Program 21 - 23 September

- 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

- When resources aren't enough: Rural (disaster) volunteerism as a compensatory act 
- Delaware Public Libraries in Times of COVID-19. How branch libraries in Sussex County adapted their programming to support their communities
- A geospatial web app to localize disaster risk management through open-source data collection, sharing, and mapping 
- Crisis volunteerism during the Covid-19 Crisis - exploring adaptation processes 

- Dynamics of Collaboration: Exploring the Relationship Between Civil Society Organizations Caring for Refugees in Sweden
- Incorporating Histories: How Social Movements in Mexico City Avoid Solidarity
- Why volunteering? –Different reasons for getting involved
- Interrogating Household Preparedness: Gender, Race, and Resourcefulness in the Face of Disaster
- Critical Infrastructure Governance for Risk and Crisis Management - The Role of Regional Airports in Remote Areas

- When COVID-19 meets conflict: Politics and locally-led responses to the pandemic in fragile and conflict-affected states
- Community organization for the protection of cultural heritage in the aftermath of disasters
- Local communities responding to wildfires

- 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

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.

- Measuring Performance in Civil Contingency Management
- Novel Business Models, Digitalization and AI in Public-Private Critical Infrastructure Financialization: An Innovative Crisis Trinity?
- From tyche to Wild Cards: Ancient Inspirations for Coping with the Unexpected
- Contingency and the inadequacy of cognitive understanding of threats

- Disasters as Socionatural Displacements: time, materiality and affect
- Towards a Geopoetics of Disaster: The Place of Glissant in Postcolonial Disaster Studies
- Disasters as Betrayal
- Return to Surf: Re-understanding the Sea among Local Surfers in Post-Tsunami Settings

- 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

- 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

- The social (trans-)formation of risks in humanitarian project networks in South Sudan
- Reducing volcanic risk: who, how and for what? Anthropological approach to the perspectives of Mapuche communities in southern Chile
- Organisational narratives of past events and their implications for disaster preparation in civil protection and emergency management
- Towards a richer understanding of Kosi river floods in Bihar, India: Deploying anthropological perspective

- Putting out Fires: A Multiple Streams Analysis
- 10 years of recovery process in Tōhoku through the eyes of the storytellers of the disaster
- The Oakland Berkeley Firestorm: A Thirty Year Chronicle of Emotions, Effects, and Their Import

- Situating ‘Verano Boricua’ Within Puerto Rico’s Financial Debt Crisis and Hurricane Maria Recovery Process
-- Cycles of Disasters, Long-term Recovery, and Identity: How Biloxi’s Recovery from Hurricane Katrina Started in 1969

- The importance of context-relevant feminist perspectives in disaster studies. A case of multi-actor research on forest fires involving the Atikamekw First Nation
- Giving voice to the voiceless: connecting graduate students with High School students by incubating DRR plans through participatory mapping
- Considerations for creating equitable and inclusive communication campaigns associated with ShakeAlert, the Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States
- Everyday hazards in the experience of women who inhabit precarious settlements

- Community Knowledge Adoption Through Social Media: Reconstructing Saint-Martin After Hurricane Irma
 -Cross-country use of participatory research methods in practice to enhance inclusive decision making

- 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 

- 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

- 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

- Harmonization of Terminology for Emergency Management
- Using quantitative data effectively to manage crises
- Dosed access to the common operational picture
- Future Full-Scale Digital Exercise for Emergency Management
- SCATTER (Strategische Patientenverlegung - Strategical transfer of patients) A computer-based simulation of inter-hospital transfer of critically ill patients