Workshop Climate Justice: Transdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Conversations

Younger Hall

How can the disparity between global climate impact and uneven responsibilities be squared with the ideal of climate justice? How do epistemic infrastructures (such as: IPCC, and global agenda and goal setting mechanisms) interact with communities on the global and local levels? How are climate policies and priorities inflected by questions of distance (across space ... Read more

Public Lecture: Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington)

School II (St. Salvator's)

Title: Beyond Institutional Denial: A Global Constitutional Convention for Future Generations Abstract: Humanity is in deep institutional denial. Current institutions are failing future generations, in part because there is a governance gap when it comes to promoting intergenerational concern. This gap facilitates a tyranny of the contemporary that puts the young and other future generations ... Read more

Public Lecture: Tahseen Jafry (Glasgow Caledonian University)

School II (St. Salvator's)

Title: About Climate Justice: What Does it Mean and What Lies Ahead? Abstract: In July 2023, Europe reached scorching milestones with relentless heatwaves and Scotland had its hottest June ever. Several regions grappled with unprecedented rainfall, triggering ecological and socioeconomic upheaval. However, impacts aren't equally distributed, those who contribute minimally to carbon emissions, find themselves ... Read more

CEPPA Film Club: Children of Men

Edgecliffe 104

We are proud to present the first session of CEPPA Film Club, on Friday 31 May (also the last day of Climate Week), when we will gather from 4.30 onwards to watch and discuss Alfonso Cuarón's classic dystopian film Children of Men (see trailer here). Miguel de la Cal Moreno is convening and will start us off with ... Read more