2025

With the slashing of budgets and the closure of USAID, the future of aid looks uncertain. Help targeted at the poorest is hit particularly hard, while needs increase globally due to conflicts, climate change and geo-political tension. Can aid be reinvented?

Join Filippo Grandi (UN High Commissioner for Refugees), Jan Egeland (Secretary General, the Norwegian Refugee Council), and Milad Rezvan (Head of the Student Parliament) for a conversation on leading and adapting humanitarian action in a time of global upheaval.

This panel discussion will offer an in-depth analysis of the political, economic, and social dynamics that shaped voter sentiment in Malawi’s September elections.

How are sustainability challenges conceptualized, labelled, and articulated? How do such forms of knowledge production impact the solutions we can perceive and the actions we can envisage? Meet Sarah Cornell from Stockholm Resilience Centre and Hil Vandeskog from UiO in this hybrid seminar.

Science points to human societies and economies as drivers of planetary turmoil across a wide range of areas. Humans affect our climate, biodiversity and global health. How can the humanities and the social sciences be remade to work for the planetary good?