Interdisciplinary symposium 2. Temporalities of permacrisis: pasts, presents, futures

Programme

Day 1: Thurdsay 25 September
Tallinn University

• 2:30–3:00: Anne Fuchs (UCD) and Marek Tamm (Tallinn University): Opening thoughts
• 3:00–4:00: Peeter Laurits (freelance artist, Tallinn): Dining with worms (artistic presentation)
• 4:00–5:00: Roundtable: Crisis, time and more-than-human with Mary Cosgrove (UCD), Eneken Laanes (Tallinn University), Peeter Laurits (freelance artist), Raili Marling (University of Tartu)

Chairs: Anne Fuchs (UCD) and Marek Tamm (Tallinn University)

• 5:00–5:30: Coffee break
• 5:30–7:00: Panel 1: Crisis Aesthetics: Artistic Practices

  Helen Doherty (Freelance artist, Dublin): A Short Encyclopaedia of Contested
  Words: creative practice in response to a permacrisis in public communication

  Ingvild Folkvord (NTNU/Humboldt University of Berlin): Aesthetic experimentation in times of permacrisis

  Amitie Lee (Tallinn University) and Daniele Monticelli (Tallinn University): Taking care of crisis? Temporal circularity and posthuman rationality in contemporary sci-fi cinema

• 7:15–9:00: Reception and buffet at the university

Day 2: Friday 26 September
Tallinn University

• 10:00–11:30: Panel 2: Temporal Ecologies and Extractive Futures

  Maeve Cooke (UCD): Ecological entangled agency: Radically reconstituting the idea of freedom in response to perceived permacrisis

  Kadri Tüür (Tallinn University / University of Toronto) and Silvia Lotman (Tallinn University): Where is your nostalgy horizon? Re-wilding as perceived crisis

  Sarah Comyn (UCD): The cultural imaginary of extractivism’s slow violence [remotely]

• 11.30–11:45: Coffee break
• 11:45–1:15: Panel 3: Time, Endings, and the Crisis of the Future

  Anne Fuchs (UCD): Permacrisis in the end time and the quest for nowness: Beckett’s Happy Days

  Marek Tamm (Tallinn University): Is the future in crisis? On futurability, hope, and open futures

  Fabian Krenz-Dewe (Humboldt University of Berlin): Farewell, modern future…: How climate change checkmates modern temporality

• 1:15–2:15: Lunch
• 2:15–4:15: Panel 4: Fictional Futures and the Crisis of Collective Imagination

  Megan Kuster (UCD): Recovering collective futures: Alternative reality narratives and Wu Ming’s Manituana

  Julia Kuznetski (Tallinn University): The permacrisis of water in Elif Shafak’s
  There are Rivers in the Sky

  Shreyashi Das (Dublin City University): Harvesting seeds of violence: A study of generational time in Salman Rushdie’s Victory City

• 4:15–4:30: Coffee break
• 4:30–5:30: Panel 5: More-than-Human Worlds: Affect and Temporal Speculation

  Raili Marling (University of Tartu): Feeling the crisis: the affective temporality of speculative rationality

  Mary Cosgrove (Trinity College Dublin): ‘Leveret time’: Relationality and more- than-human temporality in Chloe Dalton’s Raising Hare (2024)

• 7:00–9:00: Conference dinner

Day 3: Saturday 27 September
Tallinn University

• 10:00–11:30: Panel 6: Living Through the Permacrisis: Institutions, Embodiment, and the Crisis of the Social

  Jean Lassègue (CNRS/EHESS, Paris): What becomes of the rule of law in times of weaponization?

  Elina Hakoniemi (Demos Helsinki / University of Helsinki) and Aleksi Neuvonen (Demos Helsinki): Re-imagining post-industrial futures

  Ishan Jalan (Nottingham Business School) and Jamie Hahn (Nottingham Business School): Living the crisis: Temporal embodiment and moral ambiguity in paramedic work

• 11.30–11:45: Coffee break
• 11:45–1:15: Panel 7: Crisis, Agency, and the Return of the Sacred

  Jeanne Riou (UCD): Beyond epochal thresholds? Re-thinking agency and encounter in permacrisis

  Mihhail Lotman (Tallinn University / University of Tartu): René Girard: Violence, apocalypse and rebirth

  Martin Sauter (Lutheran Church in Ireland ): Rethinking the eschaton: liberating us from a toxic cultural dynamic

• 1:15–2:15: Lunch
• 2:30–4:30: Visit to the KUMU art museum (optional)

This symposium is sponsored by the School of Humanities and the Institute of History, Archaeology and Art History at Tallinn University, in collaboration with the Humanities Institute at University College Dublin.