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Wednesday, 16 February
09:00–12:00 Master’s Workshop
Conveners: Tuija Veintie, Saana Hokkanen, Omotomilola Ikotun
Coordinator: Meeri Tiensuu
Venue: Online
13:30–16:30 DocShop 2022: The arts of academic publishing
Convener: Prof. Anja Nygren,
Speakers: Prof. Timothy Oakes, Assoc Prof. Nikhil Anand
Venue: University of Helsinki & online (hybrid format)
Co-organised by UniPID, FSDR and PSRC Doctoral Programme, University of Helsinki
Thursday, 17 February
09:30–10:00 Opening plenary session
- Welcoming words and opening speech: Dr. Ilona Steiler and Dr. Mira Käkönen
- Artistic performance: Sanna Komi
10:00–10:50 Keynote I: Prof. Timothy Oakes
‘Cities just out of reach: infrastructures of post-urbanism in China’
- 10:50–11:00 Commentator: Dr. Phill Wilcox
- 11:00–11:20 Q & A, Open discussion
- Session chair: Dr. Mira Käkönen
11:20–13:00 Lunch break
13:00–14:30 Parallel sessions I (Working groups and panels)
- WG 1: The Encroachments of Big Tech and Datafication: Extractivism and Resistance, 1st session (Online)
- WG 2: Urban infrastructure as key to achieving SDG 11: conditions, experiences and perspectives from the Global South, 1st session (Hybrid)
- WG 4: Energy systems in the colonial continuum: decolonizing energy research in sub-Saharan Africa (Online)
- WG 8: Infrastructuring environments and the politics of vulnerability, 1st session (Hybrid)
- WG 16/Roundtable: No peace without development – No development without peace (Online)
- Special Panel: Development and Infrastructures in Academy Programme DEVELOP (Online)
14:30–15:00 Break
15:00–15:50 Keynote II: Prof. Tania Li
‘Infrastructural Violence in Indonesia’s Oil-Palm Plantation Zone’
- 15:50–16:00 Commentator: Prof. Anja Nygren
- 16:00-16:20 Q & A / Open discussion
- Session chair: Dr. Tuomas Tammisto
16:20–16:30 Break
16:30–18:00 Parallel sessions II
- WG 5: Forests, politics and the infrastructures of inequality, 1st session (Online)
- WG 9: What do we do with the Master’s Tools – Is European Union Environmental Policy Ready to Decolonize? (Online)
- WG 14: New, critical research on global development (open theme), 1st session (Online)
- UniPID Roundtable: Infrastructures of research: Towards equitable and responsible north-south collaborations (Online)
- Book Launch: Responsibilization in Natural Resource Governance (Online)
18:15– World Political/Global Development City Walk: Hosted by Prof. Teivo Teivainen
Friday, 18 February
09:00–09:50 Keynote III: Assoc Prof. Nikhil Anand
’Infrastructuring the Sea‘
- 09:50–10:00 Commentator: Dr. Marjaana Jauhola
- 10:00–10:20 Q & A / Open discussion
- Session chair: Dr. Ilona Steiler
10:20–10:40 Plenary session: UniPID-FSDR MA Award
UniPID-FSDR: Development Research MA Award presented by Dr. Liisa Laakso and a short speech by the winner of the Development Research MA Award
10:40–11:00 Break
11:00–12:30 Parallel sessions III
- WG1: The Encroachments of Big Tech and Datafication: Extractivism and Resistance, 2nd session (Online)
- WG 2: Urban infrastructure as key to achieving SDG 11: conditions, experiences and perspectives from the Global South, 2nd session (Hybrid)
- WG 3: Sites of despair – sites of care: feminist analyses of global supply chains as transformative practice in development? (Hybrid)
- WG 7: Social and ecological responsibility of digital technology (Hybrid)
- WG 8: Infrastructuring environments and the politics of vulnerability, 2nd session (Hybrid)
- WG 12: Putting the win-win narrative to test: Vulnerabilities and power relations in China’s engagement in the global south, 1st session (Online)
- WG 14: New, critical research on global development (Open theme), 2nd session (Online)
12:30–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–15:30 Parallel sessions IV
- WG 5: Forests, politics and the infrastructures of inequality, 2nd session (Online)
- WG 8: Infrastructuring environments and the politics of vulnerability, 3rd session (Hybrid)
- WG 12: Putting the win-win narrative to test: Vulnerabilities and power relations in China’s engagement in the global south, 2nd session (Online)
- WG 14: New, critical research on global development (Open theme), 3rd session (Online)
- WG 15: Exploring our moment: Issues in science and technology of energy and climate (Online)
- UniPID Workshop: Infrastructures of research: Towards equitable and responsible north-south collaborations, 2nd session (Online)
15:30–15:45 Break
15:45–16:55 Final plenary session:
- Panel discussion with Prof. Tania Li, Prof. Timothy Oakes, and Assoc Prof. Nikhil Anand, chaired by Dr. Alexander Dunlap
- Closing ceremony
17:30– Informal get-together in Juttutupa