Stockholm+50: Five Decades of Global Environmental Policy
Public Lectures Series at Freie Universität Berlin from April 25 to July 18, 2022
№ 051/2022 from Apr 22, 2022
A public lecture series beginning on April 25 at Freie Universität Berlin will focus on developments and contemporary aspects of global environmental policy. The speakers will address issues related to how ideas about sustainable development in politics and research have changed over the past 50 years. In June 1972 the first United Nations Conference on the Human Environment was held in Stockholm. The series will begin with a lecture by Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs from the Department of Governance at the Technical University of Munich entitled “International climate change politics: From Rio de Janeiro to Glasgow.” Attendance is possible in person and via livestream. There is no charge.
Stockholm+50: Five Decades of Global Environmental Policy
- Hosted by the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
- Mondays from 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.; First lecture: April 25, 2022 (Exception: The lecture on May 2 will take place froom 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.)
- Lecture Hall A, Henry Ford Building, Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin; subway station: Freie Universität / Thielplatz (U3), Bus 110 (Exception: The lecture on May 2 will take place in Lecture Hall 1, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin)
- Conception: Prof. Dr. Lena Partzsch
- Livestream: www.fu-berlin.de/sites/offenerhoersaal/stockholm-50/livestream
Program
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April 25, 2022, 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Lecture: International climate change politics: From Rio de Janeiro to Glasgow [SDG13] -
May 2, 2022, 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Lecture: Plant a tree and save the world? Changes in governance arrangements since 1992 [SDG 15] -
May 9, 2022, 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Lecture: Protecting life below water: competing orders, interests, and forms of knowledge [SDG 14] -
May 16, 2022, 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Lecture: Sustainable development and water: cross-sectoral, transboundary, and multi-level governance arrangements -
May 23, 2022, 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Lecture: Water for life and food: synergies between SDGs 2 and 6 and human rights - May 30, 2022, 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Lecture: Clean energy services: universal access as enabler for developments? [SDG 7] - June 13 2022, 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Lecture: Partnerships for the goals: facilitating the biodiversity-climate-governance nexus? [SDG 17] -
June 20, 2022, 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Lecture: From economic growth to socio-ecological transformation: Rethinking visions of economy and work under SDG 8 -
June 27, 2022, 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Lecture: ‘We will not be mainstreamed into a polluted stream’: An ecofeminist critique of SDG 5 -
July 4, 2022, 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Lecture: Realising sustainable consumption and production: Beyond neoliberal governance? [SDG 12] -
July 11, 2022, 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Lecture: Cities and the SDGs: a spotlight on urban settlements [SDG 11] -
July 18, 2022, 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Lecture: The environment in global sustainability governance
Other topics in the Open Lecture Hall series during the summer semester are “Eugenics – Dehumanization – Remembrance,” in which the speaker on April 25 will address the memory, history, and aftermath of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Genetics and Eugenics. Beginning on April 27, the series “Networking and Dissipating?” will address the future of academic teaching. In addition, a series of events organized by the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg and being held at Freie Universität will deal with Jewish literature in the language cultures of the world. All the lectures can also be followed online: www.fu-berlin.de/offenerhoersaal
Further Information
Link to the Program
www.fu-berlin.de/sites/offenerhoersaal/
Contact
Freie Universität Berlin, Center for Continuing Education, Public Lecture Halls, Coordinating Office, Sebastian Treu, Otto-von-Simson-Straße 13, 14195 Berlin, Tel.: +49 30 838 633 25, Email: sebastian.treu@fu-berlin.de