Event details

This event will bring together scholars from around the world who will explore the concept of sustainability, addressing current and future challenges for sustainable futures and introducing innovative and feasible solutions to these challenges. We envision a full-day event on April 19th with five panels on timely topics such as: climate change disaster management, migration, land grabs and human rights violations, technology and society, the digital economy, and governance of the global commons.

Confirmed list of panelists is as follows:

Fung Global Fellows
Visiting Research Scholars:
Muyiwa Adigun | Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan
Angela Ke Li | Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore

Postdoctoral Research Associates:
Ady Chinchay Tuesta | Ph.D. in sociology, Pontifical Catholic University, Peru
Laila Omar | Ph.D. in sociology, University of Toronto
Yelena Yermakova | Ph.D. in philosophy, University of Oslo

Guest Panelists:

Ekaterina Antsygina | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hamburg
Catherine Blanchard | Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
Ken Chih-Yan Sun | Associate Professor, Villanova University
Angèle Christin | Associate Professor, Stanford University
Elizabeth Cohen | Maxwell Professor of United States Citizenship, Boston University
Opeyemi Adewale Gbadegesin | Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan
Melanie Griffiths | Birmingham Fellow, University of Birmingham
Daniela Liggett | Associate Professor, University of Canterbury
Rahsaan Mahadeo | Assistant Professor, Providence College
Peter Kayode Oniemola | Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan
Adolfo Quesada-Roman | Coordinador, Laboratorio de Geografía Física, University of Costa Rica
Sam Rowan | Assistant Professor, Concordia University
Benjamin Shestakofsky | Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Patricio Valdivieso | Professor, Universidad Austral de Chile
Oluwatosin Mahmudat Yussuf | PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan