The Research Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities: Transformative Engagements Between Academia and Civil Society invites scholars, civil society organizations, designers, tech developers, activists, and others labouring at the interface between knowledge work and action in climate, environment, and justice issues to participate in their final annual event: Transformative Connections: Building Diverse Relations for a Just Green Transition.

For the full call, submission link, and contact details, see this link.

Time: 2-3 November, 2023
Location: Aalborg University, Copenhagen Campus
A. C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 København SV
Organizers: The Research Network for Global Justice and the Environmental Humanities

Open call for participants

The coming transformation of our economic models and material environments calls out for collaborations across civil society, the environmental humanities (EH), engineering, designers and tech developers to develop analytical tools, new knowledge practices, and the design and building of environments and technologies for life. Aiming to probe and redefine boundaries between scholarship and civil society, and to generate new modes of collaboration between and beyond the environmental humanities this event gathers and connects scholars with designers, artists, civil society organizations through a meeting that explores building diverse relations for a just green transition.  

With this year's meeting, we intend to bring together scholarly and activist experiences that speak from different backgrounds or that crisscross the boundaries of North and South. The meeting will feature scholars and activists reflecting multiple approaches to questions of justice linked to their situated and specific contexts. It will follow dialogue-table format alongside more experimental forms of participation such as walks and transformative design challenges. We thus encourage proposals for innovative formats, interactive events, and multimedia presentations, alongside more traditional academic talks, papers, and roundtable discussions. Overall, we solicit diverse kinds of contributions that address the conference’s themes and topics as they also promote cross-boundary scholarly and societal engagement.

We invite participants to engage with these questions:

• How can the environmental humanities and civil society collaborate in the promotion of transformations towards a “greener” and environmentally just future that favour social, cultural and political diversity? 
• What kind of connections can we foster to develop models of and for positive change?
• What practical initiatives can we build to bridge the gap between knowledge and action in climate, environment, and justice issues?
• What tools are missing to help build diverse relations for a just green transition?

Submission details

To participate, please submit a description of a dilemma/design/issue/intervention that you work with (150-200 words) through this site no later than Friday, the 22nd of November 2023. 

Participants will be notified on the 29th of September for acceptance.

Funding

Funding available for activists, indigenous, and global south participants, and scholars without an academic post. Please indicate in your submission if you require funding.