CNDS Research Seminar

14:00              Welcome and Introduction. Giuliano Di Baldassarre, CNDS director

14:05              Edo-period Amabie and 21st century Mr Tritium: Chimeric beings and boundaries between humans and ecologies in Japan. Presentation by Claudia Merli, Associate Professor at Department of Cultural Anthropology, Uppsala University

14:30             Risks, Ethics and Law: Exploring a new framework to understand disasters. Presentation by Shakti Raj Shrestha, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University

14:55              Coffee break

15:15              Midterm review of the Sendai Framework for DRR. Presentation by Margareta Wahlström, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction.    

15:50              Panel discussion: are we halfway there?

Moderator: Riccardo Biella, PhD student, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University

Panelists: Margareta Wahlström

Daniel Nohrstedt, Professor at Department of Government, Uppsala University

Jenni Koivisto, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Societal Risk Research, Karlstad University

16:30              Group discussions

16:50              Debriefing

17:00              Mingle & food in Mässen

To participate in the seminar, please register here by 11th June:
https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/93464