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| Centre for Global Challenges
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Dear colleagues and students,
How can Utrecht University create a globally engaged learning environment supporting teachers and students to connect with societal partners and communities, working and learning together on some of the big societal challenges of our time? Last month, UGlobe launched its International Community Engaged Learning Lab. Together with colleagues from across the university, we are excited to work on this question and to inspire others to turn classrooms into interactive global learning environments. For details on the launch, and examples of how we are connecting with societal partners from around the world in research and public engagement, we are pleased to share with you our latest update.
Best wishes,
Joost de Laat, Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges (UGlobe)
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| UGlobe launches International Community Engaged Learning Lab
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On March 7th, UGlobe launched the International Community Engaged Learning Lab at the Social Impact Factory. The event, hosted by Dr. Lauren Gould, started with two conversations exploring the relevance of iCEL from the perspectives of lecturers, students and societal partners. Prof. James Kennedy, chair of Community Engaged Learning (CEL), moderated the conversations. These discussions were followed by a hands-on ICEL Toolkit workshop.
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| Research featured: Integrating WCD into education systems
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How can school systems worldwide integrate the Whole Child Development (WCD) approach in measurement and teacher training? UGlobe is working with two dozen societal partners from the Global Learning Community (GLC) on two articles surrounding the importance of measurement and school leader and teacher training, which will be published in the NORRAG Special Issue 09.
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| Integrating a life skills and financial education curriculum into school systems
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How can education systems integrate life skills and financial education into their curricula? UGlobe is working with Aflatoun, Meljol, and ChildFund to test the effectiveness of integrating Aflatoun’s life skills and financial education curriculum in Indian and The Gambian schools.
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| TIPC and Deep Transitions completed: a reflection and outlook
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With the ending of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) and the Deep Transitions research project, concluding their initial lifespan and reorienting towards new goals and shapes, project leader prof. Johan Schot took a moment to look back at what they have done, achieved and learned over the past few years and also how we’re moving forward.
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| Podcast Travelling Concepts On Air continues
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After two successful seasons with nearly 7,000 downloads worldwide, we are proud to share that we have launched a third season of the podcast series Travelling Concepts On Air (TCOA) with four new episodes! TCOA is a podcast series - organized and hosted by core team members Dr. Tessa Diphoorn and Dr. Brianne McGonigle Leyh - that explores the promise and ideal of interdisciplinarity by focusing on concepts that travel across disciplines. Each podcast episode includes two guest speakers and deals with one concept.
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| Critical Pathways Fellowships 2023
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The Utrecht University research community Critical Pathways to Sustainability is offering four autumn residency stays in 2023. We invite national and international academics and/or professionals to join our research community for a period of two weeks and to reflect critically on the theme ‘Whose voices must be heard to achieve sustainable futures?’
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| Three ways to invest smarter to save our planet
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| Save the date: UGlobe Café - June 7
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On Wednesday June 7, the third and final UGlobe café will take place in Tivoli Vredenburg. On this evening we will talk about the influence of protest music. We will approach the topic from a historical perspective, psychological perspective and from the perspective of a protest musician.
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| Save the date: inaugural lecture dr. Fatima Denton
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On July 5 2023 Dr. Fatima Denton will deliver her inaugural lecture as holder of the Prins Claus Chair on Equity and Development at Utrecht University. Photo by Jelmer de Haas.
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| Everyday Peace: The tactical agency used by so-called ordinary people to survive in conflict-affected contexts.
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The Conflict Studies Group and Centre for Conflict Studies (CCS) will welcome Prof. Roger Mac Ginty, Durham University, to Utrecht University to deliver a guest lecture followed by a Q&A, on the 24th of April.
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| Roundtable conversation: Reparations, Lessons from the Past, Challenges for the Future
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On 11 May, this multidisciplinary event on reparations will bring together practitioners, scholars, and students, in the year that marks the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Rome Statute (1998), which led to the creation of the International Criminal Court and the Trust Fund for Victims.
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| Discussion: Holocaust Diplomacy, Policy Makers as Memory Makers?
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How do global institutions preserve or shape the memory of the past – and especially in the case of Holocaust memory? What is the impact of policy and decision makers on Holocaust memorialisation at the local, national, and international level? On 12 May, Lorena De Vita organises the multidisciplinary discussion ‘Holocaust Diplomacy: Policy Makers as Memory Makers?’.
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| Contesting Environmental Governance
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On the 25th of May, the Contesting Governance Platform looks forward to hosting a seminar about Contesting Environmental Governance with speakers Prof. dr. Liesbeth van de Grift, and Dr. Jeroen Oomen, discussing rural socio-ecological environments, state bureaucracies, and (the risks of) climate engineering technologies.
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| Wetenschnapps workshop on public engagement
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On May 30, the UU Centre for Science and Culture (CSC) will host a workshop on public engagement.
We encourage you to register for this workshop to develop (or further improve) an engaging story about your research topic.
Following this first step, we are exploring the possibilities of organizing a storytelling workshop specifically for UGlobe about pitching your research.
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| Roundtable conversation: The university and the fossil fuel industry in context
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In this roundtable, we discuss the relations between the university and fossil fuel industry in Utrecht and the Netherlands at large from different perspectives, organized by two UU networks: the Contesting Governance Platform and the Energy in Transition Community. Confirmed participants are Dr. Henk van Rinsum, Dr. Sanne Akerboom, Dr. Guus Dix, and a student panel member (TBC). Moderation will be done by Dr. Gertjan Plets, and Dr. Nikkie Wiegink.
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| Contesting Governance Book Launch Dr. Thijs Jeursen
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The Contesting Governance platform looks forward to hosting their first Book Launch with Dr. Thijs Jeursen (Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities). He will present his book ‘The Vigilant Citizen; Everyday Policing and Insecurity in Miami’, which will take place on 16 June 2023, 16:00-17:30. Dr. Hayal Akarsu (Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology) and Dr. Rianne Dekker (assistant professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance) will act as discussants.
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| 2023 BCCE Annual Conference Utrecht
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It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the tenth annual conference of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law (BCEE), to be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands on the 28th of June 2023.
The Conference theme is: Equality Law in Context: Illuminating Intersections in Search for Global Justice.
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