Research on climate change is situated within a context of historical and persisting injustices: populations who have contributed the least to global warming are currently most vulnerable to its impacts (e.g. Nakashima\, 2018)\, regions of the world that are most vulnerable are often less well researched than regions in the Global North (e.g. James et al. 2018)\, and the knowledge and expertise of marginalised groups &ndash\; including women\, Indigenous people\, young\, (dis)abled\, people of colour &ndash\; is often not taken into account\, leading to the intersection of climate\, racial and gender injustice (Whyte\, 2014\; Whyte\, 2016\; Tuana and Cuomo\, 2014). These injustices have to be reckoned with for climate research to be both reliable and fair. Indeed\, the scientific community is currently facing major challenges that are not strictly epistemic: modelling and projecting climate impacts at local scales\, filling in the knowledge gaps\, addressing the human dimensions of climate change\, and meeting the diversity of needs of the populations on Earth are all both epistemic and ethical issues. Yet\, how to acknowledge and address injustices within knowledge production\, how to design models and studies in order to fairly address people&rsquo\;s needs\, how to organise the climate research community and how to effectively communicate about climate information and its uncertainty\, are matters of ongoing but often behind-the-scenes debates.
\nThe aim of this workshop is to explore ways in which resources from feminist epistemology can come to bear on these problems of injustice in climate research and climate action.
\nProgramme:
\nMonday \;18 \;May \;2026
\n13:30-13:55 \;Welcome \;
\n13:55-14:30 \;Hannah Hilligardt\, Julie Jebeile\, Sapna Kumar &\; Futura Venuto \;(Universitä\;t \;Bern\, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research) \;Presentation of the SNSF research project &ldquo\;Climate Change Adaptation through the Feminist Kaleidoscope&rdquo\; \;
\n14:30-15:10 \;Olivia Maegaard Nielsen* \;(Universitä\;t Bremen) \;&\; Frida Hjortkjæ\;r Ekelund* \;(independent) \;&lsquo\;Climate Fools&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;Eco-terrorists&rsquo\; - On Danish Media&rsquo\;s Silencing of Environmental Activists \;
\n15:10-15:50 \;Timothé\;e Cabos \;(É\;cole Normale Supé\;rieure \;Paris) \;Relational accounts of data and epistemic injustices: The case of satellites as climate data sources \;
\n15:50-16:20 \;Coffee break \;
\n16:20-17:35 \;Kristen Intemann \;(Montana State University) \;Learning from Greenland: A Standpoint Approach to Equitable Climate Research \;
\n*** 18:30 Conference dinner *** \;
\n\nTuesday \;19 \;May \;2026 \;
\n09:15-09:55 \;Ulrike Proske* &\; Melsen Lieke \;(Wageningen University) \;Climate modelers as &ldquo\;pragmatic realists&rdquo\; \;
\n09:55-10:35 \;Julia Mindlin* \;(Universitä\;t Leipzig) \;&\; Fiona Spuler* \;(University of Reading) \;Accounting for multiple lines of evidence for losses and damages from climate change: investigating the extreme fire seasons in Brazilian Amazon and Pantanal biomes \; \;
\n10:35-11:05 \;Coffee break \;
\n11:05-11:45 \;Niklas Gä\;rtner \;(Université\; Grenoble Alpes) \;What Counts as Evidence? Reconsidering Evidence-Based Policy for Climate Change Adaptation \;
\n11:45-13:00 \;Olivia Romppainen-Martius \;(Universitä\;t \;Bern) \;Flood risk assessment tools for Switzerland \;
\n13:00-14:30 \;Lunch \;
\n14:30-15:10 \;Meret Haldemann*\, \;Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera &\; Apolline Saucy \;(Universitä\;t \;Bern) \;Extreme temperatures and the risk of hospitalization during pregnancy &ndash\; analysis of cause-specific emergency hospital admission records from 1998 to 2023 in Switzerland \;
\n15:10-15:50 \;Claudia Matus \;(Pontificia Universidad Cató\;lica de Chile) \;Gender as an Epistemological Lens in Biodiversity Data Production: Rethinking Open-Air Laboratories \;
\n15:50-16:20 \;Coffee break \;
\n16:20-17:35 \;Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera \;(Universitä\;t \;Bern) \;Climate change\, \;health \;and feminism: from gender medicine to climate action
\nWednesday \;20 \;May \;2026 \;
\n09:15-09:55 \;Julianne Mann \;(University of North Dakota) \;Consensual Sacrifice: Managing Ignorance\, Managing Vulnerability \;
\n09:55-10:35 \;Lauren Ware \;(Canterbury Cathedral Gardens) \;Ingestive Injustice: Emotion\, Epistemic Harm\, and Wild Food Knowledge in Climate Adaptation \;
\n10:35-11:05 \;Coffee break \;
\n11:05-11:45 \;Carolina Cuadrado Bastos \;(Universidad Complutense de Madrid) \;Unfixing evolution. Biological agency as a foundation for transformative climate adaptation \;
\n11:45-13:00 \;Nancy Tuana \;(Penn State University) \;Embedding Feminist Values in Climate Risk Management: Challenges and Opportunities \;
\n13:00-14:30 \;Lunch