Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)

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Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham’s UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation and Development is organizing Sustainability & Beyond Colloquium Series from October 13, 2021 – December 31, 2022.

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With less than a decade left to fulfill the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the coming years play a crucial role in making the world a sustainable place to live. With the world continuing to recover from the pandemic, it’s time to reimagine the conversations in a post-pandemic era. In this regard, a series of colloquiums are being conducted as a part of the ongoing activities of the UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation and Development and School for Sustainable Futures.

The colloquium will feature speakers from UNESCO, Amrita’s partner universities, industry, and academia covering several thematic areas aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals such as Climate Change and Risk Assessment (SDG 13), Gender Equality (SDG 10), Livelihood (SDG 8), Education (SDG 4), Health and Wellbeing (SDG 3) Water and Sanitation (SDG 6), Energy (SDG 7), Agriculture (SDG Indicator 2.4.1) and Environment (SDG 15). The colloquium series aims to bring in thinkers, experts, and practitioners in various fields to garner ideas, explore technologies, challenges, and opportunities to devise sustainable pathways in the various thematic areas.

The colloquium series aims to bring in thinkers, experts, and practitioners in various fields to garner ideas, explore technologies, challenges, and opportunities to devise sustainable pathways in the area of disaster risk reduction and multi-hazard resilience.

Organized By: UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation and Development and Amrita School for Sustainable Futures

Dates and Times: October 13, 2021 – March 31, 2022, 6:30 PM to 08:00 PM IST

About

About Amrita School for Sustainable Futures

Amrita School for Sustainable Futures knows that our strength lies not only in the words we stand by, but most importantly through the actions of our initiatives. Back in 2000, our Non-Profit Organization realized that by working together we could overcome our challenges much more efficiently, and that is why we ultimately decided to launch Amrita School for Sustainable Futures.

About UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation and Development

The Chair addresses the Global Education 2030 Agenda with a distinct emphasis on Education that transforms life, building knowledge societies and thereby leveraging science and innovation for a sustainable future. The Chair will facilitate the development and implementation of a global curriculum, applicable to fourteen selected UN SDGs through an experiential learning framework that will enable a deeper understanding of challenges faced by members of remote communities, and better designing of sustainable solutions in collaboration with them.

Schedule

Date and Time	Speaker(s)	Topic
July 07, 2022	Dr. Jayaraman C Managing Director, EQUINOCT	SDG & Energy in a post-pandemic era
June 30, 2022	Prof. Alice Fothergill Professor of Sociology, University of Vermont	Researching Children in Disaster
June 23, 2022	Dr. Sriram Devanathan Principal, Amrita School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Sustainable Development: An Oxymoron
June 16, 2022	Dr. B. Soundharajan Associate Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Surface water reservoir planning characteristics under climate change
June 9, 2022	Prof. Venkatachalam Lingappan RBI Chair Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies	Role of Wetlands in Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
June 2, 2022	Dr. Maya Mahajan Associate Professor, Centre for Sustainable Future, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Empowerment of Tribal Women in India for Sustainable Livelihood & Forest Conservation
May 26, 2022	Prof. Ganesh P. Shivakoti Adjunct Professor of Natural Resources Management and Founder Director of Ostrom Center for the study of Natural resources governance (OCeAN), AIT, Bangkok, Thailand	Rules & Collective Action, An Institutional Analysis of Irrigation Systems in Nepal
May 19, 2022	Dr. Praveen Maghelal Associate Professor & Lead Researcher of ‘Faculty of Resilience, Rabdan Academy (UAE)	Achieving Sustainable Communities through Sustainable Transportation
May 12, 2022	Dr. Rachita Sharma Department Chair, University of North Texas	Sustainable Mental Health for all
May 05, 2022	Dr. Kurian Baby Advisor, Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council	Making the value of nature visible: Nature Based Solutions for sustainable Future
April 28, 2022	Dr. Gopal Krishna Founding Director of Syntegral Systems and Solutions Pvt. Ltd. and Adjunct. Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Sustainable Public Health – Digitizing the Primary Healthcare System
April 21, 2022	Dr. Murali Rangarajan Chairperson, Center of Excellence in Advanced Materials and Green Technologies; Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science	Sustainable Decarbonization Solutions for India: Perspectives and Some Initiatives at Amrita
April 14, 2022	Dr. Ian Davis Adjunct Professor and Advisor to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kerala, India. Visiting Professor: Kyoto, Lund, Oxford Brookes Universities and Honorary Visiting Professor, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Europe	Form Follows Failure- the Impact of Failures from Disasters on Architecture and Urban Design
April 7, 2022	Prof. John Hammond Professor of Crop Science University of Reading	Food security in a changing world
March 31, 2022	Dr. Subhasis Ray Associate Professor- Sustainable Futures at Maynooth University School of Business, Ireland	B2B Marketing and the Sustainable Development Goals
March 17, 2022	Dr. Aaron Redman Instructor, Arizona State University	Competencies for Advancing Transformations towards Sustainability
March 10, 2022	Dr. Tarek Rashed Vice President, Civilizology International Consultant with UNDP & FAO Adjunct Prof, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Digital Transformation for Disaster Resilience & Crisis Response: Development & Application of Digital Disaster Risk Reduction Maturity Model in South Asia
March 3, 2022	Dr. Reshmi R Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Dr. Hemalatha T Assistant Professor, Centre for Wireless Networks and Applications	Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development Application of ML in Landslide Early Warning Systems
February 24, 2022	Dr. Rahul Krishnan Assistant Professor, Centre for Wireless Networks, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	RASPRO: Rapid active summarization for effective prognosis
February 24, 2022	Prof. Vincenzo Piuri Professor, University of Milan, IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist	Artificial intelligence in cloud/fog/edge computing and internet-of-things
February 17, 2022	Prof. Dr. Marzia Traverzo, Dr. Rose Nangah Mankaa Institute of Sustainability in Civil engineering, RWTH Aachen University	Measuring Sustainability
February 10, 2022	Dr. M. Dwarakanath Expert Member, in the Research & Development Committee in the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India in which financial assistance is given to the R&D projects to the Academic Institutions,Visiting Faculty, Department of Environmental Science and Management, Bharathidasan University,Tiruchirappalli	I3 (Individual, Institution, & Innovations)
February 3, 2022	Professor David Gibson UNESCO Chair on Data Science in Higher Education Learning and Teaching, Curtin University	Challenge Based Collaborative Problem Solving for Sustainable Development Goals
January 20, 2022	Ms. Naila Chowdhury CEO & Co-Founder, Pillars 4 Dignity and Lotus Credit LLC.	Women and SDG: Sustainability, Peace, Economic Empowerment & Dignity
January 13, 2022	Dr. Dipu T. S. Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Vaccine Equity & role of booster vaccine to mitigate the threat of Emerging covid 19 variants
January 13, 2022	Dr. Sumanta Chakraborty Assistant Professor, Bankura Sammilani Medical College, West Bengal	Agricultural GI’s (Geographical Indications) and Sustainable Production
January 6, 2022	Dr. Angan Sengupta Assistant Professor, School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	Healthcare Market, Market Imperfections and Health Policies in India: A populist Argument
January 6, 2022	Dr. Chiranjiv Roy Senior Vice President, Data Science and Analytics, SG Analytics	Demistifying a successful data scientist for Corporate
December 30, 2021	Lalitha Narayanan Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research	Agricultural GI’s (Geographical Indications) and Sustainable Production
December 30, 2021	Prof. Peter Lund-Thomsen Professor, Copenhagen Business School	Empowering women-owned bamboo micro-enterprises in India: challenges of economic, social, and environmental upgrading
December 23, 2021	Dr. Madhu Vishwanathan Professor Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles and Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Urbana Champagne	Subsistence and Sustainability: A Bottom-Up Approach to SDGs
December 23, 2021	Dr. Ajay Kumar Singh Assistant Professor, DIT University, Dehradun, India	Determinants and Assessment of global sustainable development
December 16, 2021	Ms. Asmita Satyarthi Trustee, Bal Ashram Trust and Director, Global Sustainability Network	Importance of Compassionate and Collaborative Action to Achieve True Sustainable Development
December 9, 2021	Ms. Anusri Unnikrishnan AVP & Branch Head, AVP & Branch Head	Gender Equality & Importance of Financial Independence for Women
December 9, 2021	Dr. Rajiv Nair Associate Professor & Chairperson, Dept. of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus	Reprioritizing SDGs in the post-Covid-19 Global Context: Will a Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility Regime help?
December 2, 2021	Dr. Sophia von Lieres Assistant Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham	The Impact of Women’s Self-Help Groups in Rural India on Gender Equality
December 2, 2021	Prof. Aparna Rayaprol Professor, University of Hyderabad	Social Inequalities in Contemporary India
November 25, 2021	Dr. Nava Subramaniam Professor of Accounting, RMIT, Australia	Climate Change Risks, Social Learning and Community Resilience: Transformational Adaptation Implications
November 25, 2021	Dr. Pradeep Panigrahi Head – Corporate Sustainability, Larsen & Toubro Ltd	Sustainable Pathways for disaster risk reduction and multi-hazard resilience
November 18, 2021	Dr. Kishore Gopala Krishna Pillai Dean, Amrita School of Business	Sustainable Marketing
November 11, 2021	Dr. Sudesh Wadhawan Adjunct Professor at Amrita University, Former Director General, Geological Survey of India	Risk Applied Geosciences for landslide risk management strategies and sustainable development – challenges and prospects in India
November 11, 2021	Prof. Falk Huettmann Professor, UAF EWHALE Lab	Risk Forecasting with Machine Learning: Examples beyond Probabilities
November 4, 2021	Anand Patwardhan Professor, University of Maryland, College Park	Reshaping research for adaptation and resilience
November 4, 2021	Nicola Casagli President of International Consortium on Landslides, University of Florence	Prevention and sustainable mitigation of geo-hydrological hazards
October 26, 2021	Mr. Saibal Ghosh Director (Geology), Geological Survey of India	Spurt in recent landslide occurrences in India, and its impact to the infrastructure and the community
October 26, 2021	Christian Arnhardt Engineering Geologist, British Geological Survey	Landslide Early Warning Systems – Some theoretical considerations and practical examples
October 21, 2021	Dr. Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati	Do Socio-economic Factors Enhance Households’ Resilience to Climate Extremes? Empirical Evidence from Cyclonic Storms and Floods in India
October 21, 2021	Dr. Sekhar Kuriakose Visiting Scientist, the University of Twente, The Netherlands	Empowering communities through sustainable development and resilience building
October 21, 2021	Dr. Mauro Rossi Senior researcher, CNR IRPI (Research Institute)	Landslide early warning: lessons learnt after a 15-years’ experience in Italy
October 18, 2021	Prof. N. Vinod Chandra Menon Chief Mentor and Data Evangelist, India Excellence Foundation	Multi Hazard Risk Reduction in Covid Times and Post Covid World
October 18, 2021	Mr. Vikas Brahmavar Founder Director, Transwater Systems	Sustainable Pathways for disaster risk reduction and multi-hazard resilience
October 13, 2021	Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh Dean, Amrita School for Sustainability & UNESCO Chair for Experiential Learning in Sustainable Innovation and Development	Disaster Resilience: Lessons from Implementing Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction
October 13, 2021	Dr. Manoj P. Associate Dean, Amrita School of Business	Evaluation of Relief Efforts – Way Forward for Effective Disaster Preparation
October 13, 2021	Dr. Prem Kumar Nair Dean, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences	Disaster Risk Reduction and Building Resilience in Healthcare
October 13, 2021	Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar Assistant Profesor, National Institute of Technology	Engineering Interventions in DRR towards Sustainable Well-being

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