Programm

Time: 18-20 May 2026  
Location: University of Bern, Switzerland – Hallerstrasse 6, 3012 Bern, room 205 

Monday 18 May 2026  

13:30-13:55 Welcome 
13:55-14:30 Hannah Hilligardt, Julie Jebeile, Sapna Kumar & Futura Venuto (Universität Bern, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research) 
Presentation of the SNSF research project “Climate Change Adaptation through the Feminist Kaleidoscope” 
14:30-15:10 Olivia Maegaard Nielsen* (Universität Bremen) & Frida Hjortkjær Ekelund* (independent) 
Climate Fools’ and ‘Eco-terrorists’ - On Danish Media’s Silencing of Environmental Activists
 
15:10-15:50 Timothée Cabos (École Normale Supérieure Paris) 
Relational accounts of data and epistemic injustices: The case of satellites as climate data sources
15:50-16:20 Coffee break 
16:20-17:35 Kristen Intemann (Montana State University) 
Learning from Greenland: A Standpoint Approach to Equitable Climate Research

*** 18:30 Conference dinner *** 
 

Tuesday 19 May 2026

09:15-09:55 Ulrike Proske* & Melsen Lieke (Wageningen University) 
Climate modelers as “pragmatic realists” 
09:55-10:35 Julia Mindlin* (Universität Leipzig) & Fiona Spuler* (University of Reading) 
Accounting for multiple lines of evidence for losses and damages from climate change: investigating the extreme fire seasons in Brazilian Amazon and Pantanal biomes
10:35-11:05 Coffee break
11:05-11:45 Niklas Gärtner (Université Grenoble Alpes) 
What Counts as Evidence? Reconsidering Evidence-Based Policy for Climate Change Adaptation
11:45-13:00 Olivia Romppainen-Martius (Universität Bern) 
Flood risk assessment tools for Switzerland
13:00-14:30 Lunch  
14:30-15:10 Meret Haldemann*, Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera & Apolline Saucy (Universität Bern) 
Extreme temperatures and the risk of hospitalization during pregnancy – analysis of cause-specific emergency hospital admission records from 1998 to 2023 in Switzerland
15:10-15:50 Claudia Matus (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) 
Gender as an Epistemological Lens in Biodiversity Data Production: Rethinking Open-Air Laboratories
15:50-16:20 Coffee break
16:20-17:35 Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera (Universität Bern) 
Climate change, health and feminism: from gender medicine to climate action

Wednesday 20 May 2026

09:15-09:55 Julianne Mann (University of North Dakota) 
Consensual Sacrifice: Managing Ignorance, Managing Vulnerability
09:55-10:35 Lauren Ware (Canterbury Cathedral Gardens) 
Ingestive Injustice: Emotion, Epistemic Harm, and Wild Food Knowledge in Climate Adaptation
10:35-11:05 Coffee break
11:05-11:45 Carolina Cuadrado Bastos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) 
Unfixing evolution. Biological agency as a foundation for transformative climate adaptation
11:45-13:00 Nancy Tuana (Penn State University) 
Embedding Feminist Values in Climate Risk Management: Challenges and Opportunities 
13:00-14:30 Lunch