Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Konferenzraum 1
16:30–17:00 Welcome and Introduction by BERND SCHERER (tbc), Director of Haus der Kulturen der Welt, GABRIELE DÜRBECK and PHILIP HÜPKES (University of Vechta)
Keynote I
Moderation: PETER FEINDT (Humboldt University, Berlin)
17.00–18.00 NIGEL CLARK (Lancaster University) / BRONISLAW SZERSZYNSKI (Lancaster University)
»Planetary Multiplicity, Earthly Multitudes: Trans-Scalar Articulations
on a Volatile Planet«
18:30 Dinner
Thursday, September 12, 2019
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Konferenzraum 1
Panel 1: »Scale and Time I«
Moderation: GABRIELE DÜRBECK (University of Vechta)
09.15–10.00 AXEL GOODBODY (University of Bath)
»Time Travel as a Way of Modelling Trans-Scalar Thinking:
Some Examples from German Environmental Fiction«
10.00–10.45 DEREK WOODS (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH) »Scale Critique for the Anthropocene, Part II«
10.45–11.15 Coffee Break
Panel 2: »Scale and Time II«
Moderation: MONIKA ALBRECHT (University of Vechta)
11.15–12.00 KYVELI MAVROKORDOPOULOU (Georg-Simmel Center, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
»Scaling the Future: The Period of Great Contaminations as an Exercise in Prediction«
12.00–12.45 REINHOLD LEINFELDER (Freie Universität, Berlin)
»From the Deep Past to the Futures: Integrative Multimodal and Multiscale Storytelling for Involving Us with the Anthropocene?«
12.45–13.45 Lunch
Panel 3: »Scale, Alterity, and the Nonhuman«
Moderation: JONAS NESSELHAUF (Saarland University)
13.45–14.30 HEATHER SULLIVAN (Trinity University, San Antonio, TX)
»The Dark Green: Plant and Human Scale in the Anthropocene«
14.30–15.15 BERNHARD MALKMUS (University of Newcastle)
»Do you need something that’s not at your Disposal? Anthropomorphic Scales and Absolute Alterity«
15:15-16:00 ADELINE JOHNS-PUTRA (University of Surrey)
»When All Yardsticks are Lost: Arendt, Benjamin, and the Ethics of Scalar Derangement in Anthropocene Fiction«
16.00–16.30 Coffee Break
Panel 4: »Scale and the Public«
Moderation: OLIVER KOZLAREK (University of Vechta)
16.30–17:15 AYSEM MERT (Stockholm University)
»Scaling up Democracy for Governance in the Anthropocene: New Narratives and Imaginaries«
17:15–18:00 FRANZ MAUELSHAGEN (University of Vienna)
»Anthropocene Biographies«
18.00–18.30 Refreshments
Keynote II
Moderation: GABRIELE DÜRBECK (University of Vechta)
18.30–19.30 J HENRY FAIR (New York, NY)
»Anthropocene and Me – Images of a World on the Edge«
20:00 Dinner
Friday, September 13, 2019
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Konferenzraum 1
Panel 5: »Scale and Space I«
Moderation: CHRISTOPH SCHAUB (University of Vechta)
09.15–10.00 EVA HORN (University of Vienna)
»The Planetary. Scaling Space in the Anthropocene«
10.00–10.45 JOHN PARHAM (University of Worcester)
»Are we ›Dumb‹? Silence, Space & Mediating the Anthropocene«
10.45–11.15 Coffee Break
Panel 6: »Scale and Space II«
Moderation: PHILIP HÜPKES (University of Vechta)
11.15–12.00 KATHRIN BARTHA (Goethe University, Frankfurt/Monash University, Melbourne)
»Cosmology as Counter-Narrative to the Anthropocene: The Fractal Consciousness of Scale«
12.00–12.45 BIRGIT SCHNEIDER (Potsdam University)
»Politics of the Zoom. Downscaling the Cosmograms of a Heating Planet?«
12.45-13:15 Concluding Discussion
13:30 Lunch