Day 2: June 19, 2026

Location: Science Center

The detailed presentation schedule and presenter information is below

CLICK HERE to access the ABSTRACTS for the parallel sessions

7:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.             Breakfast at Stevenson Dining Hall (all meal tickets will be given at registration)
Registration Open at the Science Center Atrium at 8 a.m.

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.           Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall (Science Center A162) 

• Opening Remarks
  Rumi Shammin, President, USSEE
  David Kamitsuka, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Oberlin College

• Keynote 1: David Orr (Introduced by John Petersen, Professor, Environmental Studies & Science and Biology, Oberlin College)
  Facing a Disproportionate Reality: Notes on an Ecological/Moral Political Economy. 

10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.          Coffee/Tea and Networking

10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.        Parallel Sessions 1

1A: Science Center A154

• Rayna Moxley (Undergraduate Student Research Assistant, Oberlin College) - Session Chair

• John Edmund Petersen (Professor of Environmental Studies and Sciences and Biology, Oberlin College)
  Co-developing Interactive Environmental and Community Dashboards for Visualizing Resource Flows, Behavior, and Community Resilience

• Deborah Elizabeth Nazon Ph.D. (Urban Ecosystems Strategist; Founder & President EcoDiverCities, LLC) and James Spencer Jr. (Director of the Launchpad Center, Oklahoma State University; Inventor of the AGILE Ecosystems Methodology) Intergenerational Wealth Regeneration After Racialized Economic Collapse: An Ecological Economics Analysis of Tulsa Using AGILE Ecosystems Methodology

• Thomas William Whittington (Doctoral Student, The Ohio State University)
  Residential Energy and Dates of Home Construction

1B: Science Center A155

• Matias Vaccarezza Sevilla (PhD student, University of Vermont)
  Exploring pathways for delinking: a system dynamics approach for structural decolonization
  Session Chair

• Jaleel Shujath (Graduate Student, University of the District of Columbia)
  From Extraction to Transcendence: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge to Transform Urban Water Futures

• Vinaya Kumar Hebsale Mallappa (Assistant Professor, Keladi Shivappa Nayaka University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, India)
  Low-Carbon Agriculture and Carbon Credit Projects: Farmers Adoption, Trust, and Institutional Pathways in India

1C: Science Center A 254 (DeGrowth Track)

• Matthew M Orsagh (Co-Founder, Arketa Institute for Post-Growth Finance)
  Towards growth-independent pensions: an Ecological Economics-informed approach to providing wellbeing in retirement
  Session Chair

• Justin Patrick Dempsey (PhD Candidate, University of Vermont)
  Beyond Prices: Deliberative Valuation as a Shared Foundation of Non-Monetary Valuation and Degrowth

• Sam Hummel (Master's student, Duke University)
  Bank Money Creation: A Paradigm-Shifting Conversation Missing in Climate Advocacy

1D: Science Center A 255 (DeGrowth Track)

• Moderated Session

• Tristan Partridge (Executive Director of the new North American Center for Degrowth) and Josh Farley (Professor, University of Vermont) - Moderators
  Research for a Post-Growth Future: What Europe is Doing, What the US Must Do.

• Tentative list of presenters: Dan O’Neill, Dallas O’Dell, Aljoša Slameršak, and Tristan Partridge.

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.           Lunch at Stevenson Dining Hall and Networking

1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.             Parallel Sessions 2

2A: Science Center A154

• Erik Edward Nordman (Director, Institute of Public Utilities and Associate Professor, Dept. of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University)
  An Ecological Economic Reading of Polanye’s The Great Transformation

Session Chair

• Birte Strunk (Assistant Professor of Economics, Bard College)   
  Feminist Ecological Economics: Book presentation

• Debdutt Behura (Adjunct Professor, Institute of Professional Learning, Bhubaneswar, India)
  Invisible labor, visible yields: Gendered productivity and Ecological risk in maize intensification in Odisha, India

2B: Science Center A155

• John Polimeni (Associate Professor, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences)
  The Five Stages of Economic Development and the Environmental Kuznets Curve
  Session Chair

• Amitrajeet A. Batabyal (Distinguished Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology)
  Unitization of Tanneries and Water Pollution in the Ganges in Kanpur, India: The Salience of Fixed Costs

• Stef Kuypers (PhD candidate / Researcher & Board Member, VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) / Happonomy vzw, Belgium
  Why Redistributing Income Does Not Redistribute Wealth: A Monetary-Design Alternative, Calibrated to Belgium 

2C: Science Center A254 (DeGrowth Track)

• Seth Binder (Associate Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, St. Olaf College)
   A Sustainable Global Economy in the Very Long Run
  Session Chair

• Kendrick Hardaway (Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas)
  Integrating Re-spending in the STIRPAT Equation to Measure Rebound Effect

• Tamar, Meshulam (Graduate student, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
  Beyond Perfect Substitution: Heterogeneity and Rebound Effects in Car-Sharing

2D: Science Center A255

• James Randall Kahn (Emeritus John Hendon Professor of Economics, Washington and Lee Univiersity)
  COP is not enough: Brazilian deforestation and forest degradation will not diminish unless fundamental changes are made in the Brazilian economy
  Session Chair

• Matias Vaccarezza Sevilla (PhD student and Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Vermont)
  Reclaiming glocal: Toward a post-extractivist, sovereign Chile beyond green growth

• Richard Paul Reeve (Independent Researcher, Brisbane, Australia)
  Why Knowing Is Not Enough: Dual-system cognition, behavioural economics, and the knowledge action gap in sustainability policy

2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.             Coffee/Tea and Networking

3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.             Parallel Sessions 3

3A: Science Center A154

• Moderated Session

• Chris Norman (Senior Director of Energy and Sustainability, Oberlin College) and Linda Arbogast (Sustainability Coordinator, City of Oberlin) - Moderators
  College-Community Collaboration on Financing and Implementing Carbon Neutrally: Lessons from Oberlin, OH.

• Michael Ahern (Senior Vice President of System Development at Ever-Green Energy, LLC) will also participate.

3B: Science Center A155

• Joshua C. Farley (Professor, University of Vermont)
  Taking Economics as a Life Science Seriously
  Session Chair

• Mahadev G Bhat (Distinguished University Professor, Florida International University)
  Teaching Ecological Economics in the Digital Age: Integrating AI, Data Driven Learning, and Student Centered Pedagogy

• Debdutt Behura  (Adjunct Professor, Institute of Professional Learning, India)
  Restoring Paddy Ecosystems and Livelihoods through Resilient SRI Practices: Performance, Gender, and Governance in Odisha, India

3C: Science Center A254 (DeGrowth Track)

• Moderated Session

• Matías Vaccarezza Sevilla (PhD student and Gund Graduate Fellow, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Vermont) - Moderator
  New horizons for the political economy of degrowth

• This session attends to novel and underexplored aspects on the political economy of degrowth. Panel presentations together formulate an integrated discussion founded in ecological economic theory to connect scholarship on more-than-human subjects and nonhuman agency, political theory, and cultural values for the purpose of expanding degrowth discourse.

• Presenters: Jukka Kilgus, Danish Hasan, Liam Grima, Matthew Burke .

4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Coffee/Tea and Networking

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Poster presentation at the Science Center Atrium

• Caleb I. Adewale (MS Student, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff)
  Economic Impacts and Recreational Valuation of Waterfowl Hunting in Arkansas: An Application of IMPLAN and Travel Cost Models

• Carlos Andres Tapia (Doctoral Student, Florida International University)
  Economic Burden of Toxic Invasive Plant Management Across Florida’s Counties

• Christopher, Ryan LaRosee (PhD Student, University of Massachusetts)
  Framing Cultivated Meat in Food Sustainability Research: A Thematic and Sentiment Analysis of Peer-Reviewed Literature

• Clarisse Daphne Fenga (Graduate Student, Michigan Technological University)
  Evaluating the Economic Viability of ACR IFM 2.1 Carbon Projects on Mid-Sized Public Forests Across the United States

• C. Brannon Andersen (Rose J. Forgione Professor and Chair of Earth, Environmental, and Sustainability Sciences, Furman University)
  Challenging the Collapse Consensus: Modeling Generic Degrowth Interventions for Collapsing Socio-Ecological Systems

• Gregory M. Mikkelson and Alain Mignault (Interdependent Researcher/Organizer, Montreal, Canada)
  Degrowing fossil fuel, one pipeline at a time

• Kevin Daniel Arias (Graduate Research Assistant, Florida International University)
  Consumer Preferences for Sustainable and Organic Avocados

• Maggie Poulos (PhD Candidate, Stanford University)
  Toward Pluriversal Oceans: Lessons from Women’s Collective Practices in Kenya

• Oluwakemi B. Dada (Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Institute of Marine Science - College of William & Mary)
  Quantifying fisheries value of nature based coastal infrastructure through trophic linkages

• Paul Woods Bartlett (Senior Research Fellow, Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ Potsdam, Germany)
  Learning from Ecovillages: Co-creating Pathways Toward a Regenerative Future

• Ruhee Hegde (Undergraduate Student, Bard College
  The Gluttons Must Fast First: Why Degrowth Must Begin in the Global North

• Sam Hummel (Master's student, Duke University)
  The Achilles Heel of Fossil Finance: Why Commercial Banks’ Dependence on the State is the Climate Movement’s Opportunity. 

• Solomon Hope Agbesi (PhD Student, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  Solar Opposition in the United States: Assessing Spread, Drivers, and Possible Solutions

• Stephen A. Marshall (MS Student, University of Vermont)
  Circulation of Relational Information

• Susan Marie Santone (Independent Educator and Author)
  The K-12 Pipeline to Ecological Economics: How Schooling Influences College Students’ Understanding of the Environment and the Economy 

Evening                                      

• Group networking, Student networking (more information will be provided)

• Dinner on your own

• Optional: Baroque Performance Institute Faculty Recital ($10 at the door) Kulas Recital Hall, 8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

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