is committed to bringing the voices and stories of women earth defenders to the forefront of climate change conversations, with this event marking the first in a series to come.
Photo : Goldman Environmental Prize (2015)
