Day 3: June 20, 2026

Location: Science Center

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. – 10:15 a.m.            Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall (Room A162)

• Keynote 2: Gaya Herrington (Introduced by John Mulrow, Executive Director, DeGrowth Institute)
  Rooting for collapse resilience: Rethinking who we are for post-growth economic system’s change. 

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Coffee/Tea and Networking

10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Parallel Sessions 4

4A: Science Center A 154

• Tania Briceno (Chief Economist, IEG)
  Re-Engineering Incentives for a Nature-Dependent Economy: The Case for Natural Asset Companies

• Moderated session

  • Rumi Shammin (Professor, Oberlin College) - Moderator and Session Chair
    Loss and Damages in South Asia in the context of climate change:  Case studies from Bangladesh, India and Nepal.

  • The focus will be on assessing the extent of damage, issues of equity and distribution of losses. By situating loss and damage within broader development debate, this session aims to advance theoretical clarity and empirical understanding of climate impacts that go beyond adaptation.

  • Presenters: Prof. Enamul Haque (Director General, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies), and Prof. Pranab Mukhopadhyay (Goa University, India)

4B: Science Center A 155

• Amitrajeet A. Batabyal (Distinguished Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology)
  Two Forms of Taxation, Majority Voting, and Water Pollution Cleanup in the Ganges
  Session Chair

• Louison Cahen-Fourot (Associate Professor, Roskilde University, Denmark)
  Breaking the tragedy of the horizon?  The environmental turn in monetary regimes and capital accumulation regimes

• Mohanasundari Thangavel (Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore)
  Restoring Resilience through Tribal Traditions: A Case Study of the Halma Watershed Models in Jhabua, Central India.

4C: Science Center A 254 (DeGrowth Track)

• Moderated session

• Stella Martinez McShera and Lauren Goetze of PivotAll - Moderators  
  From Case Studies to Systemic Change: Local Business Strategy as the Pivot Point Towards a Degrowth Economy          

• Through translating degrowth theory into tangible actions, PivotAll will be facilitating this workshop that explores how we can reshape the building blocks of our economy for a degrowth future.

4D: Science Center A 255 (DeGrowth Track)

• Seema Purushothaman (Adjunct Senior Fellow, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, India; President, Indian Society for Ecological Economics)
  Ecological Insecurity- the new frontier of inequality: the case of Karnataka, India
  Session Chair

• Andrew Flachs (Associate Professor, Purdue University)
  Feeding the world as if people mattered

• Henri Chevalier (PhD Student, University of Waterloo, Canada)
  The Treadmill of Farming: Cost-Price Squeeze, Growth Imperatives and the Political Economy of Canadian Agriculture

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch and Networking

1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.              Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall (Room A162)

• Keynote 3: Christopher Jones (Introduced by Rumi Shammin, President, USSEE)
  The Invention of Infinite Growth 

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

3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Parallel Sessions 5

5A: Science Center A 154

• Rich Howarth (Professor, Dartmouth University)
  Authors: Mavrommati, G., R.S.D. Calder, A.M. Gazar, R. Howarth, C.A Jackson.
  Deliberative Valuation Workshops on Decarbonization in New England
  Session Chair

• Drew C Pendergrass (Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Science, Oberlin College)
  Multidimensional information channels aid economic planning within planetary boundaries

• Manal Amina Zehani (Undergraduate Student, American University of Sharjah, UAE)
  Structural and Attitudinal Determinants of Emissions Embodied in Trade: A State-Level Analysis

5B: Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall (Room A162) Lightning Presentations

• Nina Smolyar (PhD Student, University of Vermont)
  Spirituality as a Tool for Navigating Social-Ecological Complexity in Degrowth
  Session Chair

• Garrett, P, Siegel (Undergraduate Student, Bard College)
  Enactment of policies to address global warming

• Latifa Salangi (PhD Student, Michigan State University)
  Institutions as drivers of development/underdevelopment

• Rita Francesca Peress (Undergraduate Student, Bard College)
  The Devaluation of Care-work by Temporal Abbreviation 

• Timothy Jacob Linaberry  (Lead Coordinator, Project Downshift: A Care Collective)
  Identifying and Strengthening Local Economies of Care: Project Downshift

• Cindy McPherson Frantz  (Professor of Psychology and Environmental Studies and Science, Oberlin College)
  Building Support for Tax Increases Through Climate Messaging

5C: Science Center A 155 (DeGrowth Track)

• • • Joshua C. Farley (Professor, University of Vermont)
      The Implications of Modeling the Ecological Economy as a Complex Adaptive System
      Session Chair

    • Stephen A. Marshall (Master of Science Graduate Student,  University of Vermont), Burlington, USA
      Relational Science: How To

    • Terry Bensel (Professor, Environmental Science & Sustainability, Allegheny College)
      From Pre-Analytic Vision to Planetary Boundaries: 30+ Years of Teaching Ecological Economics

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

5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.    Nancy Schrom Dye Lecture Hall (Room A162)

• USSEE Members General Meeting

6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Stevenson Dining Hall

• Conference Dinner, USSEE presidential address, USSEE awards 

8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. (Evening Activity) Sign-up Here

  Play 'Pension Plan' game to experience a new economy
  with Stef Kuypers of VUB, Belgium

  Woodland Hall Commons Area (same as conference lodging building)
  Woodland Hall, 150 Woodland St, Oberlin, OH 44074 .

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