Program

Day 1 - Wednesday, August 15

14:00 – 16:00

Event: Registration/information table open

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Lobby

15:45 – 16:15

Event: Conference Opening

Welcome by Hannu Nieminen, Dean of Social Science

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Room 4050

16:15 – 17.45

Event: Plenary Session 1

Speakers: Jason W. Moore: Climate Change as Geohistorical Event: Imperial Crisis, Planetary Justice, and the World Color Line and Marisol De La Cadena: Stories from the Anthropo-not-seen! Or... Sharing interests in common, yet not the same interest Chaired by Markus Kröger

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Room 4050

18:00 - 19:30

Event: Helsinki City Reception at the City Hall

Location: Pohjoisesplanadi 11-13, 00170 Helsinki

Day 2 - Thursday, August 16

8:30 – 9:15

Event: Registration Table Open

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Lobby

8:45-9:00

Event: Second day opening

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Room 4050

9:00 – 10:30

Event: Plenary Session 2

Speakers: Andrej Grubacic: In Praise of Expropriation and Marjolein Visser: Agroecology and academics: promise, power and perversion Chaired by Teivo Teivainen

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Room 4050

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:30

Event: Working groups Session 1

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, rooms 3006-4048 (see the working group program)

(Open event for the working Group: Moving beyond Extractivism, in room 3006)

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

Location: Bank (Unioninkatu 20, 00130 Helsinki)

13:30 – 15:20

(Open) Event: Plenary Session 3

Panel Discussion: Moving Beyond Extractivism

Speakers: Larry Lohmann, Soumitra Ghosh, Uddhab Pd. Pyakurel, Khu Khu Ju, Kyi Pho, and Marko Ulvila Chaired by Mira Käkönen and Markus Kröger

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Room 4050

15:20 – 15:45 Coffee and afternoon snack
15:45 – 16:45

Event: Working groups Session 2

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, rooms 3006-4048 (see the working group program)

16:45 – 18:00

Event: Plenary Session 4 - Performative Lecture Spectacle

Hanna-Kaisa Tiainen: Another Center: Academia Chaired by Sophia Hagolani-Albov

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Room 4050

18:00 – 20:00

Event: Helsinki University Reception

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Lobby/Room 4050

Day 3 - Friday, August 17

8:30 – 9:15

Event: Registration Table Open

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Lobby

9:15 – 10:15

Event: Plenary Session 5

Panel Discussion: Global forestry extractivism: current tendencies, local conflicts, and the role of Finnish corporations

Speakers: Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Markus Kröger, Teivo Teivainen, and Javier Taks Chaired by Larry Lohmann

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Room 4050

10:15 – 10:40 Coffee
10:40 – 12:00

Event: Working groups Session 3

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, rooms 3006-4048 (see the working group program)

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

Location: Bank (Unioninkatu 20, 00130 Helsinki)

13:00 – 14:30

Event: Working groups Session 4

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, rooms 3006-4048 (see the working group program)

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee and afternoon snack
15:00 – 16:15

Event: Plenary Session 6

Keynote Panel Discussion

Speakers: Jason Moore, Marisol de la Cadena, Andrej Grubacic, and Marjolein Visser Chaired by Barry Gills

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Room 4050

16:15 – 17:15

Event: Fishbowl and conference closing

Chaired by Sophia Hagolani-Albov

Location: Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor - Room 4050

17:30 – 18:30

Event: World Political City Walk

Guide: Teivo Teivainen

Location: Around the city centre (meet in Senate Square, walk towards the conference dinner venue)

19:00 – 22:00

Event: Conference Dinner at the waste-food restaurant Loop (separate registration)

Location: Lapinlahdenpolku 8, 00101

20:00 – 22:00

Possibility to take sauna at Lähteen Sauna

Location: Lapinlahdenpolku 1, 00101

Day 4 - Saturday, August 18

11:45 –>

Optional post-conference event:

Excursion to Lonna Island (separate registration)

Location: Meeting at the Market Square ferry port (ferry leaves at 12 pm)

The schedule is tentative and could still change.