After 15 years of degrowth conferences, next week from Tuesday, August 29th to Saturday, September 2nd the 9th International Degrowth Conference will take place in Zagreb.
The conference will bring together academics and activists from all over the world. We will be present with a delegation of over 30 degrowthers from Barcelona. For more information on the conference visit odrast.hr. On Monday, August 28th, we will be part of the fourth International Assembly of the Degrowth Movement to discuss how to organize the degrowth movement for system change. The conference will then sit at the heart of a broader Zagreb Degrowth Week, a free arts and conviviality festival realised in cooperation with neighbouring capitals. All afternoon sessions will be free to visit for non-registered participants.
You can find the overall structure of the conference and information in the venues below or here.
With R&D we will speak in many of the parallel sessions and are looking forward to seeing you there. We will touch upon diverse topics from mitigating the climate crisis, intersectional feminism, decolonizing degrowth to strategies for organizing, imagining utopias and performance and artivism. Below you can find the sessions with R&D participation, as well as the sessions with participation of our master alumni.
Wednesday, August 30th
10:00
ZV-8-1
Organizing for degrowth: sharing experiences and learning from R&D
Brototi Roy, Marula Tsagkari, Simona Getova
10:15
ZV-KC-2
Updates on Degrowth & Technology: overcoming the positivist pandemic trauma
Christian Kerschner
12:15
ZV-8-9
Towards post-growth scenarios for climate mitigation
Aljoša Slameršak, Jason Hickel
12:15
ZV-KC-Cres
Peak-Oil: definition, key dimensions and relevance for Degrowth horizons
Christian Kerschner
12:45
ZV-8-9
How waste pickers are being sidelined in Global South cities: A network analysis
Federico Demaria, Daniele Vico
16:30
ZV-8-1
Degrowth in practice vs academia?
Francois Schneider
16:30
ZV-8-7
Masculinities and Degrowth: breaking away from the hegemonic model
Pierre Smith Khanna, Christos Zografos
17:00
ZV-KC-Cres
Venues for a safe climate: Remove carbon from the atmosphere or reduce energy use?
Aljoša Slameršak
18:00
ZV-8-5
Fairytales of Growth: Documentary Screening followed by Q&A
Pierre Smith Khanna, Claudia Cattaneo
Thursday, August 31st
10:00
ZV-KC-1
Degrowth inscriptions within queer and decolonial struggles
Morena Hanbury Lemos
10:00
ZV-KC-Cres
Anthropology and degrowth: deepening the dialogue
Lorenzo Velotti, Lucía Muñoz Sueiro
10:30
ZV-KC-1
Decolonizing Degrowth: Clearing a path for transformation
Brototi Roy, Ksenija Hanaček
10:30
ZV-8-5
Memories and hunches of life otherwise: re-valuing rurality and subsistence for degrowth futures, learning from the Souths-within-the-North
Donatella Gasparro
12:00
ZV-8-6
Degrowth Education: Experiences from the two degrowth masters
Giacomo D’Alisa, Ksenija Hanacek, Brenda Nistor, Angelos Varvarousis, Brototi Roy
12:00
ZV-8-2
Fossil Health: A Conceptual Proposal for Understanding Socio-Ecological Health Dependencies in the Anthropocene
Christos Zografos
12:15
ZV-8-3
Life satisfaction and socio-economic vulnerability: evidence from the Basic Income experiment in Barcelona: Lessons for degrowth policy
Filka Sekulova
12:30
ZV-8-10
A ‘return forward’?: The potential of traditional popular culture for a degrowth transition
Lucía Muñoz Sueiro
12:45
ZV-KC-Cres
Blue Degrowth: Repoliticizing the Sustainability of the Ocean Economy
Borja Nogué Algueró
12:45
ZV-8-5
Dividing roles along flows instead of functions: New role division within degrowth practice
Francois Schneider
12:45
ZV-8-2
Social and ecological reasons for a universal basic income: book presentations
Lorenzo Velotti
16:30
ZV-8-1
Redefining success in organizing towards degrowth-inspired futures
Filka Sekulova
Friday, September 1st
10:00
ZV-KC-1
Spatializing degrowth: Five steps towards a radical urban degrowth agenda in the face of climate emergency
Angelos Varvarousis
10:00
ZV-8-4
Towards a Post-Growth Deal: Introducing the REAL EU-ERC Synergy project
Jason Hickel
10:30
ZV-8-10
Electrochemistry, decarbonisation technologies and degrowth
Marula Tsagkari
10:30
ZV-8-2
Degrowth meets Feminist Political Ecology: Towards a care-full and pluridiverse intersectional degrowth transformation
Simona Getova
12:45
ZV-8-3
Towards modelling degrowth scenarios: Degrowth pathways in an Integrated Assessment Model used in IPCC reports
Jason Hickel
12:45
ZV-KC-1
Systemic vulnerability to fossil fuels – Too central to fail?
Christian Kerschner
16:30
ZV-8-6
Practices of Conviviality: Lessons from Feminist Movements
Stephanie McDonagh, Maria Murra Batarse
16:30
ZV-KC-Cres
Meet and join the Degrowth Movement: Introducing the Degrowth movement, its restructuring and its international working groups
JP Arellano
Saturday, September 2nd
10:00
CMR-park 1
Unleashing Fantasy for Transformation: Ursula K. Le Guin and the Power of Imagination
Aaron Vansintjan
10:00
CMR-park 2
Germinar-t: a community based degrowth art residency
Carlo Sella, Lara Stammen, Laura Chica Castells
15:30
CMR-klub
Performing degrowth
Carlo Sella
See you next week in Zagreb!