Workshop: Climate change, food security and women in the Global South

This postgraduate and doctoral student networking and conversation-based participatory workshop on Climate Change, Food Security and Women in the Global South engages with the direct and indirect impact of climate change on governance through the lens of multilateral agencies.

About the event

In collaboration with Anglia Ruskin University's Sustainable Futures - ARU, and the Centre for Research into the Organization of Work and Consumption (CROWC) - ARU, SOAS South Asia Institute (SSAI), and other leading scholars from the global south, this postgraduate and doctoral student networking and conversation-based participatory workshop on Climate Change, Food Security and Women in the Global South engages with the direct and indirect impact of climate change on governance through the lens of multilateral agencies (including government bodies), and multi-disciplinary perspectives in the Indian context. The intention here is that of capacity building within the UK and internationally through networking with researchers working on one or more of the security issues arising from livelihood choices, food security, employment in art, craft, music, digital technologies, spaces and agency of women and their impact on building peace initiatives within and outside the country.

Call for paper briefs: Students and staff interested in presenting their works in person (5 to 7 mins), please send an abstract of 100 words to sunrita.dhar-bhattacharjee@aru.ac.uk and sg83@soas.ac.uk by Friday,10th May latest.

Keynotes speakers

Prof Anjoo Sharan Upadhyay, BHU, India talks on Digital technologies and food governance in India focusing on the integration of digital technologies. It seeks to intricately weave together global, national, and local narratives surrounding food security and policy, shedding light on their interplay.

Prof Priyankar Upadhyaya, UNESCO Chair for Peace and Distinguished Professor, MITWPU talks on Environment and Conflict in the Indian Subcontinent caused by environmental issues such as water scarcity, deforestation, land degradation, and air pollution. Climate changes such as rising temperatures, volatile changes in rainfall, and extreme weather events aggravate conflicts over resources, displacement, and migration.

Workshop taster 

Conversations on textiles on display by Himanshu Verma (Arts Curator) who will reflect on the impact of climate change on aesthetic traditions using a multipronged approach to sustainability, through seasonal patterns in art and music practices. An arts curator, Himanshu Verma is the founder of Red Earth, a Jaipur-Delhi-Mumbai based independent arts organisation that works with Indian contemporary visual art, design as well as diverse forms of cultural expression.

Convened by: Dr Sanjukta Ghosh (SSAI) and Dr Sunrita Dhar Bhattacharjee (ARU).

Organised by SOAS South Asia Institute and Anglia Ruskin University's Sustainable Futures Research Theme and the Centre for Research into the Organization of Work and Consumption (CROWC)

Photo credit: Dibakar Roy