Thu 26.2.2026
Conference Day 1
13:00–14:30 Working Groups I
WG20, hybrid – Experiences from the DEVELOP2 Academy Programme, Session 1/1, Small Festive Hall (F4050)
WG14, hybrid – Re-imagining Futures from the Edges: Epistemologies and Experiences of Sustainability and Resistance Otherwise, Session 1/3, Room F3020
WG13, hybrid – Supporting Environmental Defenders to Advance Environmental and Social Justice, Session 1/3, Room U3039
WG9, hybrid – Extractivism, Recognition, and Responsibility: The Search for More Just Futures, Session 1/3, Room U4072
WG15, hybrid – Shifting Foundations for Civic Space and Expanding Solidarity: Learning, Care, and Collective Agency Beyond Development Session, Session 1/1, Room U4078
WG2, hybrid – The Entanglement of Gen Z, Democracy and Geopolitics in the Global South, Session 1/1, Room 307 (Language Centre)
WG4, online – Sites of Ruins, Sites of Hope: (Re)Thinking Building Infrastructures in the Precarious Present, Session 1/1, Zoom videoconference*
15:00–16:30 Working Groups II
WG6, hybrid – Philosophical and Spiritual Practices for Sustainability Transformations: Cultivating Inner Wisdom, Embodying Change, Session 1/2, Small Festive Hall (F4050)
WG14, hybrid – Re-imagining Futures from the Edges: Epistemologies and Experiences of Sustainability and Resistance Otherwise, Session 2/3, Room F3020
WG13, hybrid – Supporting Environmental Defenders to Advance Environmental and Social Justice, Session 2/3, Room U3039
WG9, hybrid – Extractivism, Recognition, and Responsibility: The Search for More Just Futures, Session 2/3, Room U4072
WG10, hybrid – Planting Promises: Money, Myths, and the Realities of Global Tree Planting and Ecological Restoration, Session 1/2, Room U4078
WG11, online – Reawakening Consciousness: Pedagogies of Hope and Participatory Learning for Transformative Futures, Session 1/6, Zoom videoconference*
WG11, online – Reawakening Consciousness: Pedagogies of Hope and Participatory Learning for Transformative Futures, Session 2/6, Zoom videoconference*
WG12, online – Methodology as a Tool for Resistance and Hope, Session 1/1, Zoom videoconference*
16:30–18:00 Working Groups III
WG6, hybrid – Philosophical and Spiritual Practices for Sustainability Transformations: Cultivating Inner Wisdom, Embodying Change, Session 2/2, Small Festive Hall (F4050)
WG14, hybrid – Re-imagining Futures from the Edges: Epistemologies and Experiences of Sustainability and Resistance Otherwise, Session 3/3, Room F3020
WG13, hybrid – Supporting Environmental Defenders to Advance Environmental and Social Justice, Session 3/3, Room U3039
WG9, hybrid – Extractivism, Recognition, and Responsibility: The Search for More Just Futures, Session 3/3, Room U4072
WG10, hybrid – Planting Promises: Money, Myths, and the Realities of Global Tree Planting and Ecological Restoration, Session 2/2, Room U4078
WG11, online – Reawakening Consciousness: Pedagogies of Hope and Participatory Learning for Transformative Futures, Session 3/6, Zoom videoconference*
WG11, online – Reawakening Consciousness: Pedagogies of Hope and Participatory Learning for Transformative Futures, Session 4/6, Zoom videoconference*
Fri 27.2.2025
Conference Day 2
12:15–13:45 Working Groups IV
WG19, onsite – How to Stand with Sudan: Transnational Solidarity in Academia and Beyond, Small Festive Hall (F4050)
WG21, hybrid – Perspectives from African-based Research: The Nordic Africa Institute’s Visiting Scholar’s Programme, Session 1/2, Tekla Hultin (F3003)
WG5, hybrid – Pedagogy of Resistance: Social Movements, Popular Education, and Transformative Learning, Session 1/2, Room, U3039
WG7, onsite – From Crises to Just Sustainable Futures: Reimagining the ‘Ecotopia’ in Socio-Ecological Systems, Session 1/2, Room, U4062
WG1, onsite – Nurturing Hope and Resistance in the Ruins, Room U4072
WG8, onsite – Governing in the Ruins of Green Development: Neoliberal and/or Authoritarian Sustainability and the Cracks of Everyday Ecologies, Session 1/2, Room F3020
WG18, hybrid – The Political Economy of the Green–Digital Transition, Session 1/2, Room 105 (Language Centre)
WG11, online – Reawakening Consciousness: Pedagogies of Hope and Participatory Learning for Transformative Futures, Session 5/6, Zoom videoconference*
14:15–15:45 Working Groups V
WG16, hybrid – Reimagining Political Participation in an Age of Geopolitics: Southern Experiences, Session 1/1, Small Festive Hall (F4050)
WG21, hybrid – Perspectives from African-based Research: The Nordic Africa Institute’s Visiting Scholar’s Programme, Session 2/2, Tekla Hultin (F3003)
WG5, hybrid – Pedagogy of Resistance: Social Movements, Popular Education, and Transformative Learning, Session 2/2, Room U3039
WG7, onsite – From Crises to Just Sustainable Futures: Reimagining the ‘Ecotopia’ in Socio-Ecological Systems, Session 2/2, Room U4062
WG3, onsite – Intergenerational Hope in Sparsely Populated Regions, Session 1/1, Room U4072
WG8, onsite – Governing in the Ruins of Green Development: Neoliberal and/or Authoritarian Sustainability and the Cracks of Everyday Ecologies, Session 2/2, Room F3020
WG18, hybrid – The Political Economy of the Green–Digital Transition, Session 2/2, Room 105 (Language Centre)
WG11, online – Reawakening Consciousness: Pedagogies of Hope and Participatory Learning for Transformative Futures, Session 6/6, Zoom videoconference*
(*) Language Centre rooms 403 and 144 (Thu) and room 144 (Fri) may be used as optional Zoom hubs for onsite participants. Online sessions are held fully on Zoom; these rooms are not additional session venues, but provide a place to sit and connect.