On December 14th at 5pm, this semesters’ first ENLIGHT lecture on “Health & Sustainability” will be hosted and livestreamed online. Health and sustainability are mutually enabling and constraining. In addition, there is a strong connection between ensuring healthy lives and sustainable development.
This session is organized in cooperation with liveSciences³ project at the University of Göttingen.
Mats Målqvist is Professor of Global Health at the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health at Uppsala University, Sweden, and currently the director of SWEDESD - Sustainability Learning and Research Center. Prof Mats Målqvist is a medical doctor by profession, and has a Master’s degree in Media and Communications Studies. Health equity is at the core of his research and educational activities. His presentation on "Health, Sustainability and Transformation" will be based on an editorial just published in BMJ Global Health.
Anjali Purushotham is a PostDoc at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at University of Göttingen. In her research, she concentrates on food systems transformation, nutrition transition, public health and rural transformation. She will talk about “Double burden of malnutrition in peri-urban Bangalore, India”.
Charlotte Scheerens is a health sociologist and post-doctoral researcher whose main focus area has been the intersection between environmental (lung)health and health equity. She is operational manager of the Climate Change, Migration and Health(care) network CliMigHealth, and is based in the Department of Economics at Ghent University. In her talk, she will give insights aboutt he psychosocial health impact and response to the climate-induced floods during the 2021 summer in Belgium.
Felipe Laurie Gleisner is Professor of Enology and the current Director of the doctoral program in Agricultural Sciences of the University of Talca, Chile. His research focuses on beverage chemistry and wine production, with emphasis on the study of phenolic compounds and the chemical and sensory effects of oxidation reactions in wines. He is a guest within the programme liveSciences³. He will present on “Wine production in Chile under current environmental and sustainability challenges”. The lecture finishes with a short discussion, the audience is invited to post the questions in the chat.
All members from the ENLIGHT community, external partners and wider public are welcome to join the lecture. You can register and participate in a Zoom Session or tune in on the ENLIGHT YouTube Channel where the lecture will be broadcasted live. Registration for the Zoom Session is possible on the website of the University of Göttingen (https://uni-goettingen.de/en/654488.html)
Networking event after the lecture for researchers from ENLIGHT universities
Each lecture is followed by a networking event for the scientific community. In the brand-new virtual space, the researchers from ENLIGHT universities can not only continue the discussion on the lecture`s topic but also use the opportunity to identify common research interests. This event serves as a platform for developing new ideas for future cooperation within the network. The ENLIGHT team supports this process by providing insights on funding opportunities. Researchers from all stages are more than welcome to join in! Please register here.
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The ENLIGHT lecture series takes place each semester and represents one of the flagship domains which are key determinants of societal well-being and sustainability. For our ENLIGHT lectures, scientists, and researchers from across the ENLIGHT network come together to discuss different perspectives on and approaches to combat climate change. The topics in this fall's lecture series range from food & sustainability to the impact of climate change on migration.
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"Urban Health" 11.10.2023 Please register here.
"Health & Digitalization" 8.2.2023 Please register here.
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Last semesters’ lecture series focused on the topic of climate change and its manifold impact on our environment, society, and science. The previous lectures can be watched under the following links:
Forests in Time of Climate Change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIJBXA6VZ3o&t=48s
Food, Diet and Sustainability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXpIz7Yxelc&t=131s
Tackling Climate Change: The Humanities Perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33qM6Vn_p1o
Climate Change: Art, Performance & Narration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9nTkPRKqXA&t=252s
Migration & Climate Change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvSMneD-Xyo
Equity & Society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCjV-U-c1bg
Equity in Science & Technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJabkcrh5n0
Health & Equity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uym9e18Mcog
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