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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
inevitable destruction of other-than-human beings in climate justice theory

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