YHYS Colloquium 2024

LUT Business School invites you to join the 30^th anniversary of the annual colloquium of the Finnish Society for Environmental Social Science (YHYS) 2024

with the theme "The Anthropocene: Action and agency for preventing collapse"

27th – 29th of November 2024 in Lappeenranta, Finland

Call for abstracts now closed!

Registration is open now - make sure to register before 8th November

Programme for the pre-colloquium event for doctoral researchers will be posted in October. Places are very limited so make sure to submit your application form - more info on the 'Registration' page.

The YHYS 2024 Fall Colloquium is The Annual Meeting of the Finnish Society for Environmental Social Science. This year it will be hosted by LUT University Business School and will convene in Lappeenranta, Finland, on 27-29 November 2024.

The theme of the colloquium is “The Anthropocene: Action and agency for preventing the collapse”. In addition to social sciences and humanities across disciplines and traditions, the colloquium includes the field of economics and business studies as core lenses to investigate the environment.

The YHYS 2024 Fall Colloquium invites contributions from environmental social scientists to engage with the notions of action and agency in relation to the Anthropocene. Systemic change of great magnitude is needed, where action takes place across sectoral boundaries (public, private, civil), levels of society (micro, meso, macro) and across-scales (time and place). This requires a new kind of agency that is able to collaborate effectively with a variety of other actors. 

The colloquium will act as a platform for multiple, diverse and critical perspectives on the Anthropocene, including scientific theories, novel organizing concepts, interdisciplinary and methodological inquiry (e.g. case studies of regions or sectors) and/or as a generic notion capturing specific features (e.g. sufficiency, social justice, energy transition, regeneration, circularity, etc.) of this epoch. The colloquium aims at advancing environmental social sciences by knowledge on the complex interplays during this epoch and the question how we can change ourselves to preventing the collapse. 

Alongside working group sessions and panel discussions, we will hear two keynote talks from esteemed guests Professor Steffen Böhm and Principal Research Scientist Katriina Soini.

For more details about the theme, please read here.

Details about the programme, keynotes, and registration to be announced. Please be in touch via admin.yhys2024@lut.fi if you have any queries.