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