25.04.2024

Climate Change – Personal and Professional Narratives, a Podcast-like Lecture by Dr. Fozia Parveen

The lecture Climate Change - Personal and Professional Narratives by Dr. Fozia Parveen, in which she shares her stories on how climate change impacts the lives and livelihoods of people living in Pakistan, is now available on our YouTube channel.

In a lecture titled ‘Climate Change – Personal and Professional Narratives’ Dr. Fozia Parveen from the Institute for Educational Development at Aga Khan University in Karachi (Pakistan) shares her stories on how climate change impacts her life and the lives and livelihoods of people living in Pakistan. She discusses the challenges of documenting indigenous practices and offers potential solutions to these challenges.

The lecture is now available on YouTube and is part of a course titled ‘Asking those who feel it – local and indigenous knowledge on climate change’. The course is offered by Global Awareness Education at the University of Tübingen and is open to students from all disciplines at the University of Tübingen. In this course, students explored local and indigenous knowledge and what role it can play in the future as we tackle the climate crisis. Scientists and indigenous experts from the Himalaya and the Arctic, who either work with such knowledge or hold it, were invited to talk about their experiences and challenges faced. At the end of the course, students were able to assess (i) why and when local knowledge is crucial, (ii) in which international frameworks it is being proposed as an important aspect of understanding and better adapting to climate change and (iii) what the main challenges are to integrate it with other types of knowledge.

If you'd like to listen to the lecture and digest it as a podcast, you may find the video here.