Category: Talks
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It’s full steam ahead with a new institutional home for the FiRES project!
As of October 1, 2025, the FiRES project has a new institutional home at ETH Zürich. I am excited to be back in the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences, which is hosting the FiRES project after its initial two years at the University of Bern. FiRES’ fieldwork and collaborations continue unabated. The team…
Christine Eriksen
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Project stock-take: a busy six months!
It’s that time of year when I’m asked by the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern to contribute to the Annual Report. It made me realise that a project stock-take is well and truly overdue, as the Geographies of Disasters team has been very busy the last six months. An absolute highlight has…
Christine Eriksen
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Nurturing networks, sharing insights
It has been a busy few weeks nurturing connections and building collaborations through three key events and a wonderful network of wildfire researchers and practitioners in Europe. In May, I was invited by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN/BAFU) to contribute to their first ever “Waldbrand Tagung” (wildfire workshop) on 22 May in…
Christine Eriksen
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Nurturing collaborations!
Since 2014, Gregory Simon and I have nurtured an on-going research collaboration that has enabled us to think and write together about the diverse ways affluence and vulnerability intersect in the context of disasters. Many have inspired and worked with us along the way, and to continue to grow this collaborative endeavour, the Geographies of…
Christine Eriksen
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Watch the closing plenary session of the AFE Fire Congress 2023 online!
Did you miss the awesome closing plenary session at the AFE Fire Congress 2023? Fret not! The Association for Fire Ecology has made the recording available online. I talk from 9-39 mins, followed by Chief Royal Ramey from the Forestry and Fire Recruitment Program, and Ryan Reed and Kyle Trefny from the FireGeneration Collaborative. Please…
Christine Eriksen
Dr. Christine Eriksen 