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9 October 2025 10:00 to 12:00 | Seminar PhD candidates at LUCSUS hold three seminars during their education - a start-up seminar, a mid-seminar, and a final seminar. Participation in seminars is essential for doctoral students to reach learning outcomes fully. The seminars are always in English. Stefan Schüller is a doctoral student at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) and

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/phd-seminar-stefan-schullers-first-year-seminar - 2026-01-15

23 October 2025 11:00 to 12:00 | Seminar Join our research seminar with LUCSUS researchers and guests presenting their latest research. Speaker: Ana Maria VargasClimate adaptation is often framed as urgent and inevitable — yet in many communities, especially those living in poverty, it is met with quiet defiance, legal challenges, or outright sabotage. This seminar explores how resistance emerges

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/when-adaptation-meets-resistance-how-shape-climate-policy-below - 2026-01-15

29 September 2025 10:00 to 12:00 | Seminar PhD candidates at LUCSUS hold three seminars during their education - a start-up seminar, a mid-seminar, and a final seminar. Participation in seminars is essential for doctoral students to reach learning outcomes fully. The seminars are always in English. Speaker: Emilia GanslandtEmilia Ganslandt is a doctoral student at LUCSUS. She has a bachelor’s degr

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/phd-seminar-emilia-ganslandts-mid-term-seminar - 2026-01-15

13 October 2025 13:00 to 14:30 | Seminar Join our research seminar with LUCSUS researchers and guests presenting their latest research. Speaker: Genevieve GuentherFossil fascism is rising in the United States. To build a permission structure for its actions, the Trump regime is suppressing science, taking control of the news media, and silencing communities harmed by extreme weather. Yet at the sa

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/language-climate-politics - 2026-01-15

13 October 2025 15:00 to 17:00 | Seminar PhD candidates at LUCSUS hold three seminars during their education: a start-up seminar, a mid-seminar, and a final seminar. Participation in seminars is essential for doctoral students to reach learning outcomes fully. The seminars are always in English. Bernard Ekumah's doctoral research focuses on examining the emergence and growth of smallholder farmers

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/phd-seminar-bernard-ekumahs-final-seminar - 2026-01-15

9 December 2025 08:30 to 17:00 | Conference Welcome to the Lund University's 5th research conference on sustainable development, this year in collaboration with University of Cambridge, UK. Link to conference and registration: Knowledge for Sustainable Development 2025 | Sustainability ForumThe registration deadline is 27th of November. The IPCC is clear: human-driven climate change is already hav

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/knowledge-sustainable-development-2025-breaking-barriers-climate-solutions - 2026-01-15

24 October 2025 10:00 | Thesis defence Michaelin Sibanda har författat en avhandling med titeln: Sowing Seeds of Change: Feminist collective action for agroecological transformation in ZimbabweFakultetsopponent: Senior researcher Floriane Clement, French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE)Mer information om avhandlingen finns i Lunds universitets forskningsportal Abou

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/disputation-i-hallbarhetsvetenskap-michaelin-sibanda - 2026-01-15

24 October 2025 10:00 | Thesis defence Michaelin Sibanda has written a thesis entitled: Sowing Seeds of Change: Feminist collective action for agroecological transformation in ZimbabweExternal reviewer: Senior researcher Floriane Clement, French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE)More information about the thesis is available in the Lund University Research Portal  Ab

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/phd-defence-sustainability-science-michaelin-sibanda - 2026-01-15

16 October 2025 10:00 to 11:00 | Seminar Join our research seminar with LUCSUS researchers and guests presenting their latest research. Speaker: Frederik Andersen TjalveIn this seminar, Frederik Andersen Tjalve discusses the entanglements between campesino and Chiquitano communities and extractivist-fueled environmental devastation in the rural landscapes of La Chiquitanía. He begins by relating t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/ghost-within-forest-campesino-settlers-and-environmental-ruination-la-chiquitania - 2026-01-15

Communications officer Contact details Email: theo [dot] hagman-rogowski [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se Phone: +46 46 222 32 76Organisation Sociology of Law Department Room number: M308 Service point: 31 Other affiliations Communications officer Faculty Office Communications officer LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)Theo Hagman-Rogowski handles operational and strategic exte

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/theo-hagman-rogowski - 2026-01-15

6 November 2025 11:00 to 12:00 | Seminar Join our research seminar with LUCSUS researchers and invited guests presenting their latest research. Speaker: Harry W. FischerRestoration has become a key environmental agenda of the present era, exemplified by the UN’s current Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-30) and pursued through a host of policies worldwide. But what does it mean to “restore” a

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/building-restoration-futures-ecological-repair-creative-transformations - 2026-01-15

9 December 2025 11:00 to 12:00 | Seminar Join our research seminar with LUCSUS researchers and guests presenting their latest research. Speaker: Martin Hultman, University of GothenburgCentral to the six-year research program exploring Rights of Nature for water bodies, funded by Formas, we arrange Transition Labs (known as 'Vätternting') with committed and concerned groups of people who live and

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/cancelled-lucsus-seminar-art-based-affective-pedagogy-part-rights-nature-movement-presencing - 2026-01-15

21 November 2025 10:00 | Thesis defence Ronald Byaruhanga har författat en avhandling med titeln: Mot det utlovade landet : Politisering som en väg mot en emancipatorisk jordbrukstransformation i UgandaFakultetsopponent: Professor Lars Buur, Roskilde universitetMer information om avhandlingen finns här About the eventLocation:Ostrom, Josephson, Biskopsgatan 5, LundContact:ellinor [dot] isgren [at]

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/disputation-i-hallbarhetsvetenskap-ronald-byaruhanga - 2026-01-15

21 November 2025 10:00 | Thesis defence Ronald Byaruhanga has written a thesis entitled: Toward the Promised Land: Politicisation as a Pathway to Emancipatory Agricultural Transformation in UgandaExternal reviewer: Professor Lars Buur, Roskilde UniversityFurther information about the thesis is available here About the eventLocation:Ostrom, Josephson, Biskopsgatan 5, LundContact:ellinor [dot] isgre

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/phd-defence-sustainability-science-ronald-byaruhanga - 2026-01-15

27 November 2025 16:30 to 18:00 | Seminar How can we use law, policy, and transnational advocacy against global ecological destruction? In this round-table talk, environmental defenders and allies reflect on strategies they have used in their work to fight for socio-ecological justice using transnational networks. In a time when environmental harm disregards borders, transnational networks are a c

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/calendar/defending-living-earth-transnational-action-beyond-cop30 - 2026-01-15

Karen Runde, batch 13 Senior Director of Academics and the Entrepreneur Network at Santa Clara University, USA Brooke Savoy, batch 26 Working to accelerate South Korea's energy transition Cecilia Jaques, batch 20 Engagement Manager at Accelerating Community Energy Transformation, University of Victoria, Canada Kent Buchanan, batch 13 Climate mitigation analyst with the South African Government Mar

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lumes-environmental-studies-and-sustainability-science/lumes-alumni-portraits - 2026-01-15

Kent Buchanan works as a technical advisory for the South African government to develop targets to reduce national greenhouse gas emissions. He is also pursuing a PhD on climate smart agriculture: "My main motivation is to work with purpose and to be proud of my contribution". Kent Buchanan graduated from LUMES in 2011, as part of batch 13. What are you working on right now?Currently I work part t

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lumes-environmental-studies-and-sustainability-science/lumes-alumni-portraits/kent-buchanan - 2026-01-15

Karen Runde is the Senior Director of Academics and the Entrepreneur Network at the Miller Center for Global Impact at Santa Clara University in California, USA. She is passionate about advancing sustainable development – particularly water access in Sub-Saharan Africa, and recently designed and piloted CoShun, an innovative water filter tested in two schools in Kenya. She graduated from LUMES in

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lumes-environmental-studies-and-sustainability-science/lumes-alumni-portraits/karen-runde - 2026-01-15

Marie-Helene Westholm-Knebel worked for many years in international sustainability before becoming the Global Head of Sustainability for ABB Energy Industries. Throughout her career, she has been driven by the belief that we can all play a role in driving positive impact, individually and at work. She graduated from LUMES in 2008, as part of batch 10. What are you working on right now?I am current

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lumes-environmental-studies-and-sustainability-science/lumes-alumni-portraits/marie-helene-westholm-knebel - 2026-01-15

Brooke Savoy's work for the climate organisation, Solutions For Our Climate, in Seoul, focuses on policy research and activism aimed at improving South Korea's energy policies. She is motivated by the knowledge that her and other people's work is making the world even a little bit better: "In the long run, everything we do adds up to make an impact". She graduated from LUMES in 2024, as part of ba

https://www.lucsus.lu.se/education/master-science-programmes/lumes-environmental-studies-and-sustainability-science/lumes-alumni-portraits/brooke-savoy - 2026-01-15