Friday, 17th of November 2017
5pm – 8pm
The opening evening highlights the challenges of current socio-ecological transformations and opens the debate with a polylog between practitioners, social scientists and a representative of the private sector working promoting/working with green energy.
5pm – 5:30pm: opening and welcome
5:30pm – 7pm: polylog with
- Moema Miranda, People’s Dialogue, Brazil
- Stefan Rohringer, Infineon Technologies Austria AG.
- Paul Yillia, sustainable water management, Sustainable Energy for All, Vienna
- Ulrich Brand, critical research on globalisation, Institute for Political Science, University of Vienna
Facilitator: Karin Küblböck, Austrian Foundation for Development Research
7pm: Ceremony: Award for Development Research by the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy
8pm onwards: buffet
Saturday, 18th of November 2017
9am – 6:30pm, afterwards party with buffet
The morning session analyses political dimensions of current socio-ecological transformations. This will be done on the basis of Karl Polanyi´s theory, referring to migration discourses and gender perspectives.
9am – 9:45am: Andreas Novy (Vienna University of Economics and Business): Neo-authoritarianism or re-embedment of the economic in the social?
9:45am – 10:45am: comments by representatives of the Austrian National Assembly
Facilitator: Andreas Obrecht, Commission for Development Research
Coffee Break
11:15am -12pm: Tessa Khan (Climate Litigation Network): Women at the front-lines: why sustainable development depends on gender justice
This presentation will consider the disproportionate burdens borne by women in a socially and economically unequal, climate-disrupted world. It will argue that the transition to a just and sustainable world requires the full realisation of women’s human rights.
12:00pm – 1pm: comments by Ulrike Gelbmann (Institute for System Sciences, Innovation and Sustainability Research, Karl-Franzens University Graz) and Bea Rodriguez Labajos (University of Barcelona)
Facilitator: Petra Dannecker, University of Vienna
1pm – 2:30pm: lunch break
2:30pm – 7pm: forums and workshops (incl. coffee break)
In the afternoon, there will be two working modes: forums, which represent the overall topic of the conference while continuing the debates held at the panels; and workshops, which add to the variety of topics in development politics. The forums last four hours, workshops are held for two hours.
Forums:
- Europe: Good life for all (in German)
Speakers: Andreas Novy, Karin Fischer (Mattersburger Kreis) and Jakob Hafele.
- (Southeast-)Asia: Grassroot-movements vs. green-authoritarian states (in English)
Speakers: Mai Thin Yu Mon (Country Program Coordinator Chin Human Rights Organization, Asia Indigenous Peoples´ pact), Rainer Einzenberger (University of Vienna), Alina Brad (University of Vienna), Gunna Stange (University of Vienna), Larissa Schad (University of Vienna). - Latin America: Buen vivir vs. Neoextractivisms (in German, with translation in and from Portuguese)
Speakers: Moema Miranda (People´s Dialogue), Ulrich Brand University of Vienna), Karin Küblböck (Austrian Foundation for Development Research) und Herbert Wasserbauer (DKA Austria).
- Africa: Extractivisms vs. Care-Economy, or: (How do) women profit from the economic growth in Africa (in English)
Speakers: Donna Andrews, Karin Reinprecht.
- Global: The SDG Agenda: masterplan for a socio-ecological transformation? (in English)
Speakers: Tessa Khan (Climate Litigation Network Asia), Beatriz Rodriguez Labajos (ICTA-UAB Barcelona), Daniel Bacher (DKA Austria), Jakob Mussil (Global Responsibility – Platform for Development and Humanitarian Aid), Waltraud Rabitsch (Austrian Development Agency), Melanie Pichler (Alpen-Adria University), Fritz Hinterberger (SERI), Michael Obrovsky (Austrian Foundation for Development Research), Andreas Melcher (ICDR), Petra Bayr (Social Democrats Austria).
Workshops:
Workshop 8 will be held in English. All other workshops will be conducted in German.
First batch (2:30pm – 4:30pm)
6. Energy revolution: wrong strategies and genuine chances: Carla Weinzierl (Attac), Manuel Grebenjak (System Change not Climate Change!), Markus Meister (Welthaus Graz).
7. Learning and teaching social-ecological transformations: Astrid Schmid (AAI Salzburg), Nancy Andrianne (Educational Science, University of Salzburg) und Franz Gmainer-Pranzl (Department for Systematic Theology and Centre for Intercultural Theology and Study of Religions).
8. Human Rights Education: Elke Stinnig (OeAD, Department of Higher Education and Research for International Development Cooperation, APPEAR), Elshaday Woldeyesus (Addis Ababa University, Center for Human Rights), Daniela Schier (Amnesty International Austria), Stefan Salomon (University of Graz, Institute of International Law and International Relations).
9. Fairness and Justice in Natural Resource Politics: Network Global Ressources-Fairness – Christina Plank (University of Vienna) and Fernando Ruiz Peyré (University of Innsbruck).
10. Case-based Mutual Learning Sessions: Ulli Vilsmaier (Leuphana University Lüneburg) and team.
11. Fundamentals of development cooperation – best-practice examples: Maria Elßer-Eibel (Fair Styria).
12. From food security to food souveranity: Elisabeth Holter (Verein SEPI/Steirische Entwicklungspolitische Initiative), Pamir Harvey (Afro-Asiatisches Institut Graz).
Second Batch (5:00pm – 7:00pm):
13. 17 goals for a better school: seminars for teachers as a measure to spread awareness on SDGs and concrete possibilities of implementation of global learning: Ingrid Schwarz (Südwind Lower Austria).
14. Models and roadmaps: from an eco-social idea to a global marshallplan. The eco-social free market economy as a model to a global sustainability: Florian Leregger (Institute for Environment, Peace and Development).
15. What can transformation mean, when one is actively part of development cooperation?: Cornelia Barger und Daniela Klocker (Catholic Women´s Movement Austria).
16. Climate justice – think globally, act locally: Elke Schaupp (FAIRTRADE Österreich) and Christian Salmhofer (Klimabündnis Kärnten).
17. Environmental protection and social justice in global supply chains – research perspectives and practical solutions: Morgane Fritz und Josef Schöggl (Department of Systemic Science, Research on Innovation and Sustainability, Karl-Franzens-University of Graz).
18. The somewhat different excursion/walk: Lisa Weichsler (Südwind Styria).
7pm: buffet
8pm-11pm: evening program
literary momentum, music and get-together
Sunday, November 19th 2017
On Sunday morning, the discussion centres on the role of social science and research in a productive socio-ecological transformation.
9am -9:30am: interACT – transformative-participatory theatre with conference participant: „Future Games for System Change“
9:30am – 11am: Research for transformation – Eva Klawatsch-Treitl commemorative lecture
keynote 1: Ulli Vilsmaier (Junior Professor, Leuphana University Lüneberg), Lüneburg/Deutschland
keynote 2: Donna Andrews (Rita Edward Collective), South Africa
Facilitator: Karin Fischer, Mattersburger Kreis
coffee break
11:30am -12:45pm: Confronting Models – Building Alliances. SDGs, De-Growth, Environmental Justice, Post-Growth and „Good Life for All“.
With the method of fish-bowl the final act of the conference will be to interactively discuss the various models which were presented at the forums. The following aspects will be discussed in a critical-constructive dialogue with participants of the conference: can the SDGs or concepts like de-growth, environmental justice, post-growth and good life for all lead to the necessary socio-ecological transformation?
Speakers: Tessa Khan, Donna Andrews, Moema Miranda, Mai Thin Yu Mon and Beatriz Rodríguez Labajos.
Facilitator: Ines Omann, Network Socio-ecological Transformation
12:45pm – 1pm: concluding remarks and words of thanks
The conference language will be German. Some of the keynote inputs will be in English and some of the fora will be in English. Translation German-English will be available for all plenary meetings.
