The Early Careers’ Symposium on “Regional Convergences and Divergences in Cultures of Climate Adaptation” will take place from the 26th until the 27th of June 2024 at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. We invite early career researchers (PhD candidates and researchers within 5 years after obtaining their PhDs) from various disciplines including but not limited to anthropology,…

The Revisiting Climate-Cultures project, funded by  Bottom-up Initiatives for Societal Change in December 2023 was featured in the quarterly newsletter for the members of the Bottom-up Initiatives for Societal Change Platform. Click here to read the newsletter.

The Ohio State University Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA) is hosting, in collaboration with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center and the Cultures of Adaptation Network, “Unpacking the 5th U.S. National Climate Assessment for the Midwest & Flash Talks Highlighting Climate Resilience Partnerships in Central Ohio“. Dr. Aaron Wilson will provide an…

October 5 2023 marked the kick-off for the research project “Revisiting Climate-Culture: Studying Locally-led Knowledge and Adaptation Practices for Climate Change and development in Asia”, organized by Dr. Bishawjit Mallick. The multi-disciplinary and international team of collaborators spans 7 countries: India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Taiwan, Australia, The USA, and The Netherlands. Therefore, the session…

Cultural dimensions of climate change adaptation raise the question of how far climate change-related knowledge and adaptation practices (hereafter ‘climate cultures’) are globally transferable and applicable. We are thrilled to invite you to the kick-off meeting of the “Revisiting Climate-Culture: Studying Locally-led Knowledge and Adaptation Practices for Climate Change and Development in Asia.” The session…

On September 12, 2023 Dr. Avit Bhowmik (Karlstad University), an Environmental Scientist and Climate Solutionist, visited Utrecht University for a seminar on the obscure causal link between climate extremes and forced migrations in developing countries. The seminar was attended by various UU academic scholars, PhD candidates and MSc students of the department of Human Geography…

On May 10, 2023 the ICCCAD workshop on gender, non-migration, and climate change took place in the Independent University in Dhaka, Bangladesh in collaboration with International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD). The workshop was organized by Dr. Bishawjit Mallick (Utrecht University), Prof. Dr. Ajay Bailey (Utrecht University) and Prof. Saleemul Huq (ICCCAD).  …