Tuesday, December 16th
10:30 – 12:00: CO3 Roundtable “Social Contracts in Times of the Anthropocene – Thinking beyond Crisis”
Rui F. Carvalho (University of Coimbra)
Emilia Palonen (University of Helsinki)
Anna Björk (Demos Helsinki)
Pınar Uyan-Semerci (İstanbul Bilgi University)
Ana Matan (Zagreb University)
13:00 – 14:00: Keynote 1
Hannah Richter (University of Sussex) “Re-imagining Solidarity for the Anthropocene”
14:15 – 16:00: Panel 1 – Conceptualising the Anthropocene
Christiane Kuller (University of Erfurt): Does the Anthropocene have a History? Historical Research in the Age of the Anthropocene
Matthias Klemm (Fulda University of Applied Sciences): Anthropocene or Societoocene?
Jamal Ali Bashir (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg): No Outside Left: Modernity, Externalities, and the Anthropocene
Kari Palonen (University of Jyväskylä): The Anthropocene Language: A Sign of Politicisation
Claudia Wiesner (Fulda University of Applied Sciences): Challenges to social contracts in times of the Anthropocene
16:30 – 18:15: Panel 2 – Social Contracts in the Anthropocene
Nathanaël Colin-Jaeger (Université Catholique de Lille): Accounting for Past Inequalities: Assessing the Fair Baseline for Dynamic Contracting
Christina Fischer (Fulda University of Applied Sciences): Eroding Solidarity: Ritual Disintegration and the Fragility of Democracy and Social Contracts
Andrea Klinger (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg): Sentimental Populism in France’s Presidential Campaigns: Affective Polarization and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the Anthropocene
Theresa Reinold (EDHEC Business School Nice): Social contract theory and multinational corporations in the age of the Anthropocene: Who’s sovereign now?
Emilia Palonen (University of Helsinki): From politics of Climate in 2019 to Polycrisis in 2024: a comparative study of the European Parliamentary Elections
18:30 – 19:30: Roundtable “Adaptive Governance in the Anthropocene”
Pol Bargués (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
David Chandler (University of Westminster)
Jessica Schmidt (Fulda University of Applied Sciences)
Wednesday, December 17th
09:00 – 10:00: Keynote 2
Elisa Randazzo (University College London) “Hope, Wonder and Futurity in the Anthropocene”
10:15 – 12:00: Panel 3 – Thinking Democracy in the Anthropocene - Ontological and Epistemological Perspectives
Jessica Schmidt (Fulda University of Applied Sciences): Liberal awakening and critical redemption: Mapping the crisis discourse of democracy in Anthropocenic times
David Chandler (University of Westminster): After Representation? The Anthropocene and the politicization of everyday life
Julia Feine (Stockholm University): Eco-political Responses to the Crisis of Democracy: A Critical Fantasy Studies Approach to the Anthropocene
Caroline von Taysen (University of Westminster): Democracy in the Anthropocene - an Irresolvable Dilemma?
Emre Erdoğan and Pınar Uyan-Semerci (İstanbul Bilgi University): Thinking Beyond Crisis: Post-truth and Information Disorders for Rethinking Social Contracts and Democrac
13:00 – 14:30: Panel 4 – New Conceptions of Democracy in the Anthropocene
Manish Dutta (University of Bremen): A critical re-imagining of democracy: Postcolonialism in democratic practices in the age of the Anthropocene
Jan Groos (Kiel University): Alternative Environmentality - Three Provocations for Democratic planning in the Anthropocene
Ana Matan (Zagreb University): The Rest is Politics: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Democratic Innovations in the Anthropocene
Hagen Schölzel (University of Erfurt): Gardening democratic practices
15:00 – 16:45: Panel 5 – Rethinking Democratic Governance in the Anthropocene
Pol Bargués (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs): Peace in the Anthropocene
Niilo Kauppi (University of Helsinki): A paradigm shift in democratic governance? The OECD and the governance of the future
Igor Rogelja (University College London): The Anthropocene lag: extraction and democracy Southeast Europe
Tom Scheunemann (Fulda University of Applied Sciences): Fatal Forests - Forestry's Afterlife in the Anthropocene
Petteri Repo (University of Helsinki): AI and the Anthropocene – LLMs as Knowledge Producers
17:15 – 18:45: Panel 6 – A New Ecosocial Contract?
Nandor Knust (Fulda University of Applied Sciences) and Rosamunde Elise Van Brakel (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): The Ecosocial Contract and the Crime of Ecocide
Elvis Ngandwe (Fulda University of Applied Sciences): Recasting Social Contracts in Motion: Regional Integration, Refugee Protection, and Democratic Governance in the Anthropocene (The East African Community as a Lens)
Cornelia Frings (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz): Distributive Justice in the governance of water resources in the Anthropocene
Rui F. Carvalho (University of Coimbra): Visions of the Ecosocial Contract in Europe (and beyond): Theories and Policies to Confront the Polycrisis
