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Beyond Adaptation Online - Loss and damage and justice

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Beyond Adaptation
Monday, October 13, 2025
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Speaker

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Ms Conor Twyford
PhD Researcher
University of Canterbury / Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha

Online Facilitator

Biography

Mr Luka Hamel-Serenity
Instructor
Hampton University

Adaptation under inequality: ramifications of race in coastal urban place attachment and resilience planning

8:00 PM - 8:15 PM

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Biography

Luka Hamel-Serenity is an Instructor at the Hampton University Department of Architecture in the School of Engineering, Architecture, and Aviation. He will receive his doctorate from University of Virginia's Constructed Environment program in May 2025. Luka works at the intersection between community, climate, and histories and theories of racial capitalism.
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Dr Alicia N'Guetta
Researcher
Lund University / Centre for Sustainability Studies / LUCSUS

Loss and damage in tropical fisheries: toward justice and equity through lived experiences

8:15 PM - 8:30 PM

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Biography

Alicia N’Guetta is a Phd Candidate in Sustainability Science at LUCSUS. She earned an Integrated Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Politics and a Master's Degree in Agricultural Economics (M.Sc.) with thesis from Laval University in Canada. Prior to joining LUCSUS Alicia was working as a Monitoring and Evaluation officer for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representation in Madagascar, Comoros, Mauritius, and Seychelles at the Comoros office and was also supporting programmes implementation.
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Dr Charlotte Weatherill
Lecturer In Politics And International Studies
The Open University

Narrating climate un/futures through loss and damage and reparations

8:30 PM - 8:45 PM

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Biography

Charlotte Weatherill is a Lecturer in Politics & International Studies at The Open University. Charlotte’s research explores the concept of vulnerability in climate change politics, particularly in relation to Oceania and colonial discourses. Research interests include environmental and climate change politics, and theories of feminism, coloniality and racial capitalism.
Prof Emily Boyd
Professor
Lund University

Climate change sociolegal mobilisation

8:45 PM - 9:00 PM

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Biography

Emily is a Professor in Sustainability Science at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) that she directed for the past seven years. She is co-Director of the Lund University Nature-Based Future Solutions Profile Area for scientific excellence and the Swedish Centre for the Impacts of Climate Extremes (Climes). Elisabeth holds a Bachelor's degree in International Law from the Université Catholique de Lille and a Master's degree in Sociology of Law from Lund University. Her master’s thesis explored the French government's use of the term “ecoterrorism” in relation to the Soulèvements de la Terre movement.
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Ms Elisabeth Schill
Research Assistant
Lund University / Centre for Sustainability Studies

Climate change sociolegal mobilisation

8:45 PM - 9:00 PM

Biography

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Ms Lydia Pedoth
Researcher
Eurac Research

Intersectional climate change adaptation (ASCEND project)

9:00 PM - 9:15 PM

Biography

Lydia Pedoth (she/her) is a researcher at Eurac Research’s Center for Climate Change and Transformation, Italy. She co-coordinates the Research Area "Transformation towards Climate Just Societies" and specializes in risk governance, resilience, and climate change adaptation. She collaborates with regional, national and international organizations and networks such as EUSALP, UNU University, we4DRR.
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Dr Alexandra Tomaselli
Senior Researcher
Eurac Research

Intersectional climate change adaptation (ASCEND project)

9:00 PM - 9:15 PM

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Alexandra Tomaselli (she/her) is a senior researcher at the Institute for minority rights of Eurac Research, (Italy), where she also collaborates with the Centre for Climate Change and Transformation and co-coordinates the cross-disciplinary research area Gender Dynamics. Her research foci include gender, intersectionality, climate adaptation, human, minority and indigenous peoples’ rights.
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