AdaptationConnects University of Oslo

Join the Edison Electric Institute Influential Minds conversation with Karen O´Brien and Lawrence Jones on Nov 4th! As we are heading into the COP27 we for sure need radically different way of thinking about climate change and social change. Taking us through a relational, quantum lens on social change, Karen will help us recognize that small changes can make a big difference and will introduce new ways of scaling sustainability.

To register click: https://bit.ly/IM-110422

Skole i Verden samarbeidet inviterer til heldagskonferanse om transformativ læring! Her møtes forskere, lærere, elever, sivilsamfunnet og politikkere for sammen å utforske utfordringer og muligheter for handling for bærekraft.

Se hele programmet og meld deg på her: https://www.uv.uio.no/ils/om/aktuelt/arrangementer/2022/skole-i-verden-konferanse.html?fbclid=IwAR3jl0ETkmj0XPyNtsJ5_M0ZKLzZYeW6Nr0LSiCVej1OMkW_7tFSOB2yG7I

Det utdanningsvitenskapelige fakultet (UiO)

Konferanse: Skole i Verden - Institutt for lærerutdanning og skoleforskning Den første årlige konferansen i Skole i Verden åpner et levende og dynamisk landskap mellom forskning, praksis og handling for bærekraft. Møt elever, lærere, forskere og andre samfunnsaktører som allerede blåser liv i Skole i Verden-begrepet, og få innspill, kontakter, inspirasjon og faglig...

Please join us for a public international seminar featuring Prof. Karen O'Brien and Alaskan tribal leader AlexAnna Salmon, sponsored by AdaptationCONNECTS, UiO.

Conscious Transformations to Sustainability: What does it take?

Bringing together researchers and knowledge-keepers from University of Oslo (UiO), Nova University of Lisbon (U.Nova), University of British Columbia (UBC), and the Alaskan community Igiugig, for this final public seminar, we focus on how the project findings contribute to our understandings of conscious transformations to sustainability.

Register for free here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conscious-transformations-to-sustainability-what-does-it-take-tickets-365707048627

Julia Bentz, Irmelin Gram-Hanssen, Milda N Rosenberg, Karen O'Brien, Gail Hochachka, Tone Bjordam

This weekend Karen O'Brien was awarded an honorary doctorate at Linköping University for her pionering work in cross-disciplinary research into the societal effects of climate change.
Here some glimpse from the impressive award seremony and the honorary doctorate lecture. The team at Institutt for sosiologi og samfunnsgeografi at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) is proud and grateful! So well deserved Karen! Congratulations!

The IPCC and scientists are repeatedly warning us of imminent catastrophes unless we act now! This truly is the decade that matters.

But what is the role of the individual and the collective? Are we simply to small to make a difference? Do we just have to wait for the large-scale emitters to do something?

In this perspective, Karen O'Brien argues that we do matter. It matters what we think, how we act, who we are being, and how we show up.

This perspective is the second in a serie of short article based on the key themes of Karens latest book “You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World”:

This Decade Matters If we are truly living in the decade that matters, we may have to think more carefully about what it means to matter. Not just…

Act now! But act how?

Check out our Special Feature of the journal Sustainability Science fresh off the press! This Special Feature was first envisioned at an international symposium organized by the AdaptationCONNECTS research project in 2019. In it, the editors and the authors provide diverse and integrative perspectives on how to move beyond “blah blah blah” and work deliberately to generate transformation.

Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet - Universitetet i Oslo, Norges forskningsråd.

Special Feature on the “How” of Transformation - Department of Sociology and Human Geography Through the collective effort of this Special Feature of Sustainability Science, the editors and the authors offer key insights on how we can overcome the inertia and work deliberately with transformative change.

There is still time to register for the fifth SDG Conference Bergen, 9-11 February 2022.

It is free. It is online. Its about ways of knowing. Its about modes of living. Join us!

SDG Conference Bergen Between the 9th and 11th of February 2022 the University of Bergen (UiB) hosts the fifth national SDG Conference Bergen focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). At the conference the research and higher education communities join with decision-makers, civil society, industry and others f...