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

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.

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.

- 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 

-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

- 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

- 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

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

- 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

- 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

- Gender in disaster risk reduction before a disaster: case studies from Fukuoka, Japan
- Women's invisible work in disaster contexts: Gender norms in speech on women's work after a forest fire in Sweden
- Gender difference in risk perception of public health crisis
- Oil, Religion, Manuel and Emergency Management: about 7 exercises showing that difference matters
- Expressions of gender – in a mono gendered setting 

- 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

-Architecture as a Material Social Record: Drawing an Atlas of Athenian Crises
-Exploring how crises are visualized in design activism campaigns
-Art/Science Collaboration as  a Critical Technical Practice in Disaster Research
-“Barricades, Blocks, and Borders: Lines of Division and Lines of Communication in Contested Urban Spaces”
-Street Art and the ‘Right to the City’ in a Fragmented Metropolis: The Case of Beirut

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- 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

- Methodology, Objectivity and Cultural Specificity in Multimethod Disaster Studies: Insights from the 2017 Bihar Floods Study
- Causal modelling of knowing how to prepare: A concept for a ‘strategic Bayesian operations room’ exercise
- How to get a feel for the (unknown) real? – Emergency exercises and the production of synthetic experience