Social Life of Climate Change
The Social Life of Climate Change research seminars are interdisciplinary discussions around contemporary debates in the humanistic social sciences of climate change and the environment.
Events take multiple formats, including standard seminar format as well as more engaged discussions of relevant readings and works in progress.
The seminars are open to all. If you would like access to any of the upcoming seminars please email geog.research@lse.ac.uk.
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The series is co-sponsored by the Department of Geography and Environment, the Department of Sociology and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
It is organised by Kasia Paprocki (k.paprocki@lse.ac.uk) and Austin Zeiderman (a.zeiderman@lse.ac.uk) of the Department of Geography and Environment and Rebecca Elliott (r.elliott1@lse.ac.uk) of the Department of Sociology.
Please contact Kasia Paprocki with any questions. Updates can be found on X and on the SLCC website.
Upcoming seminars will be advertised here.
Past seminars
Spring Term 2026
Prof Diana Ojeda, Departments of Geography and International Studies and Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington
18 May, 3-4.30pm
"Feminist Perspectives of Climate Change: Social Reproduction and Survival in the Great Caribbean"
Prof Emily Yeh, Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder
27 May, 4-5.30pm
"The politics of land and infrastructure in the making of Indonesia’s “Geothermal Island”"
Prof Haripriya Rangan, Australia India Institute and School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Melbourne and Prof Judith Carney, Department of Geography, University of California Los Angeles
9 June, 5-6.30pm
"Towards a buoyant political ecology: Rethinking marginalization for coastal climate change adaptation in the tropics"
Winter Term 2026
Prof Max Liboiron, Professor in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland
3 February, 5-6.30pm
"Research is a Land Relation"
Prof Harriet Bulkeley, Professor in the Department of Geography, Durham University
9 February, 4-5.30pm
"Climate Methodologies: A Dialogue on the Social Life of Environmental Knowledge"
Dr Jake Subryan Richards, Assistant Professor, Department of International History, LSE with Prof Austin Zeiderman, Professor in Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE
3 March, 5-6.30pm
"Atlantic Transitions: Freedom and Justice from Abolition to Climate Change"
Dr Javier Lezaun, Associate Professor in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford
24 March, 5-6.30pm
"The Market that Cannot Know Itself: Missing the Forest for the Trees in Carbon Crediting Schemes"
Autumn Term 2025
Dr Danielle Purifoy (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Tuesday 14 October 2025, 4.30pm-6pm
"Forests are Black Futures"
Prof Laura Pulido (University of Oregon and LSE) and Prof Marco Armiero (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Tuesday 11 November 2025, 5pm-6.30pm
"The Point Is to Change It: A Conversation between Environmental Activist-Scholars"
Prof Alice Mah (University of Glasgow)
Tuesday 2 December 2025, 5pm-6.30pm
"Inheritance, Ghosts, and the Future: Sociological and Life Writing amid the Climate Crisis"
Spring Term 2025
Austin Zeiderman (LSE)
Wednesday 14 May 2025, 6-7.30pm
"Ecologies of difference: A discussion of Austin Zeiderman's Artery"
Sarah Besky (Cornell University) and Shaila Seshia Galvin (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
Tuesday 10 June 2025, 11am-12.30pm
"Climate methodologies: A dialogue on the social life of environmental knowledge"
Winter Term 2025
Nikita Sud, University of Oxford
Thursday 30 January 2025, 3-4:30pm
Unjust energy transition: Vignettes from the COPs, climate finance, and a coal hotspot
Tao Leigh Goffe, Hunter College, City University of New York
Tuesday 4 March 2025, 5-7pm
Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis
Jessica Lehman, Durham University
Thursday 13 March 2025, 3-4:30pm
The Ocean at the end of history