Environmental politics and green mobilization at the fringes of the European Union

Programme

6 October

14:00 Opening talk: Nina Djukanović Hons, (University of Belgrade): Can we mine ourselves out of the climate crisis? Lessons from resisting lithium mining in Serbia
15:30 Refreshments
18:00 Dinner for speakers

 7 October

09:15

Panel 1: Green mobilization in and around the EU.

Aron Buzogany (BOKU University Vienna):

Ecologies of War and Authoritarianism: New Trends of Environmental Mobilisation in the Post-Soviet Space

Tamara Banjeglav (Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Ljubljana):

Environmental threat and struggle over the future in post-war and post-disaster Croatia

10:30 Coffee
10:45

Panel 2: Green mobilization among EU Candidates

Gilda Hoxha (Swedish Institute: Scholarships for the Western Balkans):

Environmental Movements in Albania: The Unfinished To-Do List

Marija Krgovic and Tea Sindbæk Andersen (University of Copenhagen): Environmental politics, conditionality and performativity – Montenegro between EU demands and local agency

12:00

Lunch

13:00

Panel 3: Green movements and the Post-Yugoslav space

Zlatko Jovanović (University of Copenhagen): Historical roots and neoliberal present of green protests in the post-Yugoslav space

Nikola Lero (University of Sheffield): "The “Last Colony” in Europe? Brokered Self-Colonization, Extractive Europeanization, and the Political Ecology of Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina 

14:15

Coffee

14:30

Panel 4: Extractivism and green mobilization in the north

Lill Bjørst (University of Copenhagen): Environmental sovereignty, extraction politics and green mobilization in Greenland

Eva la Cour-Nielsen (University of Copenhagen) /  CApE): Mining in the far North – artistic enquiries of extractivism in Kiruna

15:45 Concluding remarks