Tuesday 14th of May
8:50-9:20 Registration and Coffee
9:20-9:30 Opening remarks
9:30-11:00 Session 1
- Sayan Bhattacharyya - Time and Indian Environmental Ethics in The Overstory
- Julia Rijssenbeek - Exploring human-nature-technology relationships through dance
- Tom Hannes - Non-axial Buddhist inspiration for an Anthropocene ontology
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Session 2
- Laÿna Droz - Ecological emotions: Living through multispecies worlds
- Lorenzo Marinucci - Aloeswood as trans-species and trans-cultural communication
- Marc Calmeyn - The nature of Ubuntu is connection with the Environment
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Keynote Lecture
- Meera Baindur, TA Pai Management Institute - Beings of the earth: nature as experience in Indian philosophy
15:00-15:10 Break
15:10-16:10 Session 3
- Priscilla Van Even - The Catch-22 of logocentrism and expressing the Eternal Dao
- Elif Hant - Seascapes as Vital Aphorisms: Voices in Wet Knowledge
16:10-16:25 Break
16:25-17:25 Session 4
- Matthias Kramm - Blind spots of Western frameworks of environmental justice: A critique from the perspective of Indigenous relational ontologies
- Pablo Fernandez Velasco (and Anna Gleizer) - An analysis of the navigational culture of Evenki reindeer herders and hunters
18:30-20:30 Panel Session with Vandana Shiva (Registered guests only)
Wednesday 15th of May
9:30-11:00 Session 5
- Linde de Vroey and Ceit Langhorne - Uncovering the Otherworld: Rewilding and cultural revitalisation in the Scottish Highlands
- Brian Steer - Reflections on the self: Re-imagining our cultural conception of being
- Godfrey Tangwa - Rethinking the Essence of our Humanity from the Perspective of African Cultures
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Keynote Lecture
- Eiko Honda, Aarhus University - Multispecies Entanglement in Intellectual History: Queer Nature and Minakata Kumagusu in Modern Japan
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:15 Session 6
- CP Hertogh - Turn to Butterfly Dream— Zhuangzi's Thought Experiments and Animal Consciousness
- Sarah Foster - Kawsak Sacha and Practices of More-than-Human Relationship Building
14:15-14:30 Break
14:30-15:30 Session 7
- Emma Varini - Unsettling Care: Women, Relationality, and Nature
- Taye Birhanu Taressa - The Role of Indigenous Environmental Ethics of the Oromo People of Ethiopia in Sustainable Development.
15:30-15:45 Break
15:45-16:45 Session 8
- Monday O. IYOHA and Peter A. ABOLOJE - Sacred Sites and Biodiversity Preservation In Nigeria
- Olusegun Steven Samuel - On Conserving the Environment
16:45-17:15 Exhibit
- Christina Stadlbauer - Nature, Biodiversity, and Food in Assam, India
17:15-17:30 Closing remarks