The preliminary program here will be updated up until the week before the conference.
Thursday May 14
Time |
Program |
| 9.00-10.00 | Registration and morning coffee |
| 10.00-10.20 | The Sigtuna Foundation and CEMUS Welcome to ClimateExistence 2020 Music Jonas Gren Poetry |
| 10.20-11.00 | Jan van Boeckel “Mindful schizophrenia – Keeping one’s sanity in face of the ecological emergency” |
| 11.05-12.00 | Pella Thiel “All my relations. Living as if life mattered” Mattias Olsson “Campfire stories” |
| 12.00-13.15 | Lunch |
| 13.15-14.00 | Adam Sébire and Mirimari Väyrynen “Go Engineer Yourself” – a moral bioenhancement fortune cookie performance |
| 14.00.15.30 | Martin Modéus “On Holy Ground” Martin Modéus, Anita Goldman and Paul Pulé Conversation |
| 15.30-16.00 | Fika and check-in to rooms |
| 16.00-17.15 | Parallel sessions
Gerard van der Ree Rozi Toth Anouk Talen Pedagogies for the Anthropocene; teaching transformation, resilience, and belonging
Paul Pulé This S%&t Aint Workin’! … a case for ecological masculinities
Emmy Pater and friends Puzzles from a Sustainability Escape Room Try out challenges from The Sustainability Escape Room project
Rickard Fornstedt and Helena Fornstedt Art (and research) presentation: Building climate transition narratives through sequential arts
Martin Hedberg Scenarios – how to deal with uncertainty and transformation |
| 17.15-18.30 | Art and installations |
| 17.30 | Gröna Draken Qigong (meet in reception) |
| 18.30-20.00 | Dinner (vegetarian or vegan) |
| 20.00 | Open stage |
| 21.00 | Mattias Olsson Film “Campfire stories” |
Friday May 15
Time |
Program |
| 7.00-08.30 | Breakfast |
| 8.30-10.45 | Parallel sessions including fika (fika avalible 10.00-10.45)
Jan Van Boeckel Linking the missing links: an artful workshop on metamorphoses of organic forms
Eylem Ertürk Ayşem Mert Walking through the Tunnel at the end of the Light: Shared Walks for Climate Emergency
Isabel Baudish and Aaron Tuckey Radical Tenderness workshop
Pella Thiel All my relations…Rights of Nature – a regenerative global movement. Workshop |
| 10.45-11.40 | Keri Facer “Always look on the bright side of life” Åsa Elmstam on her art |
| 11.45-12.30 | Jonas Gren Poetry May-Britt Öhman “What if it was the Sámi who ruled the Sweonas and not the other way round? Indigenous perspectives challenging Western modernity and the destructive detachment from loving relationships to lands, waters, humans and more-than-humans” Followed by conversation |
| 12.30-13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30-14.05 | Mikael Kurkiala title to be announced |
| 14.10-16.10 | Parallel sessions including fika (fika avalible 15.15-15.45)
Jonas Gren Workshop: Planetary poetry and fiction. How do we read and write in a time of global challanges? In this workshop we read texts and explore our own writing, together
Fulvia Calcagni, Alejandro Marcos-Valls and Maddalena Ripa As a Rock in the River Collective action and individual choice: rethinking how to collectively face Climate Change through Theatre of the Oppressed
Nora Bateson title to be announced
Maud Eriksen Pia Skoglund Francesca Rosignioli What is in a name? Papersession/Reflections on climate migrants, fiction and the great falsification
Charlotte Ponzelar, Naomi Terry, Abigail Garbett and CEMUS students The Responsibility of Knowledge |
| 16.15-17.15 | Anita Goldman “A Temple in Time or Why God can play a role in Climate Activism” |
| 17.15-18.30 | Art and installations |
| 18.30-20.30 | Dinner (vegetarian or vegan) |
| 21.00 | Elin Teilus and Rickard Åström Concert (Stora salen) |
Saturday May 16
Time |
Program |
| 7.30-08.50 | Breakfast |
| 7.45- | Alexander Crawford Elective morning walk/reflection |
| 8.50-10.00 | Dougald Hine “Knowing what we know” Nora Bateson title to be announced |
| 10.00-10.30 | Ida Lod The Owl Woman is a poetic and musical oracle living in the borderlands between life and death. She welcomes you to join her interactive performance-rituals where you will be invited embrace death and to honor the Unseen |
| 10.30-11.00 | Fika and check-out of rooms (at the latest) |
| 11.00-12.00 | Studio Bigert and Bergström Weather and climate art |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch |
| 13.00-14.15 | Dan Jönsson, Jonas Gren, Mikael Kurkiala and Madeleine Grieve 20-tal – Dystopia panel |
| 14.20-15.30 | Isak Stoddard, Per Johansson and guests End of conference conversations Elin Teilus and Rickard Åström Music |
| 15.30-16.00 | Fika and end of conference |