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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 (40min)
Introductory keynote: Key note #1
Introductory keynote: Key note #1: Baptiste Monsaigeon (Sociology, Reims Université, CNRS bronze medal) Convenor: María José Zapata Campos (University of Gothenburg) › Amphi Veron
10:15 - 10:55 (40min)
Introductory keynote: Key note #1
Amphi Veron
Introductory keynote: Key note #1: Baptiste Monsaigeon (Sociology, Reims Université, CNRS bronze medal) Convenor: María José Zapata Campos (University of Gothenburg)
›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) Convenor: Katarina Dimitrijevic (Loughborough University) Room manager: Camille Dormoy (Le Mans Université) › 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) Convenor: Katarina Dimitrijevic (Loughborough University) Room manager: Camille Dormoy (Le Mans Université)
›11:20 (1h15)
Session 1.2 - Grassroot
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) From Waste to Wardrobe: Exploring Consumer Acceptance of Biowaste-Dyed Sustainable Fashion. Lamy Arnaud, Costa Sandrine (INRAE) Convenor: Lucy Wishart (University of Edinburgh) Room manager: Simon Joxe (Le Mans Université) › Courthardy
11:20 - 12:35 (1h15)
Session 1.2 - Grassroot
Courthardy
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) From Waste to Wardrobe: Exploring Consumer Acceptance of Biowaste-Dyed Sustainable Fashion. Lamy Arnaud, Costa Sandrine (INRAE) Convenor: Lucy Wishart (University of Edinburgh) Room manager: Simon Joxe (Le Mans Université)
›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) Convenor: Nathalie Lazaric (CNRS) Room manager: Kate Mungroo (Le Mans Université) › 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) Convenor: Nathalie Lazaric (CNRS) Room manager: Kate Mungroo (Le Mans Université)
›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) Reclaiming bodily waste': ecological sanitation on a domestic scale and its limits. Legrand Marine (ENPC) The House that Plastic Built: Socio-Material Transformation and Working Rhythms in Bogota's Waste Picker Plastics Plants. O’Hare Patrick (St-Andrews University) Convenor: Gayatri Jai Singh Rathore (Science Po Paris) Room manager: Julien Chraïbi (Le Mans Université) › 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) Reclaiming bodily waste': ecological sanitation on a domestic scale and its limits. Legrand Marine (ENPC) The House that Plastic Built: Socio-Material Transformation and Working Rhythms in Bogota's Waste Picker Plastics Plants. O’Hare Patrick (St-Andrews University) Convenor: Gayatri Jai Singh Rathore (Science Po Paris) Room manager: Julien Chraïbi (Le Mans Université)
›12:35 (1h20)
12:35 - 13:55 (1h20)
Lunch
›13:55 (05min)
13:55 - 14:00 (05min)
Group photo
›14:05 (1h25)
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 (Czech Academy of Sciences) Room manager: Aline Le Failler (Le Mans Université) › Amphi Veron
14:05 - 15:30 (1h25)
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 (Czech Academy of Sciences) Room manager: Aline Le Failler (Le Mans Université)
›14:05 (1h25)
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) Convenor: Vincent Jourdain (Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne) Room manager: Simon Joxe (Le Mans Université) › Courthardy
14:05 - 15:30 (1h25)
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) Convenor: Vincent Jourdain (Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne) Room manager: Simon Joxe (Le Mans Université)
›14:05 (1h25)
Session 2.3 - Livelihoods 2
The paradox of waste-pickers. Cattaneo Claudio, Vico Daniele, Julian Porras, Demaria Federico (Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Belonging through Waste Work: The Local Configuration of Waste Picking in Porto Alegre, Brazil. 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 Uninersity) Convenor: Bénédicte Florin (Université de Tours) Room manager: Solène Tixadou (Le Mans Université) › Rabelais
14:05 - 15:30 (1h25)
Session 2.3 - Livelihoods 2
Rabelais
The paradox of waste-pickers. Cattaneo Claudio, Vico Daniele, Julian Porras, Demaria Federico (Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Belonging through Waste Work: The Local Configuration of Waste Picking in Porto Alegre, Brazil. 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 Uninersity) Convenor: Bénédicte Florin (Université de Tours) Room manager: Solène Tixadou (Le Mans Université)
›14:05 (1h25)
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) Convenor: Jean-Baptiste Bahers (CNRS) Room manager: Jeanne Perez (Le Mans Université) › Rabelais
14:05 - 15:30 (1h25)
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) Convenor: Jean-Baptiste Bahers (CNRS) Room manager: Jeanne Perez (Le Mans Université)
›15:35 (25min)
15:35 - 16:00 (25min)
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 Sosna (Czech Academy of Sciences) Room manager: Camille Dormoy (Le Mans Université) › 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 Sosna (Czech Academy of Sciences) Room manager: Camille Dormoy (Le Mans Université)
›16:00 (1h30)
Session 3.2 - Justice 2
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) Zero Waste influencers promoting waste instead of emptying the bin? Mungroo Kate (Le Mans Université) Convenor: Alison Stowell (Lancaster University) Room manager: Simon Joxe (Le Mans Université) › Courthardy
16:00 - 17:30 (1h30)
Session 3.2 - Justice 2
Courthardy
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) Zero Waste influencers promoting waste instead of emptying the bin? Mungroo Kate (Le Mans Université) Convenor: Alison Stowell (Lancaster University) Room manager: Simon Joxe (Le Mans Université)
›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) Convenor: Marta Ferri (Lancaster University) Room manager: Solène Tixadou (Le Mans 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) Convenor: Marta Ferri (Lancaster University) Room manager: Solène Tixadou (Le Mans 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. Cyril Lecerf Maulpoix (EHESS) Convenor: Lucy Wishart (University of Edinburgh) Room manager: Julien Chraïbi (Le Mans Université) › 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. Cyril Lecerf Maulpoix (EHESS) Convenor: Lucy Wishart (University of Edinburgh) Room manager: Julien Chraïbi (Le Mans Université)
18:00 - 19:00 (1h)
Time to get to “Brasserie La Madeleine” 7 place des Jacobins LE MANS
(Tram stop “Republique”) (20 min from the university)
›19:00 (2h)
19:00 - 21:00 (2h)
Dinner
Dinner
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