As a continuation of the symposium "Urban-Industrial Entanglements in Crisis" from February 2023, the symposium "City / Energy Relations in Transformation" will take place at the European Humanities University, Vilnius.

Having recently returned from Fallujah, Iraq, in this ETROD-session, Kali Rubaii will discuss two figures of toxic exposure receiving popular attention since the US invasion and military occupation: burn pits and birth defects.

We are happy to present you the program and further information for our symposium in Vilnius.

The Symposium is a context to reflect on and discuss urban-industrial entanglements in the course of the current European energy crisis. It is also an occasion to look at fragilities and moments of relations between ‘urban’ and ‘industrial’ in a wider geography.

In this ETROD session Prof. Andrea Ballestero proposes a conversation around water, the casual politics of techno-legal action, and our contemporary predicaments with extraction as a geosocial formation, combining published work and her ongoing research.

In the first ETROD session of the new year we welcome Dr Robert Pijpers (Hamburg University) who will share his research on ´In-depth geopolitics: between socio-spatial arrangements and the politics of verticality´.

In this ETROD session Prof. Laura Watts will share insights from her long-term ethnographic engagement with the making of local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, on the islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland.

In this session of the ETROD (Extractivism and Transition Research Online Dialogues) series, Beril Ocaklı will take the audience for a deep dive into extractivism and linked socionatural struggles in post-Soviet geographies.

In this session Anna Frohn Pedersen will provide insights into her research on artisanal gold mining in Tanzania. We are going to discuss two different outputs from her research: a film and a research paper that both deal with the risks, challenges and uncertainty that are embedded in mining but also the hopes and dreams it invokes.

ETROD & CityIndustries Extractivism and Transition Research Online Dialogue. Please register with etrod@zirs.uni-halle.de

ETROD & CityIndustries Extractivism and Transition Research Online Dialogue. Please register with etrod@zirs.uni-halle.de

ETROD & CityIndustries Extractivism and Transition Research Online Dialogue. Please register with etrod@zirs.uni-halle.de

This Book is the result of five applied urbanist summer schools on the future of nuclear town of Visaginas, organized by the European Humanities University’s Laboratory of Critical Urbanism annually from 2016 to 2020. We look at space/society relations inherent in nuclear development in order to build a research and design scaffolding for nuclear towns after their productive phase.

From March 18, 2020 until September 23, 2021 the ETROD & CityIndustries online dialogue series on Extractivism and Transition will take place.

This conference investigates urban industrial entanglements as sites of endurance, renewal and change. Instead of thinking in dual categories such as industrial/postindustrial cities, new/old industries, modern/neoliberal subjectivities, and different modes of production, we aim to highlight multiple continuities, transformations, and innovations. We propose to investigate those entanglements as situated relational spaces.

Called the Extractivism and Transition Research Online Dialogues (ETROD), we will invite an academic every month to discuss one of her/his published paper with the group. The roughly 90 minute session will be a format to particularly render concepts more precise and to critically engage with theories related to energy consumption, resource extraction, their environmental consequences and transformation processes.