Pandemic Grief (2): "Our" Irresponsible Nature: Affectability and Disappointment in the Pandemic and the Ecological Crisis
Interdisciplinary workshop held at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich,
hybrid on site/zoom: Leopoldstraße 13A - 042, register for streaming at juliane.prade-weiss@lmu.de
Friday, 07 October 2022
10:00 - 10:20 Juliane Prade-Weiss (Comparative Literature, Munich)
Introduction: On Disappointments and Threats
10:20 - 11:00 Luca Di Blasi (Philosophy, Bern)
What or Who Are We Disappointed in Today?
Coffee break
(NO) MOURNING
11:20 - 12:00 Ana Honnacker (Philosophy, Munich)
Why Mourning for Minks Matters: Rebellious Grief as Practice of Solidarity
12:00 - 12:40 Stef Craps (English Literature, Ghent)
Ecological Mourning: Living with Loss in the Anthropocene
Lunch break
AGENCY & REACTION
14:00 - 14:40 Sara Kipfer (Theology, Dortmund)
Carmel, Lebanon and Bashan wither:
Destruction between God- and Man-made Disaster
14:40 - 15:20 Nicole Sütterlin (German Literature, Harvard)
Toward Microbial Biocitizenship:
A Post-Pandemic Reflection on the Art of Living Well with Germs
15:20 - 16:00 Jens Klenner (German Literature, Bowdoin)
Leaving Lockdown? Latour, Haushofer, Glavinic
Coffee break
WHOSE POWER?
16:30 - 17:10 Teja Šosterič (Environmental Humanities, Munich)
Horror and Power: Eco-Grief and the Pandemic
17:10 - 17:50 Benjamin Lewis Robinson (German Literature, New York)
NOTSTAND: The Theater and the Plague
17:50 - 18:10 Closing Remarks
Downloads
- LMU_Pandemic_Grief_2_poster (450 KByte)