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Lucian Blaga University Library
Lucian Blaga Street, 2A
Sibiu, Romania
Monday, May 18, 2026 (Day 1)
| 08:30 | 09:00 | Registration: Welcome Coffee & Registration | |
| 09:00 | 09:15 | Opening Session: A welcome message from ULBS representatives and EcoJust management Room: Senate Hall |
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| 09:15 | 11:15 | Keynote Session: Film screening and opening discussion with Prof. Stefania Barca, Prof. Erik Swyngedouw, and Prof. Vivian Price Room: Senate Hall |
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| 11:15 | 11:45 | Coffee Break Library Lobby |
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| Parallel Sessions | |||
| T1 – Energy Justice and Inequalities in the Green Transition Chair: Hestia Delibas Room: Senate Hall | G1 – Environment, Extraction, and Governance in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe Chair: Gabriel Girigan Room: Computer Lab |
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| 11:45 | 12:00 | Giulia Mininni & Saska Petrova – Intersectional energy precarities in extractive practices | Ruxandra Păduraru, Alexandru Iorga, Dragoș Tudorache – Tulcea–Chilia Veche Road (DJ222N): Stone, Dust, and Promises |
| 12:00 | 12:15 | Katarina Kušić – Water, wind, and sun: Continuity and change in the energy futures of the Dinaric karst | Bogdan Iancu – From irrigation to extraction: the socio-ecological afterlives of a socialist water infrastructure in southern Romania |
| 12:15 | 12:30 | Lilian Pungas – Agroecology right beneath high-voltage power lines and oil shale plants | Linda Szabó, Czeglédi Alexandra – Governance of ruptured resistances to infrastructures of East Asian EV battery investments across Hungary |
| 12:30 | 12:45 | Nikola A. Venkov-Rose – “Born to pollute: Cleaning Stolipinovo – mission impossible”: The media-governance complex as a socio-political apparatus sustaining environmental racism | Sergiu Novac – The Residual Violence of the Green Atom: Romania’s Uranium Mining in the Age of Nuclear Renaissance |
| 12:45 | 13:00 | Noémi Gonda & Jutka Bari – Energy poverty, racial abandonment and the limits of energy justice: reflections from a Roma settlement in Hungary | Dorina Damsa, Kathinka Fossum Evertsen, Hallam Tuck – Para-criminal modes of forest governance in Romania/European Union |
| 13:00 | 14:30 | Lunch Break at “Rabbit Hole and Soup” Address: Grand Square, no. 11 |
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| R1 – Green Just Transitions? Chair: Filip Alexandrescu Room: Senate Hall | Ignite Talks Chair: Ioana Savin Room: Computer Lab |
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| 14:30 | 14:45 | Daniela Ana, Michael Eilenberg – Drying Landscapes, Shifting Practices: Unequal Green Transition and transnational farming in Romania | Ioana Pantilimon – The Eco-Social and Intercultural Pact of the South and Green Transitions in Eastern Europe |
| 14:45 | 15:00 | Markus Sattler – A just green transition without the meta-industrial class? Labour, class and resistance to hydropower in Georgia | Josefina Marklund – The Politics of Sidelining Just Transition |
| 15:00 | 15:15 | Mikuláš Černík – Steering the Wheel of Just Transition in Czechia: Civic resistance in post-mining regional development | George Iordăchescu – Conservation frontierization in the Carpathian Mountains: understanding justice between extractivisms and non-extractive use |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Emanuela Ignatoiu-Sora – Naiads, insurance companies and climate justice: Pechea from a hydrofeminist perspective | Donald Davis – Greying the Greenzone: Environmental Injustice in the Jadar Valley of Serbia |
| 15:30 | 15:45 | Călin Cotoi, Alexandru Iorga – The Return of Development: War and Natures in the Danube Delta | |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Carmen Voinea, Mihai Stoica – Exploring knowledge about methane gas emissions and community organisation potential in frontline communities | |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Coffee Break Library Lobby |
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| 16:00 | 17:00 | Special Format Session: Film screening & discussion: “Natural Gas, The Bridge To Climate Disaster” with Maria Martelli, Just Wondering collective Room: Senate Hall |
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| 18:30 | 20:00 | Dinner at The “La Dobrun” Restaurant Address: Dobrun Street, no. 1 |
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026 (Day 2)
| R2 – Transitions’ Environmental Conflicts Chair: Filip Alexandrescu Room: Senate Hall | ||||
| 09:00 | 09:15 | Balša Lubarda – Exclusionary environments: Environmentalism and scapegoating in Serbia and Montenegro | ||
| 09:15 | 09:30 | Rositsa Kratunkova – De-hydrocapitalism: struggles for water in Bulgaria | ||
| 09:30 | 09:45 | Nora Hein – A ‘Justice Lens’ perspective on the Green Transition in South Moravia (Czechia) and Kaigu Peatland (Latvia) | ||
| 09:45 | 10:00 | Clara Salaverría Embid – ‘Tomorrow in your backyard?’ Ecological distribution conflicts and sustainability transitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina | ||
| 10:00 | 10:15 | Adrian Deoancă – Thinking Between the Posts: Postcarbon, Postsocialism and Cement | ||
| 10:15 | 10:40 | Coffee Break Library Lobby | ||
| T2 – Industrial Legacies and Green Extractivism Chair: Irina Velicu Room: Senate Hall | ||||
| 10:40 | 10:55 | Agnes Gagyi & Lela Rekhviashvili – Green investment conflicts at the EU’s eastern peripheries: towards a comparative research framework | ||
| 10:55 | 11:10 | Laura Maghețiu – Voluntary Carbon Offset Production and Private Forestry in Romania | ||
| 11:10 | 11:25 | Anna Iosif – Productive Pollution. Landscapes of Labour and Contamination in a Romanian Socialist City | ||
| 11:25 | 11:40 | Elena-Maria Cautiș – Wasted Heritage Futures: Toxic Inheritances of Post-Socialism at the Rulmentul Factory, Brașov | ||
| 11:40 | 11:55 | Jana Tsoneva – From fossil socialism to helio-socialism: towards an alternative to market-based decarbonization | ||
| 12:00 | 13:00 | Coffee and Networking Break Library Lobby | ||
| 13:00 | 14:30 | Lunch Break at Rabbit Hole and Soup Address: Grand Square, no. 11 | ||
| Parallel Sessions | ||||
| R3 – Post-socialist Scenarios of Transformation Chair: Bogdan Vătavu Room: Senate Hall | G2 – Local Governments Navigating Post-Socialist Legacies and the Green Agenda in CEE Chair: Filip Alexandrescu Room: Computer Lab | |||
| 14:30 | 14:45 | Anastasia Oprea – Feminist Transformative Leadership in Post-Socialist Rural Romania | Piotr Derejczyk – Local Government in Poland and the Green Transition: Institutional Legacies of Post-Communist Transformation and Contemporary Climate Challenges | |
| 14:45 | 15:00 | Lenka Suchá, Zuzana Harmáčková, Pavlína Schultzová – Triggering Social-Ecological Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe | Vlad Bejinariu – EU’s Mission 100 as Socio-Ecological Fix: Green Transitions, Inter-Scalar Tensions, and New Accumulation | |
| 15:00 | 15:15 | Lenka Suchá, Zuzana Harmáčková, Eliška K. Lorencová, Magdaléna Koudelková, Jitka Martínková – From Global Scenarios to Local Realities: Rethinking Shared Socio-economic Pathways in Central and Eastern Europe | Iacob Mihai – Unpacking the Sustainability Fix: Governance Mechanisms in Urban Redevelopment across Central and Eastern Europe | |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Giorgian Guțoiu – Nature and urban space: an Open Marxist framework | Vedran Obućina – Faith-Based Actors in Environmental Governance: Religious Contributions to the Green Transition in Central and Eastern Europe | |
| 15:30 | 15:45 | Ina Laurențiu – Among Blocks, Gardens, and Hills: Social dynamics and urban transformation in Sopor | ||
| 15:45 | 16:00 | Coffee Break Library Lobby | ||
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Eco-Drama with Oana Rusu, actress at “Ion Dacian” National Operetta and Musical Theatre // researcher EcoJust Room: Senate Hall | ||
| 16:30 | 17:30 | Closing Discussion Preliminary conclusions and discussions about the future challenges with our guests of honour, Prof. Stefania Barca, Prof. Erik Swyngedouw and Prof. Vivian Price Chair: Irina Velicu Room: Senate Hall | ||
| 18:30 | 20:00 | Dinner at the “La Dobrun” Restaurant Address: Dobrun Street, no. 1 | ||