wake up coffee
Introduction by Prof. Marek Tamm (Tallinn University) and Prof. Ulrike Plath (Tallinn University / Estonian Academy of Sciences), Programme Co-Directors of the Winter School
Dr. Timothy LeCain (Montana State University): The matter of humans: putting nature back into culture through the environmental humanities
Discussion led by Prof. Marek Tamm (Tallinn University)
lunch (atrium of Tallinn University, Uus-Sadama 5, 3rd floor)
Student seminar
coffee break
Dr. Dolly Jørgensen (Luleå University of Technology): Making a user turn in the environmental humanities
Discussion led by Prof. Kalevi Kull (University of Tartu)
reception at the Estonian Academy of Sciences (Kohtu 6) (registered participants only)
wake up coffee
Prof. David Moon (University of York): Place and nature in Russian environmental history
Discussion led by Prof. Karsten Brüggemann (Tallinn University)
lunch (atrium of Tallinn University Uus-Sadama 5, 3rd floor)
Student seminar
coffee break
Prof. Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin – Madison / Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society): Parasites of capital: tales of ecology and disease in a neoliberal age
Discussion led by Dr. Kati Lindström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology / University of Tartu)
Movie night at Cinema Sõprus (Vana-Posti 8): two films of Gregg Mitman: In the Shadow of Ebola (2014) and The Land Beneath Our Feet (2016)
winter school club at NoKu (Pikk 5) (drinks and food not provided by the winter school)
wake up coffee
Prof. Kate Soper (London Metropolitan University): “The humanities and the environment: nature, culture and politics of consumption”
Discussion led by Kadri Tüür (Tallinn University / University of Tartu)
lunch (atrium of Tallinn University, Uus-Sadama 5, 3rd floor)
Student seminar
coffee break
Prof. Harriet Hawkins (Royal Holloway, University of London): Creating Earth futures? GeoHumanities and geographical imaginations of global environmental change
Discussion led by Prof. Helen Sooväli-Sepping (Tallinn University)
Science slam (Nova Building’s free area, Narva road 27)
winter school club at NoKu (Pikk 5) (drinks and food not provided by the winter school)
Six parallel workshops (require previous registration)
first session
lunches by groups
second session
Nature and nationalism in Soviet visual culture, convened by Dr. Anu Allas (Kumu Art Museum) and Dr. Linda Kaljundi (Tallinn University)
Meaningful connections: zoological garden as an interspecies environment, convened by Dr. Timo Maran (University of Tartu) (cancelled)
The human condition and the environment: breathing, eating and dying in environmental humanities, convened by Dr. Kati Lindström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology / University of Tartu)
Urban nature as a pharmakon?, convened by Prof. Maros Krivy (Estonian Academy of Arts) and Agata Marzecova (Tallinn University)
Thresholds of shifting values: recycling matters in the post-city, convened by Prof. Patrick Laviolette (Tallinn University) and Dr. Tarmo Pikner (Tallinn University)
Sensory environments and nature representations, convened by Kadri Tüür (Tallinn University / University of Tartu) and Prof. Kate Soper (London Metropolitan University)
Movie night in Supernova Cinema (Narva mnt 27) (organized by Piibe Kolka and Carlo Cubero Tallinn University): Eldorado XXI by Salomé Lamas (2016), followed by Q&A with the director (via Skype)
winter school club at NoKu (Pikk 5) (drinks and food not provided by the winter school)
wake up coffee
Dr. Jamie Lorimer (University of Oxford): What is the wild, and who decides? Rewilding and the futures of nature conservation
Discussion led by Dr. Riin Magnus (University of Tartu)
lunch (atrium of Tallinn University, Uus-Sadama 5, 3rd floor)
Student seminar
coffee break
Discussion led by Prof. Ulrike Plath (Tallinn University / Estonian Academy of Sciences)
Graduation party at Erinevate Tubade Klubi (Telliskivi 60, A1 4th floor) (for registered participants)