EHJustice Annual Conference #2: "Global Environmental Justice and Its Limits: Complexities of Time and Space"
Hybrid event, in person at Aarhus University, with online component.
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Info about event
Time
Location
Studenternes Hus Aarhus, Aarhus University, Fredrik Nielsens Vej 2-4, 8000 Aarhus C
Welcome to the 2nd Annual EHJustice Conference hosted by the Centre for Environmental Humanities at Aarhus University! We are delighted to welcome researchers, activists, artists and other civil society actors who wish to engage in a dialogue about concepts, practices, and multiple understandings of global justice in a moment of mounting environmental urgencies. We are grateful for the wonderful proposals which we received. Thanks to them we were able to put together an exciting program that reflects diverse experiences and backgrounds. In conjunction with the possibilities of online participation, we believe that this conference can make a substantial contribution to and diversify debates about global environmental justice.
We look forward to discussions about plural understandings of justice by exploring how different actors relate with the concept, and how they negotiate justice claims through space and time. In particular, we intend to discuss how the different temporalities and histories inherent to different notions of global justice play out in environmental and climate justice movements and how imperial/colonial pathways of extraction shape environmental justice claims and practices of transformative future-making. Furthermore, we intend to explore how to give form to (through narration, storytelling, performance, theories, video, writing) such histories and how stories – or other forms – can be assistive in breaking the course of environmental injustice.
If you missed the sign up deadline but you still would like to participate, please contact ehjustice@cas.au.dk
Online participation
For online participants, there are three virtual conference rooms - [virtual room 1], [virtual room 2] and [virtual room 3].We use the videotelephony software Zoom. In the program, it is indicated in which virtual room each panel or roundtable will be live-streamed. An additional registration is required for each room in order to get access, but you only have to register once per room for the whole conference. We kindly ask online attendees to keep their microphones muted unless they would like to speak in the Q&A section. Questions can also be asked in the chat.
Conference booklet
Practical information, the final program as well as abstracts and bios can be downloaded here.
Conference dinner
Date and time: Friday, 4 November, at 18:00
Venue: Café Mellemfolk, Mejlgade 53, 1st floor, 8000 Aarhus C
How to get there: You can walk the 1.7 km from the conference venue (recommendation: follow a local and take the route through the Campus Park rather than along Randersvej); or take the southbound L2 and get off at Nørreport.
For short-notice cancellations please contact the organizers.
Conference Program
Speakers marked (*) will give their talk remotely.
All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)
Thursday, 3 November 2022
12:00-12:30 Registration
12:30-13:00 Welcome and opening words (Richard Mortensen Stuen - [virtual room 1])
Georg Fischer & Heather Anne Swanson (Aarhus University)
13:00-14:15 Parallel Sessions
Panel 1 (Richard Mortensen Stuen - [virtual room 1]): 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
Panel 2 (Meeting Room 2 - [virtual 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 - [virtual room 1]): 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 - [virtual 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 - [virtual 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 - [virtual room 2])
Pollution and Environmental Justice today: Cases from Peru
With *Roxana Vergara (Lawyer and Anthropologist working on the oil spills in Bajo Marañón), *Vanesa Romo (Mongabay Peru), *José Carlos Orihuela (Political Economist PUCP) and a *representative of the Organización Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas Andinas y Amazónicas del Perú (to be confirmed) moderated by *Alvaro M. Castro Mayo, organized at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima
Friday, 4 November 2022
8:30-10:00 Parallel sessions
Panel 5 (Richard Mortensen Stuen - [virtual room 1]): Extractivisms and contestation
Chair: Andreas Beyer Gregersen
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
Panel 6 (Preben Hornung Stuen- [virtual room 2]): More-than-human justice
Chair: Kristine Samson
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 re-membering as a gesture towards environmental justice
10:00-10:15 Coffee break
10:15-11:45 Parallel sessions
Panel 7 (Richard Mortensen Stuen - [virtual room 1]): Grief, ruins and conservation
Chair: Brenda Chalfin
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
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
Panel 8 (Preben Hornung Stuen - [virtual room 2]): Other ways of knowing and possible dialogues
Chair: Adam Curt 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 [not live-streamed]
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 [virtual room 1]
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) [virtual room 2]
14:00-14:05 Break
14:05-15:35 Parallel sessions
Panel 9 (Richard Mortensen Stuen - [virtual room 1]): 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 [tbc]
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 - [virtual room 2]): 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 - [virtual room 2])
Art, history, and environmental justice: a critical dialogue
with Nathalia Capellini (Geneva Graduate Institute, CH), *Barbara 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, 5 November 2022
9:00-10:15 Panel session
Panel 12 (Preben Hornung Stuen - [virtual room 2]): 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
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-12:00 Ritual/performative workshop (Preben Hornung Stuen - [not live-streamed])
Council of All Beings, with Liene Jurgelāne (new visions, Aarhus)
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Documentary film screening & discussion (Preben Hornung Stuen - [not live-streamed])
“Arena” (2018, 33 min.) - Discussion with director Ricardo León (CO) and researcher/producer Inge-Merete Hougaard (University of Copenhagen)
14:00-14:15 Coffee break
14:15-15:45 Virtual roundtable (Preben Hornung Stuen - [virtual room 3])
Eco-Pedagogies towards a Good Living Future
with *Dan Baron Cohen, *Manoela Souza and *Camylla Alves of the Rios de Encontro project (Marabá, BR)
15:45-16:30 Final discussion (Preben Hornung Stuen - [virtual room 2])
Local organizing team: Andreas Beyer Gregersen (abg@cas.au.dk), Georg Fischer (fischer@cas.au.dk), Heather Swanson (ceh@cas.au.dk), Mathilde Knöfel (mathilde.knoefel@cas.au.dk)
Conference committee: Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen, Georg Fischer, Heather Swanson, Kristine Samson, Malayna Raftopoulos, Mikkel Fugl Eskjær