SEI Director returns from Visiting Professorship in Europe

During early 2024, Professor Schlosberg engaged with several policy partners and colleagues across Europe, reinforcing SEI’s reputation as a model of multidisciplinary environmental research for impact.

Throughout his Visiting Professorship at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki, Professor Schlosberg had several notable highlights:

• He developed a new project on ‘Climate Turbulence and Justice: Disruption, Displacement, and Democratic Innovation,’ addressing how the increase in climate disruptions and converging crises can be understood as environmental and climate injustice – and how communities are developing democratic responses. This was presented at a number of Universities, including Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Edinburgh. The lecture from the University of Helsinki is available to watch on YouTube
• This work culminated in a Europe-wide conference, hosted by the Helsinki Collegium, titled “Climate Turbulence and Democratic Experimentation,” which explored how forms of democratic practice and ecological engagement can be developed in response to environmental crises and climate disasters. Colleagues attended from Cambridge, Copenhagen, Durham, Manchester, Stockholm, Utrecht, as well as Helsinki.
• He gave a range of talks on the ARC project on environmental justice, including on conditions that enable the success of EJ and on the relationship between EJ and climate adaptation. Presentations included universities of Helsinki, Stockholm, and Bergen.
• He was invited to present his work and open the first OECD Conference on Environmental Justice in Paris, France. His talk focused on the history and meaning of environmental justice and both barriers to, and enablers of, its achievement. The presentation is available to watch on YouTube.

Professor Schlosberg also gave a number of additional talks and lectures in his time abroad, collaborated on a University of Helsinki-based project MUST (multispecies urban transitions), developed a collaborative compact with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh, and represented the University of Sydney at several European partner institutions, including Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Copenhagen. He is thankful to the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies for the opportunity to spend time in such a productive and scholarly environment.

SEI is delighted to welcome back Professor Schlosberg and extends thanks to Professor Danielle Celermajer for her exceptional work as Acting Director in his absence.

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