This afternoon seminar, organised by the Centre for Urban Energy and Resilience (CURE) and cities@manchester seeks to explore how lived experiences of nature, community and everyday life challenge linear understandings of social and environmental transition.

Speakers include: Dr Vanesa Castan Broto (University College London) – Experiences of transitions in South Europe: Environments, knowledges, communities Dr Petr Jehlicka (Open University) – Post-socialist household food production: Resistance hidden in plain sight? Dr Saskia Vermeylen (University of Lancaster) – Institutional Conservation Practices and Rhizomatic Contestations in the Kalahari Desert, Namibia Chaired by Dr Andrew Karvonen, University of Manchester

This event is free to attend and open to all but please register your place via Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environmental-transitions-seminar-tickets-14442508933?utm_campaign=new_eventv2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eb_email&utm_term=eventurl_text