Program 21 - 23 September

- 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

- 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

Jerry Määttä, Jenny Sunesson, Mehreen Murtaza and Todd Lowery – all four combining art and academia – discuss topics such as how art can contribute to the way we understand and imagine the future.
Conference closing session 17.00-17.30 Jörgen Sparf and Rico Kongsager

- 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

- 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

-Preempting the next disaster. The fundamental ambiguity of disaster management
-Autopoietic Socio-Technical Systems: A new lens for understanding anticipation
-Anticipating futures: preparedness under radical uncertainty in Gujarat, India
-Assemblage Theory & Disaster Risk Management: conceptualising disasters-in-the-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 

Professor Ben Anderson is a cultural-political geographer at Durham University, UK. Throughout his empirical work, he is concerned with how futures are encountered, related to, and made present through ordinary affects, including hope and boredom.
Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt is an associate professor of Japanese modern literature at Nagoya University, Japan, whose work has focused on geographies of marginality and marginalization in contemporary Japanese literature.

Rebecca Bryant is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. She is an anthropologist of politics and law whose work has focused on ethnic conflict and displacement, border practices, post-conflict reconciliation, and contested sovereignty on both sides of the Cyprus Green Line, as well as in Turkey. Temporality has been a theme throughout all of her research, whether in her writings on the politics of the past and historical reconciliation or, more recently, on the temporal “stuckness” of citizens of unrecognized states.
Nick Wiltsher is a philosopher, working as an associate senior lecturer at Uppsala University in Sweden.

- 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

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.