Bruce Braun (University of Minnesota, USA), Mathew Coleman (Ohio State University), Mary Thomas (Ohio State University) and Kathryn Yusoff (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

• Grounding the Anthropocene: Sites, subjects, and struggle in the Bakken Oil Fields

Claudio Cattaneo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) and Miguel A. Martínez López (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)

• Squatting houses, social centres, and workplaces: A workshop on self-managed alternatives

Mary Lawhon (University of Pretoria, South Africa), Henrik Ernstson (University of Cape Town, South Africa), Jonathan Silver (Durham University, UK) and Joseph Pierce (Florida State University, USA)

• Politicizing African urban ecologies: Enabling radical geographical research practices for African scholars

Sergio Ordóñez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico), Victor R. Fernandez (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina) and Carlos Brandão (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

• Re-thinking Latin America development beyond neoliberalism: Toward a rediscovering/recreation of the Latino American thought on development

Natalie Oswin (McGill University, Canada) and Bobby Benedicto (McGill University, Canada)

• Queer worldings: A transnational queer studies workshop

Gustavo Soto (Centro de Estudios Aplicados a los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales/CEADESC, Bolivia), Juan Carlos La Rosa Velasco (WAINJIRAWA, Venezuala), Carlos Walter Porto Goncalvez (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil), Juan Pablo Cortes Almonacid (Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Chile), Raul Zibechi (Multiversidad Franciscana de América Latina, Uruguay)

• Encounter IV: Integration of Latin America (Abya Yala), from the bottom up