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Thursday
11.00 Welcome words & Introduction to the conference: Lili Di Puppo, Arnab Roy Chowdhury & Christian Froehlich
11.15 The topography of debt: Notes on exchange theory, Siberian Indigenous trade and political ecology of imperial space (Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, HSE University, Saint Petersburg)
12.15 Changing Human-Landscape Relations, Continuity and Identity (Chair: Anna Strelnikova, HSE University, Moscow)
– Anna Varfolomeeva (University of Helsinki): Articulations of indigeneity in mining landscapes: Local visions of resource extraction in Northwestern Russia and Siberia
– Elizaveta Polukhina (HSE University, Moscow): Material culture of industrial neighborhoods: Housing, practices and identities in post-Soviet Russia
– Tobias Köllner (Private Universität Witten): A post-socialist palimpsest: On the restitution of property and the making of ‘authentic’ landscapes in contemporary Russia
13.45 Lunch Break
15.00 Land, Extraction and Memories of the Past (Chair: Victor Albert, HSE University, Moscow)
– Maurizio Totaro (Ghent University): Ancestral Petroscape: Oil, territory, and nationalism in Western Kazakhstan
– Manjusha Nair (George Mason University): Between land and the market: Mobilizations against land acquisition in India
– Elizabeth Bishop (Texas State University): Spaces of the Aswan high dam: Kremenchuk
16.30 Coffee Break
17.00 Postsocialist/postcolonial tempolocalities and decolonial sensibilities – towards the refuturing communities of change (Madina Tlostanova, Linköping University)
18.00 Dinner
Friday
11.30 Land use planning, regimes of dispossession, and the means of looting in Western India (Kenneth Bo Nielsen, University of Oslo)
12.30 Mobilization, (Im)material Resources and Local Cosmologies I (Chair: Daria Tereshina, HSE University, Moscow)
– Xeniya Prilutskaya (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen): Air quality advocacy NGO in Bishkek and urban youth culture
– Anna Dupuy (EHESS-LAS): Genghis Khan, the environmentalist: Reinterpretation of Mongolian cosmologies through the “waste problem”
13.30 Lunch break
14.30 Mobilization, (Im)material Resources and Local Cosmologies II (Chair: Daria Tereshina, HSE University, Moscow)
– Shayan Shokrgozar (University of Stavanger, Norway): Desert geographies: Solar energy geographies of just transitions
– Jesko Schmoller (Humboldt University): The inner life of Toratau: Reviving tradition in the Southern Urals
15.30 Exclusionary extraction and energy geographies of just transitions (Siddharth Sareen, University of Stavanger, Norway)
16.00 Coffee Break
17.00 Final Roundtable: What does the dual post-Soviet / post-colonial lens tell us about environmental debates and movements beyond the Western world?
18.00 Dinner
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Environment, Space and Identity in the Eurasian Region 