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 […]
CSPS Tourism Cluster | GEO@CSPS | Stories from the Dutch slavery and colonial past | Seminar | 6 June 1-3pm
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 […]
LANDac-IOS Fair Transitions conference | SDC@CSPS | PhD Masterclass | 28-30 June | Utrecht
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! […]
Seminar series | RSO@CSPS | Post-Capitalist Food Futures | With Khayaat Fakier | 8 June 5pm | Campus Wageningen
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 […]
Recap | Foodscapes Reading Retreat | Finding (y)our reading flow
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 […]
Join online!: Conference | Tourism, memory and heritage | 1-2 June 2023 | Amsterdam & online
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 […]
Maas/Meuse River Symposium | 23 May 2023 2-5pm | Wageningen Campus
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 […]
Movie screening | Animal Intersection, a documentary film by Rodrigo Machado | Gaia Building
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 […]
Performance & dialogue | Diverse Food Futures | De Superette, Wageningen
New minor | Gender and Diversity for Sustainable World | Period 1-3
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 […]
Capita Selecta Course | Capitalist Realism | Period 6
Cluster | Introducing Foodscapes
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 […]
News | What does participation in green space mean for the well-being of residents?
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 […]
Event | Wageningen Disaster Network Meeting | April 25 2023, 10am-2pm | Wageningen Campus
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 […]
Book launch | Prof. Robert Fletcher | Failing Forward: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservation| 6 April 2023 5pm | Wageningen Campus
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 […]
Recap symposium | The first Mapping fossil ties symposium: pretty, pretty, pretty good
“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 […]
Workshop | Embracing multiperspectivity | March 29 2023 1-5 pm | Wageningen Campus
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 […]
Webinar | Coping with climate anxiety from a salutogenic perspective | March 24 2023 1-3pm | Online
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 […]
Seminar | Challenges for tackling deforestation in Brazil: From a scorched earth policy to where? | Adriana Ramos | March 27 2023 | 12.30 – 13.30 | Impulse, Wageningen
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 […]
Blog | Merissa Gavin | Migrant workers in Spain’s Agri-Food Industry and the Ceuta ‘March for Dignity’
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 […]
Symposium | Mapping fossil ties | March 16 2023 | 15.15- 18.00 | Gaia 1+2, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, Wageningen |
Date: March 16 2023 Time: 15.15- 18.00 Venue: Gaia 1+2, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, Wageningen You can register here: https://forms.gle/7tzVSSa8hauuBXeDA Organized by: S4F Wageningen, CSPS and W*O*L*F* Key-notes Brigitte Wear Researcher and writer at The Jester and student of Wageningen University. Vatan Hüzeir Researcher-activist, advisor in climate change & energy, PhD-candidate on climate activism, director Changerism, […]
Article | The Productivity Trap: Why We Need a New Model of Faculty Writing Support | Ahern-Dodson & Dufour
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
ETC-PHHP Summercourse | Strengthening Community Health and Wellbeing | 18 – 30 June, 2023 | Chester (UK)
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 […]
PhD Workshop | Carving Out the Space: a reflexive workshop on PAR | with Rachel Pain, Katy Jenkins, Bettina van Hoven and Sonja Marzi | March 8, 2023 | 9:00 -12:30 | Wageningen
Carving out the space: A reflexive workshop on PAR With special guests: Rachel Pain, Katy Jenkins, Bettina van Hoven and Sonja Marzi Date and time: 8 March 2023, 9:00-12:30, followed by lunch Location: Wageningen University – B: 351 R:0031 Dance Room C:018 (Clockhouse, Generaal Foulkes 37, Wageningen 6703BL) Registration required: https://forms.gle/WxXWNUp35JGQz5s86 Max. no of participation: […]
PhD Summer School | Critical Tourism Studies | June 14 – 23, 2023 | Wageningen, The Netherlands
This summer school will enable PhD students to unravel the multiple relations surrounding tourism and its development in a range of settings, equipping students with a nuanced appreciation of the social and cultural dimensions of power manifest in tourism destination development, in tandem with an appreciation of the production and material aspects of tourism and […]
Interview | CSPS PhD dissertation | Dr. Marja de Jong
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 […]
Graduate Course | Critical Gender Studies in the Life Sciences domains | Period 4, 2022-2023
Commentary | The death of tourism scholarship… unless… | Lee & Benjamin
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.” […]
Opinion piece | Nitrogen crisis a farmer’s problem? Just a sign of what lies ahead for us all
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 […]
CSPS PhD defence | December 2022 | Wageningen Campus
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 […]