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For the parallel sessions, each paper is alloted 15 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for questions.
The program is set in GMT+2 Central European Summer Time.
| 11.00-11.30 | The Auditorium Welcome Kyrre Kverndokk, University of Bergen |
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| 11.30-12.30 | Keynote lecture: | The Auditorium Phenomenal time: a field philosophy for more liveable worlds Michelle Bastian, University of Edinburgh Moderator: Marit Ruge Bjærke |
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| 12.30- 13.30 |
Lunch break | The Lobby and the Café are open, if you want to continue the conversation. | |
| 13.30-14.45 | Parallel sessions 1 |
Conference room 1 Politics, planning and time 1 Moderator: Isak Stoddard Pernille Almlund What calculations and numbers do to political work and decisions Blake Ewing Is politics the problem? Reassessing the charge of political short-termism Hedda Susanne Molland Time to act – The temporality of innovation in Norwegian carbon capture and storage policy |
Conference room 2 The non-human 1 Moderator: Camilla Asplund Ingemark Frédérique Brossard Børhaug and Line Alice Ytrehus Caring for biological and cultural diversity: The epistemic contribution of the Capability Approach in times of anthropogenic climate change Lykke Guanio-Uluru Plant Representation in Climate Fiction for Young Adults Michał Pałasz Posthumanistic Fix to the Temporal Myopia of Management Practices. Towards the Applied Solidarity of All Things |
| 14.45-15.15 | Break | The Lobby and the Café are open, if you want to continue the conversation. | |
| 15.15-17.00 | Parallel sessions 2 |
Conference room 1 Local practices Moderator: Lars Kaijser Trine My Thygaard-Nielsen Working with climates: multiple climates in Spanish conventional greenhouse production Josefine Løndorf Sarkez-Knudsen Acting in the Anthropocene: Permaculture as a form of activism Jenny Ingridsdotter and Maria Vallström Mobilized villages: local community agency during the Swedish wildfires in 2018 and the process of re-orientation towards the future Elisabeth Schøyen Jensen, Sissel Småland Aarsheim & Scott Bremer Marking seasonal change using primstavs; re-representing natural and social order |
Conference room 2 Cli-fi and imagined futures 1 Moderator: Henrik Bødker Solveig Helene Lygren The Anthropocene and the Apocalypse: Environmental crisis and motifs of end time in contemporary Norwegian novels Sissel Furuseth The Ethics of Posterity in Maja Lunde´s Climate Change Novels Helena Hörnfelt A future lost? Children facing uncertainty before and in times of climate crisis |
| 10.00-11.00 | The Auditorium A conversation about the project “The Future is Now”. Anders Ekström, Uppsala University in conversation with Kyrre Kverndokk and Marit Ruge Bjærke, University of Bergen Moderator: Eivind Seland |
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| 11.00-11.15 | Break | The Lobby and the Café are open, if you want to continue the conversation. | |
| 11.15-12.30 | Parallel sessions 3 |
Conference room 1 Politics, planning and time 2 Moderator: Marianne Takle Henrik Bødker Journalism, time and climate change Christina Berg Johansen Organizing in the Anthropocene – a utopian exploration Tessa van der Staak Climate change “on the body”: Anecdotal evidence and experts |
Conference room 2 Landscape and knowledge Moderator: Jenny Ingridsdotter Jilt Jorritsma Future Pasts: History, Space and the Environment in the Imagination of Urban Submergence in Amsterdam, New York and Mexico City Miriam Jensen The significant now as a meeting place for local narratives on change: An opportunity for conflict management? |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch break | The Lobby and the Café are open, if you want to continue the conversation. | |
| 13.30-14.45 | Parallel sessions 4 |
Conference room 1 Politics, planning and time 3 Moderator: Hedda Susanne Molland Isak Stoddard and Magdalena Kuchler Temporalities of energy transitions: Sociotechnical imaginaries of regional mitigation efforts in Sweden Siddharth Sareen and Timothy Moss Demanding demand: Political configurations of energy flexibility in Berlin, 1920-2020 Emil Flatø Futurity, Models and the Time of the Climate Issue |
Conference room 2 The non-human 2 Moderator: Line Alice Ytrehus Camille Deschamps Vierø Temporalities of walking in the Anthropocene Martina Mercellova Whitewash Brainwash linear Greenwash: Leslie Marnon Silko and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson against colonial linearity of green discourse |
| 14.45-15.15 | Break | The Lobby and the Café are open, if you want to continue the conversation. | |
| 15.15 -17.00 | Parallel sessions 5 |
Conference room 1 The project The Future is Now 1 Moderator: Kyrre Kverndokk Lars Kaijser Advocating equilibrium. On climate-change at public aquariums Lone Ree Milkær The Great Re-Skilling: understandings of generation, tradition, and nostalgia as part of climate change mitigation in suburban Bergen Diane Goldstein ‘Where is global warming when you need it?’: The role of immediacy in vernacular constructions of climate change Henrik H. Svensen The future is now: Climate change, permafrost thawing, tipping points and the fluid temporalities of the Anthropocene |
Conference room 2 Anthropocene aesthetics 1 Moderator: Scott Bremer Tore Størvold Audiovisual Temporalities in the Anthropocene: Sound and Musical Aesthetics in Chernobyl (2019) Laura op de Beke Deep Time LARP: A Speculative Storytelling Game |
| 10.00-11.45 | Parallel sessions 6 |
Conference room 1 The temporality of solidarity Moderator: Lone Ree Milkær Marianne Takle The boundaries of solidarity – an extension of time Anna Friberg Now or in the future? Reflections on climate rhetoric and de-temporalizations of the future in the language use of youth climate movements Ragnhild Freng Dale Futures on trial: Courtroom performance and petroleum disputes in the Norwegian Arctic Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen and Jakob Egholm Feldt Climate Justice and the Multiplicity of Timescales |
Conference room 2 Cli-fi and imagined futures 2 Moderator: Solveig Helene Lygren Chukwu Romanus Nwoma Environmental Privation and Human Migration in Shimmer Chinodya’s Dew in the Morning Kübra Baysal Climate Change Fiction since the Nineteenth Century: After London, Mara and Dann and Lost Girl Subarna De An Environmental Reading of Gun Island: Discourses on Indigenous Notions of Climate Change Marion Moussier Synchronizing Human and Geological Temporalities in Climate Fiction: the Example of J.G.Ballard's The Drowned World |
| 11.45-12.45 | Lunch break | The Lobby and the Café are open, if you want to continue the conversation. | |
| 12.45-14.00 | Parallel sessions 7 |
Conference room 1 The project The Future is Now 2 Moderator: Marit Ruge Bjærke Anne Eriksen Kelp and climate in 18th century Norway Camilla Asplund Ingemark The Temporalities of Coping with Climate Change in Vernacular Texts |
Conference room 2 Anthropocene aesthetics 2 Moderator: Emil Flatø Anna Madeleine Raupach Augmented tree rings: visualising layers of time in environmental bioindicators Hannah Entwisle Chapuisat Artistic Engagement in International Responses to Disaster Displacement: Ways of Working and Potential Impacts Chang Liu In tune with Geological Time: A Political Ecological Approach to Touring |
| 14.00-14.30 | Break | The Lobby and the Café are open, if you want to continue the conversation. | |
| 14.30-15.30 | Keynote lecture: | The Auditorium Genre differences, polyphony and role attribution in climate change narratives Kjersti Fløttum, University of Bergen Moderator: Kyrre Kverndokk |
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| 15.30-15.45 | The Auditorium Closure Kyrre Kverndokk |
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