The third biennial conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN)
Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration
Virtual conference
22-25 September 2020
Check out the conference program here!
Registration is open
Registration is now open, including for non-presenting conference delegates. Registration may be completed here.
POLLEN20 Revised Fee Schedule
All session participants / presenters must be registered for the conference. The new conference registration fee schedule is as follows:
- Solidarity registration* rate of £30
- Regular registration rate of £15
- Student registration rate of £10
- Full fee waiver due to hardship
Benefits of registration
All registered delegates will have full access to the online ‘conference hub’ and the live schedule of talks and events; will be able to participate in live sessions, events and break-outs; will be able to participate in real-time in virtual social events and will have full access to both real-time and ‘on-demand’ conference content. Conference fees will be used to pay for software licenses and technical support needed to move the conference to its new virtual format.
Any fees or donations collected over these costs will be applied to the POLLEN Solidarity Fund* and will be available to support accessibility of future network-wide events, including the 2022 conference.
*About the POLLEN Solidarity Fund
Solidarity registration fees will cover the cost of one or more delegates who need a reduction or waiver of fees. All new / revised registrants will have the option to choose to make an additional contribution to the POLLEN Solidarity Fund, which has been established to enhance accessibility to POLLEN biennial conferences and other network-wide events, particularly for students, early career researchers, practicing political ecologists and activists from the global south, people in a situation of precarity or working in a position that is non-funded or self-funded.
Organizers and supporting groups
POLLEN 2020 is organized by the ESRC STEPS Centre (IDS/SPRU, University of Sussex) and The Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Secretariat (based at Lancaster University 2017 -2019; and moving to the University of Copenhagen 2019 – 2021). The conference is co-hosted by Radical Futures at the University of Brighton, with support from the BIOSEC project (European Research Council) and SIID at the University of Sheffield.
Conference news, updates and CfPs will be announced here and on the POLLEN website.
Inquiries about the virtual conference or questions about contributions to the Solidarity Fund can be sent by email to POLLEN@sussex.ac.uk (please note that this is not the email address for the POLLEN secretariat).
Respecting each other at POLLEN 20
The POLLEN 2020 organizing group strives to create a setting, whether in person or through a virtual platform, in which everyone feels that their dignity, identity, privacy, personal space and autonomy are respected. To these ends, the organizing group has adopted an explicit zero-tolerance stance against racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia and ableism. This means that any form of harassment or discrimination, in word or deed, is unacceptable and will be addressed collectively by members of the organizing committee. This extends to all participants and all forms of harassment, bullying, discrimination, abuse, intimidation, exploitation and silencing on the basis of, but not limited to, age, race, ethnicity, gender, gender self-identity, gender re-assignment, sexual orientation, class/caste, disability, pregnancy / maternity, marriage and civil partnership, religion or belief.
POLLEN20: Contested Natures 