Justice for a planetary age

We live in a ‘planetary age’. An age of multiple and compound challenges that affect the entire planet, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, political instability, and the geopolitical consequences of ongoing war and conflict. The planetary age requires ever more profoundly that we re-imagine global governance towards sustainability and justice. Otherwise, we risk ignoring or completely disregarding the implications of global politics for the most vulnerable human and non-human life on earth, thereby also endangering international stability and resilience. However, what does justice for a planetary age look like? This is the central question this professorship aims to address. 

About Agni Kalfagianni

Prof.dr. Agni Kalfagianni is appointed professor of Management of International Social Challenges at the Erasmus University Rotterdam as of September 1st 2023. The professorship is embedded at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Public Administration and Sociology / Team Governance and Pluralism.  

She specializes in the effectiveness, legitimacy, and ethical and justice considerations of private and transnational forms of governance in the sustainability domain. She got her BA in Environmental Science (Aegean, Greece), her MA in Environmental Economics (York, UK) and her PhD in Political Science (Twente, NL). She worked as Associate Professor of Transnational Sustainability Governance at the Utrecht University. She played an important role in the prestigious Earth System Governance project and acquired research funding from both European and national funding institutions.

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The ceremony will start promptly at 16:00 hrs in the Aula of the university (Erasmus building), Burgemeester Oudlaan 50 Rotterdam. 

The inaugural lecture can also be followed via a livestream.