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Colloquium explores the role of anticipation as an alternative way to engage with the future and complex problems. Current economic and political crises are characterized by unsolvable, complex problems. In the effort to try and come up with workable solutions to these crises, the notion of anticipation is increasingly at the heart of urgent contemporary debates. At the recent Anticipation: Complexity And The Future colloquium jointly organised by the Centre for Studies in Complexity (CSC) and the Association of Professional Futurists (APF), in Stellenbosch, South Africa, presenters explored how the notion of anticipation is coming [...]

The Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) research program is inviting applications for projects that will deliver “blue skies” research providing innovative, new approaches that enhance the understanding of the way in which ecosystem services contribute to the sustainable alleviation of poverty for poor people (especially those living in low-income countries). The Major objective of the grant is to enhance ESPA’s academic and development impact by changing the way that the world views the links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation. ESPA is a 7-year interdisciplinary research program that aims [...]

Passionate about your science and want to tell the world all about it? Interested in learning how to write about your research for a popular audience and getting published in the Mail & Guardian? We are looking for master's and doctoral candidates at South African universities who want to work with the M&G's science editor, Sarah Wild, to have their writing published in a collection of South Africa's best postgraduate science writing. From quantum biology to cosmology, we will help you to tell the country about your research.   Need some help [...]

The 11th Literature & Ecology Colloquium will take place on 11 and 12 September at Oxwagon Lodge, Hartbeespoort Dam. This year, we invite papers exploring the relationship between words and our inland waters: rivers, dams, rains, pipleines, taps, irrigation schemes, floods, droughts. While the colloquium particularly encourages papers on southern African literatures, explorations of other areas of the world are also welcome. Comparative perspectives can be especially enlightening. Suggested, but by no means exhaustive, topics might include the following: ۞Waters in indigenous oral literatures (eg. rains in San cosmology; spiritual significance [...]

Doctoral studentship in Sustainability Science at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Reference number SU FV-0892-14. Deadline for applications: May 2, 2014. Project title: Identifying craftsmanship and local ecological knowledge in coastal fisheries for sustainable use of sustainable management of Nordic sea- and landscapes.  Project description Soon Nordic coastal fishing will be a memory. During the last century the total number of fishers in nordic countries diminished dramatically. This decline has been particularly pronouced among coastal fishers. The loss of cultural capital that Nordic coastal fishers represent, i.e. ´their working knowledge´ and skills, [...]