International Workshop/Conference

Breaking times slow violence, resistence, prefigurative politics

Conferences / Workshops, Ihc seminar room
Carrer de Can Magrans s/n – Inst Història de la Ciència RECERCA
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
08193, Bellaterra Barcelona, España

27 – 28 March 2025

POSTER AND PROGRAMME on the WTI website

This international conference is a collaboration between the PRIN 2022HKE2CY project Justainability and the Slow Violence and Human Rights project led by the University of Bern, World Trade Institute, with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Justainability looks at social innovations generated by communities that have been directly affected by climate change by analysing their experiences in terms of social mobility, knowledge co-production and alternative practices. The research project Slow Violence and Human Rights aims to explore the role of the concept of slow violence in the legal field of access to justice. In addition, the conference is also part of the objectives of the Horizon Europe project HRJust (States’ Practice of Human Rights Justification: a study in civil society engagement and human rights through the lens of gender and intersectionality), which aims to address significant and important gaps in human rights law and to develop a theory of Human Rights as a tool for inclusive civil society engagement in terms of gender and intersectionality.

The conference, which is interdisciplinary in nature, cuts across history, geography, law and sociology, takes place at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, which is at the forefront of the study of the issues addressed.

The aim of the conference is twofold: first, to explore the relationship between violence and the environment in time and space; and second, to explore the human rights implications of the co-existence of different temporalities and how this might impact access to climate justice in terms of “toxic exposure”.

Presentations are organised around the following themes:

1. forms and periodicity of environmental violence;
2. the intersection of time, space and toxic exposure;
3. time and temporalities of human mobilities;
4. emerging strategies to resist denial of access to climate justice.

ORGANISERS
CNR-ISMed
Autonomous University of Barcelona
University of Bern (World Trade Institute)

INFO AND CONTACTS
Elisa Fornalè: elisa.fornale@unibe.ch
Marco Armiero: armiero@icrea.cat
Bruno Venditto: bruno.venditto@cnr.it