Welcome to ESBUC and UCS: Sustainability with a focus on Courage, Culture and Human Rights – Existential Dimensions & Vulnerability

Ersta Sköndal and Bräcke University College & University College Stockholm invites you to a second in a series of seminars and workshops leading up to ISDRS 2022 in Stockholm.

Sustainability with a focus on Courage, Culture and Human Rights – Existential Dimensions & Vulnerability

Hosts: Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College (ESBUC) and University College Stockholm (UCS)

Date and time: April 13, 2021, 9-12

The seminar will be held in English online: Follow this Zoom-link

Program

9-9:15 Introduction and welcome notes:

Vice-chancellors Roger Klinth and Owe Kennerberg.

ISDRS Conference 2022: Peter Dobers

Introducing the program: Sofia Camnerin (UCS) and Johan Gärde (ESBUC)

9:15-10:10: Lectures from the host universities (10 minutes each)

Earth Call:
A musical performance based on the UN Global Development Goals (video), Lone Larsen, professor, Department of Diacony, Church Music and Theology, (ESBUC), video.

Can poverty be eradicated by 2030 or will the poor always be present amoung us? Ethical and theological reflections on the Sustainable Development Goals:
Associate Professor, Mats J Hansson, Department of Diacony, Church Music and Theology, (ESBUC).

Are Human Rights Really in Crisis? 
Linde Lindkvist, Associate Dean and Senior Lecturer, Departments of Human Rights and Democracy, (UCS).

Interdisciplinary thoughts on the protection of children. Child centred coordinated intervention system against violence against children in close relationships:
Maria Eriksson, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, (ESBUC).

Climate, Culture, Courage:
Petra Carlsson, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Theology, Stockholm School of Theology (UCS).

Break 10 minutes

10:20-10:35 Breakout rooms with group discussion 1: Reflection questions

10:35-11:25 Lectures from the host universities (live) + video presentations (10 min each)

How the selection of research methods can give women in homelessness a voice and a choice – an attempt to promote an inclusive society with gender equality, health and well-being for all.
Anna Klarare and Åsa Kneck, Senior Lecturers, Department of Health Care Sciences (ESBUC), video.

Democracy and Creativity. Do We Have the Courage to Be Free? 
Professor Davor Džalto, Department of Eastern Christian Studies (UCS).

Dignity and Conscience in a Digital Age – Challenges of Being Human.
Susanne Wigorts Yngvesson, Professor, Department of Religious Studies and Theology, Stockholm School of Theology (UCS).

One Health – A holistic and interdimensional and perspective on sustainability.
Henrik Lerner, Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Care Sciences (ESBUC).

Poverty in Sweden and the Sustainable Development Goals: Benchmarking and understanding poverty at Swedish City Mission and their interventions.
Professor Magnus Karlsson, Centre for Civil Society Research, (ESBH).

Break 10 minutes

11:35-11:50 Breakout rooms with group discussion 2, reflection questions

11:50-12:00 Conclusions