Victoria Porcu, Lehrstuhl für Europäische Ethnologie/Empirische Kulturwissenschaft, Universität Würzburg
Thursday, 3.8
08.00 Check in
08:00-09:00 Coffee break
09:00-11:00 Session 1: Opening
- Address of welcome (Faculty representative)
- Narrating the multispecies world: Opening (Michaela Fenske, Würzburg)
- When fish sense that something is coming. Narrating climate (Sanne Rotmeijer, Leiden)
- Forgotten representations of interspecies communication: some examples from the Greek oral tradition (Marilena Papachristophorou, Ioannina)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Session 2: Caring
- Care, community and activity: Three stories of companionship in relationships between pets and people (Sarah Mönkeberg and Markus Kurth, Kassel)
- Sheep related narratives in everyday life on the island of Gotland (Gurbet Peker, Uppsala)
- Resonant distancing: Overcoming the wild/domestic narrative with forestal honeybees and cows (Felix Remter, München)
13:00-14:30 Lunch (Mensa)
14:30-16:30 Session 3: Transforming
- After the end: The planthropocene in contemporary Latin American art (Verónica Jiménez Borja, Quito)
- “Climate change increases bird divorce rates”: Narrating the reproduction of endangered species in the era of climate change (Meg Perret, Boston) digital
- Exile and migration in the contemporary multispecies novel (Peter Arnds, Dublin)
- Tales of roots and branches: Turkish migrants and their plant companions in Germany (Hilal Alkan, Berlin) digital
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 Keynote 1: Traditional (Gaelic) folk-narratives for a multi-species future (Mairead Nic Craith, Inverness)
20.00 Dinner, Restaurant Alter Kranen am Main (only registered participants)
Friday, 4. August
9:00-11:00: Session 4: Forging
- Honorific ecology: multispecies portraiture of Ren Hang (Ahmet Emin Bülbül, Istanbul)
- Narrating nature’s multispecies expression (André Krebber, Kassel und Zhonghao Chen, Suzhou)
- Fitographies. Creating a visual archive of plant-human encounters (Julia Krupa, Warsaw)
- Green power houses in road construction (Christine Neubert, Hamburg)
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Uhr Keynote 2: Making a multispecies fairy-tale library (Mayako Murai, Yokohama)
13.00-13.30 Fitness for unlikely species (Andrea Palasti, Belgrad)
13:30-14:30 Lunch (Mensa)
14:30-16:00 Session 5: Student panel
- Flowing narratives. Sketches from blasted waterscapes (Chiara Beneduce, Paris)
- Talking about lichens (Luise Stark, Würzburg)
- Angling for healing: Rebalancing life (Adelia H. Rachman and Setiadi, Yogyakarta)
16.00-17.30 Public transport to Botanical Garden, Julius-von-Sachs-Platz 4
17:30-18:30 Session 6 at Botanical Garden
- Greening our thumbs: The narrative practice of caring for plants and people (Martin Abbott, Lissette Lorenz and Amy Cheatle, New York)
- Stories of loss and hope: The making and growing of apples from a multispecies perspective (Arnika Peselmann, Würzburg)
18:30 Guided tour through the garden
19:30 Enjoying a wonderful summer evening in the Botanical Garden with finger food and wine
Saturday, 5. August
9:00-11:00 Session 7: Communicating
- Learning to notice and love a multispecies world (Maria Ilhéu and Mariana Valente, Lisbon)
- Narration as embodied practice. Relating plants and illness in times of planetary crisis (Erica Monde, Edinburgh)
- Like shivers through an immense body: the interspecies promise (and risk) of vibrational narratives (Ally Bisshop, Berlin/Sydney)
- The metamorphosis of the rabbit (John Martin, Reading)
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11.30-13.30 Session 8: Protecting
- Civet survival stories: narratives from an endangered species captive breeding program (Jes Hooper, Exeter)
- Beyond sowing grass -- Tibetan herders’ effort to restore degrading grassland (Siran Liang, Braunschweig)
- Parrot People. A multispecies story of the conviviality of African grey parrots and people (Ute Hörner, Mathias Antlfinger, Köln and Vanessa Wijngaarden, Johannesburg)
- Storying extinction in multispecies worlds: monarchs and milkweed (Eline D. Tabak, Bristol)
13:30-14:30 Sandwiches in the Conference Rooms
14.30-16:30 Session 9: Speculating
- Narrating multispecies assemblages in the polyphony nature-culture: Stories of Brazil (Fernanda Haskel, São Paulo), digital
- Playing the plant: Speculative fabulations in more-than-human sensoria (Siobhan Leddy, Berlin)
- Story time for the end times: Narrating conservation in the face of extinction debt (Joshua Wodak, Sydney), digital
- Tracing, expressing and asserting multivocality in the multispecies world: Concluding remarks (Regina F. Bendix, Göttingen)
Farewell