Conference program

The times are indicated in time zone UTC+3.

For more detailed information about the parallel sessions please visit the conference tracks page.

13:30-14:00 - Opening Words: Barry Gills

14:00-15:15 - Plenary Talk: Andréa Zhouri

15:15-15:45 - BREAK

15:45-17:00 - Parallel Session 1

• Track 1: Global Ex­tract­iv­isms. Theme: Intersectional dynamics.
• Track 2: Indigenous Sov­er­eignty, Mod­ern­ity pro­jects and Al­tern­at­ives. Theme: Indigenous onto-epistemologies and cosmovisions.
• Track 5: Trans­itions to Al­tern­at­ives. Theme: Activism, artistic performances and radical transformations.

17:15-18:30 - Plenary Talk: Robin Broad and John Cavanagh

08:45-09:00 - Opening Words

09:00-10:15 - Plenary Talk: Lochner Marais 

10:15-10:45 - BREAK

10:45-12:00 - Parallel Session 2

• Track 1: Global Ex­tract­iv­isms. Theme: Energy.
• Track 4: Ex­pand­ing Extractivisms – Big Data, Fin­an­cial­iz­a­tion, and In­tel­lec­tual Extractivisms
• Track 5: Trans­itions to Al­tern­at­ives. Theme: Extractivisms and their entanglements with alternatives.

• Track 6: Diverse perspectives on extractivisms and alternatives.

12:00-13:00 - BREAK

13:00-14:15 - Parallel Session 3

• Track 1: Global Ex­tract­iv­isms. Theme: Contestations.
• Track 2: Indigenous Sov­er­eignty, Mod­ern­ity pro­jects and Al­tern­at­ives. Theme: Indigenous resistance to extractivism.

• Track 5: Trans­itions to Al­tern­at­ives. Theme: Transitions to alternatives.

• Track 6: Diverse perspectives on extractivisms and alternatives.

14:15-14:45 - BREAK

14:45-16:00 - Parallel Session 4

• Track 1: Global Ex­tract­iv­isms. Theme: Agrarian & forestry extractivisms.
• Track 6: Diverse perspectives on extractivisms and alternatives.

16:00-16:15 - BREAK

16:15-17:15 - Artistic Intervention: Documentary called ‘Arena’ with Inge-Merete Hougaard.

10:45-11:00 - Opening Words

11:00-12:15  - Parallel Session 5

• Track 1: Global Ex­tract­iv­isms. Theme: Global extractivism.
• Track 3: Urban­ity and Ex­tract­iv­isms.

• Track 6: Diverse perspectives on extractivisms and alternatives.

12:15-13:15 - BREAK

13:15-14:30 - Parallel Session 6

• Track 1: Global Ex­tract­iv­isms. Theme: Mining.
• Track 3: Urban­ity and Ex­tract­iv­isms (The starting time for Track 3's Parallalel session 6 has changed! This session will start at 13:40 and continue until 14:55)
• Track 6: Diverse perspectives on extractivisms and alternatives.

14:30-15:00 - BREAK

15:00-16:15 - Plenary Talk: Deborah McGregor

16:20-17:15 - Artistic Intervention: mirko nikolić's water is (non)life: after empire

17:15-17:45 - Conference Closing