The Transnational Institute of Social Ecology (TRISE) is glad to announce the program of its next conference on 25th – 27th October 2024 in Athens, Greece!

Title: The Politics of Social Ecology: From Theory to Praxis

VENUES:

25/10 – Athens School (Char. Trikoupi 138)

26-27/10 – Law School of Athens (Solonos 57)

See below or download the PDF version

Program

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Friday 25th October

09.00 – 10.00 Conference Registration

10.00 – 11.00 Keynote Speaker 1
• Krini Kafiris – Sustainable organising and radical care for social ecological transformations

11.00 – 12.30 Panel Session 1: Knowledge production and social movements theory
Moderator: Krini Kafiris
• Federico Venturini – Social ecology and research approach: reflections towards a situated knowledge production
• Georgios Poulados – Social Movements: Theory and Praxis
• Girlwouthoutaruler – No pain no gain: an overwhelming utopia
• Emre Çetin Gürer – Prefigurative Politics: Past and Present

12.30 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.00 Panel Session 2: The economy and social movements praxis
Moderator: Georgios Poulados
• Bianca Griffani – How counter-hegemonic notions of economic and ecological sustainability are built ‘from below’, by engaging the criminalised practices and socialities of radical ‘outlaw’ farmers in late industrial Italy
• Leif Thomas Olsen – Taxes as Behavioural Incentives: A Tax Revolution to the Benefit of All
• Alexandros Schismenos – Digital commons and the informational structuring of democratic politics
• Emma Quayle, Miki Kashtan, and Selene Aswell – A Global Maternal Gift Economy as an Alternative to Global Capitalism

16.00 – 17.30 Panel Session 3: Lights and shadow of urbanism
Moderator: Federico Venturini
• Jere Kuzmanić – Urbanism as social ecology? Dweller Control and Anarchist Urbanism in the 20th Century
• Nikos Vrantsis – The hidden abode of the Green Transition
• Pijatta Heinonen – Direct democratic organization of space in the context of autonomous geographies

17.30 – 18.00 Break

18.00 – 19.00 Keynote Speaker 2
• Stavros Stavrides – Challenging capitalist urban order: in search of a noncapitalist future

19:00 – 19:30 Book Launches: Reclaiming Cities: Revolutionary Dimensions of Political Participation by Y. Tarinski; Greek publication of Communalism As Alternative by E. Eiglad; Acting Here And Now by F. Romero; Power to Create, Power to Destroy by F. Venturini, T. Rouhette, M. Isabella (eds.)

21.00 Movie Screening: Documentary about Rojava “Belkî Sibê” (and Q&A with the creator)

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Saturday 26th October

10.00 – 11.00 Keynote Speaker 3
• Floréal M. Romero – Movement and strategy for communalism today

11.00 – 12.30 Panel Session 4: Challenging social ecology and next steps
Moderator: Yavor Tarinski
• Michael Opielka – Communalism, Garantism, Social Ecology: The strategic function of social sustainability in the 21st century
• Federico Venturini – Social Ecology and waste: rethinking our mode of production and consumption
• Emma Quayle, Miki Kashtan, and Selene Aswell – Feminist Nonviolence as Liberation for All: The Power of the Soft Qualities to Transform Patriarchy

12.30 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.00 Panel Session 5: Decolonisation and social movements praxis
Moderator: Ines Morales Bernardos
• Katerina-Shelagh Boucoyannis – Community led & just energy transition as a response to extractivism: the case of Intag, Ecuador
• Sinead D’Silva – Youth community-led resistance against environmental degradation of infrastructure projects in Goa, India
• Alex Foti – From Internationalism in Socialism to Transnationalism in Climatism
• Matthew Tafoya – Native Nation Building: A decolonizing approach to improve the social ecology of an Indigenous community located within an American Indian concentration camp

16.00 – 17.30 Panel Session 6: The Kurdish question
Moderator: Elias Brown
• Azize Cay – A Feminist Approach to Challenging the Psychological Dimensions of Hierarchy (Micro-Hierarchies) : The Kurdish Movement’s Practices with Jineology and Tekmil
• Ebad Rouhi – Community-Based Environmental Governance: A Social Ecology Lens on International Legal Norms
• Anna Rebrii – Restorative Justice in Rojava: Communal Empowerment and Gender Equality

17.30 – 18.00 Break

18.00 – 19.00 Keynote Speaker 4
• Academy of Democratic Modernity – Democracy and self-management

21.00 Party at the social space of TRISE (at Kolokotroni 31)

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Sunday 27th October

10.00 – 11.00 Keynote Speaker 5
• Ana Méndez de Andés – Municipalism as an ecology of practices

11.00 – 12.30 Panel Session 7: Taking decisions for a direct democracy
Moderator: Theo Rouhette
• Leif Thomas Olsen – The Citizen Lobby
• Theodoros Karyotis – Are we learning from defeat? Or, why is there no municipalist movement in Greece?
• Zdravko Saveski – The Largely Ignored Possibility of a Large-Scale Direct Democracy
• Yavor Tarinski – Internationalism and the universal sentiment towards direct democracy

12.30 – 14.30 Lunch

14.30 – 16.00 Panel Session 8: Communities and social movements praxis
Moderator: Stavros Stavrides
• Emet Değirmenci – Edge effects: Resiliency and Struggle in Antioch after 2023 Earthquake
• Orestes Kolokouris – Towards a participative protection of Commons: methods and limits
• Ewan Jenkins – Camp Communalism: Prefiguring the Ecological Commune
• Jennifer Eva Pillau – Hearth to Hearth: A Resilient Future will be Matriarchal

16.00 – 17.30 Panel Session 9: Nature, the rural and social movements praxis
Moderator: Emet Değirmenci
• Christos Kotakis – A cooperative plant lab for research and development in a rural zone, as an anti-example of social anarchism
• Elias Casanovas Adrián – The village’s herd model: The emergence of pastoralism as a tool for integrated landscape management
• Zuzanna Ludzik – Adapting forest gardening for urban settings
• Olivia Chandler – From Eco-Utopia to Reality: Building a Praxis of Social Ecology

17.30 – 18.00 Break

18.00 – 19.00 Keynote Speaker 6
• Natalia Mamonova – The war in Ukraine and the failure of neoliberal agriculture: What can and cannot be done?

19.00 – 19.15 Conference Closure

Source : https://trise.org/2024/10/12/trise-conference-program/