The conference will be organized in Stockholm, Sweden, August 22–24th, 2016.

The language of the conference is English.

General programme (preliminary)
Monday August 22  
11:00–12:45 Registration (Aula Magna)
13:00–14:00

Opening session (Aula Magna)
Astrid Söderbergh Widding, Vice-Chancellor, Stockholm University
Sven Stafström, Director General, Swedish Research Council
Charlotte Petri Gornitzka, Director General, Sida
Ilda Lindell, Chair of the Organizing Committee
14:00–15:30 Keynote lecture 1 (Aula Magna)
Professor Andrea Cornwall, University of Sussex
Addressing Discrimination on the Basis of Gender: Towards a More Just and Equal World for All
15:30–16:00 Coffee (Geo-Science Building, houses Y and U)
16:00–17:30

Parallel sessions (panels; Geo-Science Building, houses Y and U)
1a: Starting from the local: avoiding, accommodating and/or overcoming global visions for science and development
2: Where are we now? The past and the future of Swedish development research collaboration
5: Infrastructure and the political ordering of development
6: Antibiotic resistance and measures to control its consequences – need for a multidisciplinary approach
11: From the failures of anti-politics to the promise of cash transfer: James Ferguson and the development encounter
20a: Air quality and climate effects in low income countries: from observations to policy in a post-COP21 world
21: Ecosystem services and disservices from a farmer’s perspective in agro-ecological landscapes
28: Seeking assistance: inequalities in accountability and service provision
36: Food and water security via viable business models
37: Culture & media for development
18:30– Conference dinner (Restaurant Lantis)
Tuesday August 23  
09:00–10:30 Keynote lecture 2 (Aula Magna)
Professor Andrea Nightingale, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Global Challenges and Visions for Change: the politics of rescaling environmental governance and development practice
10:30–11:00 Coffee (Geo-Science Building, houses Y and U)
11:00–12:30 Parallel sessions (panels; Geo-Science Building, houses Y and U)
1b: Starting from the local: avoiding, accommodating and/or overcoming global visions for science and development
7a: Contested urban visions in the Global South
10: Establishing participatory processes in ecosystem-based agricultural management strategies
20b: Air quality and climate effects in low income countries: from observations to policy in a post-COP21 world
27a: Democracy and development revisited
29a: Food security and improved nutrition for the poor – a multidisciplinary research task
31: Global challenges for development research: lessons from North-South collaborations
33: Climate information for food security in developing countries
42: Disaster and health
12:30–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–15:30

Parallel sessions (panels; Geo-Science Building, houses Y and U)
7b: Contested urban visions in the Global South
8: Land and resource tenure rights in the context of new global development agendas
9a: The sustainable development goals: from global to local governance
12a: The donor-recipient relationship: national ownership and extensive donor presence
26: Understanding behaviour and choice in context: accessing local knowledge to enhance energy access and sanitation interventions 
27b: Democracy and development revisited
29b: Food security and improved nutrition for the poor – a multidisciplinary research task
35: Air quality and well being in cities
39: One health
15:30–16:00 Coffee (Geo-Science Building, houses Y and U)
16:00–17:30

Parallel sessions (panels; Geo-Science Building, houses Y and U)
9b: The sustainable development goals: from global to local governance
12b: The donor-recipient relationship: national ownership and extensive donor presence
13: Looking for opportunities and creating new urbanism in the developing countries: local dynamics and policy implications
16: Pneumonia in children below the age of five and their mothers
24: The rural household – an energy and food security nexus of global importance
25: Violence as a threat to mental health, economic growth and social stability, with intergenerational effects
29c: Food security and improved nutrition for the poor – a multidisciplinary research task
30: Peacebuilding amidst violence – localizing the security-development nexus
40: Sheltering and development
Wednesday August 24  
09:00–10:30

Parallel sessions (panels; Geo-Science Building, houses Y and U)
3/15: Drivers and dynamics of migration
17: Transformation of knowledge to enhance local capacity for sustainable water development
23: The politics of hybridity in everyday Africa: informalization and security and development
32: Aid in local contexts
34: Bridging the gap between water, sanitation and food production for improved food and nutrition security
41: Prediction and preparedness against emerging zoonotic infections
43: Improving school education outcomes: evidence, knowledge gaps, and policy implications
45: Round table: Transdisciplinary co-production: innovative methodologies for just urban transformations
46: Round table: Knowledge production, regional research organizations and the bridging of the local–global chasm in development cooperation
10:30–11:00  Coffee (Geo-Science Building, houses Y and U)
11:00–12:30

Final plenary panel (G-salen Lecture Hall)
What role for research in the new policy context?
12:30–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–15:00 Networking events (Geo-Science Building, houses Y and U)