10:00-10:45

Registration

10.45-11.00

Welcome

11:00-12:30

Keynote 1: Dorothee Brantz (Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin) / Title TBC

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Panel 1: Landscapes of Welfare and Austerity

·       Anders Blok (University of Copenhagen): “The place of green engagement: comparing civic scene-styles of urban natures across Danish cities.”

·       Amalia Engström (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences): “Urban natures and urban densities.”

·       Anette Gravgaard Christensen (University of Copenhagen): ”Public co-production of urban greenspace: a space for civic action?”

·       Mattias Qviström (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences): ”The nature of welfare planning.”

·       Lisa Larsson (Uppsala University): “Changing spaces of social reproduction: placing and displacing urban natures.”

15:00-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-17:15

Panel 2: Administering Urban Environments: Scales, Units, and Heuristics

·       Mark Usher (University of Manchester): “Nature’s infrastructural turn: instrumentalizing and financializing trees in Greater Manchester.”

·       Nina Toudal Jessen (University of Copenhagen): “Seeing the municipal through the lens of waste management.”

·       Marion Ernwein (University of Oxford): “Austerity and the “becoming third sector” of municipal services: reshaping the local state, urban ecologies, and environmental volunteers.”

·       Katrina Wiberg (Aarhus School of Architecture): “Catchment neighbourhoods in the urban landscapes of the Anthropocene: connecting municipal planning levels through a landscape-strategic approach.”

17:15-18:00

Drinks

18:30

Conference Dinner

9.00-10.30

Panel 3: Infrastructures, Flows and Water

·       Heather Swanson (Aarhus University) & Pierrre Du Plessis (Aarhus University): “Water in Aarhus and Cape Town.”

·       Mikkel Thelle (Aarhus University) & Mikkel Høghøj (Aarhus University): “Entangled fluid cities.”

·       Seth Gustafson (University College London): ”Cities and the eel: urban political ecology, metabolic flows, and the European eel across the longue durée.”

·       Jenia Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur): “Beyond the ‘municipal’: exploring municipal-local interactions in wastewater provision surrounding Kolkata and her wetlands.”

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-12:15

Keynote 2: Anne Rademacher (Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Anthropology, New York University) / Title TBC

12:15-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:30

Panel 4: Contested Spaces

·       Anders Lund Hansen (Lund University/Aarhus University) & Mads Barbesgaard (Lund University): “Governing planetary urbanization.”

·       Facundo Rivarola (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies): “Who gives voice to the Paraguayan River? Urban socio-ecological conflicts in Asuncio?n.”

·       Erik Jönsson (Uppsala University): ”The hard work of turning an urban periphery into city centre: troubling fringe zone natures in Norra Sorgenfri, Malmö.”

·       Megan Maurer (Columbia University): “Making trees infrastructure: stewardship, neoliberal governance, and contested ecologies in New York City.”

14:30-15:00

Coffee break

15:00-16:30

Panel 5. The Politics of Data, Evidence, and Experience

·       Pollyanna Rhee (University of Illinois): “Engineering an ideal urbanity: technology, democracy, and urban planning in the United States.”

·       Andreas Brandt (Aarhus University) & Maja Bruun (Aarhus University): “Infrastructure disconnect: resilient citizenship and self-governance.”

·       Melissa Zackon (University of Cape Town): “A critical examination of governance, competing sciences and their role in creating evidence through Cape Towns’ marine effluent outfalls.”

·       Agata Marzecova (Tallinn University) & Hanna Husberg (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna): “And then came this number PM?2.5:? new imaginaries and algorithmic politics of urban air.”

16:30-16:45

Wrapping Up