CRISIS, DYING, APOCALYPSE. Subjectivity, Progress and Ecology in the light of the Anthropocene
Workshop
Start date: Thursday 26 August 2021
Time: 09.00
End date: Friday 27 August 2021
Time: 12.30
Location: Online
Online Symposium at the Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University, August 26–27, 2021.
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This symposium is presented in cooperation between Stockholm University, Mid Sweden University and Linköping University, within the Seed Box Project, a transdisciplinary program in Environmental Humanities.
Thursday, August 26
Zoom: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/61521009438
09.00 Welcome, audio set up, etc.
09.15–10.00 Jacob Lund, Aarhus University The End of Futurity as We Knew It
10.00–10.45 Marietta Radomska, Linköping University Mourning the more-than-human: From crisis imaginaries to queer/ing eco-arts
11.00–11.45 Alexander García Düttmann, Univärsität der Künste, Berlin Apocalypse and Disappointment
11.45–12.30 Erik van Ooijen, Mälardalen University Visions of Future Mutant Archeology
Lunch
13.30–14.15 Carin Franzén, Stockholm University A Deathloop: Reading Decameron with Freud and Morton
14.15–15.00 Mårten Björk, Oxford University A World With Many Ends: Eschatology and Perspectivism
15.15–16.00 Vicky Angelaki, Mid-Sweden University Corroded Landscapes, Eroded Communities
16.00–16.45 Dave Boothroyd, University of Kent Futural Dispatches on responsibility for the Earth, or, What on Earth is Responsibility?
Friday, August 27
Zoom: https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/61203455573
09.15–10.00 Jenny Jarlsdotter Wikström, Umeå University Ghost kids: Loss, mourning and the void in Aase Berg’s death poetics
10.00–10.45 Anders E Johansson, Mid-Sweden University small revelations … maybe not even with an apocalyptic tone
11.00–11.45 Jesper Olsson, Linköping University Plant Life and Posthuman Endgames: Re-Reading Beckett
11.45–12.30 Sven Anders Johansson, Mid-Sweden University The Pandemic, the Climate and The Death of Virgil
For more information, please contact: carin.franzen@littvet.su.se; svenanders.johansson@miun.se; jesper.olsson@liu.se
Last updated: August 16, 2021
Source: Institutionen för kultur och estetik