Eco‑Democracy Symposium 16–18 juni 2025

The research group Critical Perspectives on Educational Research (KUF) invites you to an international symposium on eco-democracy and education. For three days, researchers will gather to explore how eco-democracy can be understood and translated into educational research and practice. As part of this, we will be broadcasting some key-note lectures (half-hour long open lectures including 10 min for questions and reflections) from Zoom.

Key-note lectures

Monday 13.00 - 14.30. 

From community formation to assemblages in citizenship education: a tentative argument for conceptual reuse and recycling.

Elin Sæther, associate professor in education at University of Oslo, Norway.

How can we understand the political nature of eco-democracy? 

Ásgeir Tryggvason, associate professor in education at Örebro University, Sweden, and coordinator for the research environment (ESERGO).  

Voices of Nature: Exploring eco-democratic education in, with and for nature. 

Michael Paulsen, associate professor at University of southern Denmark, Centre for understanding human relationships with the environment (CUHRE).

Tuesday 09.00 - 10.00:

Mapping the ontological and epistemological attributes of eco-democracy with posthumanism, new materialist and indigenous philosophical approaches: a cartography. 

Karen Malone, professor of environmental philosophy, sustainability and nature studies in the School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. 

Transgressive learning and environmental justice:  Process and love in ecodemocracy. 

Heila Lotz-Sisitka, distinguished professor at Environmental learning and research centre, Rhodes university, South Africa, and SARChI chair: Global change and social learning systems.