Name: Rethinking the Obvious
Start: 2026-05-19T18:00:00
End: 2026-05-19T20:00:00
Location: Skjulet

We think we understand how the world works, but do we? Sara Karimzadeh (Associate Senior Lecturer in Sociology) turns our attention to the waste we never see, asking what would happen if we couldn't ship it away, and whether making waste visible again could be the key to building truly sustainable societies. Then, Diego Montiel Rojas (Lecturer in Sports Science) will challenge what we thought we knew about athletic training, revealing how female physiology responds differently to exercise and recovery, and why it matters for how we train and support female athletes.

Takeaway, Throwaway, Shipaway: The Case for Waste Delinking

Sara Karimzadeh (Associate Senior Lecturer)

What if we couldn’t ship our waste away? In this talk, I introduce waste delinking, the idea that waste, its costs, and consequences should stay where it is created. Why is it important? For a simple reason: when waste can be exported, it becomes easier to keep buying and producing more because disposal happens out of sight. Waste delinking makes waste visible again, and it pushes us to ask upstream questions: Why are products built to be replaced so quickly? Why is repair hard and costly? Why do our routines reward constant upgrading? I’ll discuss what would need to change—socially, economically, and politically—if we want to move towards sustainable transformation in our societies.

Train, recover, repeat: The female physiology edition

Diego Montiel Rojas (Lecturer)

Training breaks you down, recovery builds you up. But does it work the same for everyone? Discover how we measure the impact of exercise on the human body and the physiological considerations for female athletes.

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