You may still submit an abstract for the following panels as well as for the poster sessions. 

HP01 - New Directions in Agrarian Political Economy: social reproduction, racial capitalism and gender in the ‘digital’ and 'urban' South

HP05 - System-Smart Development Cooperation in a Fractured World: Working in the Mess of (G)local Sustainability

HP07 - Numbers in Motion: Citizen Data, Official Statistics, and the Making of Development

HP08 - National Responses to Illicit Financial Flows: Case Studies on the Adoption of Global Standards in Low-Income countries

HP10 - Indigenous Knowledge Systems’ Shifting Epistemic Inequalities in Evaluation for more Sustainable Futures

HP12 - Negotiating state–society relations through development: navigating constraints and opportunities in authoritarian contexts

HP14 - The persistence of fossil fuels production in the Global South: Actors, territories and futures

HP18 - Finding the Democratic Dividend: Political Accountability and Citizen-State Relations in Africa

HP19 - "Green" Energy transitions of industries in the EU and the reshaping of international relations

HP20 - Labor regimes in agricultural global value chains and production networks

SP07 - Political transitions and the fight against poverty in Southern Africa: national, regional and international initiatives

SP08 - The ‘New North’: Implications for Justice in Global Development

SP15 - Population changes and the Global South economic restructuring

SP18 - Mining the globe : constructing value and waste in a material world

SP19 - Blended Finance and Funding Access for Fragile, Conflict-Affected and/or Sanctioned Contexts

SP20 - Enterprises and sustainable development in Africa South of the Sahara

SP24 - Beyond Agriculture: In Search of New Theories of Agrarian Change in Sub-Saharan Africa

SP25 - ‘Free money’ and the missing link of household debt: Rethinking social protection in the 21st century

SP26 - Untangling urban expansion pressures and land-use conversions within ecologically sensitive areas

SP34 - Speaking Sustainability: Language, Translation and the Politics of Environmental Meaning

SP35 - Reparations in the Twenty-First Century—Claims, Programmes, and Unsettled Futures

SP36 - From Data to Decisions: People-Centered Metrics for Sustainable Ocean Futures

SP40 - EU Green Deal and Just Transition in the Global South

SP43 - From (G)local Conflicts to (R)urban Initiatives for Sustainable Peace

POSTER submission

We offer the following options to submit an abstract:

Seed panel (SP): Provides a platform to present work in progress and/or innovative ideas and does not require the submission of a full paper or draft.

Harvest panel (HP): Provides a space to present completed research and research findings. Will require upload of a (draft) paper before the conference

We also welcome poster submissions. Poster sessions will provide a space to present very early-stage research. The format is particularly suited to research master students and early-stage PhD students.  

There are no specific themes or thematic sessions for the posters: you can submit a contribution with any topic, regional focus and methodological approach, as long as it fits the broad development theme of the conference.

Important logistical information for poster sessions:

• Sessions will not take place during the parallel sessions, but will be organised instead during the social times (e.g. lunch break) in an open space.
• Please note that poster presentations can only take place physically at the conference venue: no hybrid option for posters is possible.

Abstract limit for seed and harvest panels:  500 words 

Abstract limit for poster: 250 words 

Abstracts can only be submitted via our conference managing system "Conftool". Short panel descriptions are directly available on conftool, long descriptions are available via our seed panel and harvest panel overviews.

Conftool is the conference management software that is used for this conference. Through Conftool you can submit a contribution, and at a later stage manage your profile and register for the event. 

To register to Conftool, follow these steps: 

• Open the Conftool page by clicking here, or copy pasting the following URL into your browser: https://www.conftool.org/eadi-iob-2026/
• Click on ‘register new’ to start creating your account
• Fill in all the required fields and any optional field you like, and click on ‘Create user account only’ at the bottom of the page
• Check that you receive the automatic confirmation email in your mailbox. Make sure to check your spam folder: Conftool emails often land there. 

To submit an abstract for a seed panel, harvest panel or poster session, follow these steps:

• Log in to your conftool account and click on ‘Your submissions’
• Read carefully the information on top of the page before proceeding
• Select the panel you are interested in from the list
• Fill in the required fields and click on ‘Proceed’
• Review all your information before clicking on ‘Save submission’
• The submission is now saved and will appear on top of the ‘Your submissions’ page
• Check that you have received the confirmation email (it may be in your spam folder)