WEBINARS
SARAS seeks to promote the education and tranining of professionals and decision-makers in a variety of fields. The free online seminars (webinars) act as a platform for the dissemination of information and the opening of new spaces for dialogue that can be accessible for the largest possible number of people. Webinars are delivered online and after their broadcasting, they are offered as video recordings which last aproximately one hour, together with the presentations used by the guest lecturers.
Webinar “Shapes of the natural: new paradigms for the global city”.
Tuesday, November 27th 2018 (in Spanish)
Last webinar of the Environmental Humanities series 2018, delivered by Prof. Gisela Heffes, PhD who focuses on a group of fictions (text and visuals) with the aim of showing how present urban imaginary is anchored on green and utopian proposals exclusively, such as private asociations and gated communities.
Webinar “Language’s trap: when our words mean something else”.
Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 (in Spanish)
Online seminar as part of the Environmental Humanities series, a topic promoted by SARAS Institute. On this edition, Prof. Andrea Casals will engage with the idea of “composition” as a key element for planetary sustainability.
Webinar “Human and non-human animals in the jungle, the river, culture and climate change”.
Wednesday, July 25th 2018 (in Spanish)
Second webinar on Environmental Humanities, the topic of our 2017 public conference: “Environmental Humanities for the 21st Century”. It was delivered by Francisco Bustamante, Professor of Literary Theory at Instituto de Profesores Artigas and Latin-American Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences of Education, University of the Republic of Uruguay.
Webinar “Today I’m gonna think something I have never thought before. I wonder what that will be”.
Friday, July 13th 2018 (in English)
This online seminar is focused around the topic of art-science interaction for sustainability. It was delivered by Marten Scheffer, SARAS Advisory Board Director, and University of Wageningen.
Open class: “Fundamentals of socioecological systems (SES) management and stewardship”.
Monday, June 25th 2018 (in Spanish)
This class belongs to Module 4 of the postgraduate course: “Social-ecological Systems: Structure, Dynamics and Management” – SARAS Institute, 2018. The guest lecturers included Patricia Balvanera and José Paruelo.
Webinar “What rhymes with resilience? Humanities get acclimated”.
Tuesday, May 8th 2018 (in Spanish)
First webinar on SARAS Public Conference 2017: “Environmental Humanities for the 21st Century”. The presentation was offered by Jorge Marcone who is specialized in Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism. Marcone is a member of SARAS Institute Advisory Board.
Webinar “Integrating climate change to capacity-building”.
May 31st 2017 (in Spanish)
Online seminar organized by the Regional Centre on Climate Change and Decision-Making together with CDKN and SARAS Institute.
Four case studies were presented on this occasion: (a) climate change and decision-making; (b) democracy and climate change; (c) tools and methods for climate change decision-making and (d) gender and climate change.
Webinar: “Research that contributes to climatic action in Latin America”.
April 5th 2017 (in Spanish)
Organized by the Regional Centre on Climate Change and Decision-Making together with CDKN and SARAS Institute. During this online seminar, a compilation developed by SARAS Institute was presented on the basis of 16 research projects developed in Latin America and funded by CDKN.