Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories: Narratives of Coming Nature(s) from Antiquity to the Anthropocene
organized by Christopher Schliephake (Augsburg) and Evi Zemanek (Freiburg)
24 February 2022
10:30-10:50 Welcome
Panel 1: Ancient Imaginaries
10:50-11:10
A. Möller: Experience and Expectation: Hesiod on Labour, Justice, and Environment
11:10-11:30
R. Hutchins: The World Without Us: De Rerum Natura 2.1144-74
11:30-11:50
D. Janzen: Solastalgia, Future Memory, and Polluted Landscapes at Lucan’s Pharsalus (De Bello Civili 7)
11:50-12:10
C. Petit: Ancient Geographies of Health: from Environmental Awareness to Imagining the Landscapes of Future Therapy
Panel 2: Dialogues between Times and Places
14:20-14:40
J. Hettinger: The Past is a Foreign Environment: Ancient Landscapes and Modernist Thinking
14:40-15:00
C. Pigott: Retrospective Prophecy in Contemporary Maya Literature
15:00-15:20
J. Bracker: Environmental Futures in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention between Dystopia and Hope
Panel 3: Urbanity
16:00-16:20
H. Braunbeck: Utopia’s User Interface and its Discontents: Geoengineering, Smart Cities, and Glass Life in Niklas Maak’s Novel Technophoria
16:20-16:40
S. Middendorf: The Arcologies of Paolo Soleri – Unbuilt Futures from the Past
25 February 2022
Panel 4: Conservation and Economies
10:00-10:20
D. Barnes: Future Imperfect in Edmund Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender (1579)
10:20-10:40
S. Broomhall: Temporality, Measurability and Sustainability: Gendered Participation in Early Modern French Natural Resource Management
10:40-11:00
G. Dehler: William Temple Hornaday’s Haunting Vision of a Wildlife Apocalypse
11:00-11:20
R. Woods: Anticipating Extinction: Mammoth Ivory and the Imagination in Late-Nineteenth-Century Britain
Panel 5: Activism
12:00-12:20
J. Dunk: Ecological Knowledge and Double Death in the Coming Nuclear Winter
12:20-12:40
M. Egan: Convenant with the Future: Modern Arks in Catastrophic History
Panel 6: The Climate(s) of Anticipated History
14:00-14:20
F. Schnicke: Nature in Order or Human Agency? Future Visions in Nineteenth Century European Climate Change Discourse
14:20-14:40
C. Wetjen: Debating Climate in the Anthropocene. The Mediazation of Climate Change-Knowledge at the End of the Nineteenth-Century
14:40-15:00
L. Della Fontana: Writing the End in the Anthropocene: Italian Climate-Fiction
Panel 7: Narratives and Performance
15:50-16:10
L. Pfeifer: Life Beyond the Human: Imagining (Hi)Stories of Human Extinction
16:10-16:30
P. Sipahi: “The Universe is a Memory of Our Mistakes” – The Cyclicality of (Future) Histories in Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods
16:30-16:50
M. Riedelsheimer/L. Vaziri: Ecology in a Loop – Cyclical History in Ella Hickson’s Oil
16:50-17:00
Wrap-Up & END of Conference
Participation upon request. Places are limited. Please contact: sekretariat.zemanek@mkw.uni-freiburg.de
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