Conferences
Explore Dr. Ajibade’s keynote speeches, invited talks, and academic presentations around the world.
Keynote Addresses
Dr. Ajibade’s featured keynote presentations at major conferences and events.
Invited Talks
Invited Talks
2023
Float, Retreat, or Do Nothing? Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. (Guest Speaker)
Navigating Equitable Coastal Adaptation in a Rapidly Changing Climate
- November 16, 2023
Invited Talks
2023
Who is vulnerable or Resilient tocascading and consecutive hazards in the Portland, Metro-region”. Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium, Special Nominated Seminar talk.. (Guest Speaker)
Shifting landscapes of spatial equity and justice
- November 3, 2023
Invited Talks
2023
Journal Editors Panel Conversations on Innovation and Equity in Journal Publishing, Climigration Network
(Panelist)
- 2023
Invited Talks
2023
at the 2022 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Symposium organized by Portland State University Center for Climate and Aerosol Research.
“Justice and Equity in Climate Science”
- August 19, 2023
Invited Talks
2023
Who is vulnerable or Resilient to cascading and consecutive hazards in the Portland, Metro-region” at Department Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware.. (Guest Speaker)
Shifting landscapes of spatial equity and justice:
- April 28, 2023
Invited Talks
2023
Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Boston. (Guest Speaker)
Challenges to implementing managed retreat in the Global South and Global North.
- April 19, 2023
Invited Talks
2023
at People on the Move in a Changing Climate Alaska, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Islands, and International Workshop. Anchorage. (Panelist)
“Reflections on justice, decision making, and success in global relocation programs”
- April 12, 2023
Invited Talks
2023
The justice conundrum in coastal adaptation’ at the Climate and Clean Energy Series organized by Schatz Energy Research Center, Cal Poly Humboldt. (Guest Speaker)
Float or retreat?
- April 6, 2023
Invited Talks
2023
Understanding trade-offs and success. Graduate Seminar, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, (Guest Speaker)
Just relocations and migrations
- March 20, 2023
Invited Talks
2023
Differential Media Portrayals of Wildfire Displacement and Homelessness in Portland, Oregon”, Cascadia Wildfire Webinar, Portland State University (Panelist)
Unhoused by Wildfires and the Previously Unhoused
- March 23, 2023
Invited Talks
2023
Global Evidence from post-resettlement Programs. Climate Mobilities Working Group, Princeton University. (Guest Speaker)
Can managed retreat programs be successful and just?
- March 17, 2023
Invited Talks
2023
Identifying Hotspots of Vulnerability and Resilience to Cascading Consecutive Disasters in Portland, Oregon. Sociology Departmental Seminar, Portland State University. (Guest Speaker)
Who Matters and Why
- March 10, 2023
Invited Talks
2022
The Role of Climatopias in Closing or expanding the equity gap in adaptation”, Perry World House Workshop, University of Pennsylvania. (Panelist)
Navigating Equitable Coastal Adaptation in a Rapidly Changing Climate
- September 30, 2022
Invited Talks
2022
identifying what’s missing in research, University of Southern California, Sea Grant. People on the Move in a Changing Climate. (Panelist)
Environmental justice, disadvantage communities and disproportionate impacts of climate change
- September, 28, 2022
Invited Talks
2022
Environmental Justice and Interventions Workshop, UC Santa Barbara. (Panelist)
Radical imaginings, intersectionality, and climate justice
- August 27, 2022
Invited Talks
2022
Identifying levers of transformations at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Innovators workshop, Boulder. (Panelist)
Portland Equitable Resilience to Climate-Cascading Hazards
- July 27, 2022
Invited Talks
2022
47th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Boulder. (Plenary Speaker)
On the Move—Climate Relocation and Social Justice
- July 12, 2022
Invited Talks
2022
Success models and intersectional justice in Global Climate relocation” at Metcalf Institute 24TH Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists.
(Panelist)
- June 9, 2022
Invited Talks
2022
Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center Annual Conference organized by the City University of New York. (Panelist)
Confronting the Realities of sea level rise for Brooklyn’s Jamaica Bay Communities and examining models for transformative adaptation.
- May 13 , 2022
Invited Talks
2022
Planned relocations and resettlement organized by the Africa Climate Mobility Initiative, IOM, the World Bank, and the African Union. (Panelist)
Policy consultation on the limits of adaptation
- May 12 , 2022
Invited Talks
2022
Global Climate Relocations and Transformative Justice at Geography Seminar Series, Oregon State University. (Guest Speaker)
Radical Imaginings
- April 29, 2022
Invited Talks
2022
Recursive Relations with Equity and Justice-Based Transformations in the Global South. RISE IRT Seminar Series, University of Colorado, (Guest Speaker)
The Resilience Fix to Climate Disasters
- April 11 , 2022
Invited Talks
2022
A research agenda on just transformations. The University of Miami. (Guest Speaker)
Climate Adaptation, Greening, Resilience Planning in Coastal Cities
- April 6, 2022
Invited Talks
2022
UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Global Mini-Summit. (Panelist)
Cities and Global Climate Justice
- March 2, 2022
Invited Talks
2021
challenging dominant forms and flows. Hatfield Resident Fellow Professional Development. Portland State University. (Guest Speaker)
Resilient urbanism in an era of uncertainties
- October 7, 2021
Invited Talks
2021
towards an intersectional justice approach. Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. (Guest Speaker)
Global mapping of success in managed retreat
- October 6, 2021
Invited Talks
2021
NCAR [Innovator Faculty 2] PI Symposium. (Guest Speaker)
Justice-oriented transformative resilience planning in response to climate disasters.
- July 28 , 2021
Invited Talks
2021
At What Point: Managed Retreat, Resilience and Climate Justice. Columbia University. (Panelist)
Science Special Issue.
- June 24, 2021
Invited Talks
2021
Differences and Intersections. Climate Migration Workshop. Portland State University. (Guest Speaker)
Managed Retreat and Climate Migration
- June 11, 2021
Invited Talks
2021
Lessons from Manila. Emergency Management and Community Resilience Speakers Series, Portland State University. (Guest Speaker)
Building Resilient and Egalitarian Cities after Mega-Disasters
- June 10, 2021
Invited Talks
2021
Metcalf Institute, Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists. The University Of Rhode Island. (Panelist)
Sea level rise, ungovernable spaces, success in managed retreat.
- June 8, 2021
Invited Talks
2021
Dallman Lecture Series Panel for the John Sloan Dickey Center, Dartmouth College, (Panelist)
Centering justice, community voices, and indigenous knowledge in climate adaptation.
- May 10, 2021
Invited Talks
2021
‘Success’ and Equity in managed retreat as a climate adaptation. Public Seminar Series on International Justice, Rights, and the Environment, Stanford University, (Guest Speaker)
Creating governable spaces and Populations
- April 19, 2021
Invited Talks
2021
Seminar Guest Speaker. The University of Miami. (Guest Speaker)
Socio-spatial, socio-ecological, and socio-technical resilience fixes to climate change and grassroots counter-resistance strategies in Metro-Manila.
- April 16, 2021
Invited Talks
2021
Wesleyan University. (Guest Speaker)
Societal transformation, climate adaptation and ethics of change.
- April 8, 2021
Invited Talks
2021
Tag We’re It/Voices on Resilience. Portland State University, (Panelist)
Who negotiates resilience? on behalf of whom?
- February 25 , 2021
Invited Talks
2020
Interrogating social justice and resilience planning in coastal cities. Dartmouth College. (Panelist)
Urban Natures
- November 12 , 2020
Invited Talks
2020
Identifying commonalities and differences between climate migration and managed retreat, Middlebury Institute of International Studies Monterey, California. (Guest Speaker)
Entanglement and disentanglement
- November 4 , 2020
Invited Talks
2020
post-disaster responses and climate adaptation in the Global South, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU), (Guest Speaker)
Entanglement and disentanglement
- October 28 , 2020
Invited Talks
2020
Destruction and Repair after Climate Disasters in the Global South, Harvard University, Graduate School of Urban Planning and Design, (Guest Speaker)
The Resilience Fix
- October 14, 2020
Invited Talks
2017
Workshop. Waterloo, Ontario. Canada (Panelist)
Canada in a Climate Disrupted World, Balsillie School of International Affairs.
- April 18-19, 2017
Invited Talks
2016
Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada. (Guest Speaker)
Popular Culture and World Politics Conference,
- November 12-13, 2016
Invited Talks
2015
Looking Forward to Paris 2015 Balsillie School of International Affairs & the Interdisciplinary Center on Climate Change, University of Waterloo. Canada. (Panelist)
Global Climate Governance and Canadian Policy
- March 26, 2015
Invited Talks
2014
Waterloo Interdisciplinary Centre On Climate Change (IC3), Waterloo University, Waterloo, ON. (Panelist)
What is transformative about adaptation?
- June 19-20, 2014
Invited Talks
2014
Critical Reading Series, Western University, London. ON, (Guest Speaker)
A Progressive Trajectory of Inquiry in Global Environmental Change: What The role might the Sub-disciplines of Geography (physical and human) Play and How?
- March 2, 2014
Invited Talks
2012
IRACC Cities at Risk Project, Western University, London, ON, (Guest Speaker)
Understanding the Connections Between Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts and Human Rights.
- April 25, 2012
Invited Talks
2010
Climate Change as National Security Issue for Canada, Western University.
(Panelist)
- May 25-26. 2010
Invited Talks
2010
Gender and Climate Justice, Civicus Youth Assembly, University of Concordia, Montreal,
(Panelist)
- Aug 19. 2010
Invited Talks
2007
International Conference on Human Rights and Anti-corruption, ICHRP Conference. The meeting, Geneva, Switzerland.
(Conference Organizer)
- July 11-13. 2007
Invited Talks
2005
Redefining Human Rights in Asian Culture. Paper: Human Rights Discussion, Series. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan,
(Panelist)
- July 12, 2005
Invited Talks
2004
The Role of Philosophical Enquiry in Nation Building. Annual Inter-Faculty Dialogues, Obafemi Awolowo University. Nigeria,
(Panelist)
- August 3-5, 2004