News and media appearances
Here you will find all and any news on our current work.
1. Mar 2026
It’s official: Laur is taking up the mantle as Professor of Sustainable Transitions. For his inaugural lecture on 10 March in Tartu University assembly hall, he’s skipping the pleasantries and going straight for the juggernaut: whether our current scientific path is enough to steer us away from global disaster. This public lecture explores Laur’s core research themes and is open to staff, students, and the public. Stay for the live Q&A to challenge the status quo and debate the future of sustainability. Read more…
6. Mar 2026
Anna-Kati recently opened a panel discussion exploring the disconnect between sustainability goals and actual practice within industrial societies at Cross-Innovation Day 2026. By establishing the research framing for the session, she examined how persistent technological optimism often limits broader transformative power that could be sparked by social innovation. Read more about CIDAY26…
4. Dec 2025
Laur presented some tentative ideas about theorizing industrial modernity at the Network of Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions webinar. He also got into a boxing match with Bruno Turnheim but, as always, the best bits have been excluded from the broadcast. Read more…
6. Nov 2025
As we struggle with environmental and societal crises, there’s a growing need to rethink the foundational ideas of industrial modernity according to Laur Kanger, Professor of Sustainability Transitions, who was the invited guest speaker at a policy seminar hosted by CIRCLE and SIRI. Read more…
17-18. Jun 2025
RiDe project kick-off seminar in Tartu
The Deep Transitions research team gathered to discuss Laur Kanger’s newly launched European Research Council–funded project “The Rise and Fall of Industrial Modernity” (RiDe) and to set goals for the near future. The seminar brought together both local and international team members, who shared their work ranging from time series analysis, applications of artificial intelligence, and studies of industrial modernity to theoretical frameworks.
27. Feb 2024
Getting out of our current environmental, biodiversity, and climate crisis will require major changes to societies around the globe. What exactly are the barriers to such a transformation, and which countries are best placed to make the change and could therefore serve as an inspiration to others? Read more…