Over the past three months, a lecture series was organised as part of the “Riverine Rights project: The Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Right of Rivers”. The series is a continuation of the OsloMet South Asia Seminar Series hosted in the early Spring 2021.

Attached below are details for the speakers and links to their videos:

Aruna Chandrasekhar lecture on “Rethinking India’s relationship with rivers in a climate emergency”. Here’s the link: “Rethinking India’s relationship with rivers in a climate emergency” by Aruna Chandrasekhar – YouTube

Archana Soreng’s lecture on “Role and Contribution of Indigenous and Local Communities in climate action…” Here’s the link: “Role and Contribution of Indigenous and Local Communities in climate action…” by Archana Soreng – YouTube

Dr Alexander E Davis’s lecture on “The geopolitics of melting mountains: an international political ecology approach to the Himalaya” Here’s the link: “The geopolitics of melting mountains…” by Dr Alexander Davis – YouTube

Professor Sunil Amrith’s lecture on “India’s Rivers and a Changing Monsoon”. Here’s the link: “India’s Rivers and a Changing Monsoon” by Professor Sunil Amrith (Yale University) – YouTube

Kavita Upadhyay’s lecture on “Problematising environment versus development narratives in the Himalaya: The case of Uttarakhand, India”. Here’s the link: “Problematising environment versus development narratives in the Himalaya…” by Kavita Upadhyay – YouTube

Professor Lyla Mehta’s lecture on “Transformation as praxis in marginal environments: Reframing nature-society relations, knowledges and livelihoods”. Here’s the link: “Transformation as praxis in marginal environments” by Professor Lyla Mehta – YouTube

Professor Debjani Bhattacharyya’s lecture on “Muddy Waters: Conjuring Land in Indian Rivers”. Here’s the link: “Muddy Waters: Conjuring Land in Indian Rivers” by Debjani Bhattacharyya (Drexel University) – YouTube

Dr Mabel Denzin Gergan’s lecture on “Precarity and Possibility: Indigenous environmentalism and disastrous hydropower in Sikkim, India”. Here’s the link: “Precarity and Possibility: Indigenous environmentalism…in Sikkim, India” by Dr Mabel D. Gergan – YouTube 

Professor Rohan D’Souza’s Lecture on “Perennial versus Inundation Colonial Engineering and the Crisis of River Control in South Asia”. Here’s the link: “Perennial versus Inundation Colonial Engineering…” by Prof Rohan D’Souza (Kyoto University) – YouTube

Dr Daniel Münster’s lecture on “More-than-human health. Soil and people in natural farming (India)”. Here’s the link: “More-than-human health. Soil and people in natural farming (India)” by Dr Daniel Münster (UiO) – YouTube

Dr Camelia Dewan’s book launch event: “Misreading the Bengal Delta Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal​ Bangladesh” University of Washington Press: Seattle. Hereæs the link: “Misreading the Bengal Delta (Univ of Washington Press)” by Dr Camelia Dewan (University of Oslo) – YouTube