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  • Programme
  • Lecturers
  • Practicalities
  • Workshops
  • Readings
  • Registration

Programme

Monday, January 28

Tallinn University / Uus-Sadama 5 / Mare building / M-134
9.30–10.00

Registration (Mare lobby)

9.30–10.00

wake up coffee (Mare 3rd Floor Atrium)

10:00–10:30

Introduction by Dr. Eneken Laanes (Tallinn University and Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences) and Prof. Marek Tamm (Tallinn University), programme co-directors of the winter school (M-134)

10.30–11.30

Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (John Cabot University in Rome), “A posthuman future of the humanities” (M-134)

11.30–12.30

Discussion led by Prof. Karsten Brüggemann (Tallinn University) (M-134)

12:30–13:30

lunch (Mare 3rd floor Atrium)

13.30–15.30

Student seminars
Session 1 (M-134)
Discussants: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and Zoltán Boldizsár Simon

  • Patrizia Sergio (University of Tartu), Lively assemblages and new material configurations: How to rethink the technological artifacts into a posthuman perspective
  • Tomasz Wiśniewski (Adam Mickiewicz University), Posthumanist–postsecular intersections and theoretical problems of history
  • Rita Niineste (Tallinn University), The inhuman work of difference in Elizabeth Grosz’s Philosophy
  • Shaun Deanesh S Vikraman (Tallinn University of Technology), Dehumanizing financial markets
15.30–16.00

coffee break (Mare 3rd floor Atrium)

16.00–17.00

Dr. Zoltán Boldizsár Simon (Bielefeld University), “Two cultures of the posthuman future” (M-134)

17.00–18.00

Discussion led by Dr. Kalle Pihlainen (Tallinn University) (M-134)

18.30–late

reception at the Estonian Academy of Arts (Põhja puiestee 7 – A501) (registered participants only)

Tuesday, January 29

Tallinn University / Uus-Sadama 5 / Mare building / M-134
9.30–10.00

Registration (Mare lobby)

9.30–10.00

wake up coffee (Mare 3rd floor Atrium)

10.00–11.00

Dr. Thomas Schwarz Wentzer (Aarhus University), “We humans: Who is the Anthropos in ‘Anthropocene’?” (M-134)

11.00–12.00

Discussion led by Prof. Tõnu Viik (Tallinn University) (M-134)

12.00–13.00

lunch (Mare 3rd floor Atrium) (M-134)

13.00–15.00

Student seminars
Session 2 (M-340)
Discussants: Ewa Domanska and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer

  • Barbara Dynda (University of Warsaw), The methodological potential of queer ecologies in research on non-heteronormative female communities
  • Fatma Berna Uysal (Kocaeli University), All about a Repeating World and how to stop the Repetition
  • Guilherme Bianchi (Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto / Goldsmiths College), Dreaming temporalities: alter/native ways of being and knowing among the Misak of Colombian Andes
  • Anni Müüripeal (Tallinn University), Physical accessibility of the elderly to healthcare services in urban space

Session 3 (M-342)
Discussants: Stacy Alaimo and Eneken Laanes

  • Tyler James Bennett (University of Tartu), Anti-humanist semiotics and the role of the humanities
  • Muzayin Nazaruddin (University of Tartu), Semiotic perspective for the analysis of natural disaster
  • Ksenia Shmydkaya (Tallinn University), Posthumanist approaches to the historical novel
15.00–15.30

coffee break (Mare 3rd floor Atrium)

15.30–16.30

Prof. Ewa Domanska (Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan and Stanford University), “Unbecoming human: Merging humanities and soil science” (M-134)

16.30–17.30

Discussion led by Prof. Marek Tamm (Tallinn University) (M-134)

18.00–19.30

Peeter Laurits and Andres Lõo, “Motherboard’s synaptic mycorrhiza: Artist talk”, moderated by Eero Epner (Supernova Cinema, BFM)

20.00–23.00

Winter school club for students (NoKu, Pikk 5)

Discussion session (for programme directors and plenary lecturers only)

Wednesday, January 30

Tallinn University / Uus-Sadama 5 / Mare building / M-134
9.30–10.00

wake up coffee (Mare 3rd floor Atrium)

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?” (M-134)

11.00–12.00

Discussion led by Dr. Julia Tofantšuk (Tallinn University) (M-134)

12.00–13.00

lunch (Mare 3rd floor Atrium)

13.00–15.00

Roundtable discussion: Artificial intelligence – opportunity or threat? Participants: Prof. Steve Fuller (University of Warwick), Prof. Tanel Tammet (Tallinn University of Technology), and Karmen Turk (Trinity Law Firm) (TBC). Moderated by Prof. Kristjan Port (Tallinn University) (M-134)

15.00–15.30

coffee break (Mare 3rd floor Atrium)

15.30–16.30

Prof. Steve Fuller (University of Warwick), “The fork on the road for Humanity 2.0” (M-134)

16.30–17.30

Discussion led by Prof. Indrek Ibrus (Tallinn University) (M-134)

18.00–20.00

Science slam
(Recreation area next to the Supernova Cinema, BFM)

  • Kaisa Ling (Tallinn University), A talking cure for Post H.
  • Anatolijs Venovcevs (The Arctic University of Norway), Extracted frontiers: A call from the North
  • Amalia Calderón (University of Amsterdam), Future epistemologies of pleasure
  • Artūrs Pokšāns (University of Tartu), New ways of being human – with the help of your neighbourly pharmacist!
  • Jonna Karvinen (Tallinn University), No gender? No problem!
  • Marek Susdorf (University of Oslo), Music and the posthuman
  • Pinqing Wu (Tallinn University), A probably livable house and practice-based ethnography
  • Rauno Saidla (Tallinn University), Man make machine, machine make music!
  • Sandra Real (Nazarbayev University), Kumis consumption and digital innovation marketing perspectives in urban Kazakhstan
  • Rasmus Kask (Tallinn University), Metamodernism in heritage studies
  • Sally-Anne Hanson (Tallinn University), The other power technology generates
  • Ahenkora Siaw Kwakye (University of Tartu), Approaching transhumanism through humanism
20.00–23.00

Winter school club for students (NoKu, Pikk 5)

Discussion session (for programme directors and plenary lecturers only)

Thursday, January 31

Various locations
10.00–16.00

6 parallel workshops (previous registration required)

10.00-12.00 first session

12.00-13.00 lunches by groups

13.00-16.00 second session

Workshop 1: Underwater: transhuman ways of sensing environment, convened by Prof. Ulrike Plath (Tallinn University and Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences), Prof. Maarja Kruusmaa (Tallinn University of Technology) and Dr. Amirouche Moktefi (Tallinn University of Technology).

Workshop 2: Urban robotics, rights for mobility and ethics of streets, convened by Dr. Tauri Tuvikene (Tallinn University) and Markus Zimmermann (Starship Technologies)

Workshop 3: Posthumanities in contemporary arts, convened by Dr. Mari Laanemets (Estonian Academy of Arts) and Rebeka Põldsam (University of Tartu).

Workshop 4: Cybernetic dreams across the Soviet-Postsoviet divide, convened by Dr. Aro Velmet (University of Southern California and University of Oxford) and Dr. Egle Rindzeviciute (Kingston University).

Workshop 5: Artificial reproductive technologies: The ethical implications and speculations, convened by Dr. Kadri Simm (University of Tartu).

Workshop 6: Designing technologies of life for cases of extreme poverty: Ethical considerations of humanitarian action, convened by Dr. Alexander Horstmann (Tallinn University) and Triinu Ossinovski (Tallinn University).

18.00–19.30

Movie night in Supernova Cinema (organised by Dr. Carlo Cubero, Tallinn University): Fabrizio Terranova’s film “Donna Haraway: Story telling for earthly survival” (2016)

20.00–23.00

Winter school club for students (NoKu, Pikk 5)

Discussion session (for programme directors, plenary lecturers and workshop facilitators only)

Friday, February 1

Tallinn University / Uus-Sadama 5 / Mare building / M-134
9.30–10.00

wake up coffee (Mare 3rd floor Atrium)

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” (M-134)

11.00–12.00

Discussion led by Dr. Kadri Tüür (University of Tartu) (M-134)

12.00–13.00

lunch (Mare 3rd floor Atrium)

13.00–15.00

Student seminars
Session 4 (M-134)
Discussants: Sverker Sörlin and Timotheus Vermeulen

  • Jorge Varela (Tallinn University), Human animality
  • Sugata Bhattacharya (University of Tartu), The use of bird sound imitations and recordings among Estonian birders
  • Auli Kütt (University of Tartu), Imagining artificial creatures in culture texts
15.00–15.30

coffee break (Mare 3rd floor Atrium)

15.30–16.30

Dr. Timotheus Vermeulen (University of Oslo), “Metamodernism and posthumanism” (M-134)

16.30–17.30

Discussion led by Dr. Eneken Laanes (Tallinn University and Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences) (M-134)

19.00–late

Graduation party at Erinevate Tubade Klubi (Telliskivi 60, A1 4th floor) (for registered participants)

This winter school is supported by the (European Union) European Regional Development Fund (Tallinn University's ASTRA project, TLÜ TEE, University of Tartu ASTRA project PER ASPERA, Estonian Academy of Arts ASTRA project, EKA LOOVKÄRG and Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre ASTRA project, EMTASTRA).

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