Program 21 - 23 September

Margareta Wahlström was elected President of the Swedish Red Cross on 6 May, 2017. She joined the Swedish Red Cross in 1987 as a Desk Officer for Southern Africa.
Kerstin Cuhls is a scientific project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI). She is in the International Editorial and Advisory Boards of different Journals and co-editor of the German Zeitschrift für Zukunftsforschung.

- Co-creating emergency response with unaffiliated, untrained citizen volunteers
- From Hierarchy to Anarchy: 'Spontaneous' Helpers in Disaster Situations and the Question of Organisation
- Closing the field. Boundary construction in the field of disaster response as preservation strategy
- Temporary affiliation: Volunteers during disaster response operations

- Reconstruction of Heritage in Bhaktapur, Nepal: Examining Tensions and Negotiations Between the ‘Local’ and the ‘Global’
- Towards Meaningful Participation: Co-researching with Persons with Disabilities in Central Sulawesi
- Reviewing the place of Migrants in Disasters: A personal perspective
- Importance of creating a pathway for Voices to merge with Scientific Knowledge in Ecosystem-based Disaster Risk Reduction
- The C-word: potential contributions of Critical GIS to disaster studies 

- The Significance of the Deep Cultural Perspective for Understanding Tempestuous Tales of Power and Compounded, Cascading Storms of Disaster
- Negotiating “Normality” in the Aftermath of the “Brumadinho Dam Disaster” (Minas Gerais, Brazil)
- Culture and Disaster Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction – Where is the Built Environment?
- Not all disaster experiences are created equal: Expanding “recovery” practices to reflect the lived realities of those impacted by disaster

- Disaster Registries as Tools to Improve Understanding of Complex Disasters
- Exploring disasters-in-the-making in Kalimpong, West Bengal, India
- Natech risk management in Indonesia
- Contextualising Floods in India: The Challenge of Reinterpreting Flood Risk Management from a Socio-Political Perspective

-Tracing and analyzing the ideas behind disaster volunteerism – a case study of Indonesia
-Strengthening the Panglima Laot Institution in Managing Coastal Hazard Impacts during the Pandemic Covid 19 Era: A Case of Aceh, Indonesia
-Flood Management Strategies  in Ampal Watershed in Balikpapan, Indonesia

- “Grenfell changes everything?” Post-disaster agency beyond hope and despair
- (Re)adaptation of historic urban spaces in post-disaster recovery
- Citizenship and Extreme Events: Communities and the Imagining of Alternative Futures

RCR Simulation Lab is a laboratory at Mid Sweden University in Östersund where it is possible to simulate any environment or situation.

- How did we get to this? Understanding social construction of risk and capacities from the neighborhood history
- Interdisciplinary public history interventions in DRR in Museums and schools in Quito
- Co-creating an online platform on disaster risk reduction with highschool students in Quito, Ecuador: Lessons from Evaluation
- Disaster Passed: a singing, flashing and sobering glimpse into coping with volcanic eruptions

- Preparing for the unexpected: A comparative study of policy responses addressing post-terror health reactions in Norway and France
- Psychosocial care to civilians affected by terrorist attacks in Norway (2011), France (2015), Belgium (2016), and the Netherlands (2019)
- Network professionalism: the interplay between professional work and network viability
- A closer look at evaluation challenges in post-disaster mental health and psychosocial support

- Be (under-)prepared: Responding to Covid-19
- Rethinking Cultural/Social Resources as Disaster Adaptive Strategies toward Resilience: A Case from Sri Lanka
- Towards a richer understanding of Kosi river floods in Bihar, India: Deploying anthropological perspective
- Chronicle of a foretold disaster. Climate change, glacier melting, and risk perception in the Alps

- Displacement: uprooting, survival and perspectives
- Cannibalizing Utopia: Suzanne Césaire’s Ecofeminist critique of Colonial Discourse of the Tropics

-Managing Mass Death in Times of Multiple Crisis: Lessons from the 2011 Japan Disasters and the Covid-19 pandemic
-Multi-hazards disaster response and recovery: experiencing natural hazards in pandemic

- New perspectives for emergency response – Lessons learned on crisis mapping from trials and exercises
- Your COP? - I see it differently. - Sharing experience of working with practitioners on COP
- Balancing levels of operational support of map-based tools for facilitating a common operational picture
- Maps and mapping practices in search and rescue operations in northern Norway
- Adoption and use of standard operating procedures for emergency response

Moved to Tuesday 17.00

- Of Critical Importance: Toward a quantitative probabilistic risk assessment framework for critical infrastructure
- Why states are not keeping us safe in the long run: the theory and practice of preventing future societal destabalization