📣 Inauguración del Hub regional para América Latina 🎉
¡El "hub" latinoamericano de SocSES tendrá su inauguración en abril!
El evento contará con interpretación simultánea (español/inglés).
🗓️ 30 de abril de 2026
🕑 10:00 🇲🇽 / 11:00 🇨🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪 / 12:00 🇻🇪🇧🇴🇨🇱 / 13:00 🇧🇷🇵🇾🇺🇾🇦🇷
🔗 Registro aquí: tinyurl.com/LatAm-Hub
📣 Upcoming launch of the Latin American Hub 🎉
Interested in helping to build a community of SES researchers and practitioners across Latin America? Don't miss the launch of this Regional Hub!
🗓️ 30 April 2026
🕑 10:00 🇲🇽 / 11:00 🇨🇴🇪🇨🇵🇪 / 12:00 🇻🇪🇧🇴🇨🇱 / 13:00 🇧🇷🇵🇾🇺🇾🇦🇷
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/LatAm-Hub
📣 Upcoming training session on Photovoice 📷
The Transformative Arts-Based Methods thematic working group invites you to their second 60-minute training session.
🗓️ 1 April 2026
🕑 07:00 MST (Arizona) / 10:00 EDT / 16:00 CEST/CAT / 21:00 ICT
📍 Online
🔗 Learn more and register: tinyurl.com/yc8dphve
📣 Upcoming webinar on how plural values shape sustainability visions and decision-making 🌍
Don't miss this webinar by Lelani Mannetti exploring the politics of different ways of valuing nature.
🗓️ 23 March 2026
🕑 09:00 Arizona / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 CET / 18:00 CAT
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/2m87a6bb
📣 Upcoming launch of the European Regional Hub 🎉
Interested in helping to build a community of SES researchers and practitioners across Europe? Don't miss the launch of this Regional Hub!
🗓️ 25 March 2026
🕑 10:30 WET/GMT / 11:30 CET / 12:30 EET
📍 Online
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/SocSES-EU
📣 Upcoming launch of the Asian Regional Hub 🎉
Interested in building a community of SES researchers and practitioners across Asia? Don't miss the launch of this Regional Hub!
🗓️ 26 March 2026
🕑 08:30 🇮🇳 / 09:00 🇧🇩 / 10:00 🇮🇩 / 11:00 🇨🇳 🇵🇭 / 12:00 🇯🇵
📍 Online
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/SocSES-Asia
📣 Upcoming webinar on transdisciplinary processes in nature-based transformations ✨
🎤 Enora: Operationalising co-production for nature-based transformations
🎤 Carolin: The role of relational learning in knowledge co-production
🗓️ 24 February 2026
🕑 10:00 CET
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/5n8e6x8r
📣 Upcoming webinar on collaborating to inform the policy and practice of small-scale fisheries 🎣
Don't miss this webinar by Nicole Franz on collaboration at the science-policy interface.
🗓️ 16 February 2026
🕑 08:30 MST / 10:30 EST / 16:30 CET / 17:30 CAT
📍 Online
🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/46hnus62
🗓️ 📢 Join IIED for the CBA20, 11–14 May in Manila, Philippines.
IIED is inviting expressions of interest to host conference sessions, with finance, gender, decolonisation and equity cutting across all themes.
🔗 https://bit.ly/3Z902cL
📣 Upcoming Dialogue SESsion with renowned SES scholars Frances Westley, Brian Walker and Terry Chapin 💬
🗓️ 4 February 2026
🕑 15:00 PST / 18:00 EST / [5 Feb] 10:00 Australian EST
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend (membership/login required): tinyurl.com/Dialogue-2
ℹ️ Find out more: tinyurl.com/9wm8pphm
📣 REMINDER: call for thematic working groups – submit proposals by 6 February 2026 🗓️
This is a reminder to submit proposals for thematic working groups that would introduce directions not well-represented in the existing thematic streams of SocSES.
ℹ️ Learn more and apply here: tinyurl.com/58dxupyc
📣 Upcoming Global Conversation exploring how conservation, justice, and sustainability unfold in an increasingly interconnected world 🌍
🗓️ 29 January 2026
🕑 14:00 CET
📍 Online
ℹ️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/54we58e4
🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/4s9chbee
Organised by SESI at @leuphana.bsky.social
📣 Upcoming Dialogue SESsion 💬
We are honoured to have Frances Westley, Brian Walker and Terry Chapin reflect on SES research and practice.
🗓️ 4 February 2026
🕑 15:00 PST / 18:00 EST / [+1: 05/02] 10:00 Australian EST
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend (membership/login required): tinyurl.com/Dialogue-2
📣 Upcoming webinar on co-producing transformation pathways towards safe and just futures for all 🌍
Don't miss this lecture by Laura Pereira on imagining the impossible.
🗓️ 15 January 2026
🕑 10:00 MST / 12:00 EST / 18:00 CET / 19:00 CAT
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/msj7dj86
📣 Call for thematic working groups: submit proposals by 6 February 2026 👥
Are you interested in building a new community of practice around a particular theme or topic in order to bridge different approaches and perspectives?
ℹ️ Learn more and apply here: socses.org/call-for-wor...
📣 Upcoming online workshop to map concepts related to seeds 🌱
Explore concepts similar to seeds through conceptual mapping of, e.g., bright spots, lighthouses, grassroots innovations.
🗓️ 14 January 2026
🕑 07:00 MST / 09:00 EST / 15:00 CET / 16:00 CAT
📍 Online
🔗 Learn more: tinyurl.com/map-seeds
📣 Upcoming webinar on innovations keeping an agricultural system resilient 🌾
The Collaborative Governance thematic working group invites you to a webinar with Denise Simmons.
🗓️ 16 December 2025
🕑 09:00 MST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET / 18:00 CAT
📍 Online (Zoom)
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/yu38fst2
Map showing biodiversity loss in Africa
A unique study of biodiversity in sub-Saharan Africa, in Nature, shows that the region has lost 24% of its biodiversity, and that over 80% of the remaining wild plants and animals live outside protected areas, meaning we have to re-think conservation in Africa.
Fig: Nature
buff.ly/l8g5vs2
📢 Join us for Stakeholder Day prior to #IPBES12 in Manchester, UK!
🗓️ 2 February 2026
🖼️ Showcase your IPBES-related projects with a poster!
🌍 Learn more and register for online and in-person participation by 2 January: https://www.ipbes.net/ipbes12/stakeholder-day
A new report reveals how the Anthropocene is shaping our brains and minds, and how our cognition and social systems are, in turn, driving global change.
Find the report here: buff.ly/Xay5oYg
🌱 Join our community and be recognised as a founding member 🏅
SES research has long lacked an institutional home. That changed this year with the launch of SocSES. Sign up before the end of 2025 to be recognised for co-creating our community.
🔗 Become a founding member: socses.org/join-socses/
A new report led by the @britishecologicalsociety.org & @nationaltrust.org.uk highlights that an ecosystem approach is the best way to make sure that ecosystems continue to function for people & nature, & a more effective way of boosting biodiversity.
Find out more: www.york.ac.uk/anthropocene...
📣 Upcoming live recording of the Nature Connectedness for President podcast with guest Christopher Ives from the University of Nottingham 🌱
🗓️ Friday, 28 November 2025
🕑 18:00 UTC / 19:00 CET / 20:00 CAT
📍 Online
🔗 Get your free Need for Nature Week Festival Pass to attend: tinyurl.com/bdhtjac6
📣 Upcoming webinar on human-nature connectedness frameworks 🌱
Join this Research Roundtable webinar on Nature Connectedness frameworks with Matteo Giusti, Melissa Hatty, and Ryan Lumber.
🗓️ 27 November 2025
🕑 09:00 UTC / 10:00 CET / 11:00 CAT
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/5bufxmnw
📣 Upcoming gathering for early-career SES researchers and professionals in Asia and Oceania time zones to connect, share ideas, and just hang out 🌏
🗓️ 2 December 2025
🕑 10:30 Indian Standard Time
🕑 14:00 Japan Standard Time
🕑 16:00 Australian EDT
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/5b2udazv
📣 Upcoming webinar on how local “seeds” and participatory foresight can help guide pathways toward more sustainable and just futures 🌱
🎤 @amandajimenezac.bsky.social from @sthlmresilience.bsky.social
🗓️ 25 November 2025
🕑 7 am Mountain / 15:00 CET / 16:00 CAT
🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/4pb3ybfz
🎙️Call for sessions! Towards a just and habitable world: exploring the role of technology
Submit your session proposal to help shape the discussions around how we might transform technological systems towards sufficiency, equity, and resilience.
📅 Lausanne, 2-5 June 2026
🔗 bit.ly/3JgQZT6
📣 Upcoming training session on collective futures visioning using collage 🌱
The Transformative Arts-Based Methods thematic stream working group invites you their first training session.
🗓️ 26 November 2025
🕑 08:00 Mountain / 16:00 CET / 17:00 CAT
📍 Online
🔗 Register to attend: tinyurl.com/ycxx4ycy
📣 Reminder: Inaugural Dialogue SESsion 🌱
We are honoured to have Carl Folke, Steve Carpenter and Kate Brown reflect on how the SES field emerged and what they see as some new frontiers.
🗓️ 17 November 2025
🕑 10 am Eastern / 16:00 CET / 17:00 CAT
🎟️ Register via email invitation or Community Platform
📣 Upcoming inaugural Dialogue SESsion 🌱
We are honoured to have Carl Folke, Steve Carpenter and Kate Brown reflect on how the SES field emerged and what they see as some new frontiers.
🗓️ 17 November 2025
🕑 10 am Eastern / 16:00 CET / 17:00 CAT
📍 Online
📥 Invitation via email to SocSES members
