Speakers marked (*) will give their talk remotely.

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1) 

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

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

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])