Workshop 3: Antarctica and the rights of nature: Historical, legal, and philosophical perspectives

Wednesday 24^th of August

08.00 Bus from Scandic Holberg

09.45-10.00 Coffee and welcome

10.00-10.50 Kees Bastmeijer & Elena-Laura Álvarez Ortega, “A Right to Integrity for Antarctica” (Commentator: Yelena Yermakova)

11.00-11.50 Cormac Cullinan (via zoom), “The Antarctic Realm: Exploring the Potential of Antarctica as a Sovereign Entity” (Commentator: Alejandra Mancilla)

12.15-13.15 Lunch

13.15-14.05 Kati Lindström (co-authored with Lize-Marié Hansen van der Watt), “Who saved Antarctica? On the Heroic Era of Environmental NGOs in the Antarctic politics” (Commentator: Klaus Dodds, via zoom)

14.15-15.05 Dominic Lenzi, “Environmental Ethics and the ‘Relational Turn’ in Sustainability” (Commentator: Libby Robin)

15.05-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-16.20 Tirza Meyer, “Marine Biodiversity and the Seabed Outside National Jurisdiction during UNCLOS – Examining References to Antarctica” (Commentator: Kerstin Reibold)

16.20-19.00 Walk and talk

19.00 Dinner

Thursday 25^th of August

09.30-10.20 Eva Meijer (via zoom), “Asking the Penguins and the Whales: Multispecies Deliberation about the Future of Antarctica” (Commentator: Markku Oksanen)

10.20-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-11.50 Patrik Baard, “Are Rights of Nature Manifesto Rights (and Is that a Problem)?” (Commentator: Fabian Schuppert)

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-13.50 Anna Wienhues & Alfonso Donoso, “Reparations after Species Extinctions: Interspecies Justice and the Loss of Ecological Space” (Commentator: Ignacio Cardone)

14.00-14.50 Lize-Marié Hansen van der Watt (co-authored with Kati Lindström), “Non-native Species and the Rights of Nature in the Sub-Antarctic and its influence on Biosecurity Measures in the ATS” (Commentator: Hanne Nielsen)

14.50-15.30 Coffee break

15.30-16.20 Margaret Moore (via zoom), “Limits and Loss of Territorial Rights:  Biodiversity, Climate Justice and Territorial Rights-Forfeiture” (Commentator: Patrik Baard)

16.30-17.20 Jennifer Jacquet (via zoom), “Antarctica without Us: Raising Ambition for the Preservation of the Most Pristine Continent on Earth” (Commentator: Ricardo Roura)

19.00 Dinner

Friday 26^th of August

09.30-10.20 Vicky Nuviala, “Fragile and Wild. Culture-Nature relationship through the lens of Antarctic Architecture” (Commentator: Roman Khandozhko)

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-11.50 Lyn Goldsworthy (via zoom), “Implementing Rights of Nature for the Southern Ocean: Impediments and Opportunities” (Commentator: Alan Hemmings, via zoom)

12.00-13.00 Lunch

13.00-14.30 Peder Roberts and Alejandra Mancilla, wrap up. What does this all mean for understanding the politics of environmental change in the polar regions? And what should it mean for our understanding of territorial rights and rights over “natural resources” in times of geographic and climatic change?

14.45 Bus to Scandic Holberg. Free afternoon.