Graduate Workshop | Eco-Temporalities and Geo-Politics
First day: Thursday, 13th October
Location: a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities, Aachener Str. 217 50931 Köln. 3rd Floor, Room 3. A06 “Skyfall”
9:30 | Coffee and registration |
10:00 | Opening and presentation by Kate Rigby (MESH) and Andreas Speer (a.r.t.e.s.) |
10:45 | Break |
11:00 | Panel Eco-Aesthetics I Max Walther and Shirin Weigelt (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar): Modes of Co-habitation. Singing along a multiplicity called mountain. Etel Adnan’s poe-politics of Mount Tamalpais. Astrid Schrader (University of Exeter): Caring with Haunted Marine Microbes Gregorio Tenti (Università degli Studi di Torino): The Untimely Earth. Geotraumatics for Terraformers |
12:30 | Lunch |
13:30 | Panel Eco-Conflicts Katie Kung (Rachel Carson Center, Munich): Fatberg: The Monstrosity of Immediacy Christoph Lange (Universität zu Köln): Mediterranean Critical Zones: Lines of Contradiction: Ecological and Social Collapse in the Mediterranean Alessandro Volpi (Università Vita e Salute San Raffaele): Beyond Neoliberal Presentism: An Eco-Temporality for the Anthropocene |
15:00 | Break |
15:30 | Virtual Keynote Lecture by Michelle Bastian (University of Edinburgh): Engaging with phenology to sense more-than-human climate change temporalities |
17:00 | Closing of the first day |
Second day: Friday, 14th October
Location: a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities, Aachener Str. 217 50931 Köln. 3rd Floor, Room 3. A06 “Skyfall”
10:00 | Coffee |
10:30 | Panel Eco-Justice Kylie Crane (University of Rostock): Absences, Presences, and Nuclear Detonations Grace Garland (University of Edinburgh): Exposing and resisting the Lakshmi Chithra Dilipkumar (Universität Augsburg) and Grinjo Joseph (University of Tezpur): Temporal Spectres and Spatial Violence: Slow Violence, Environmental Injustice and the Supernatural in Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream and Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar's The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey |
12:00 | Lunch |
13:00 | Panel Eco-Aesthetics II Noa Levin (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin) Walter Benjamin’s Ecocriticism and Catastrophic Temporalities Maxime McKenna (Freie Universität Berlin): Neo-Noir’s Strange Loops: Infrastructure and the (Filmic) Past in Chinatown and Who Framed Roger Rabbit James Dorson (LMU Munich/Freie Universität Berlin): Beyond Resilience: Ecopoetics and Its Limits in Juliana Spahr’s The Transformation and Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future |
14:30 | Break |
15:00 | Recapitulation and closing remarks |