Program 21 - 23 September

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

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.

- 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

- 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

- 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 

- 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

- Forest fires and landscape identity - values, meanings and engagement in local communities
- After the fire? Practices and perceptions of wildfire risk education in Portugal
- From vulnerability to transformation of gender role: Photo voice experience of Sundarbans’ women amidst climate change

- Stay at home – Crisis Management and Preparedness in a Nursing home by using a Digital Twin
- Resilience of the Blood Supply in the Face of Cascading Disasters – Results from a Case Study in South Africa
- Development of IoT based Early Warning System and strengthening the coastal climate resilience
- Leadership for crisis management: flexibility in curriculum design for competence development

- International collaboration for meeting the challenges of huge and cascading disasters
- Covid Response: evaluating political leadership in the MENA region
- Natech risk management in tailing dam

- Care Regimes, Capitalism and COVID-19: Feminist Perspectives on the Governance of Care during the Corona Pandemic
- Determinants of social care organisations’ abilities to provide help in times of COVID-19 pandemic
- Decentralized support infrastructure and psychosocial support in the COVID-19 pandemic

- The shortcomings of the regulatory state and its corporate actors in allocating resident physicians in rural areas in Germany
- Securitization and Economization of hospitals – structural aspects of individual health care and their challenges
- Crisis vulnerability assessment tool considering human and technological structures as well as social support through private relations and state actors

- Descriptive Study of the Agility and Resilience of the Canadian Humanitarian Aid Sector in the Time of COVID-19
- Explaining Covid-19 crisis response strategies from a Resource Based View
- Crisis Management, Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Management in Dealing with the Migrant and Refugee Crisis 2015/16
- What is trust in a pandemic? Exploring the role of trust in technology, data, and good governance as part of pandemic response
- Organizational competences for innovation and resilience: Insights from a research project on crisis management during Covid19 in five European countries