Program

JB Fressoz is a historian of science, technology and the environment.
He was a lecturer at Imperial College London before
joining the CNRS in Paris. He is the author of several books,
including L'Apocalypse joyeuse. une histoire du risque technologique
(2012), L'événement anthropocène, la terre, l'histoire
et nous (2013, 2016) and Les Révoltes du ciel. Une histoire du
changement climatique, XVe-XXe siècles (2020). The latter two
books have been translated into Italian. He will next publish a
book entitled: Sans transition: une nouvelle histoire de l'énergie.

Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt, PhD in Dance from University of
Roehampton, UK, is a performer, choreographer, filmmaker
and teacher. She is the current Head of the Master’s
programme in Dance Education at the Stockholm University of
the Arts, and also works at Academy of Music and Drama at
University of Gothenburg. Ami has co-chaired the Nordic
Summer University Study Circle of Artistic Research with Dr
Lucy Lyons. She is a member of the Peer Review board of
Journal of Artistic Research. Ami often creates stage work (solo,
and collaborative) based on her embodied life story in a particular
theme. Her 90 min solo performance A particular act of
survival received a performing arts award at Scenkonstgalan in
Sweden in 2015. Her new screendance piece Ancestor
premiered at Dansfilmfestivalen in Feb 2022. Ami makes dance
films and documentaries about dance. Her debut film won an
honorary mention at VidéoDanseGrandPrix in Paris 1995. She
walks slowly as a ceremonial, subversive act thanks to her
studies with Nishikawa Senrei and work with Japanese dance in
Kyoto since 2000. Her research interests are practice-led and
concern gender codified movement practice, non-hierarchical
processing of global dance techniques, and auto-ethnographic
accounts from within the practice. Her PhD thesis has the title
Suriashi as Experimental Pilgrimage in Urban and Other Spaces

Paper Presentations and Q&A session with authors.
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Laura Kolbe, Ph.D. (Helsinki) professor of European history at
the Department of History, University of Helsinki. She is author
of Helsinki, the Daughter of the Baltic Sea, editor of Finnish
Cultural History I-V and co-editor of the series History of Metropolitan
Development in Helsinki - post 1945. Dr. Kolbe's
research is in Finnish and European history, urban and university
history, national and class history. Her latest research deals
with urban governance, city halls and municipal policy making
in Helsinki and Scandinavian capital cities during the 21st
century. Kolbe is founder and chair of the Finnish Society for
Urban Studies (2000). She was the International Planning History
Society's (IPHS) Conference Convenor in 2000 and President
of IPHS in 2007-2012. She is currently the chair for History
Committee of the City of Helsinki.

Papers Presentation and Q&A session with authors.
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Papers Presentation and Q&A session with authors.
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Paul Emmons is a registered architect and the Patrick and
Nancy Lathrop Professor in Architecture at Virginia Tech where
he is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for the College of
Architecture and Urban Studies. Emmons is based at the Washington-
Alexandria Architecture Center and chair of its PhD in
Architecture and Design Research program. He earned a PhD
in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master
of Architecture from the University of Minnesota. His research
on design practices focusing on architectural drawing has been
presented at venues around the world. His published work
includes the book Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in
Architectural Design Practices (2020) and coedited volumes:
Ceilings and Dreams: The Architecture of Levity (2019), Confabulations:
Storytelling in Architecture (2018) and The Cultural Role of Architecture (2012).

Paper Presentations and Q&A session with authors.
For more details, see the conference program brochure.