Event
Call for abstracts: DevRes2024
Date: October 21, 2024 - October 23, 2024
The Development Research Conference, Lund University, 21-23 October 2024: “Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals in a polarized world”
Growing polarization in the world is hampering our efforts and ability to collectively reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The ongoing war in both Ukraine and Gaza is leading to shifting power balances and changed political priorities for many countries, with international development cooperation increasingly being sidelined. Current wars in combination with the aftermath of the pandemic are also impacting the global economy, hitting countries in the Global South particularly hard. In addition, accelerating climate change and biodiversity loss is affecting natural resource dependent communities the most, with the majority living in low and middle-income countries.
Call for abstracts
We are pleased to announce that the call for abstracts to present at the Swedish Development Research Conference 2024 in Lund is now open! The DevRes 2024 organizing team especially welcomes research relating to inter- and multidisciplinary projects or approaches, and hope that the conference will gather attendees reflecting the diversity of development research that Sweden is engaged in.
Prospective DevRes 2024 participants can contribute to the conference theme by submitting abstracts to three different types of sessions :
- Research Papers
- Interactive World Café
- Impact Stories
To find out more on what to include in your submission(s) and how to upload your abstract go here: https://www.lucsus.lu.se/devres2024
Abstract submission deadline: 19th of May, 2024
Stipends for researchers from the Global South
The DevRes team is happy to announce that they can offer a stipend covering travel, accommodation and conference fees for researchers from low-income countries that have an affiliation with a Swedish institution. The stiped is funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency.
Find out more about this opportunity on the conference website here.
Keynote speakers
Five keynote speakers will speak at the conference:
- Dr. Susan Chomba, Director of Vital Landscapes at the World Resources Institute (WRI)
- Alfredo Saad-Filho, Professor of Political Economy and International Development at King’s College London
- Agnes Andersson, Professor of Human Geography and acting Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University
- Mother Nature Cambodia (Right Livelihood Laureate 2023), an environmental rights movement working at the forefront of environmental preservation, human rights and democracy
- Africa Institute for Energy Governance, AFIEGO (Right Livelihood Laureate 2022), a non-profit company working to ensure that communities affected by colonialist extractive energy projects can raise their voices on national and international levels.
Find out more about the speakers on the conference website here.
About DevRes
The Development Research Conference (DevRes) is a biennial conference gathering a multi-disciplinary group of researchers working in fields linked to development and sustainability. The conference in 2024 is hosted by Lund University and this year’s theme is “Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals in a polarized world”.
DevRes 2024 invites Swedish affiliated researchers and their partners to Lund to present and discuss how current polarization and conflicting objectives hamper the SDG agenda. The conference also highlights how collaborative research has societal impacts towards a more equitable and sustainable future.
Participation
Conference registration will open June 1st 2024.
Date and time
21 October – 23 October
Location
The conference will take place in Lund. DevRes 2024 is an exclusively onsite conference, i.e., participating digitally is not possible.