INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF POLITICAL ECOLOGY
PROGRAM 2026
Monday 29.6.
DAY ONE
10:00 Registration
11:00 Keynote
11:30 Lecture
14:00 Panel Speech
15:30 Participatory Workshop
18:00 Mingling, Drinks & Appetizers
Tuesday 30.6.
DAY TWO
9:00 Lecture
11:00 Lecture
14:00 Lecture
16:00 Doctoral Student Presentations
17:30 Poster Fair
Evening hangout - Bar SEM
Wednesday 1.7.
DAY THREE
9:00 Lecture
11:00 Lecture
14:00 Roundtable Discussion
16:00 Doctoral Student Presentations
17:30 Self-hosted Debates
Evening hangout - Bar SEM
Thursday 2.7.
DAY FOUR
9:00 Lecture
11:00 Live Interview
12:30 Closing general discussion
16:00 Extra Activities
MARTÍN LALLANA
is an eco-socialist militant, a member of the editorial team of the magazine Viento Sur, and has published numerous articles on strategic discussion and an ecological transition officer of the LAB trade union (Basque Country).With a background in industrial engineering and renewable energy, he worked as a researcher at the University of Zaragoza. He has produced reports on the future demand for metals for Spain’s energy transition (Ecologistas en Acción, 2021; Friends of the Earth Spain, 2023).
MANUELA ZECHNER
is a researcher, educator and organiser. She co-founded the Common Ecologies school, produces the Earthcare Fieldcast and is affiliated with the Centre for Applied Ecological Thinking at Copenhagen University. Her book The Plot is on Fire: Care Struggles after Progress, Plantation and Patriarchy has just been published by Pluto Press.
HENRIQUE TAHAN NOVAES
is Professor of Philosophy and Sciences at UNESP (São Paulo State University), Brazil. He teaches and researches at the intersection of philosophy, social science, and education. He published Associated Labor and Production in the Age of Barbarism: Education Beyond Capital, a critical examination of associated labour, self-management practices and the potential for education beyond capitalist frameworks. He is also co-author of Destructive Production, Agroecology and Schools of Agroecology in Brazil, which explores struggles against destructive production and the development of agroecological alternatives within Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement.
ANDREA GHELFI
is a researcher in environmental and territorial sociology at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Florence. His studies and publications combine an interest in agroecology and ecological movements with theoretical research on the emergence of a new ecological materialism. Among his publications, we can mention La Condizione Ecologica and his editorial work on Connessioni ecologiche. His publications in English include articles Ungovernable Earth: Resurgence, Translocal Infrastructures and More-than-Social Movements and Ecological Transition: What It Is and How to Do It.
ORGANISERS
Contact
- info@politicalecology-ljubljana.si
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LIFE IP CARE4CLIMATE (LIFE17 IPC/SI/000007) is an integrated project, financed by the European Comission's LIFE Programme, the Slovenian Climate Fund and partners' own contributions.
The opinions expressed in this document are those of the author(s) only and should not be considered as representative of the European Union's official position.
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