Annual Lecture series

CSPS organizes an Annual Lecture series in which distinguished researchers from around the world are invited to share their insights with the Wageningen community.

• Annual Lecture 2021 | The Frontlines of Peace | with prof. Séverine Autesserre | 8 June 2021, 4 – 5.30 PM (CEST)
• Annual Lecture 2019 | Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink | by Irus Braverman | June 20th, 16:00 – 18:00 | Leeuwenborch C63 |
• Annual Lecture 2018 | Interrupting the Anthropo-Obscene: The De-politicized Politics of the Anthropocene as Immuno-biopolitical Fantasy | Erik Swyngedouw | June 7 , 16:00 – 17:30
• Annual Lecture 2017 | Presence and Social Obligation: An Essay on the Share | James Ferguson | May 9, 16:00-18:00

All Events

2020

• Blog | Transformative Learning Hub on Climate Change | November 25, 2020
• Blog | Transformative Learning Hub on Anti-Oppression | October 28, 2020
• Seminar | Activism in times of Covid-19 | Nov 9 & 16, 7 – 10 pm CET | Online
• 2020 CSPS Annual Day: Discovering our Fruits & Roots
• Course | Transformative Learning Online: Building & Facilitating Nurturing Learning Environments
• PhD Defense | Shaping Claims to Urban Land. An Ethnographic Guide to Governmentality in Bukavu’s Hybrid Spaces | Fons van Overbeek | October 14th, 2020 at 11 am CEST
• PhD Defense | Grow, share or buy? Understanding diverse food economies of urban gardeners | by Lucie Sovová | October 13, 2020 at 1.30 pm CEST
• PhD Defense | Understanding the psychological and social environmental determinants driving young infant feeding practices among Rwandan households: a salutogenic approach | by Jeanine Ahishakiye | Tuesday Sept 8th, 11.00 am
• Political Ecology Reading Group | Anti-Oppression | 6 sessions from October 2020 – June 2021
• PhD Course | Critical Gender Studies in the Life Sciences domain | Sept 8 – Oct 9, 2020
• PhD Defense | Understanding the psychological and social environmental determinants driving young infant feeding practices among Rwandan households: a salutogenic approach | by Jeanine Ahishakiye | Tuesday Sept 8th, 11.00 am
• Seminar | The Return of Anthropometry: Digital Positivism and the Body Politic | August 27th, 14.00 – 17.00 CET
• Public lecture | Foodscapes after Covid: from corporatism to the politics of possibility | Jonathan Beacham and Alice Willatt | June 9, 15.00 CEST
• PhD Defense | (De)coding a technopolity: Tethering the civic blockchain to political transformation | by Syed Omer Husain
• PhD Course | Critical Perspectives on Social Theory | Wed 3 June 2020 until Fri 19 June 2020
• Webinar | Sitopia: rethinking our lives through food | with Carolyn Steel | April 2, 2020
• Seminar | Living with or versus nature? – mitigation of human-bear conflicts as a bridge towards „politics of conviviality” | By Svetoslava Toncheva | Tuesday, 3 March, 12:30-13:30
• PhD Course | Psychoanalysis and the Political Ecology of Global Transformations | March 20 – April 8 2020
• Exhibition | Countryside, The Future, an AMO / Rem Koolhaas Exhibition | With co-curators @ WUR: Clemens Driessen and Lenora Ditzler | Feb – September 2020
• PhD Summer School | Authoritarian Natures? Political Ecologies of Post-Truth, the State, and Resistance | 1-7 July, Wageningen, Netherlands
• PhD Course | Critical Perspectives on Social Theory | March 20 – April 8 2020
• Transformative Learning Lab | Building Vertical Literacy in Higher Education | Feb – June 2020
• Seminar | Travel and Climate Emergencies? | By Edward Huijbens (GEO), Bas Amelung (ESA), Machiel Lamers (ENP) and Arjaan Pellis (GEO)| February 21 | 13.30 -16.00 | Lumen 1 + 2
• PhD course | Academic Publication and Presentation in the Social Sciences | Feb 17 – Mar 12
• PhD Course| Emotions in the Debates on Natural Resources |Feb 17 – June 1
• Seminar | ‘Food Citizens?’ Food procurement in relation to citizenship | with Cristina Grasseni & Vincent Walstra | Feb 3, 2020
• Event | Foodscapes Writing Retreat | January 29 -31, 2020
• PhD Event| Work-in-Progress Day | January 27, 2020
• Workshop | SENSE -Exploring Soundscapes | January 16, 2020

2019

• Public Lecture | Land lost – land regained in transforming rural landscapes? Smallholder farmers navigating Rwanda’s agrarian and land reforms | by Prof An Ansoms | Dec 18th 2019
• Research Seminar | Convivial Conservation: Obstacles and Opportunities in Transforming Socio-ecologies for the 21st Century | November 21, 2019
• PhD Defence | Alexandra Rijke | The Land of the Checkpoints: A study of the daily geographies of checkpoints in the Occupied Palestinian Territories | Friday Nov 15, 2019
• Seminar| De-migranticisation? An interactive discussion for practitioners and researchers on thinking and doing ‘inclusion’ differently | November 11th, 2019
• Interactive Session | Community-Based Approaches to Health and Wellbeing | with Professor Jane South | November 7, 2019
• Conference | ‘Nutrition Disparity and Equity: From Differences to Potential’ | Friday, 8 November 2019 | Wageningen
• Seminar | Fortress Farming: Livelihoods and coffee value chains in a transforming Indonesia | by Dr Jeff Neilson, University of Sydney | Octber 31, 2019
• Wageningen Geography Lecture | Peatland Literacy: Excavating Interdisciplinary Sites of Learning | by Derek Gladwin | October 28, 2019
• PhD Event | Draw Your PhD | October 24th
• Seminar | Contested Biodiversities: Unpacking power and privilege in KwaZulu-Natal’s Biodiversity Stewardship Programme, South Africa | by Shirley Brooks | October 15, 2019
• Seminar | The invention of the New Zealand economy and the geography of statistics | by Russell Prince, Massey University | October 10, 2019
• PhD Workshop | The invention of the New Zealand economy and the geography of statistics | by Russell Prince, Massey University | October 10, 2019
• Movie and introduction by Stasja Koot | Last Male on Earth van Floor van der Meulen | @MovieW in Wageningen | October 2, 2019
• CSPS Session at RGS-IBG | Calamitous ‘events’? Exploring perceptions of disaster timeframes | Convenors: Robert Coates and Jeroen Warner | 28/29-08-2019
• PhD Event | Mini – Writing Retreat | September 12, 2019
• PhD Event | Draw Your PhD | September 12, 2019
• Research Seminar | Tourism Unlimited? “Overtourism” and its Discontents | September 5, 2019
• Research Seminar | Conservation Conflicts: Perspectives & Implications |by Steve Redpath | June 25th, 2018 | 3 – 5pm | Lumen 1
• Seminar | Health in all policies – creating a healthy living environment | July 15th, 2019 | 15.00 – 16.30 | Leeuwenborch, room 72
• Exhibition | Other (food) + (art) economies are possible! | Wednesday, July 10, 2019
• Workshop | Arts-Based Methods for Diverse Economies | July 8 -10, 2019
• Conference | On the Nature-of-Things: New Technologies and Environmental Governance |July 2nd, 2019 | 09:00 – 17:00 | Leeuwenborch C62
• PhD Defense | Conflicts Forever: Understanding the Role of Conflicts in Conservation Tourism | by Arjaan Pellis | June 24, 2019
• CSPS PhD Event | Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink  |with Irus Braverman |June 20th, 13:30 – 15:30 | Leeuwenborch C63 | Lunch provided
• CSPS Annual Lecture | Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink | by Irus Braverman | June 20th, 16:00 – 18:00 | Leeuwenborch C63
• Lecture | Climate Change and the Voiceless: Protecting Future Generations, Wildlife, and Natural Resources | by Randall S. Abate | June 21st | 16:00 – 17:30 | Leeuwenborch C81
• Invitation | Wisdom and Wonder Movie Talks | with Prof. Dr. Maria Koelen | June 18th, 2019 | 20:30 | Heerenstraat Theater
• Lecture | Forensic Architecture and Violent Landscapes | Wednesday |By Stefan Laxness (Goldsmith University) and Zeynep Kezer (Newcastle University) | May 29, 15.00-17.00 | Leeuwenborch C67
• Lecture | Forest becomes frontline: Conservation and Counter-Insurgency in a space of violent conflict in Assam, Northeast India | By Anwesha Dutta | May 20, 2019
• 2019 CSPS Day | Values in Science | May 16, 2019
• Event | WASS Ph.D Day | Thursday May 9th
• Lecture |Gentrify or Die: The False Choice Facing (some) North-Western European Cities | By Earl Harper (University of Bristol) | Tuesday 7 May, 12:30-13:30, Leeuwenborch C83
• Lecture | Biopolitics in Community Forestry: Indigenous Peoples, Women’s Bodies and Forest |By Violeta Gutierrez Zamora (University of Eastern Finland) | Thursday 2 May, 12:30-13:30, Leeuwenborch C68
• Presentation |The potential of green programs for the rehabilitation of young employees with burnout: a salutogenic approach | by Roald Pijpker | April 30, 2019
• Seminar | Environmental injustice, neoliberal subordinations and hunger​ | by Claudia Puerta | Wednesday 3 April, 4 – 5:15 pm, Leeuwenborch C72
• Seminar | Panic and policy. Island responses to pandemic threats and to global guidelines | by Gerard Prinsen | Thursday 4 April, 12 – 1 pm, Leeuwenborch C71
• Lecture | Co-creating visions of the future with social entrepreneurs in Finland: A place-based resourcefulness approach | by WASS Ph.D candidate Angela Moriggi  (research fellow at the Natural Resource Institute of Finland (LUKE) | Monday 15 April, 12:30 – 3:30 pm, V72 Leeuwenborch
• Lecture | Producing anxiety in the neoliberal university | by prof. Lawrence D. Berg (University of British Columbia) | Wednesday 17 April,15.30-17.00 pm, Gaia 1, Gaia building
• Seminar | Forensic Architecture and Violent Landscapes | April 16, 2019
• Lecture| Customary communities in motion: politics of indigeneity in contemporary Indonesia | by Dr. Noer Fauzi Rachman (Padjadjaran University, Bandung, Indonesia) | Tuesday 26 March 2019, 10.15-12.30
• Lecture | Andean Women Visualizing Development: Participatory Photography and Hopeful Perspectives on and beyond Mining in Peru | by Katy Jenkins |Wednesday 27 March, 3-5 pm, Leeuwenborch C79

2018

• Seminar | Exploring Urbanization: Events, Resources, Risks, and Movements | June 18, 2018 – June 19, 2018
• Annual lecture and seminar | by Erik Swyngedouw | 6 and 7 June 2018
• Seminar | George Iordachescu |5 June 2018
• Event | CSPS & WCGS PhD Writing Retreat | 29 May to 1 June 2018
• Event | Cluster meeting Politics of Space and Place| 15 May 2018
• Event | Cluster meeting Foodscapes | 24 May 2018
• Event | Cluster meeting Politics of Life | 8 May 2018
• Seminar | Towards a post-apocalyptic anthropology: harbouring the prospect of life | 24 April 2018
• Lecture | Caring with people, caring for places: A research on Green Care practices in Finland & its implications for sustainability transformations in places | by Angela Moriggi |  16 April 2018
• Seminar | Co-creating research | 10 April 2018
• Seminar | How REDD+ Governs: Multiple Environmentalities in Guyana and Suriname | 5 April 2018
• Event | Masterclass with prof. William Beinart | 5 April 2018
• Seminar | Land rights and tenure reform in South Africa | 4 April 2018
• Seminar | 7 x Power and Knowledge in the Post-Truth Society | 3 April 2018
• Seminar | Renewable Energy – North and South Case Studies on Local Politics and Resistance | 7 March 2018
• Event | Tourism@WUR Cluster meeting | 6 March 2018
• Seminar | Politics, practices and the transformative potential of sustainable diets | 5 March 2018
• PhD Course | Academic Publication and Presentation in the Social Sciences | 19 February – 16 March 2018Event | Film Viewing and Q&A ‘The Anthropologist’ | with Susan Crate| 25 January 2018
• Lecture | The Political Propaganda of the ‘Terrorism Myth’| by Dr. Jeff Sluka (Massey University) | 11 January 2018
• Lecture | Aboriginal community-based research: integrating rigorous research and community | by Mieke Snijder | 11 January 2018
• Event | Film screening: Ghosts of our forests | 10 January 2018
• PhD Course | Advanced Qualitative Research Design and Data Collection | 8 January – 16 February 2018

2017

• Event | PhD New Year’s drinks | 12 January 2017
• Event | CSPS writing workshop | 24 January 2017
• Lecture | Wageningen Geography lectures | 31 January 2017
• PhD course | Critical Perspectives on Social Theory | 20 February – 13 March 2017
• Lecture | Wageningen Geography lectures | 7 March 2017
• PhD course| Spatial Thinking in the Social Sciences | 21 April – 9 May 2017
• Annual Lecture | by James Ferguson | 9 May 2017
• Seminar | The Hauntological Turn: Psychoanalysis and Political Economy | 12 – 13 May 2017
• Lecture | Wageningen Geography lectures |  23 May 2017
• Lecture | Wageningen Geography lectures | 13 June 2017
• PhD Course | Political Ecology summerschool | 21 – 27 June 2017
• Conference | The Value of Life: Measurement, Stakes, Implications | 28- 30 June 2017
• Event | Politics of Life cluster: Social get-together | 12 September 2017
• Excursion | Lively Geographies: Reading “De Uiterwaarden | 15 September 2017
• Event | The Politics of Life reading group | 19 October 2017
• Seminar | On farmers and natural resources in the (western) Mexico: going beyond a farmer-oriented perspective | 24 October 2017
• Event | Reading session with Lourdes Orzoco: Performing animal encounters | 31 October 2017
• Event | Balancing sanity and productivity during your PhD | 2 November 2017
• Event | Foodscapes cluster meeting | 15 November 2017
• Event | Informal gathering: Health and Social care cluster | 27 November 2017
• Event | Politics of Space and Place: excursion to Camp Westerbork | 11 December 2017
• Event | Balancing sanity and productivity during your PhD | 12 December 2017
• Lecture| Flexible bio-citizenship’ and international medical travel: Transnational mobilities for care in Asia | by Prof. Andrea Whittaker | 13 December 2017
• Seminar | A Merely Gorilla Christmas? Presentation & discussion on two PhD projects studying gorilla territory in the African Great Lakes Region | 13 December 2017

2016

• CSPS welcome drinks, 20 June 2016
• PE-3C conference, 7-9 July 2016
• Guest lectures by Dr. Raoul Bianichi, 19-20 September 2016
• Informal brainstorm session, 28 September 2016
• Visiting professor Tim Oakes, 10-16 October 2016
• Marx reading group, 14 October 2016
• The Politics of Life reading group, 27 October 2016
• Marx reading group, 4 November 2016
• Landscape Conservation with Dr. S. Cottrell on tourism and resilience, 10 November 2016
• CSPS writing workshop, 17 November 2016
• Marx reading group, 18 November 2016
• CSPS Latin America cluster: meeting with Mexican human rights defenders, 21 November 2016
• Affect reading group, 23 November 2016
• Marx reading group, 2 December 2016
• CSPS writing workshop, 12 December 2016