WHERE: Department of Geography,

University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.

 

Please see here for abstracts.

 

MONDAY 19th JUNE

4-5pm

Opening keynote, Salvatore Engel-di Mauro

 

 

TUESDAY 20th JUNE

9am

Opening

 

9.30am - 12:30pm

Presentations

• Germain Meulemans, "Urban pedogeneses: an ethnography of the co-constitution of urbanites and city soils."

• Kate Scow, "Life underground; how the other half lives."

• Sebastian Ureta, "Are you alive? Testing and tasting soils’ toxic vitalities in a Chilean lab"

• Tom Sizmur, "What have the earthworms ever done for us?"

• Daniel Münster, "Gut and Soil: Multispecies Belonging and Specter of Nativism in Zero Budget Natural Farming."

• Jenny Goldstein, "Degradation nightmare or development dream: Recalcitrant peat soil and postcolonial science in Southeast Asia."

• Anne O'Brien, "Instrumental reason and care for soil in regenerative land stewardship."

 

1.15pm - 2.15 pm

Keynote, Kristina Lyons.

 

WEDNESDAY 21st JUNE

 

9:30am-12:30 pm

Presentations

• Elizabeth Stockdale, "Will measuring soil health lead to healthier soils on UK farms?"

• Claude Levi Van Sant, "“The Long-Time Requirements of the Nation”:   US Soil Surveys and the Political Ecology of White Supremacy"

• Stephen Nortcliff, "Soil science: Changing perspectives from the inside and the outside"

• Steve Banwart, "Soil Functions - the heart of Earth’s Critical Zone".

• Nicolas Derungs, "Developing (in)effective policies: the case of soil erosion problem in Switzerland."

• Duncan Cameron, "Managing soils for sustainable agriculture".

 

2pm-3pm

Keynote, Bruno Latour

 

3pm-4pm

Panel debate and closing remarks