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)