(Picture Alfredo Jornet, 2023)
Sociocultural psychology and education in the era of Anthropocene
An open symposium (online participation possible), University of Neuchâtel
September 10, 2025
Organizers: Laure Kloetzer, Antti Rajala, Emmanuella Udom
Everyone is warmly welcome to join this open symposium supported by Cultural Praxis. Register here (open to all): https://tinyurl.com/SYMPANTHRO
We intend to follow up publications and seminars in Cultural Praxis. The event is funded by Swiss National Science Foundation.
Program
Room R.S.38 Espace Tilo-Frey 1, 2000 Neuchâtel, University of Neuchâtel, and online
September 10, 2025. All times are in Central European Time (CET)
8.30-9.00 Coffees and free chat
9.00-9.05 Opening of the event, Antti Rajala (University of Neuchâtel), Laure Kloetzer (University of Neuchâtel), Emmanuella Udom (University of Neuchâtel)
9.05-10.25
Keynote 1, Niklas Chimirri (Roskilde University): Knowledge, action, care! Circling the transgenerational researcher-society metabolism
Keynote 2, Ditte Winther Lindqvist (Aarhus University): “Nature as the opaque other” – An existential and eco-feminist analysis of how we approach “nature” as other in Western culture and education
10.25-10.40 Break
10.40-12.00
Keynote 3, Luca Tateo (University of Oslo): From egocentrism to ecocentrism: towards a fully ecological psychology
Keynote 4, Laure Kloetzer (University of Neuchâtel): Interspecies encounters: Pushing the boundaries of psychology towards the More-Than-Human
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Round table parallel sessions
Paula Ahola (University of Helsinki): Young climate activists as world-historical actors of change
Cristian Jofre Barrera (Alberto Hurtado University; the Federal University of Bahia): Dialogues with ghosts: Life projects and the field of the possible in the Anthropocene.
Eliana Bussi (University of Girona): Teachers’ fight for students’ rights to a dignified home: A model for sustainable schooling
Patrick Jørgensen (Roskilde University): Groping bodies feeling out wind turbines: Theorizing ‘exploration’ as embodied aspect of sustainably developing sociocultural energy practices within world metabolisms.
Monica Lemos (University of Helsinki): Eco-Young Brazil: Learning ecologies for climate transformations in the lives of young people
Eleonora Lundell (University of Neuchâtel; University of Helsinki): Eco-Young Senegal: Exploring the epistemic crossroads of learning ecologies
Antti Rajala (University of Neuchâtel): Ecologies of learning for climate transformations in the lives of Finnish, Senegalese, and Brazilian young people
Aki Saariaho (University of Neuchâtel): Forest utopias: Cultivating students’ utopian imagination and planetary citizenship with AI Tools
15.00-15.15 Break
15.15-16.35
Keynote 5, Larike Bronkhorst (Utrecht University): Youth, teacher, and police officers’ experiences of dis/continuity in climate justice activism
Keynote 6, Alfredo Jornet Gil (University of Girona): Understanding the climate crisis from within: A critical, life-centered approach to sustainability education
16.35-17.00 Closing, Michael Cole (University of California, San Diego)
