The SEI Podcast Series Sydney Environment Institute

SEI Director Professor David Schlosberg sits down with multidisciplinary scholar Professor Farhana Sultana to discuss a broad range of pressing climate topics from political ecology to nature-society relationships.

SEI’s Grounded Conversations Series highlights the potential of low-carbon academic networking and creates an environment where early career researchers can meet influential and impactful climate and sustainability scholars. The conversations are quite literally ‘grounded’ with invited scholars remaining in place and limiting travel emissions, but also thematically ‘grounded’ in experienced research.

Farhana talks about her intersectional approach to research, the exclusion of minority communities in academia and the steps being taken to address this.

Timestamps

01.00 Introduction - David Schlosberg
07.08 A Grounded Approach to Research
13.50 The Critical and the Resconstructive
22.35 Feminist Critiques of Capitalism
33.27 Unequal Authorship in Climate Publications
43.30 Communities and Care Ethics

Speakers

Professor Farhana Sultana, Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Professor David Schlosberg (chair), Sydney Environment Institute
Dr Anna Sturman, University of Sydney Department of Political Economy
Dr Justin See, University of Sydney School of Geosciences
Maria Paula Cardoso, Sydney Environment Institute

How can we adapt all sectors of society to respond to climate pressures? In the first event of SEI’s Climate Adaptation series, leading political scientist Daniel Aldrich delves into the meaning of climate adaptation and the role of social capital in building resilience.

Timestamps
00:50 Introduction: SEI Climate Adaptation series - Justin See
04:15 What is climate adaptation and its necessity?
13:00 The hesitancy towards transformative adaptation
16:15 Why is social capital critical for building resilience especially with mental health?
28:35 Social infrastructure: creating spaces for building community relationships
34:45 Q&A

Speakers
Professor Daniel Aldrich, Northeastern University
Dr Jo Longman, University Centre for Rural Health, USYD
Professor David Schlosberg (Chair), Sydney Environment Institute
Dr Justin See, Sydney Environment Institute

This event was held at the University of Sydney on Tuesday 18 April 2023. For more information about this event visit: https://bit.ly/44iHKHE

Read the latest journal article from researchers Dr Jo Longman, Professor David Schlosberg and more titled 'Building resilience to the mental health impacts of climate change in rural Australia' here: https://bit.ly/3n5cEm1

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Many of us understand the gravity of the climate crisis and what needs to be done, so what’s standing in our way? What will it take for our future to be reimagined to enable all life to flourish? In this panel discussion, hear from researchers and communities from across Australia and India who are taking collective action to create real and sustainable futures.

Timestamps
00:50 Introduction: what are climate imaginaries? - Danielle Celermajer
06:50 Food security and the need for resilient local food systems - Stuart Whitelaw
13:15 How are Himalayan communities reimagining their survival? - Mayank Shah
20:10 What it means for all of us if glaciers disappear? - Lobzang Wangtak
25:50 The entanglement of climate and social justice - Rohit Nair
31:40 What it means to be connected to the more-than-human world - Deepthi Indukuri
37:20 How imaginaries address converging crises - Gijs Spoor
42:15 Q&A

Speakers
Professor Danielle Celermajer (Chair), sociologist
Deepthi Indukuri, a curious rewilder
Rohit Nair, researcher and activist
Mayank Shah (PhD), Himalayan researcher
Gijs Spoor, social change leader
Lobzang Wangtak, glacier and water conservationist
Stuart Whitelaw, founder of a community-led food initiative

This event was held online on Thursday 6 April 2023. For more information about this event & project visit: https://bit.ly/3mGqRpo

Learn more about these speakers' extraordinary stories in the Reimagined Futures podcast series: https://bit.ly/3GVRwFD

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How can Australia successfully transition and adapt its interconnected social and technological systems as the climate crisis intensifies? Environmental law and governance expert, Dr Kate Owens, presents the 2023 Iain McCalman Lecture on how we can effectively harness climate governance to achieve deep coordination and sustained change.

Speaker
Dr Kate Owens, University of Sydney Law School

This event was held at the University of Sydney on Monday 20 March 2023. For more information about this event visit: https://bit.ly/40xJWbo

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Property and ownership are at the core of global crises so how can we rethink our relationship with property and redistribute it in the interests of justice and the flourishing of life?

Timestamps
00:46 Introduction: unpacking property from the perspective of multispecies justice – Dinesh Wadiwel
4:51 Abolition for alternative geographies of abundance - Rosemary-Claire Collard and Jessica Dempsey
15:16 Whenua/Land is freedom, land is servitude – Christine Winter
26:20 The state of agricultural extension labour on biodiverse property - Rebecca Pearse
39:33 Revisiting the problem of animals as property – Dinesh Wadiwel

Speakers
Associate Professor Rosemary-Claire Collard, Simon Fraser University
Associate Professor Jessica Dempsey, The University of British Columbia
Dr Christine Winter, University of Otago
Dr Rebecca Pearse, Australian National University
Associate Professor Dinesh Wadiwel, University of Sydney

This event was held via Zoom on Wednesday 23 November 2022. For more information about this event visit: bit.ly/3kOnRpC

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Hear from a multidisciplinary range of experts as they assess the stability and resilience of our electricity grid in the face of increasing climate disasters.

Panel 3: Using the planning framework to build resilience: a national
perspective

“Will Australia’s current state planning frameworks build resilience in the future grid 2040?”

Timestamps
00:48 Introduction and Renewable Energy Zones – Rosemary Lyster
11:42 Resilience planning frameworks in Victoria – Anne Kallies
28:42 Climate resilience and assessment in NSW – Stephanie Vatala
48:30 Planning laws and natural hazards in Queensland - Philippa England
1:05:21 Reflections on community tolerance for risk
1:10:00 Infrastructure and levels of governance
1:16:26 Conclusion

Speakers
Professor Rosemary Lyster, University of Sydney
Dr Anne Kallies, RMIT
Dr Philippa England, Griffith Law School
Stephanie Vatala, Dentons

This event was held via Zoom on Thursday 10 November 2022. For more information about this event visit: bit.ly/3AQ2Lfr

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