Conference program
Program
You can find the interactive and detailed program for the conference HERE.
Monday June 17th
Main conference 09:00-18:00
Reception 18:15-20:15
Tuesday June 18th
Main conference 08:30-17:30
Conference dinner at SALT 19:00
Wednesday June 19th
Main conference 09:00-17:30
Digital participation
We will stream the plenary sessions at the conference. Otherwise, the conference is an in-person conference and it will not be possible to participate digitally in all parts of the program.
Plenary session 1: Opening and keynote
Monday, 17th June 2024 (09:00 – 10:30)
Opening of the 15th International Sustainability Transitions Conference
Keynote speech by Dr. Per Olsson, Associate Professor and Deputy Scientific Director, Stockholm Resilience Centre:
“Navigating social-ecological system transformations in times of turbulence and backlash”
Plenary session 2: Keynote session
Tuesday, 18th June 2024 (13:30 – 14:30)
Keynote speech by Dr. Anabel Marin, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex:
“Civic Power in Just Transitions: Blocking Change or Protecting Nature for Future Advancement?”
Early Career Researcher Events
Sunday June 16th
Optional walking tour 11:30-13:30
Welcome Day at The Climate House 13:30-16:30
Speakers:
- Lars Coenen: Introducing the geography of transitions
- Katharina Schiller: Sustainability transitions – perspectives from the Global South
- Adrian Ely: What have we learnt after fifty years of debates about transitions involving growth, technology and nature?
Pizza and drinks 17:00-20:00 at NIFU
Thursday June 20th
NEST Paper Development Workshop 09:00-13:30
Keynote speakers
Anabel Marin – “Civic Power in Just Transitions: Blocking Change or Protecting Nature for Future Advancement?”
The organising committee are very happy to welcome Dr. Anabel Marin as a keynote speaker at this year’s IST conference.
Dr. Anabel Marin is currently a Research Fellow and the Leader of the Business, Markets & State Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Dr. Marin founded Bioleft, an open-source initiative for seed breeding, and is a member of the Global Coalition of Open-Source Movements (GOSSI). Additionally, she serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal Innovation and Development and is a guest editor of the special issue “Focus on Social and Environmental Aspects of Resource Extraction of Energy-Transition Minerals” in Environmental Research Letters.
Dr. Marin is interested in utilizing multidisciplinary approaches to address economic, sustainable, and inclusive development challenges. Her work encompasses research, policy advice, activism, and the development of cultural products for sustainable development. Her current projects focus on science and innovation policies for drug development, industrial policies for lithium in Latin America, socio-environmental conflicts and economic and ecological transitions, institutional innovations for the management of common resources, and digitalization of the health sector.
At the IST conference 2024, Dr. Marin will present her current research on energy mineral nexus, civil society resistance and transitions.
Per Olsson – “Navigating social-ecological system transformations in times of turbulence and backlash”
The organising committee are very excited to have Per Olsson at the IST conference 2024 as a keynote speaker.
Olsson is the Deputy Science Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University. He has been recognized by the Web of Science as one of the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade. Based in complexity and systems thinking, his current research focuses on agency and systems entrepreneurship, social-ecological innovations, and capacities for navigating transformations towards just and sustainable futures. His work has been published in a variety of natural and social science journals, including Science, Nature Sustainability, Ecology and Society, PNAS, TREE, Ambio, Global Environmental Change, Environmental Management, and the Annual Review of the Environment and Resources.
Olsson also works with changemakers around the world to strengthen their capacities to achieve transformative change that helps humans and nature thrive together. This previously involved co-leading the Rockefeller Foundation Global Fellowship Program on Social Innovation and Resilience and serving as the director for the BALTICLEAD, the Transforming Change, and the Catalyzing Change programs, The Robert Bosch Stiftung’s Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership and delivering the SRC Executive Education program. He also advises CEOs, entrepreneurs, and philanthropic organisations on sustainability transformations, and he enjoys creating innovative spaces that combine music, art, science, including Greentopia and the Coral Guardians.
Reception
Monday June 17th, 18:15 – 20:15
We are glad to have Marte Wulff at the conference, where she will present her work for a sustainable music industry as well as play music.
Marte Wulff is an acclaimed Norwegian singer-songwriter (pop, indie, folk) with seven solo albums, four band releases and two Spellemann (Norwegian Grammy) nominations under her belt.
She is known for her storytelling lyrics and strong ability to communicate, as well as a particular willingness to artistically engage with complex or serious topics. Her music has received significant radio play throughout her career and has been featured in various films, TV series, and educational settings. Over the past years, she has distinguished herself as a prominent voice for the climate and environmental cause through her music, lectures, green bicycle tours, as an activist, and public debater. She has a certification in Creative Climate Leadership from Julie’s Bicycles CCL programme, and was in 2020 named one of ten Green Guardians in the category of artists and activists in British music magazine IQ. Later this year, she will be releasing her first novel (Oktober forlag).
In 2022, she and fellow musician Einar Flaa initiated Spillerommet, an independent network of musicians and artists working for a socially, economically and environmentally sustainable music industry. They take the cultural sector’s pivotal role for positive change seriously and want to give it a stronger environmental voice. By creating spaces for dialogue, learning and collaboration, they aim at increasing awareness and engagement among artists, their audiences and society at large.
Photo: Solveig Selv
Opening performance
Monday June 17th
Known in the outside world as Dr. Steve Williams, his academic work includes conducting and publishing research on sustainable energy transition, evaluation, and energy justice in Canada, Germany, and Sweden where he has held positions as Research Group Leader at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Science in Potsdam and Guest Researcher at Chalmers. Steve‘s most recent artistic research project was Future Soundscapes Lindholmen, co-creating soundscapes of future cities with Gothenburg residents
Conference hosts
IST 2024 is hosted by the University of Oslo, in collaboration with SINTEF, the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, and the INTRANSIT and NTRANS research centers.