Preliminary Programme
The WaterPower Symposium explores various critical perspectives on urbanisation, land and water and how transformative development pathways can be made.
The symposium takes the form of a 2-day event with generous time for discussion and interaction built around the planned presentations. Our speakers will discuss several aspects of urban water services like socio-ecological inequalities, water practices, water governance and ways towards transformation.
We envision an intense interdisciplinary dialogue.
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Monday, 15 July 2019
09:00 Registration & coffee
09:30 Welcome & introduction: Antje Bruns (Trier University, Germany)
09:45 Kick-off presentation: Michelle Kooy (IHE Delft, The Netherlands)
10:30 Coffee & tea
11:00 Urbanisation and urban (water) futures
Chair: John E. Akubia (Trier University, Germany)
Stephen Boahen Asabare (University of Göttingen, Germany); Karen Lebek (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Socio-ecological inequalities of land and water in the peri-urban
Chair: Lara E. Bartels (Trier University, Germany)
Alexander Follmann (University of Cologne, Germany); David Simon (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK; Mistra Urban Futures, Sweden); Sandra Valencia (Mistra Urban Futures, Sweden);
15:30 Coffee & tea
16:00 Water practices in the provision of water (round table discussion)
Chair: Rossella Alba (Trier University, Germany)
Michelle Kooy (IHE Delft, The Netherlands); Maria Chiara Pastore (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Sophie Schramm (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
17:30 End of Day 1
18:00 Dinner (Wirtshaus “Zur Glocke”, Glockenstraße 12, 54290 Trier)
Tuesday, 16 July 2019
08:30 Coffee & tea
09:00 Water governance, institutional bricolage and hydro-social relations
Chair: Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky (ISOE, Germany)
Jessica Budds (University of East Anglia, UK); Catherine Grasham (University of Oxford, UK); Jennifer Merten (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/ University of Göttingen, Germany)
11:00 Coffee & tea
11:30 Conservation politics, socio-ecological relations and the production of ecosystem services
Chair: Maria Kondra (Trier University, Germany)
Martin C. Lukas (University of Bremen, Germany); Barbara Schröter (ZALF, Germany)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Transformation ideals and transformations in practice (round table discussion)
Chair: Lisa Heintges (Trier University, Germany)
Ellis A. Adams (Georgia State University, USA); Abubakari Ahmed (University of Development Studies, Ghana); Marcela López (Contestedurbanwaterscapes.net, Germany); Adelina Mensah (IESS, University of Ghana); Martina Neuburger (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
15:30 Coffee & tea
16:00 Exploring research challenges and opportunities
Chair: Antje Bruns (Trier University, Germany) & Fanny Frick-Trzebitzky (ISOE, Germany)
17:00 Concluding remarks
17:15 End of Day 2
18:30 Dinner (Liebling Trier, Rindertanzstraße 15, 54290 Trier)
