Conference programme 2024

Paper presentations by:

• Emelie Lantz, Human Rights Studies- agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se
  Re-thinking civil society in a polarised world: The importance of being both duty-bearers and rights-holders.
• Frida Pilgaard, Social Medicine and Global Health- portal.research.lu.se
  Association between perceived organizational justice and rights and exposure to sexual harassment at a large Swedish university.
• Josefine Löndorf Sarkez-Knudsen, Ethnology- portal.research.lu.se
  Transformative dimensions of fieldwork: Making sense of a pouch of calendula seeds, a rhubarb crown and other keepsakes gathered and accepted during fieldwork.
• Florencia Radeljak, Business administration - portal.research.lu.se
  Degrowth through Complementary Currencies: The case of Ekhilur in the Basque country.
• Open questions to all presenters.

Organiser: Cicilia Nagel, Occupational and Environmental Medicine - portal.research.lu.se

What would you consider to be necessary attributes for a sustainable workplace? A workplace where were you would want and could work to an older age (>65 years)?

I study the working situation of nurses in Scania, with the purpose to understand which factors that affects nurses’ work situation and health to come up with an action plan for a sustainable workplace. In beehives, the participants of this seminar will discuss how their work situation at the different departments could be improved and become long-term sustainable.

Organiser: Iury Salustiano Trojaborg, Malmö Theatre Academy- agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se

This is the story of a womxn at her limit; a womxn who went for a stroll at a harbour facing the island of Møn in Denmark, in an early summer afternoon, and was taken by a windstorm. This is the story of a womxn who learned to speak English by listening to 90’s pop songs. This is the story of a womxn and her dark purple dreams, where her childhood traumas resurface almost every time she closes her eyes. This is the story of a womxn who alternates periods of great optimism with others of extreme pessimism, always struggling to find peace in between. This is the story of a womxn rotating at a high speed in a tall column of air. This is also the story of a womxn who believes deeply in the power of nature. 

This is a story of a womxn who keeps on trying just because. 

The Whirlwind is a text under construction, an experiment aimed at creating a hybrid between scientific and literary text. 

In its performative configuration, The Whirlwind is an experiment in conjoint reading. I am curious to investigate how much the meaning of a text can be transformed when the reading is shared within a group and not limited to one single person. The text will be read together with a projection of a collection of photos taken on the island of Møn in Denmark and in the city of Malmö in Sweden during the summer and fall of 2023. The Whirlwind is informed by three key points of the course Existential Sustainability: Expanding the Discourse on Sustainability: place, time, and identity. 

Paper presentations by:

• Philipp Jonas Kreutzer, Economic History- portal.research.lu.se
  Collaboration and power in Sweden's bioeconomy innovation system.

  Andreas Bexell, Software Development and Environments- portal.research.lu.se
  Energy efficiency and performance - Choosing language model size for your task.

• Steve Berggren-Clausen, Economy- portal.research.lu.se
  The curse of bad geography: Stagnant water diseases, and children's human capital.
• Open questions to all presenters.

Organisers: Valentina Schüller, Mathematics- portal.research.lu.se, August Thomasson, Combustion Physics- portal.research.lu.se and Wan Ni Lin, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences- portal.sresearch.lu.se

Moderator: Pedro Rosero, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science- portal.research.lu.se

Earth system models are currently the best tools society has for describing planetary processes and climate change. They are based on our present-day understanding of interconnected real-world phenomena. As such, they undergo constant development, calibration, and re-interpretation by scientists from various disciplines.

This seminar focuses on models as essential instruments in environmental research. We will explore how changes made at one stage of a model's development process can impact other stages, highlighting the various unresolved research questions along the way. For instance, should a mathematical model developer understand how users of the model draw their conclusions, and vice versa? How are different models receptive to combining with observations, and what challenges arise in this integration?

Speakers:

• Valentina Schüller, a PhD student in Mathematics, examines Earth system model development from a mathematical perspective, focusing on identifying and addressing the numerical weaknesses of existing models.
• August Thomasson, a PhD student in Combustion Physics, specializes in chemistry transport models. He brings a physics and chemistry perspective to atmospheric model development, emphasizing the importance of incorporating observational data.
• Wan Ni (Annie) Lin, a PhD student in Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences, uses remote sensing data to study long-term vegetation fire dynamics in the Middle East, combining biophysical and socio-economic factors in her analysis. She utilizes remote sensing data to model the relationship between climate and fire occurrences and is expected to predict the fire susceptibility for future fire risk management.

• Gabriel Malmer, Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation- portal.research.lu.se 
  Systems Integrity Protection Schemes (SIPS) in the Nordic power system(s) - a comparative analysis.
• Georgios Tsiakiris, Environmental Psychology- agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se
  The restorative potential of urban forests during daylight and nighttime conditions.
• Gilbert Nduwayezu, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences- portal.research.lu.se
  Spatial machine learning for exploring the low height-for-age variability from socioeconomic, agroecological and climate features in the Northern Province of Rwanda.
• Lovisa Rosenquist Ohlsson, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Sciences
  From ashes to analysis: Two decades of fire and conflict in Iraq.
• Valentina Schüller, Mathematics- portal.research.lu.se
  Waveform relaxation for Atmosphere-Ocean-Sea ice coupling.

Organiser: Eugène Petelin, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies- portal.research.lu.se

Political interest in the circular economy (CE) concept is increasing globally, creating the conditions for a transformation towards a more circular society. Meanwhile, the security implications of specific circular solutions and their impact on prioritisation between CE policies remain unclear. 

I will first present the concept of security and a framework that explains how the circular economy can contribute to resource security in the sectors water, material, energy and food systems. The presentation is followed by an interactive discussion in two stages. First, the audience will be split into four groups based on preferences in resource system (water, material, energy, or food systems). There will be 10 minutes of brainstorm within groups on a specific question, after which they produce reflections which are shared in the bigger group. Second, we look deeper into security perspectives and make one more brainstorm session in groups which is shared and rounded up.

Organisers: Juan Antonio Samper, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies- agenda2030graduateschool.lu.se, Juan Carlos Mendosa, National University of Colombia- hermes.unal.edu.co and Cecilia Loschiavo, Sao Paolo University- closhiavo.pro.br

The dialogue titled Resistance, reflection, recovery and reimagination - How does territorial resistance contribute to the epistemologies of our discipline? is organized by three people from three different universities, all Latin American. The attendees will be expected to listen, share, propose, or contribute in any way they see fit to this dialogue. It is irrelevant for the purposes of the dialogue whether the research of the attendees is related to Latin America or not. 

We welcome participation from researchers, teachers, and students who either work, have worked, or are interested in working in territories where plural forms of knowledge are actively contesting modern, western, Eurocentric, or anthropocentric knowledges that claim to be universal. 

The dialogue will have two guiding questions. For the first one, we borrow the slogan from the DRS2024 conference that took place in Boston in June 2024: Resistance, reflection, recovery, and reimagination, and ask the attendees: How do these words or concepts appear in your research? As a follow-up question to the first one, we also ask how do specific, territorialized resistances contribute to the epistemologies of our research endeavors and even to the reimagination of our disciplines and inter/trans-disciplinary work more broadly?

This session provides an opportunity for informal networking and to reflect in smaller groups on the insights gained throughout the conference. It is also an ideal space to discuss potential future collaborations and to share different perspectives on the complex sustainability challenges facing our society today. Your diverse backgrounds will enrich the interdisciplinary discussions and you can continue the discussions at the after-work event if you wish.