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Lucian Blaga University Library<\/strong>
Lucian Blaga Street, 2A
Sibiu, Romania<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Monday, May 18, 2026 (Day 1)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
08:30<\/td>09:00<\/td>Registration: Welcome Coffee & Registration<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09:00<\/td>09:15<\/td>Opening Session: A welcome message from ULBS representatives and EcoJust management<\/em>
\nRoom:<\/strong> Senate Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09:15<\/td>11:15<\/td>Keynote Session: Film screening and opening discussion with Prof. Stefania Barca, Prof. Erik Swyngedouw<\/strong>, and Prof. Vivian Price<\/strong>
\nRoom:<\/strong> Senate Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:15<\/td>11:45<\/td>Coffee Break<\/em>
\nLibrary Lobby<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11:45<\/td>13:00<\/td>Parallel Sessions<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>T1 \u2013 Energy Justice and Inequalities in the Green Transition
\nChair:<\/strong> Hestia Delibas
\nRoom:<\/strong> Senate Hall<\/td>		G1 \u2013 Environment, Extraction, and Governance in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
\nChair:<\/strong> Gabriel Girigan
\nRoom:<\/strong> Computer Lab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Giulia Mininni & Saska Petrova \u2013 Intersectional energy precarities in extractive practices<\/em><\/td>Ruxandra P\u0103duraru, Alexandru Iorga, Drago\u0219 Tudorache – Tulcea\u2013Chilia Veche Road (DJ222N): Stone, Dust, and Promises<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Katarina Ku\u0161i\u0107 \u2013 Water, wind, and sun: Continuity and change in the energy futures of the Dinaric karst<\/em><\/td>Bogdan Iancu – From irrigation to extraction: the socio-ecological afterlives of a socialist water infrastructure in southern Romania<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Lilian Pungas \u2013 Agroecology right beneath high-voltage power lines and oil shale plants<\/em><\/td>Linda Szab\u00f3, Czegl\u00e9di Alexandra – Governance of ruptured resistances to infrastructures of East Asian EV battery investments across Hungary<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Nikola A. Venkov-Rose \u2013 \u201cBorn to pollute: Cleaning Stolipinovo \u2013 mission impossible\u201d: The media-governance complex as a socio-political apparatus sustaining environmental racism<\/em><\/td>Sergiu Novac – The Residual Violence of the Green Atom: Romania\u2019s Uranium Mining in the Age of Nuclear Renaissance<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>No\u00e9mi Gonda & Jutka Bari \u2013 Energy poverty, racial abandonment and the limits of energy justice: reflections from a Roma settlement in Hungary<\/em><\/td>Dorina Damsa, Kathinka Fossum Evertsen, Hallam Tuck – Para-criminal modes of forest governance in Romania\/European Union<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Lunch Break at “Rabbit Hole and Soup”<\/strong>
\nAddress: Grand Square, no. 11<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:30<\/td>15:45<\/td>Parallel Sessions<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>R1 \u2013 Green Just Transitions?
\nChair:<\/strong> Filip Alexandrescu
\nRoom:<\/strong> Senate Hall<\/td>		Ignite Talks
\nChair:<\/strong> Ioana Savin
\nRoom:<\/strong> Computer Lab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Daniela Ana, Michael Eilenberg – Drying Landscapes, Shifting Practices: Unequal Green Transition and transnational farming in Romania<\/em><\/td>Ioana Pantilimon – The Eco-Social and Intercultural Pact of the South and Green Transitions in Eastern Europe<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Markus Sattler – A just green transition without the meta-industrial class? Labour, class and resistance to hydropower in Georgia<\/em><\/td>Josefina Marklund – The Politics of Sidelining Just Transition<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Mikul\u00e1\u0161 \u010cern\u00edk – Steering the Wheel of Just Transition in Czechia: Civic resistance in post-mining regional development<\/em><\/td>George Iord\u0103chescu – Conservation frontierization in the Carpathian Mountains: understanding justice between extractivisms and non-extractive use<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Emanuela Ignatoiu-Sora – Naiads, insurance companies and climate justice: Pechea from a hydrofeminist perspective<\/em><\/td>Donald Davis – Greying the Greenzone: Environmental Injustice in the Jadar Valley of Serbia<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td>C\u0103lin Cotoi, Alexandru Iorga – The Return of Development: War and Natures in the Danube Delta<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td><\/td>Carmen Voinea, Mihai Stoica – Exploring knowledge about methane gas emissions and community organisation potential in frontline communities<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:45<\/td>16:00<\/td>Coffee Break<\/em>
\nLibrary Lobby<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:00<\/td>17:00<\/td>Special Format Session:<\/strong> Film screening & discussion: \u201cNatural Gas, The Bridge To Climate Disaster\u201d<\/em> with Maria Martelli, Just Wondering collective
\nRoom:<\/strong> Senate Hall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18:30<\/td>20:00<\/td>Dinner at The \u201cLa Dobrun\u201d Restaurant
\nAddress:<\/strong> Dobrun Street, no. 1<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 (Day 2)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
09:00<\/td>10:15<\/td>R2 \u2013 Transitions\u2019 Environmental Conflicts
\nChair:<\/strong> Filip Alexandrescu
\nRoom:<\/strong> Senate Hall<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Bal\u0161a Lubarda – Exclusionary environments: Environmentalism and scapegoating in Serbia and Montenegro<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Rositsa Kratunkova – De-hydrocapitalism: struggles for water in Bulgaria<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Nora Hein – A \u2018Justice Lens\u2019 perspective on the Green Transition in South Moravia (Czechia) and Kaigu Peatland (Latvia)<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Clara Salaverr\u00eda Embid – \u2018Tomorrow in your backyard?\u2019 Ecological distribution conflicts and sustainability transitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Adrian Deoanc\u0103 – Thinking Between the Posts: Postcarbon, Postsocialism and Cement<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:15<\/td>10:40<\/td>Coffee Break<\/em>
\nLibrary Lobby<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:40<\/td>12:00<\/td>T2 \u2013 Industrial Legacies and Green Extractivism
\nChair:<\/strong> Irina Velicu
\nRoom:<\/strong> Senate Hall<\/td>		<\/strong><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Agnes Gagyi & Lela Rekhviashvili \u2013 Green investment conflicts at the EU\u2019s eastern peripheries: towards a comparative research framework<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Laura Maghe\u021biu \u2013 \u201cThis Will Revolutionize Private Forestry Here\u201d- On Romania\u2019s Emergent Carbon Offseting Industry Landscape<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Anna Iosif \u2013 Productive Pollution. Landscapes of Labour and Contamination in a Romanian Socialist City<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Elena-Maria Cauti\u0219 – Wasted Heritage Futures: Toxic Inheritances of Post-Socialism at the Rulmentul Factory, Bra\u0219ov<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Jana Tsoneva \u2013 From fossil socialism to helio-socialism: towards an alternative to market-based decarbonization<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00<\/td>13:00<\/td>Coffee and Networking Break<\/strong>
\nLibrary Lobby<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13:00<\/td>14:30<\/td>Lunch Break at Rabbit Hole and Soup<\/strong>
\nAddress: Grand Square, no. 11<\/em><\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14:30<\/td>15:45<\/td>Parallel Sessions<\/strong><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>R3 \u2013 Post-socialist Scenarios of Transformation
\nChair:<\/strong> Bogdan V\u0103tavu
\nRoom:<\/strong> Senate Hall<\/td>		G2 \u2013 Local Governments Navigating Post-Socialist Legacies and the Green Agenda in CEE
\nChair:<\/strong> Filip Alexandrescu
\nRoom:<\/strong> Computer Lab<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Anastasia Oprea – Feminist Transformative Leadership in Post-Socialist Rural Romania<\/em><\/td>Piotr Derejczyk – Local Government in Poland and the Green Transition: Institutional Legacies of Post-Communist Transformation and Contemporary Climate Challenges<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Lenka Such\u00e1, Zuzana Harm\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1, Pavl\u00edna Schultzov\u00e1 – Triggering Social-Ecological Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe<\/em><\/td>Vlad Bejinariu – EU’s Mission 100 as Socio-Ecological Fix: Green Transitions, Inter-Scalar Tensions, and New Accumulation<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Lenka Such\u00e1, Zuzana Harm\u00e1\u010dkov\u00e1, Eli\u0161ka K. Lorencov\u00e1, Magdal\u00e9na Koudelkov\u00e1, Jitka Mart\u00ednkov\u00e1 – From Global Scenarios to Local Realities: Rethinking Shared Socio-economic Pathways in Central and Eastern Europe<\/em><\/td>Iacob Mihai – Unpacking the Sustainability Fix: Governance Mechanisms in Urban Redevelopment across Central and Eastern Europe<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Giorgian Gu\u021boiu – Nature and urban space: an Open Marxist framework<\/em><\/td>Vedran Obu\u0107ina – Faith-Based Actors in Environmental Governance: Religious Contributions to the Green Transition in Central and Eastern Europe<\/em><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td><\/td>Ina Lauren\u021biu – Among Blocks, Gardens, and Hills: Social dynamics and urban transformation in Sopor<\/em><\/td><\/td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15:45<\/td>16:00<\/td>Coffee Break<\/strong>
\nLibrary Lobby<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:00<\/td>16:30<\/td>Eco-Drama<\/em> with Oana Rusu<\/strong>, actress at \u201cIon Dacian\u201d National Operetta and Musical Theatre \/\/ researcher EcoJust
\nRoom:<\/strong> Senate Hall<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16:30<\/td>17:30<\/td>Closing Discussion<\/strong>
\nPreliminary conclusions and discussions about the future challenges with our guests of honour, Prof. Stefania Barca, Prof. Erik Swyngedouw<\/strong> and Prof. Vivian Price<\/strong>
\nChair:<\/strong> Irina Velicu
\nRoom:<\/strong> Senate Hall<\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18:30<\/td>20:00<\/td>Dinner at the \u201cLa Dobrun\u201d Restaurant
\nAddress: Dobrun Street, no. 1<\/em><\/strong><\/td>		<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n

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