PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Panels: only for invited participants - online livestream available (see above)
Special Public Event on Thursday, 9 October: please register (see above)
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
09:00am–09:30am
Welcome & Coffee
at Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability” --> Gorch-Fock-Wall 3, 20354 Hamburg
09:30am–10:15am
Introduction
Michelle Bastian (Edinburgh)
10:15am–10:30am
Coffee Break
(all our food & drink offerings include vegan options)
10:30am–12:00pm
Crisis, Rupture & Transformation — Chair: Cassiopea Staudacher (Futures of Sustainability)
Felix Fink (Lüneburg): Temporalities of Crises: Towards a Genealogy of Intergenerational Justice in Economic Thought
Pia Geisemann (Hamburg): Crisis? What Crisis? The Contestation of Urgency in Creeping Crisis
Anna Fünfgeld (Hamburg): If I can’t dance, it’s not my transformation! – Lessons for Transition and Transformation Studies from Anarchist Practices and Future
12:00pm–1:30pm
Lunch: Catering on-site
1:30pm–03:00pm
Green Capital, Colonial Continuities: Justice Delayed in Climate Finance and Development — Chair: Lea Kammler (Futures of Sustainability)
Johanna Tunn (Wien): The violence of delay — Climate Finance Access and Literacy in Vanuatu
Venansius Haryanto (Bonn): “Sustainability by Dispossession”: Green Development Frontier Assemblage and Local Resistance in Flores Island, Eastern Indonesia
Joshua Matanzima (Brisbane): Temporality and Justice in Mining Impacted Regions
3:00pm–3:30pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm–4:30pm
Struggles over Social-Ecological Justice — Chair: Lea Kammler (Futures of Sustainability)
Mirella De Falco (Rome): Contested Futures: Agrivoltaics, Energy Justice, and the Temporal Struggles of Renewable Transitions
Mayukh Sarkar (Roorkee): Caste, Time and Ecological Justice: Examining Resource Politics in the Forests of Jaunsar-Bawar Region of India’s Central Himalayas
4:30pm
Voluntary Group Walk to the Harbor
5:15pm
Harbor Cruise
Going Against the Current — A Harbor Tour on Energy Policy
--> Landungsbrücken, Vorsetzen 31, 20459 Hamburg
(look for the Barkassen-Centrale Ehlers building)
7:30pm
Dinner
at Amargi
--> Gängeviertel, Valentinskamp 34A, 20355 Hamburg
Thursday, 9 October 2025
08:30am–09:00am
Coffee
at Futures of Sustainability
09:00am–12:00pm
Methods for studying time, ecologies and justice
Workshop with Michelle Bastian (Edinburgh)
Please note: This workshop session will not be streamed.
12:00pm–1:30pm
Lunch: Catering on-site
1:30pm–3:15pm
Legal Temporalities and Social-Ecological Justice — Chair: Laura Affolter (Futures of Sustainability)
Martina Lasalle (Buenos Aires/Hamburg): Framing Environmental Justice in the Global South. A Sociological Approach to the Role of Justice Systems
Sola Kim (Arizona): Equal Justice, Unequal Air? Temporal Structural Injustice and Supreme Court Rulings on Environmental Regulation in American Federalism
Arinç Onat Kiliç (Antwerp): Financialization of Progress in International Environmental Law
3:15pm–3:30pm
Coffee Break
3:30pm–5:00pm
Infrastructural Time: Contested Temporalities in Forest, Water and Urban Governance — Chair: Macario Lacbawan (Futures of Sustainability)
Lotte Dijkstra (Newcastle): Urban Forest Time — An Intersectional Environmental Approach to Temporal Belonging in Urban Forests
Zali Fung (Lausanne): Who Shapes the Future of the River? The Contested Temporalities of a Long-Proposed Water Diversion Project in the Salween River Basin
Alejandro Mora Motta (Bonn): Is There a Future Beyond Extractivism? Environmental Justice in Between the Conflictual Temporalities of Hyper-Extractivism and Post-Extractivism
5:30pm
Apéritivo
6:00pm–8:00pm
Keynote by David Schlosberg (Sydney): Climate Turbulence, Justice, and Democratic Experimentation
Panel Discussion with
Fatim Selina Diaby (Berlin), independent feminist scholar and activist whose work bridges gender, security, migration, decoloniality and climate.Through poetry, activism, and scholarship she envisions collective presences & futures grounded in justice and resilience
Kübra Gümüşay (Hamburg), author of the bestselling book »Sprache und Sein« (»Speaking and Being) and founder of several award winning campaigns and organisations. She is host of the talk series »Utopia Talks« at Thalia Theater and »Widerstand & Leben« [»resistance & life«] at eeden. Her current research focuses on just futures, real utopias and the politics of imagination.
Christine Winter (Otago), senior lecturer in environmental, climate change, multispecies, and Indigenous politics. Her research critically engages with intergenerational and decolonial justice, particularly in the context of Māori philosophy and planetary justice
Christine Hentschel (Futures of Sustainability, Moderation)
8:00pm-9:00pm
Fingerfood Dinner: Catering on-site
Friday, 10 October 2025
8:30am–9:00am
Coffee
at Futures of Sustainability
9:00am–10:30am
Non-Human Temporalities of Justice — Chair: Philipp Jacobi (Futures of Sustainability)
Lucas Scheunpflug (Lüneburg): Fluid Urban Futures – A Theoretical Framework for Multiple and Just Water Assemblages in Times of Climate Change
Domenica Landin (Dundee): Meeting in your own terms: exploring epistemological letting be through artistic practice
10:30am–10:45am
Coffee Break
10:45am–12:15pm
Conflicting and Coordinating Multiple Temporalities — Chair: Juneseo Hwang (Futures of Sustainability)
Peter Schulz / Gesche Keding (Jena): The Time of Humans and the Necessity of Mediation
Fabian Krenz-Dewe (Berlin): The Future as a Battleground in the Climate Crisis: The Method of Chronoference-Analysis
Miriam Holst Jensen (Aalborg): What about Temporal Attachments? An Exploration into the Affective Aftermath of Temporal Disruptions
12:15pm–12:30pm
Closing Remarks
Laura Affolter, Lea Kammler & Cassiopea Staudacher (Futures of Sustainability)
12:30 pm
End of the conference and take-away lunch
