Category: Workshops
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Workshop Contested Industrialization of Food Systems in the Unequal Anthropocene: Critical Histories of Agriculture- and Food-Affiliated Industries from a Global Perspective (1945-present) | Utrecht, The Netherlands
May 15-16, 2025, Utrecht University Entangled Oils: Transnational and Interwoven Histories of Indonesian Coconut and Palm Oil Paper by Maliene Kip, TU Eindhoven Abstract: This paper explores the comparative development of coconut oil and palm oil as major export commodities from Indonesia, tracing their trajectories from the 1900s onward. Coconut oil and copra, derived from…
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Workshop Historical Narratives of Transformation: Resources, Sustainability, and a Just Society | Aarhus, Denmark
August 13 -14, 2025, Aarhus Denmark Entangled Oils: Transnational and Interwoven Histories of Indonesian Coconut and Palm Oil Paper by Maliene Kip, TU Eindhoven Extended Abstract: A popular saying in Indonesia states, “there are as many uses for the coconut as there are days in the year.” From food and shelter to soap and medicine,…
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Workshop Quantifying well-being and sustainability in a long-term global perspective
30 January 2025, TU Eindhoven Description: Monitoring life quality and environmental impact is fundamental to the international shared agenda of achieving sustainable development. The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), represent a widely adopted framework to quantify sustainable development, divided into 17 goals, 169 targets and 247 indicators. However, other frameworks have also been developed—predating…
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Workshop Commodification, Values & Knowledge Politics
Hosted by NWO research programs Sustainability Trade-offs in the Netherlands’ Entangled Modernisation (STONEM), 1900-2020 and Soy Stories. Date: April 22th 2024 Location: Utrecht University Introduction Today we live in a polycentric world knitted together by human made material, knowledge, financial, digital, and natural flows and ecosystems. How can we study its historic developments? In this…
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Workshop Mining Matters: Coloniality and sustainable technologies in changing climates
University of Twente, 27 & 28 November 2023 Description: The current push to move away from fossil fuel reliance and invest in sustainable energy technologies like wind turbines or electric automobility is key to reach climate goals. While cutting emissions by phasing out fossil fuels is crucial, the transition to sustainables has stoked global competition for…
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Workshop Deep Transitions: Assessing and measuring systems change
Deep Transitions Lab, 20-22 Sept. 2023, Tartu, Estonia Gathering in Tartu (Estonia) in September, teams from Britain, the Netherlands and Estonia began a 3-day Deep Transitions workshop on assessing and measuring systems change. The sessions aimed to develop increased knowledge on indicators for transformative change, generate ideas for funding proposals and exchange knowledge between teams,…