Deadline for registration: Friday October 27th (midnight)

Civil society movements and scholarship have long influenced each other in fruitful ways. In recent decades, dialogues between activists and scholars in the humanities and the social sciences have resulted in important innovations in fields such as gender studies, postcolonial studies, migration, or social movement studies. This event resumes this tradition in order to develop conceptual approaches and practical engagements for the Environmental Humanities (EH) and for climate action and green transition more broadly. The coming transformation of our economic models and material environments calls out for collaborations across civil society, the environmental humanities, 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.  

Organizers: Aalborg University, Centre for Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University & Roskilde Universitet.

Supported by: Green Societies & Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond.