Introducing a Student Blog Series: Reflecting on the 2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance
Introducing a Student Blog Series: Reflecting on the 2023 Radboud Conference on Earth System Governance
Students from a diverse group of disciplines take stock of a transdisciplinary conference
In October of 2023, The Earth System Governance Conference was hosted at Radboud University in the Netherlands. Throughout the five days of events, we asked a group of motivated students to attend sessions that interested them and submit reflective summaries based on what they learned. We at the RCSC see the highlighting of student voices on sustainability core to our mission and central to achieving a deep sustainability transformations.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be releasing these blogs.
Beyond summaries that bringing to life what the conference offered, these essays show how students with a variety of experiences and disciplinary backgrounds grapple with issues like degrowth, bringing justice into sustainable development, serious play as a method for change, and brining more-than-human interests into the anthropocentric world of earth system governance. One of the joys of reading these blogs has been observing disciplinary boundary crossing, where students trained in one field stepped out of their normal world to engage with the content of the conference. This doesn’t mean that the objective was to have students “learn” something new through this writing endeavor. In fact, the view from these short essays offer stand out critiques and exemplary questions that one wouldn’t get amongst scholars of a similar discipline.
If you missed some of the sessions or couldn’t attend, this blog series is a chance to take forward a piece of what was learned from the conference community. More importantly, it is a chance to showcase student reflection on pressing issues of our time. The messages of sustainability transformation must be relevant for students, so let’s ask them to reflect on what they are hearing!
About the Earth System Governance Project
The Earth System Governance Project is a global, interdisciplinary research network advancing knowledge at the interface between global environmental change and governance. The project aims to explore political solutions and novel, more effective governance systems to cope with global environmental change. You can connect with this network by becoming a research fellow, joining a taskforce or working group, or publishing with one of our publication outlets.
