After the Anthropocene: Time and Mobility
University of Helsinki, Siltavuorenpenger 3 A (Athena 302)
Thursday 13th June
9:00- 9:15 Welcoming words - Pasi Heikkurinen and Toni Ruuska
9:15- 9:30 Conversation with a stone - Jyri Pirinen
9:30- 10:00 Deep ecology, Ojibwe culture and Louise Erdrich’s Birchbark House Series - Tiina Wikström
10:00- 10:30 Structuring the reach towards the future - Philip McShane and Terry Quinn
10:30- 11:00 Coffee break
11:00- 11.30 Regenerative agriculture, regenerative economies? Exploring the emerging concept - Galina Kallio, Risto Musta and Maxim Vlasov
11:30- 12:00 Food fovereignty and the post-Anthropocene - Julia Bayly
12:00- 12:30 Indigenous food sovereignty - Julie Pelletier
12:30- 13:00 Convergences and divergences between ecovillages and self-sufficiency households – Evidence from two ongoing ethnographies - Elif Erdogan Öztekin and Eeva Houtbeckers
13:00- 14:00 Lunch at Unicafe Olivia
14:00- 14:30 Visions of the future: Severino, Gorz, and Haraway between utopia and dystopia - Pierre Tosi
14:30- 15:00 Organising in the post-Anthropocene: What does production in a sustainable degrowth society entail? - Iana Nesterova and Ben Robra
15:00- 15:30 Towards a post-capitalist society: Strategies for an economically, socially and environmentally responsive built-environment - Naji Akbar, Adel Boregh and Jamal Abdelgheny
15:30- 16:00 Scarcity, limits, and degrowth: which way forward? - Kristoffer Wilén
19:00- Colloquium dinner at Temppelinaukio (close to Temppelinaukio Rock Church)
Friday 14th June
9:00-9:30 Literary dimensions of nuclear Anthropocene - Inna Sukhenko
10:00-10:30 The aesthetics of mobility - Albert Mayr
10:30-11:00 Circle of wellness: Contemporary Hawaiian approaches to restoring balance - Douglas Herman
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 “The climate is out of joint! O cursed spite! That ever I was born to set it right.” – Nonhuman hauntology after the Anthropocene - Andrzej Marzec
11:30- 12:00 The Anthropocene exit: Reconciling tensions between discourses and the epoch - Pasi Heikkurinen, Toni Ruuska, Kristoffer Wilén and Marko Ulvila
12:00-12:30 Will packing problems persist in the post-Anthropocene? - Lovisa Solbär
12:30-13:30 Lunch at Unicafe Olivia
13:30- 14:00 Envisioning proximity tourism through new materialism - Outi Rantala, Valtonen Anu, Salmela Tarja and Höckert Emily
14:00- 14:30 A conceptual framework for post-growth work in the Global North - Eeva Houtbeckers
14:30-15:00 Group discussion
15:30- Boat trip to Suomenlinna Fortress
16:15-18:15 Ecopsychology dialogue in Suomenlinna
18:30- Dinner at Valimo restaurant in Suomenlinna