Greening societies with just socio-technical transformations: Joining agendas across disciplines and the activist-academia divide
The Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities (EHJustice): Transformative engagements between academia and civil society will hold their third workshop: 'Greening societies with just socio-technical transformations: Joining agendas across disciplines and the activist-academia divide'.
---registration for online participation still open---
This workshop marks the beginning of the third and final year of The Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities: Transformative engagements between academia and civil society. The network works to probe and redefine the boundaries between scholarship and civil society in the strengthening of a shared path towards a more just and environmentally friendly world. Within the range of network activities, workshops are smaller events that serve to prepare the intellectual ground for the conversations that will be developed at the larger conferences.
The third EHJustice Workshop brings together researchers, activists and civil society who are engaging in discussions around socio-technical transformations across different scales and spaces. The aim of this workshop is to broaden ongoing debates about a just greening of societies and move beyond the environmental humanities to explore what future imaginaries and activist driving forces exist across disciplines. It raises two important questions: how can the environmental humanities and civil society collaborate with STEM disciplines in the promotion of transformations towards a “greener” and environmentally just future that favours social, cultural and political diversity? and; What kind of collaborative and interdisciplinary spaces can we foster to develop models of and for positive change?
Time: Monday 27 March 2023, at 09:00 - 16:30
Location: Innovation HUB, Aalborg University
Organizer: The Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities (EHJustice)
Programme
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Registration / coffee |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Welcome |
| 9:45 – 10:45 | *Keynote: Veronica Strang: Achieving Social and Ecological Justice Through Disciplinary Equality: a view from Anthropology |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | *Roundtable: Future environmental imaginaries beyond techno-fixes and critique, w/ people of different disciplinary backgrounds and communities of practice. Confirmed speakers: Catharina Landström (Chalmers University), Josep Guerrero (Aalborg University), Doug Specht (ENCA and University of Westminster), Veronica Strang (University of Oxford), Kristine Samson (Roskilde University) |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | LUNCH |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lab visit: Power-to-X lab, Dept. of Energy Technology, Aalborg University |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Coffee break |
| 14:45 – 15:45 | Thematic working and reflection groups: Practices and forms of organization for a just transition. |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Plenary discussion with closing remarks and drinks |
| 19:00 | Dinner in town (optional) |
Sign up HERE.
Local organising team
Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen (aoan@ikl.aau.dk)
Malayna Raftopoulos (raftopoulos@dps.aau.dk)
Mikkel Fugl Eskjær (eskjaer@ikp.aau.dk)
EHJustice core network members: Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen, Georg Fischer, Heather Swanson, Kristine Samson, Malayna Raftopoulos, Mikkel Fugl Eskjær, Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen