Tuesday, March 17

13:15–14:00 Welcome and Introduction
Christof Mauch, Frank Reichherzer, Bernd Sommer

14:00–15:30 Panel I: Theorizing and Historicizing Military Metabolism
Moderator: Christof Mauch

“Kamikaze Drone Metabolisms: Exploring the Material Sources, Flows and Sinks of Drone Warfare in the Russo-Ukrainian War”
Lukas Wagner (Marburg University) and Patrick Flamm (Leibniz Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)

“Earthy Geographies of the F-35 Fighter Jet”
Mark Griffiths (University of Newcastle)

“Crystalline Flows in the Thirty Years War: Global Scopes of Handling Saltpeter in a Transitional Phase”
Lisa Kolb (University of Augsburg)

15:30–16:00 Break

16:00–17:30 Panel II: Hegemonic Institutions and Exploitative Technologies
Moderator: Zsuzsanna Ihar

“Sustainability in Action: The Arms Trade, Sustainable Finance, and the Sustaining of Military–Industrial Violence”
Nico Edwards (University of Sussex)

“The Ecological Way of War: The Coloniality of Sustainable Violence”
Italo Brandimarte (King’s College London)

“Legacies of Militarized Vision of Landscapes in Bosnia and Herzegovina”
Mela Žuljević (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography)

17:30–17:45 Walk to the Rachel Carson Center

18:00–18:45 Multimodal Presentation

“Hydrological Warfare in Ukraine: The Irpin and the Dnipro”
Tetiana Gardashuk (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and Francesc Rodríguez (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder))

19:00 Optional Group Dinner (self-paid)

Wednesday, March 18

09:30–11:00 Panel III: Investigative Imaginaries
Moderator: Zsuzsanna Ihar

“Extracting Uranium, Destroying Hózhó: A Virtual-Reality Tour into the Legacy of America’s Military– Industrial Complex”
Dario Fazzi (Leiden University) and Gaetano Di Tommaso (Roosevelt Institute for American Studies)

“When Warfare Ecologies Meet Orbital Politics”
Hayal Akarsu (Utrecht University)

“Critical Militarism Studies and the Cetacean Turn: Feminist Approaches”
Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA)

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break

11:30–13:00 Panel IV: Unseen Ecologies of War
Moderator: Bernd Sommer

“Hydrological Surveillance: Specters of Securitization Along Jerusalem Waters”
Emilie Glazer (King’s College London)

“Green Frontlines: Military Bases and Ecological Intelligence in the Netherlands”
Thijs Jeursen (Utrecht University)

“Concealing Contamination”
Sylvia Faichney (Dumbarton Oaks)

13:00–13:15 Walk to the Rachel Carson Center

13:15–14:30 Joint Lunch at the Rachel Carson Center with short presentations by
Marius Jugel and Florian Fockelmann (Passau University)

14:30–15:15 Workshop I: Reimagining Military Emissions Reporting
Grace Alexander and Ellie Kinney (Conflict and Environment Observatory)

15:30–16:15 Workshop II: Cataloging-in-Place: Noticing the Ecological Consequences of War-Making
Laura Palmer (King’s College London) and Pauline Zerla (American University)

16:15–17:15 Break

17:15–18:30 Evening Event
Moderator: Kerrin Langer
Comment: John McNeill

“War Climate: Emissions, Environmental Violence, and Ukraine”
Lennard de Klerk

19:00 Conference Dinner at Georgenhof

Thursday, March 19

09:30–10:45 Panel V: Ecocide—Norms and Responsibilities
Moderator: Kerrin Langer

“Ecological Violence Control: The War in Ukraine and the Constitutionalization of the Ecocide Norm”
Aron Buzogány (BOKU University)

“Noncombatant Immunity in Environmental War”
Laura Puumala (University of Turku)

“Confronting the Merchants of Death Driving Ecocide and Genocide: Grassroots Initiatives Against the Military–Industrial Complex”
Rimona Afana (Independent Scholar)

10:45–11:15 Break

11:15–12:15 Focus Panel: The Arctic
Moderator: Frank Reichherzer

“Cryo-Conflicts: Mapping Icescapes, Arctic Wargames, and Narrative Gaps of an Unfreezing North”
Brett Simpson (Institute of Current World Affairs, Norway)

“Arctic Science Under Pressure: How War Impacts Climate Target Formation”
Hanna Oosterveen (University of Manchester)

12:15–13:00 Concluding Thoughts

13:00 Brown-Bag Lunch