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              9:00 - 9:30 (30min) 
                        
                            Breakfast                         
                                                           Amphi Veron
                                                                                                                                                ›9:30 (30min) 
                                                                
                                    Official opening of the conference
                                                                             
                                                            - Pascal Picard, Vice President (Research), Le Mans Université, Alliance Colours - Alison Stowell, Organiser of Opening the bin 3, University of Lancaster - Nathalie Lazaric, Director of the French CNRS network (GDR) “Waste, Values and Societies” - Jannick Rumeau, Co-director of the “PEPR Recycling” national research programme - Adeline Pierrat, Jean-Baptiste Bahers & Mathieu Durand, OTB4 organisers  9:30 - 10:00 (30min) 
                        
                            Official opening of the conference                         
                                                                            -	Pascal Picard, Vice President (Research), Le Mans Université, Alliance Colours -	Alison Stowell, Organiser of Opening the bin 3, University of Lancaster -	Nathalie Lazaric, Director of the French CNRS network (GDR) “Waste, Values and Societies” -	Jannick Rumeau, Co-director of the “PEPR Recycling” national research programme -	Adeline Pierrat, Jean-Baptiste Bahers & Mathieu Durand, OTB4 organisers 
                                                                                                                    ›10:00 (15min) 
                                                                
                                                             10:00 - 10:15 (15min) 
                        
                            PhD workshop review                                                                
                                                                                                                                             10:15 - 10:55 (40min) 
                        
                            Introductory keynote: Key note #1                          
                                                           Amphi Veron
                                                                                Baptiste Monsaigeon 
                                                                                                                    ›10:55 (25min) 
                                                                
                                                             10:55 - 11:20 (25min) 
                        
                            Coffee break                         
                                                                                                                                            ›11:20 (1h15) 
                                                                
                                    Session 1.1 - Metabolism 
                                                                             
                                                                    Invisible waste, virtuous waste. Promoting industrial agriculture by managing its toxic by-products. Prete Giovanni (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) What's essential is invisible to the eye: plasticulture and microplastic waste in French agricultural soils. Dufour Etienne, Monsaingeon Baptiste (Université de Reims, CNRS) Embracing Indeterminacy: On land-base plastics emission models into the marine environment. Becker Christoph (VITO) › Amphi Veron 
                                                             11:20 - 12:35 (1h15) 
                        
                            Session 1.1 - Metabolism                          
                                                           Amphi Veron
                                                                                 Invisible waste, virtuous waste. Promoting industrial agriculture by managing its toxic by-products. Prete Giovanni (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)  What's essential is invisible to the eye: plasticulture and microplastic waste in French agricultural soils. Dufour Etienne, Monsaingeon Baptiste (Université de Reims, CNRS)  Embracing Indeterminacy: On land-base plastics emission models into the marine environment. Becker Christoph (VITO) 
                                                                                                                    ›11:20 (1h15) 
                                                                
                                    Session 1.2 - Grassroot 
                                                                             
                                                                    From Waste to Wardrobe: Exploring Consumer Acceptance of Biowaste-Dyed Sustainable Fashion. Lamy Arnaud, Costa Sandrine (INRAE) Becoming waste: domestic practices and pathways of clothing possessions. Assima Chantal, Herbert Maud (Université de Lille) Is Waste Easy? Infrastructure Legibility and Panic Rooms. Julian Porras (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Middha Bhavna, Horne Ralph (RMIT University Australia) › Courthardy 
                                                             11:20 - 12:35 (1h15) 
                        
                            Session 1.2 - Grassroot                          
                                                           Courthardy
                                                                                From Waste to Wardrobe: Exploring Consumer Acceptance of Biowaste-Dyed Sustainable Fashion. Lamy Arnaud, Costa Sandrine (INRAE) Becoming waste: domestic practices and pathways of clothing possessions. Assima Chantal, Herbert Maud (Université de Lille)  Is Waste Easy? Infrastructure Legibility and Panic Rooms. Julian Porras (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Middha Bhavna, Horne Ralph (RMIT University Australia) 
                                                                                                                    ›11:20 (1h15) 
                                                                
                                    Session 1.3 - Justice
                                                                             
                                                                    Waste, Power, and Urban Inequality: The Politics of Exclusion in Mangaung South Africa's Backyard Dwellings. Schenck Catherina, Nyakabawu Shingi (University of the Western Cape) Domestic space, a detrital and rudological space, a vector of environmental and sociological inequalities. Buchot Nathalie (Le Mans Université) Guiding local governments through the ecological transition: critical issues and strategies for assessing and improving local circular policies. Giulia Di Martino (Università di Palermo) › Rabelais 
                                                             11:20 - 12:35 (1h15) 
                        
                            Session 1.3 - Justice                         
                                                           Rabelais
                                                                                Waste, Power, and Urban Inequality: The Politics of Exclusion in Mangaung South Africa's Backyard Dwellings. Schenck Catherina, Nyakabawu Shingi (University of the Western Cape)  Domestic space, a detrital and rudological space, a vector of environmental and sociological inequalities. Buchot Nathalie (Le Mans Université)  Guiding local governments through the ecological transition: critical issues and strategies for assessing and improving local circular policies. Giulia Di Martino (Università di Palermo) 
                                                                                                                    ›11:20 (1h15) 
                                                                
                                    Session 1.4 - Livelihoods
                                                                             
                                                                    Gendering Waste in a Casted Labour: Waste Infrastructures and Waste Workers' Shifting Gendered Subjectivities. Raj Rahul (Sheffield University) The feminisation of waste jobs: dynamics at work in the WEEE sector and presentation of a case study. Van Nieuwenhuyse Thomas, Neau Claire, Le Lay Stéhane (Rudologia) The House that Plastic Built: Socio-Material Transformation and Working Rhythms in Bogota's Waste Picker Plastics Plants. O’Hare Patrick (St-andrews University) › Racan 
                                                             11:20 - 12:35 (1h15) 
                        
                            Session 1.4 - Livelihoods                         
                                                           Racan
                                                                                Gendering Waste in a Casted Labour: Waste Infrastructures and Waste Workers' Shifting Gendered Subjectivities. Raj Rahul (Sheffield University)  The feminisation of waste jobs: dynamics at work in the WEEE sector and presentation of a case study. Van Nieuwenhuyse Thomas, Neau Claire, Le Lay Stéhane (Rudologia)  The House that Plastic Built: Socio-Material Transformation and Working Rhythms in Bogota's Waste Picker Plastics Plants. O’Hare Patrick (St-andrews University) 
                                                                                                                    ›12:35 (1h25) 
                                                                
                                                             12:35 - 14:00 (1h25) 
                        
                            Lunch                         
                                                                                                                                            ›14:00 (1h30) 
                                                                
                                    Session 2.1 - Special session: Food waste 1
                                                                             
                                                                    Mexico City's food/waste landscapes: food waste journeys from shops and restaurants to compost infrastructures. Guibrunet Louise (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico) Bortolotti Andrea (Politecnico di Milano) From the ideal of circularity to the political and imperceptible materiality of urban metabolism: organic matter circulations and urban agriculture in Congo. Régeard Noémie (Le Mans Université) Too good to go: Kliekjes and buurtkastjes as shared forms of frugality in the Netherlands. Melles Maike (Czech Academy of Sciences) Convenor: Petr Jehlicka › Amphi Veron 
                                                             14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) 
                        
                            Session 2.1 - Special session: Food waste 1                         
                                                           Amphi Veron
                                                                                 Mexico City's food/waste landscapes: food waste journeys from shops and restaurants to compost infrastructures.  Guibrunet Louise (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico) Bortolotti Andrea (Politecnico di Milano)  From the ideal of circularity to the political and imperceptible materiality of urban metabolism: organic matter circulations and urban agriculture in Congo. Régeard Noémie (Le Mans Université)  Too good to go: Kliekjes and buurtkastjes as shared forms of frugality in the Netherlands. Melles Maike (Czech Academy of Sciences)  Convenor: Petr Jehlicka 
                                                                                                                    ›14:00 (1h30) 
                                                                
                                    Session 2.2 - Epistemological 1
                                                                             
                                                                    Anthropocene Ouroboros: Shimmying Plastics and the Contamination of Time. Abrahms-Kavunenko Saskia (Kyoto University) Are the ”dogsbody” of Homo detritus the despised drudges of the Capitalocene? The place and role of pathic rationality in the metabolic rift. Le Lay Stéphane What Waste Reveals About Capitalism's Legal Infrastructure. Thomas Garance (Science Po Paris) Green Contradictions. Fevrier Kesha (Queen’s University) › Courthardy 
                                                             14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) 
                        
                            Session 2.2 - Epistemological 1                         
                                                           Courthardy
                                                                                 Anthropocene Ouroboros: Shimmying Plastics and the Contamination of Time. Abrahms-Kavunenko Saskia (Kyoto University)  Are the ”dogsbody” of Homo detritus the despised drudges of the Capitalocene? The place and role of pathic rationality in the metabolic rift. Le Lay Stéphane  What Waste Reveals About Capitalism's Legal Infrastructure. Thomas Garance (Science Po Paris)  Green Contradictions. Fevrier Kesha (Queen’s University) 
                                                                                                                    ›14:00 (1h30) 
                                                                
                                    Session 2.3 - Livelihoods 2
                                                                             
                                                                    Waste Picking as Familial Inheritance and Pathway of Self-Determination: The case of Catadoras and Catadores in Porto Alegre. Carbone Ginevra (Università degli Studi di Trieste) Waste and Interdependence: Everyday Relations Between Informal Recyclers and Households in Barcelona. Julian Porras, Cattaneo Claudio, Demaria Federico, Vico Daniele (Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Value of waste: Contestations and collaborations between waste pickers and producers. Raphael Riya (Lund Uniersity) › Rabelais 
                                                             14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) 
                        
                            Session 2.3 - Livelihoods 2                         
                                                           Rabelais
                                                                                Waste Picking as Familial Inheritance and Pathway of Self-Determination: The case of Catadoras and Catadores in Porto Alegre. Carbone Ginevra (Università degli Studi di Trieste)  Waste and Interdependence: Everyday Relations Between Informal Recyclers and Households in Barcelona. Julian Porras, Cattaneo Claudio, Demaria Federico, Vico Daniele (Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)  Value of waste: Contestations and collaborations between waste pickers and producers. Raphael Riya (Lund Uniersity) 
                                                                                                                    ›14:00 (1h30) 
                                                                
                                    Session 2.4 - Grassroot 2
                                                                             
                                                                    The role of victims and citizens in disaster waste management. Marchesini Gaïa (université Gustave Eiffel) Integrating Organic Residual Biomass into Energy Policy: Community Energy, Popular Economy, and Waste Management in Colombia. Luisa Fernanda Tovar Cortés (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) Affect as equaliser: ‘other-castes' and the changing dynamics of caste-based sanitary labour in India. Yadav Avinay (University of London) Seeing waste like a city: Towards a research agenda for waste as urban phenomenon. Cator Charlotte (Copenhagen Business School) › Rabelais 
                                                             14:00 - 15:30 (1h30) 
                        
                            Session 2.4 - Grassroot 2                         
                                                           Rabelais
                                                                                The role of victims and citizens in disaster waste management. Marchesini Gaïa (université Gustave Eiffel)  Integrating Organic Residual Biomass into Energy Policy: Community Energy, Popular Economy, and Waste Management in Colombia. Luisa Fernanda Tovar Cortés (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)  Affect as equaliser: ‘other-castes' and the changing dynamics of caste-based sanitary labour in India. Yadav Avinay (University of London)  Seeing waste like a city: Towards a research agenda for waste as urban phenomenon. Cator Charlotte (Copenhagen Business School) 
                                                                                                                    ›15:30 (30min) 
                                                                
                                                             15:30 - 16:00 (30min) 
                        
                            Coffee break                         
                                                                                                                                            ›16:00 (1h30) 
                                                                
                                    Session 3.1 - Special session: Food waste 2
                                                                             
                                                                    The Implications of Taking Urban Composting Out of the Bin. Yankova Lilyana (Ensci) Social Representations of Composting: Insights from Free Association Technique. Ayadi Nawel (Université de Tunis), Gonzalez Christine (Le Mans Université), Lapeyre Alexandre (Université de Toulouse) Feeding on Waste: Circular Grassroots Hope or Neoliberal Stopgap? Zapata Campos María José, Zapata Patrik (University of Gothenburg) Household food waste, frugality and Eastern Europe: Countering the wasteful consumer hegemony from the epistemic periphery. Jehlicka Petr, Sosna Daniel (Csech Academy of Sciences), Sovova Lucie (Wageningen University & Research), Veen Esther (University of Applied Sciences) Convenor: Maike Melles & Daniel Soasna › Amphi Veron 
                                                             16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) 
                        
                            Session 3.1 - Special session: Food waste 2                         
                                                           Amphi Veron
                                                                                The Implications of Taking Urban Composting Out of the Bin. Yankova Lilyana (Ensci)  Social Representations of Composting: Insights from Free Association Technique. Ayadi Nawel (Université de Tunis), Gonzalez Christine (Le Mans Université), Lapeyre Alexandre (Université de Toulouse)  Feeding on Waste: Circular Grassroots Hope or Neoliberal Stopgap? Zapata Campos María José, Zapata Patrik (University of Gothenburg)  Household food waste, frugality and Eastern Europe: Countering the wasteful consumer hegemony from the epistemic periphery. Jehlicka Petr, Sosna Daniel (Csech Academy of Sciences), Sovova Lucie (Wageningen University & Research), Veen Esther (University of Applied Sciences)  Convenor: Maike Melles & Daniel Soasna 
                                                                                                                    ›16:00 (1h30) 
                                                                
                                    Session 3.2 - Justice 2
                                                                             
                                                                    Cleaning to Reclaim : Militant Cleanups of Public Spaces during the #EndSARS Movement in Lagos (Nigeria). Guitard Emilie (CNRS), Anthony Obayom (National Geographic Explorer Nigeria) Environmental justice in the waste management sector: a transdisciplinary study in Brussels. Pease Elena, Gautier Stephanie, Onan Lucas, Dedeurwaerdere Tom (UC Louvain) Contested Waste. Demaria Federico, Vico Daniele (Universitat de Barcelona) Gendering circular economy policy in Scotland. Colley Kathryn & al. (Hutton Institute) › Courthardy 
                                                             16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) 
                        
                            Session 3.2 - Justice 2                         
                                                           Courthardy
                                                                                Cleaning to Reclaim : Militant Cleanups of Public Spaces during the #EndSARS Movement in Lagos (Nigeria). Guitard Emilie (CNRS), Anthony Obayom (National Geographic Explorer Nigeria)  Environmental justice in the waste management sector: a transdisciplinary study in Brussels. Pease Elena, Gautier Stephanie, Onan Lucas, Dedeurwaerdere Tom (UC Louvain)   Contested Waste. Demaria Federico, Vico Daniele (Universitat de Barcelona)  Gendering circular economy policy in Scotland. Colley Kathryn & al. (Hutton Institute) 
                                                                                                                    ›16:00 (1h30) 
                                                                
                                    Session 3.3 - Metabolism 2
                                                                             
                                                                    The Value of Green Waste: Exploitation and Commodification in a Composting Plant in Italy. Di Cecco Simone (Université Paris Cité) Building material reuse: a case study from Toulouse. Besset Claire (Université Toulouse 2) The difficult complementarity of local management and centralized management of urban household food waste in France. An analysis through the proximity framework. Gouchon Maeliss (Université de Reims) Institutional Work in the Rudological Public Order: A Comparative Perspective from Three European Coastal Cities. Camino Alexandre (La Rochelle Université) › Rabelais 
                                                             16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) 
                        
                            Session 3.3 - Metabolism 2                         
                                                           Rabelais
                                                                                The Value of Green Waste: Exploitation and Commodification in a Composting Plant in Italy. Di Cecco Simone (Université Paris Cité)  Building material reuse: a case study from Toulouse. Besset Claire (Université Toulouse 2)  The difficult complementarity of local management and centralized management of urban household food waste in France. An analysis through the proximity framework. Gouchon Maeliss (Université de Reims)  Institutional Work in the Rudological Public Order: A Comparative Perspective from Three European Coastal Cities. Camino Alexandre (La Rochelle Université) 
                                                                                                                    ›16:00 (1h30) 
                                                                
                                    Session 3.4 - Epistemological 2
                                                                             
                                                                    Critical waste-based epistemology. Corvellec Hervé (Lund University), Bevan David (Saint Martin’s Institute) Being alongside, living with waste. Olofsson Jennie (Mid Sweden University) What-a-Waste : a serious game to raise awareness of municipal waste reduction. Daniel François-Joseph (Université de Strasbourg) Against an ecology of purity: an intertwined history of negative commons and communities. Lecerf Maulpoix (EHESS) › Racan 
                                                             16:00 - 17:30 (1h30) 
                        
                            Session 3.4 - Epistemological 2                         
                                                           Racan
                                                                                Critical waste-based epistemology. Corvellec Hervé (Lund University), Bevan David (Saint Martin’s Institute)  Being alongside, living with waste. Olofsson Jennie (Mid Sweden University)  What-a-Waste : a serious game to raise awareness of municipal waste reduction. Daniel François-Joseph (Université de Strasbourg)  Against an ecology of purity: an intertwined history of negative commons and communities. Lecerf Maulpoix  (EHESS) 
                                                                                                                     18:00 - 21:00 (3h) 
                        
                            Time to get to “Brasserie La Madeleine” (Tram stop “Republique”) (20 min tramway)                         
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