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The REAL-Postgrowth project (Post-growth – REAL – A Post-Growth Deal) is excited to announce that Richard York and Stefano B. Longo will present a public talk as part of our monthly public seminar series.

Seminar: "Environmental sociology, ecological crisis & degrowth" 

Speakers: Richard York, University of Oregon, & Stefano B. Longo, University of Gothenburg.

• Date: Tuesday, April 28th, 2026
• Time:  12 -13h (CET)
• Venue: Sala Z/032 ICTA-UAB and online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89902459669?pwd=3mnkCJeyZ6o60nIIAXHHJNsh1qPZ5k.1

What social structures drive societies beyond planetary boundaries? Drawing on York’s analyses of energy, pollution, and technological displacement and Longo’s work on global development, food systems, and critical sustainability science, this talk examines the growth-dependent political economies that lock modern societies into ecological overshoot. It argues that contemporary provisioning systems reproduce unsustainable resource use and unequal exchange, obstruct just North–South convergence, and help explain why techno-fixes and mainstream sustainability approaches so often fall short. Bringing environmental sociology into dialogue with degrowth and post-growth scholarship, the talk examines the structural and political-economic drivers of ecological change and the constraints they place on more just and ecologically viable forms of social provisioning. 

Richard York is Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. An environmental sociologist working at the intersection of human ecology and political economy, he studies how the structural characteristics of modern societies shape energy use, resource consumption, and pollution, and has been especially influential in showing the limits of technological substitution as a sustainability strategy.

Stefano B. Longo is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Gothenburg. His research examines global development, agri-food and marine systems, and the social drivers of ecological change, while also advancing a more sociologically grounded sustainability science attentive to power, historical specificity, and just transitions.

Date: Tuesday 28, April de 2026 - 12:00h

Description:

The Group on Immigration and Ethnic Minorities (GEDIME) and the Centre for Migration Studies and Research (CER-M) of the UAB are working with the Millennium Nucleus for Research on Anti-Racist Chilean Education (MRACE) to organise a seminar entitled "Unaccompanied migrant adolescents in Chile: a new migratory actor". The session will take place on 29 April at 11:00 a.m. in the Boardroom of the UAB Faculty of Political Science and Sociology.

The seminar will be given by Iskra Pavez, researcher at CER-M and the MRACE group at the UAB. The speaker will address the emergence of unaccompanied migrant adolescents in Chile as a relevant social and political subject within contemporary migratory flows. There will be reflections on their migratory trajectories, the reception conditions, and the institutional and social challenges they pose, as well as on the educational and political responses provided within the Chilean context.

Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (Boardroom)

Date: Wednesday 29, April de 2026 - 11:00h

Description:

In this talk, iHC researcher Carlos Tabernero offers a historical analysis of a series of film and television narratives in which the notions of sustainability form part of the central theme, more or less explicitly, or are in some way essential, as contextual elements, for the development of the plot. These narratives are historically linked to confluences of social, political, academic, and activist imaginaries, as well as to specific historical concepts in film and television production, which have shaped our conceptualizations (past, present, and future) of nature and the environment over the last century.

Tabernero draws a critical map of the contemporary processes of constructing visual sociocultural spaces for the notions of sustainability and their influence on our conceptualizations and debates about nature and the environment.

Presents: Álvaro Girón Sierra (IMF-CSIC).

Further information

Place: Milà and Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities (CSIC)

Date: Wednesday 29, April de 2026 - 12:00h

Description:

TANC The Apocalypse is Not Coming conference is a transdisciplinary meeting that brings together researchers, artists, activists, and professionals to reflect collectively on apocalyptic imagery and its implications in the context of contemporary crises. Rather than considering the apocalypse to be an inevitable fate, the conference is based on the idea that it is a social construct that influences how we interpret and address current ecological, technological and geopolitical challenges.

Spanning four days, the programme combines scientific sessions, workshops, artistic interventions and collaborative debate spaces to explore regenerative alternatives to 'end of the world' narratives. The conference promotes dialogue between diverse disciplines and practices, from ecofeminism and environmental justice to the arts, ecological spirituality and participatory technologies, with the aim of rethinking imaginaries, generating new collaborations, and paving the way for more just and sustainable futures.

Place: UAB Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Date: Tuesday 12, May de 2026 - 09:30h

Date: Friday 15, May de 2026 - 19:30h

Promotor: UAB