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Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)

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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Speakers

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Prof. Vincenzo Piuri

Professor, University of Milan,
IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Rahul Krishnan

Assistant Professor, Centre for Wireless Networks
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Prof. Dr. Marzia Traverzo

Full Professor and Head, Institute of Sustainability in Civil Engineering
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Rose Nangah Mankaa

Head Engineer, Institute of Sustainability in Civil Engineering
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. M Dwarkanath

Expert Member, Research & Development Committee in the Ministry of Environment & Forests
Government of India

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Professor David Gibson

UNESCO Chair on Data Science in Higher Education Learning and Teaching, Curtin University

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Ms. Naila Chowdhury

CEO & Co-Founder, Pillars 4 Dignity and Lotus Credit LLC.

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Dipu T. S.

Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Sumanta Chakraborty

Assistant Professor, Bankura Sammilani Medical College, West Bengal

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Angan Sengupta

Assistant Professor, School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Lalitha Narayanan

Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development Research

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Ajay Kumar Singh

Assistant Professor, DIT University Dehradun

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Madhu Vishwanathan

Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Ms. Asmitha Satyarthi

Executive Director, Global Sustainability Network

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Rajiv Nair

Associate Professor & Chairperson, Dept. of Management, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Ms. Anusri Unnikrishnan

AVP & Branch Head, 9X Media Pvt Ltd

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Sophia von Lieres

Assistant Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Prof. Aparna Rayaprol

Professor, University of Hyderabad

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Nava Subramaniam

Professor of Accounting, RMIT University

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Pradeep Panigrahi

Head – Corporate Sustainability, Larsen & Toubro Ltd.

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Kishore Gopala Krishna Pillai

Dean, Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Sudesh Wadhawan

Adjunct Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Former Director General, Geological Survey of India

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Falk Huettmann

Professor, UAF EWHALE lab, University of Fairbanks, Alaska

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Prof. Anand Patwardhan

Professor, University of Maryland, College Park

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Nicola Casagli

President of International Consortium on Landslides, University of Florence

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Mr. Saibal Ghosh

Director (Geology), Geological Survey of India

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Christian Arnhardt

Engineering Geologist, British Geological Survey

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Chandra Bahinipati

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute Of Technology Tirupati

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Sekhar Kuriakose

Visiting Scientist, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Mauro Rossi

Senior Researcher, CNR IRPI (Research Institute)

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Prof. N. Vinod Chandra Menon

Chief Mentor and Data Evangelist, India Excellence Foundation

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Mr. Vikas Brahmavar

Founder Director, Transwater Systems

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar

Assistant Professor, National Institute of Technology

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Prem Kumar Nair

Dean, Faculty of Medical Science, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Manoj P.

Associate Dean, School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Maneesha V. Ramesh

Provost Strategic Initiatives, Research & Innovation, Interdisciplinary, AI+X
UNESCO Chair on Experiential Learning for Sustainable Innovation & Development

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Maya Mahajan

Associate Professor
Center for Sustainable Future,
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Prof. Ganesh P. Shivakoti

Adjunct Professor of Natural Resources Management
Founder Director of Ostrom Center for the study of Natural resources governance (OCeAN),
AIT, Bangkok, Thailand

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Praveen Maghelal

Associate Professor & Lead Researcher,
Faculty of Resilience,
Rabdan Academy (UAE)

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Rachita Sharma

Department Chair,
University of North Texas

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Kurian Baby

Advisor,
Kerala Development and Innovation Strategic Council

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Gopal Krishna

Founding Director of Syntegral Systems and Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Adjunct. Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Murali Rangarajan

Chairperson,
Center of Excellence in Advanced Materials and Green Technologies;
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Ian Davis

Adjunct Professor and Advisor to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Kerala, India;
Visiting Professor: Kyoto, Lund, Oxford Brookes Universities;
Honorary Visiting Professor, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Europe

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Prof. John Hammond

Professor of Crop Science
University of Reading

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Subhasis Ray

Associate Professor- Sustainable Futures,
Maynooth University School of Business, Ireland

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Aaron Redman

Instructor,
Arizona State University

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Tarek Rashed

Vice President, Civilizology International Consultant with UNDP & FAO;
Adjunct Prof, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Prof. Alice Fothergill

Professor of Sociology, University of Vermont

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. B. Soundharajan

Associate Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Prof. Venkatachalam Lingappan

RBI Chair Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Hemalatha T.

Assistant Professor, Centre for Wireless Networks and Applications,
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

Sustainability & Beyond: Colloquium Series (Every Thursday)
Dr. Reshmi R.

Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham

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