Thursday, 03 November 2022
12:00–12:30 Registration
12:30–13:00 Welcome and opening words (Richard Mortensen Stuen)
13:00–14:15 Parallel Sessions
Panel 1 (Richard Mortensen Stuen): Environmental Justice Movements
Chair: Bárbara Bastos
Zeina Moneer (Suez Canal University, EG): Environmental justice movements in the Middle East and North Africa: discourses, outcomes and state-society relations
Malayna Raftopoulos (Aalborg University): In the defence of place: environmental justice and the anti-fracking movement in Argentina
Natalia Valdivieso-Kastner (University of Manchester, UK): A greener faith: The Catholic Church and environmental justice
Panel 2 (Meeting Room 2): Landscapes of capitalism
Chair: Eiko Honda
Jihan Zakarriya (Aarhus University): Transimperialism and warfare ecology in contemporary Iraqi petrofiction
Gabriel Soyer (University of Georgia, US): Matopiba’s agricultural frontier as informed by agribusiness elites frames
Uwe Skoda (Aarhus University): Mining and resistance in a sacred landscape: Indigenous people and their deities in a former princely state in Odisha / India
14:15–14:30 Coffee break
14:30–15:45 Parallel sessions
Panel 3 (Richard Mortensen Stuen): Water justice
Chair: Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
Louis Pille-Schneider (University of Bergen, NO): Ana sama jën? [“Where is my fish?”] An emotional political ecology of sardinella absences, and the mobilization of women fish processors against blue grabbing in Senegal
Owain Lawson (University of Toronto, CA): The carceral river: genealogies of environmental crime and Lebanon’s Litani river basin
Anna Heikkinen (University of Helsinki, FI): Climate change, mining and water justice struggles in the Peruvian Andes
Panel 4 (Meeting Room 2): Future-making from below (and above)
Chair: Mathilde Knöfel
Mattias Borg Rasmussen & Maximiliano Navarrete (University of Copenhagen): Imagining and contesting energy futures: the democratic promise of the socio-environmental assemblies of Patagonia, Argentina
Alex Standen (Willamette University, US): Striking for Public Power: Workers, energy and the nationalization of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, 1933–1941
Gregers Andersen (Aalborg University): Desperate science fiction: on how Musk, Bezos, Gates, and Google plan to escape socio-ecological collapse
15:45–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:00 Keynote lecture (Meeting Room 2)
John-Andrew McNeish (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, NO): Stories of Resource Sovereignty: Narratives of everyday politics and environmental justice in Latin America
17:00–18:30 Virtual roundtable (Meeting Room 2)
Organized at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima - Title and participants to be announced
Friday, 04 November 2022
08:30–10:00 Parallel sessions
Panel 5 (Richard Mortensen Stuen): Extractivisms and contestation
Chair: Georg Fischer
Peter Leys (Roskilde University): The sacrifice zones of the green transition: extractivism, resistance and local notions of justice
Vladimir Pacheco Cueva (Aarhus University): No closure! Community reaction to abandoned mines and their legacies
Büşra Üner (University of Bayreuth, DE): Defending nature: transformation of spatial and social relations through environmental activism in Turkey
Arvid Stiernström (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE): Mapping territorial narratives in a mining region: methodological discussion on the visualization of the production of territory ‘from below’ and ‘from above’ through GIS
Panel 6 (Preben Hornung Stuen): More-than-human justice
Chair: Kristine Samson
Marie Leth-Espensen (Lund University, SE): Multispecies life at the sanctuary: prefiguration, ethics of care and rural politics
Eiko Honda (Aarhus University): Microbial justice of civilization theory in the (hi)story of Minakata Kumagusu, 1887–1892
Martin Grünfeld (University of Copenhagen): Troubling care at the museum and beyond
Linda Lapina (Roskilde University): Sensing kin with an urban marshland: embodied remembering as a gesture towards environmental justice
10:00–10:15 Coffee break
10:15–11:45 Parallel sessions
Panel 7 (Richard Mortensen Stuen): Grief and ruins
Chair: Heather Swanson
Rahul Ranjan (Oslo Metropolitan University, NO): Grief in the Anthropocene: entanglements and disasters in the Himalayas
Marianna Fernandes (Graduate Institute Geneva, CH): Tales of the extractivist ruins: reflections on care as a method to conduct research in socio-ecological disasters and tell stories that matter
Anne-Xuân Nguyễn (Université libre de Bruxelles, BE): Depoliticize to act? Tales of environmental (in)justice, grief and recognition in Agent Orange remediation
Panel 8 (Preben Hornung Stuen): Other ways of knowing and possible dialogues
Chair: Adam Custock
Karin Louise Hermes (independent researcher/collectivist storyteller, PH/DE): Spiralling forward in spacetime with comparative Indigenous metaphysics: non-linear histories and relationality for climate justice and “South-South” dialogues in the North
Eugen Pissarskoi (University of Tübingen, DE) & Leiyo Singo (University of Bayreuth, DE): Struggles for environmental justice resulting from disagreements about basic needs
Michela Coletta (Freie Universität Berlin, DE / University of Warwick, UK): Being-in-the-world: socio-ecological belonging in Amazonian storytelling
Akvilė Buitvydaitė (independent researcher, Copenhagen): The poetics of climate change and the politics of pain: Sámi social media environmental activism
11:45–12:45 Lunch
12:45–14:00 Parallel creative sessions
Richard Mortensen Stuen
12:45–13:30 Eduardo Abrantes (Roskilde University / University of Southern Denmark) & Ida Marie Hede (Aarhus University): A chorus becoming: welcoming difference and complexity through collective spoken word
13:30–14:00 Kristine Samson (Roskilde University), Marcella Arruda (A cidade precisa de você Collective, BR): Eco-commoning, food security and every day environmental justice in Brasilândia, Brazil Hybrid dialogue and discussion
Preben Hornung Stuen
12:45–13:45 Bárbara Bastos (University of Pisa, IT / Aarhus University): Reading out loud: an academic proxy plotting environmental justice (reading of a short story)
14:00–14:05 Break
14:05–15:35 Parallel sessions
Panel 9 (Richard Mortensen Stuen): Climate Justice I
Chair: Zeina Moneer
Anna Friberg (Linköping University, SE): The de-temporalization of the future as a way of opening the present: conceptual perspectives on the language use of environmental justice movements
Jonalyn C. Paz (independent researcher, PH): Decolonizing climate displacement
Josephine Lau Jessen (Lund University, SE): An experimental phenomenological study of a systems thinking & contemplative education approach to teaching climate change in educational settings
Laura Bullon-Cassis (Geneva Graduate Institute, CH): Planetary aspirations and communities of practice: youth climate activism at United Nations Climate Summits
Panel 10 (Preben Hornung Stuen): Toxicities
Chair: Malayna Raftopoulos
Tridibesh Dey (Aarhus University): Plastics and plasticity: on complexities of space, time, harm, and sociomaterial practice
Loretta Lou (Durham University, UK): The art of unnoticing: risk perception and contrived ignorance in China
Martin Arvad Nicolaisen (Aarhus University): Sustained waste: conflicts of environmental authority and responsibility at the Port of Tema in Ghana
Isabela Noronha (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, BR): Claiming toxic lands: colonial residues in Brazil
15:35–15:50 Coffee break
15:50–17:20 Roundtable (Preben Hornung Stuen): Art, history, and environmental justice: a critical dialogue. With Nathalia Capellini (Geneva Graduate Institute, CH), Bárbara Marcel (artist, Berlin, DE), Clara Ianni (artist, São Paulo, BR/Maastricht, NE) and Lukas Becker (Geneva Graduate Institute, CH)
18:00 Dinner at Café Mellemfolk
Saturday, 05 November 2022
08:30–09:45 Parallel sessions
Panel 11 (Richard Mortensen Stuen): Conservationisms
Chair: Andreas Beyer Gregersen
Anna Søe (Aarhus University): Nature conservation and resistance on the Danish island of Læsø
Marcia Clare Allison (Aarhus University): The European Grey-Green Belt: the push-pull of iron curtain cultural heritage and nonhuman environmental justice needs in the neoliberal Anthropocene
Sudeep Budhaditya Deb (West Bengal Forest Service, IN): Natural resources, participation and communities: an hypothesized framework for a change hierarchy
Panel 12 (Preben Hornung Stuen): Climate Justice II
Chair: Tridibesh Dey
Andrew Crabtree (Copenhagen Business School): The moral imperative to act unjustly
Sourav Kargupta (independent researcher, IN): Spivak’s ‘planetarity’: an idea of environmental justice attentive both to postcolonial and de-anthropocentric alterity
Dayabati Roy (University of Helsinki, FI): Unsettling environment: staking a claim to environmental justice in Indian Sundarbans
09:45–10:00 Coffee break
10:00–11:30 Roundtable (Preben Hornung Stuen): Title to be announced: Young activists – participants to be announced
11:30–12:30 Documentary film screening & discussion (Preben Hornung Stuen): “Arena” (2018, 33 min.) – Discussion with director Ricardo León (CO) and researcher/producer Inge-Merete Hougaard (University of Copenhagen)
12:30–13:30 Lunch
13:30–15:00 Virtual roundtable (Preben Hornung Stuen): Pedagogy. With Dan Baron Cohen and members of the Rios de Encontro project
15:00–15:15 Coffee break
15:15–16:45 Creative session (Richard Mortensen Stuen)
Liene Jurgelāne (new visions, Aarhus): Council of All Beings (Ritual/performative workshop)
16:45–17:00 Break
17:00–17:30 Final discussion (Preben Hornung Stuen)