The Center for Interdisciplinary Disaster Research (CIDR) at the Rhineland-Palatinate Technical University Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) is launching a new online lecture series called CIDR Talks 2026. The talks bring together perspectives from research and practice in the field of disaster risk and resilience and are aimed at scientists, practitioners, and anyone else who is interested.
The series will kick off on January 28, 2026, with a lecture by Rupesh Shrestha, M.Sc. (Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust) on the topic of “Resilient Housing in Nepal.” Rupesh Shrestha is an architect and works directly on site on resilient construction and conservation projects in Nepal. He also has ties to Kaiserslautern through his International Climate Protection Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2021–2022). (registration link)
This will be followed on March 11, 2026, by Derin Kent (Warwick Business School, UK) and Gloria Kutcher (Southampton Business School, UK) with a lecture entitled “How boundary blurring enables positive work relationships in confined work settings.” (registration link) and on May 27, 2026, Prof. Dr. Michael Grothe-Hammer (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway) will give a lecture entitled “Co-fabricating the permanent to enable temporary organizing: Insights from an ethnography of emergency response operations” (registration link).
Further information and ongoing updates can be found on the CIDR website.
The presentations will be held in english.