Date: Monday June 12 Time: 13.30 – 15.00 hrs Location: B0075, Leeuwenborch, Wageningen Campus / Professor Lucie Lévesque from the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada will share a talk with us on how to train a community-engaged researcher. Using the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Program (KSDPP) as an example. The […]

Beeld ANP Tourism@WUR event | Stories from the Dutch slavery and colonial past: a conversation with tour guides and museum curators from Ghana and Suriname Stories matter, and tourism can provide stories of connection particularly in relation to the memories associated with slavery and colonial heritage. Arguably, tourism is the only contemporary site outside of […]

As part of the pre-conference programme to the LANDac-IOS Fair Transitions conference  Fair Transitions and the politics of land: institutions and imaginaries for inclusive futures, there will be a PhD Masterclass which seems very promising. The Masterclass will take place in Utrecht and is open also to non-conference participants. Maximum 25 spots. Spread the word! […]

As part of our new course ‘Beyond Sustainability: Theorizing post- and anti-capitalist food futures’ (RSO58806), we are curating an evening seminar series where we will welcome scholars and activists engaged in reimagining food and society more generally (in conjunction with CSPS and Otherwise). You are cordially invited to join us for the seminars. Please register […]

What are barriers for you to make time for reading during your regular work day? What distracts you when you are reading? How do you ensure retention after reading a relevant piece? Those where questions we started answering for ourselves during the reading retreat of the foodscapes cluster. Now you may wonder: a reading retreat […]

Geographies of cultural production, cultural memory and commemoration. Emmanuel Akwasi Adu-Ampong has been awarded an Academy Early Career Partnership by KNAW to organise an interdisciplinary event. The event of Emmanual will take place 1-2 June in Amsterdam. Join online via this link We are currently living in a society in flux where the stories we […]

Meuse on the move: transboundary water governance in times of extremesBy Wageningen Water Governance Platform 14:00 Welcome and introduction 14:10 Keynote: Prof. Richard Meissner (University of South Africa) – Transboundary rivers have their politics – the case of South Africa 14:40 Presentation: Lotte de Jong & Cornel van Schayck – The challenge for (legal) recognition […]

Join us for the screening of ‘Animal Intersection’, a documentary film by Rodrigo Machado When: Wednesday, 31 May 2023, 15:30-17:00 Where: Gaia Building (1st floor mezzanine), Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen Cost: Free of cost and no registration required Contact: rodmgc@gmail.com Description ‘Animal Intersection’ is a thought-provoking film that delves into the complex […]

Sustainability has become one of the most urgent challenges of our time. The relationships between gender (socially constructed differences between men and women), diversity (people’s backgrounds and natural lifeworlds) and sustainability, while crucial, are often difficult for students to see. In the Gender and Diversity for Sustainable Worlds minor, students start from their own position […]

Let us introduce you to Thirza and Anna, coordinators of the CSPS Foodscapes Cluster. This research cluster is all about the societal landscape in which food systems are embedded. Food is an important part of everyone’s daily life, both shaping and manifesting social relations, including expressions of identity and the execution of power. Food is […]

That is what Lenneke Vaandrager, Sjerp de Vries, Jan Hassink, Marthe Derkzen and Mellany van Bommel of Wageningen University & Research did research on with the project PARTIGAN (Participatory Greening of Arnhem and Nijmegen). After more than four years of research, PARTIGAN is officially finished. On March 16, they had a successful closing meeting in […]

We are launching the Wageningen Disaster Network with a lecture & lunchtime networking event on Tuesday 25 April Wageningen has a venerable history in crisis and disaster sociology since 1997, but in a world of pandemics, catastrophic flooding and droughts, unprecedented wildfires, and restless tectonic plates, it’s high time to reach out to other disciplines […]

On 6 April from 17.00-18.00+ we will meet to celebrate the launch of Rob Fletcher’s new book, Failing Forward: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation All are welcome to the event and to enjoy drinks afterwards. Date: 6 April Time: 17.00-18.00+ Location: Forum C0221, followed by drinks at the Grand Café Sponsored by Political […]

“During the event over 60 participants learnt about methods to render visible the past and current ties between Dutch universities and fossil companies, like Shell, and reasons to do so.” Last week on March 16, 2023 the Mapping fossil ties symposium organised by S4F Wageningen was held in Wageningen, to deepen our knowledge about the […]

The WUR Transformative Learning Hub in collaboration with the Centre for Unusual Collaborations organizes: Workshop: Embracing multiperspectivity Registration required: Registration for CUCo’s Embracing Multiperspectivity Workshop (google.com) What can we learn from artists in our daily struggle when collaborating with others? How do artists use their senses, give meaning to emotions & feelings and collaborate with […]

Would you like to join us exploring a new, salutogenic perspective on coping with climate anxiety? If yes, then register for the free webinar organised by Laura Bouwman (HSO, Wageningen University), Leah Rosen (HSO, Wageningen University) and Marguerite Daniels (University of Bergen) on March 24th, 13:00-15:00 PM.  We would like to invite you to join […]

Event description Lula’s victory in the 2022 Brazilian election was accompanied by a solid commitment to tackle climate change, including the goal of zero deforestation by 2030. A new Plan to Halt Deforestation is expected, comprising all Brazilian biomes beyond the Amazon alone. Action to confront illegal operations has already begun, for example in the […]

Text and photos Merissa Gavin Re-negotiating precarity: Migrant fruit pickers in southern SpainFor my ongoing thesis research, I am interested in how migrant workers in Spain’s agri-food industry navigate politically induced precarity. Precarity, within the scope of this research, refers to the instability of immigrants’ status in society as they embody the paradox of being […]

Jennifer Ahern-Dodson & Monique Dufour (2023) The Productivity Trap:Why We Need a New Model of Faculty Writing Support, Change: The Magazine of HigherLearning, 55:1, 24-30, DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2023.2151800 Read full article

The ETC Summerschool 2023 will be held from the 18th of June – 30th of June 2023 and will be hosted by the University of Chester, UK. The theme of this years summerschool is “Strengthening Community Health and Wellbeing: putting the Art back into Public Health”. We have a very attractive and creative programme (click […]

Picture by https://www.phddefencephoto.com/ On the 6th of December, dr. Marja de Jong successfully defended her dissertation entitled: “Voorstad on the move to better health”. Four questions to Marja about combining her PhD research with a job as advisor of the Municipal Health Service (GGD). Why did you start this combination, a PhD in addition to your job […]

Kai-Sean Lee, Stefanie Benjamin, The death of tourism scholarship… unless…, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 98, 2023, 103520, ISSN 0160-7383. “Our graduate students need to publish more,” says Professor Publish. “If they want to compete in today’s higher education job market, they will need at least three publications by graduation, maybe five to be safe.” […]

By Bram Büscher and Han Wiskerke Dutch farmers have worked extremely hard to keep themselves afloat in an unsustainable farming system. This self-defeating success is now at its end. Farmers should get support and realistic options to shift to a sustainable system. And science and politics must draw lessons from this for the even greater […]

Friday, 2 December 13:30 – 15:00 Linda Yevoo (SDC) | Maternal and newborn clinical decision-making in context. Linda’s research is part of the project on maternal and newborn health care in Ghana, an NWO funded programme to investigate the cause of maternal and newborn deaths in a hospital setting in Ghana. More info. Tuesday, 6 […]