Climate Change is a reality that presents multiple challenges at different spatiotemporal scales. With the aim of addressing such challenges and their impact on public policies, SARAS Institute and Konrad Adenauer Foundation Montevideo are co-organizing a colloquium entitled “Climate Politics: challenges and perspectives”.

The event will include the participation of the international expert and member of SARAS Advisory Board Prof. Eduardo Viola and Prof. Cristina Zurbriggen (also a member of SARAS Advisory Board). Viola’s visit is framed within the delivery of an international course on Climate Politics and Global Energy at SARAS Institute in which a range of postgraduate students and governmental technicians from different Latin American countries that are working on issues related to environment, public policy, international relations, economy, agriculture and energy will participate.

The colloquium will take place on Thursday 13th, September at 6 pm at the headquarters of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Republic, Montevideo (1502 Constituyente St.).
This activity is open to the general public and free-of-charge, but requires online registration here.

Agenda overview:

Eduardo Viola
Full Professor of International Relations, University of Brasilia, since 1993 and Senior Researcher of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPQ) since 1986. At present He is the Chair of the Brazilian Research Network on International Relations and Climate Change. Viola has a Masters in Sociology from the University of Campinas (1978), a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Sao Paulo (1982) and a Post-doctorate in International Political Economy from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He teaches the Earth Systems Governance Programme at the University of Lundt (Sweden). Eduardo Viola has been visiting professor in several international universities, among them: Stanford, Colorado at Boulder, Texas at Austin, Notre Dame and Amsterdam. He is and has been a member of several scientific committees and has published eight books, more than seventy articles in journals, more than fifty book chapters in several countries and languages on issues of Globalization and Governance, Global Environmental Policy, International Relations in South America, and International Political Economics on Energy and Climate Change. Currently the focus of his research is “The international system in the Anthropocene”. He is interviewed frequently by TV channels, news radios and newspapers.

Cristina Zurbriggen
Cristina Zurbriggen is a PhD in Political Science, Eberhard–Karks University, Tubingen, Germany. She is currently a professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Republic (Uruguay). She is a member of the National System of Researchers, Level II (since 2009). Previously, she was the Director of the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Uruguay (2009-2012). She has been a Visiting Professor at Mexico, Spain, Ireland, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, England and Germany. Her research has addressed governance, policy networks and sustainable agriculture (meat traceability, soil erosion, water sustainability). Her current main interests focus on innovation Labs, co-creation methodology and other system methods to investigate the future of complex public issues. She is a member of the Co-Creative Capacity Pursuit funded by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Maryland, USA.