Public Lectures of the Winter School of Estonian Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts
Tallinn University will host on 28 January-1 February 2019 the 8th Winter School of Estonian Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts. The title of the Winter School is "The Humanities and Posthumanities: New Ways of Being Human".
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iCal calendarThere will be eight public plenary lectures of the Winter School open to all (registration is not needed). The list of the lectures is provided below (click the links to find more information about the lectures and the lecturers). All lectures will take place in room A-222. Please find more information on the website of the winter school.
Schedule
28 January 2019
10:30–11:30: Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (John Cabot University in Rome), “A posthuman future of the humanities”
11:30–12:30: Followed by discussion led by Prof. Ulrike Plath (Tallinn University and Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences)
16:00–17:00: Dr. Zoltán Boldizsár Simon (Bielefeld University), “Two cultures of the posthuman future”
17:00–18:00: Followed by discussion led by Dr. Kalle Pihlainen (Tallinn University)
29 January 2019
10:00–11:00: Dr. Thomas Schwarz Wentzer (Aarhus University), “We humans: Who is the Anthropos in ‘Anthropocene’?”
11:00–12:00: Followed by discussion led by Prof. Tõnu Viik (Tallinn University)
15:30–16:30: Prof. Ewa Domanska (Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan and Stanford University), “Unbecoming human: Merging humanities and soil science”
16.30–17.30: Followed by discussion led by Prof. Marek Tamm (Tallinn University)
30 January 2019
10:00–11:00: Prof. Stacy Alaimo (University of Texas at Arlington), “Onto-epistemologies for the Anthropocene, or Who will be the subject of the posthumanities?”
11:00–12:00: Followed by discussion led by Dr. Julia Tofantšuk (Tallinn University)
15:30–16:30: Prof. Steve Fuller (University of Warwick), “The fork on the road for Humanity 2.0”
16:30–17:30: Followed by discussion led by Prof. Indrek Ibrus (Tallinn University)
1 February 2019
10:00–11:00: Prof. Sverker Sörlin (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), “Making sense of the environmental humanities: Emerging histories of the human-earth relationship”
11:00–12:00: Followed by discussion led by Dr. Kadri Tüür (University of Tartu)
15:30–16:30: Dr. Timotheus Vermeulen (University of Oslo), “Metamodernism and posthumanism”
16:30–17:30: Followed by discussion led by Dr. Eneken Laanes (Tallinn University and Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences)
This winter school is organised by the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts, supported by the Tallinn University's ASTRA project, TLÜ TEE, University of Tartu’s ASTRA project, PER ASPERA, Estonian Academy of Arts' ASTRA project EKA LOOVKÄRG, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre's ASTRA project EMTASTRA (European Union, European Regional Development Fund).