This is a preliminary schedule and subject to change. This page will continue to updated as we get closer to the conference dates. If you are interested to register as an attendee to the conference, please register using this e-form. The deadline to register for for onsite registration is April 22, 2025. Please note that there is a limit on the number of onsite audience participants – so do not delay if you would like to join us onsite. The deadline to register for online participation is May 5, 2025.
All conference events will take place on the University of Helsinki, City Centre Campus in the Language Center at Fabianinkatu 26, exact rooms will be announced closer to the conference date.
May 6, 2025 – Just GLOBE Day (Pre-Conference)
9:00-9:15 Welcome & Intro to Just GLOBE Project
9:15-10:45 Environmental Justice, Extractivism, and Coloniality
- Moderator – Lawrence Damnyag, FORIG, Ghana
- Speakers
- Markus Kröger, University of Helsinki – Extractivism in the web of life
- Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen, Natural Resources Institute Finland – A decolonial environmental justice (DEJ) – development of a framework and its application in forest land restoration context
- Eric Mensah Kumeh, University of Oxford – Environmental injustice and green extractivism in the APSD case of bioeconomy and green transition in Ghana
- Frank Kwaku Agyei, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Ghana – How the state justice system institutionalizes injustice: The case of the Agogo Farmer-Herder Conflict
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Environmental Justice (EJ) and Care Work
- Moderator: Eeva Houtbeckers, University of Eastern Finland
- Speakers
- Stefania Barca, University of Santiago de Compostela/CISPAC – Earthcare as labour (Online)
- Violeta Gutiérrez Zamora, Natural Resources Institute Finland – Ecological care and reproductive labor in the crafting of bamboo value chains and the implications for the EJ field
- Timnoy Salitxay, Souphanouvong University, Business Incubation Center – Plant science research for a just rural development
- Phong An Huynh, GRET Laos – Development work on the ground
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Transformations in the EU’s External Forest Policy & Governance
- Moderator to be announced
- Speakers
- Sabaheta Ramcilovic-Suominen, Natural Resources Institute Finland – EU green transition as an obstacle for socioecological transformations: Deradicalizing degrowth, decoloniality and justice in the EU’s green politics
- Maria Backhouse, Augsburg University – Contradictions in the EU’s Decarbonization Strategy in a Global Context: Insights from Brazil
- Toni Haastrup, University of Manchester – EU, feminist foreign policies and transformations
- Constance McDermott, University of Oxford – EU global forest governance – what is it transforming, and for whom?
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-18:00 – Science Policy Interface Session
Opening presentation – Resisting technocracy in science advice to policy: a case study within the European Commission –Jacopo Giuntoli (Independent Researcher Italy) and Ansel Renner (Independent Researcher, Spain)
Panel Discussion – Creating space for multispecies (MSJ) & more-than-human (MTH) Science-Policy Interface (SPI)
- Moderator: Irmeli Mustalahti, University of Eastern Finland
- Speakers
- Ghana and Lao partners – Academics and practitioners in research and development
- Emmanuel Acheampong, Professor, KNUST University, Kumasi, Ghana
- Phong An Huynh, Practitioner, GRET, NGO Development sector
- Lawrence Damnyag, Principal Scientist, Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG)
- EU based – Academics and practitioners in research and development
- Jacopo Giuntoli, Independent & consultant for the European Commission’s Joint Research Center
- Tiina Huvio, Executive Director, Finnish Agri-Agency for Food and Forest Development (ffD)
- Juha Hiedanpää, Research Professor, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
- Ghana and Lao partners – Academics and practitioners in research and development
May 7, 2025 – Just GLOBE Conference
9:00-10:30 First Keynote Session (more information about our keynote speakers)
- Danielle (Dany) Celermajer, Sydney Environment Institute
- David Schlosberg, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:30 First Set of Parallel Sessions (Sessions A and B)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:15 Second Set of Parallel Sessions (Session C and D)
15:15-15:45 Break
15:45-17:00 Second Keynote Session (more information about our keynote speakers)
- Christoper Raymond, University of Helsinki
Hanna Guttorm, University of Helsinki(Cancelled due to personal reasons)
17:00-17:15 Conference Wrap Up
18:00-??? Post Conference Socializing (more information to be announced)
