International seminar: "Conscious Transformations to Sustainability: What does it take?"

Join us for a public international seminar featuring Prof. Karen O'Brien and Alaskan tribal leader AlexAnna Salmon, sponsored by the RCN-financed project AdaptationCONNECTS, UiO.

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Bringing together researchers and knowledge-keepers from University of Oslo (UiO), Nova University of Lisbon (U.Nova), University of British Columbia (UBC), and the Alaskan community Igiugig, for this final public seminar, we focus on how the project findings contribute to our understandings of conscious transformations to sustainability.

Agenda:

15:00 Karen O’Brien, UiO “Welcome and Introduction”

15:10 AlexAnna Salmon, Igiugig community leader “Ellanguq: Awareness as the Ultimate Driver of Sustainability"

15:30 Interlude: Dialogue on awareness in sustainability

15:50 Gail Hochachka, UBC “Coffee and climate change: The role of relationality, values, and meaning in creating a sustainable coffee trade”

16:00 Julia Bentz, U.Nova “Art for change - the potential of (co)creative approaches to sustainability transformation”

16:10 Interlude: Dialogue on co-creation in sustainability

16:30 Tone Bjordam, independant artist “The Nature of Change”

16:40 Emma Arnold, UiO “Artivism: the art of creating social change”

16:50 Roundtable Discussion: The interplay of awareness, co-creation, creativity—why you matter in conscious transformations to sustainability

17:20 Karen O’Brien “Synthesis and Closing”

17:30 Tapas included with the free ticket

Free registration required. 

Tags: Sustainability, Transformation, Social change, Climate change
Published June 16, 2022 12:57 PM - Last modified Mar. 18, 2026 4:24 PM