Please note the Changes to the Program on May 29 and 30 – please check https://imaginingearth.wordpress.com/program/
Thursday, May 29
9:30 – 12:30 Doctoral Workshop I
»The Posthuman Anthropocene: Our Oxymoronic Epoch« Greg Garrard
12:30 – 13:30 Break
13:30 – 16:30 Doctoral Workshop Part II
»The Posthuman Anthropocene: Our Oxymoronic Epoch« Greg Garrard
Conference Opening
18:00 Welcome Address (Solvejg Nitzke, Nicolas Pethes, Erich Hörl)
18:30 Keynote Lecture
Saskia Sassen (Columbia University) »When Territory becomes Nomadic«
19:30 Welcome-Reception
Friday, May 30
10-11 Keynote Lecture
Bruce Clarke (Texas Tech University) »Planetary Immunity, or Gaia without Apologies«
11-12:30 Panel I: Earth in Danger (Sphere of Risk) – Climate Change and the Imagination of ›global‹ Risk Chair: Erich Hörl (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
- Birgit Schneider (Universität Potsdam) »Red Planets—Cosmograms of the Anthropocene? A Critique of Climate Visualizations«
- Greg Garrard (University of British Columbia) »Ecocriticism as Narrative Ethics«
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15 Panel II: Beyond Earth (Sphere of Communication) – Network(s), Traffic/Trade / Expansion Chair: Nicolas Pethes
- Angela Krewani (Universität Marburg) »Imaging the World with Google«
- Urs Stäheli (Universität Hamburg) »The Earth as list: From being global to possessing the global«
16-17 Keynote-Lecture
Timothy Morton (Rice Univercity) »Why Environmental Awareness is Loopy«
18:00 Conference Dinner
Saturday, May 31
10-12:30 Panel II (Part II) Chair: Nicolas Pethes
Christina Vagt (TU Berlin) »Environmental Design
Thilo Wiertz (IASS Potsdam) »Engineering the Global Climate«
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:45 Panel III: Narrating Earth/Narrative Earth (Sphere of Myth) – Modernity/Myth/Utopia Chair: Solvejg Nitzke
- Sibylle Machat (Universität Flensburg) »›Spaceship Economies‹: Apollo 13, Earth Day, and the Myth of Unlimited Supply«
- Nicolas Pethes (Universität zu Köln): »Unity as Destructibility: The World in Demise in W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn«
16:00-17:30 Panel IV:Earth without/after Humans? (Sphere of the Non-Human)
Chair: Erich Hörl
- Frédéric Neyrat (University of Wisconsin, Madison) »The Empty Box and the Full Body. Inquiry on the Unconstructible Part of the Earth«
- Solvejg Nitzke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) »(Post)Human Life after Earth. Dietmar Dath’s Exploration of Space«