Anthropocene Times workshop
University of Lancaster, InfoLab 21 C60b/c
Programme
Thursday 17th March

12.00-12.45 Welcome and introductions, lunch

12.45-2.15 Anthropocene Times of Ends and Beginnings
Zoltan Simon

Anthropocene times and the times of politics
Blake Ewing

Beyond a troubled planet: Navigating time in visions of (after)Earth futures
Rachel Squire

2.15-2.30 Break

2.30-4.00 The time of industry in Émile Souvestre's Le monde tel qu'il sera en l'an 3000 and Agostino della Sala Spada's Nel 2073!
Dan Finch-Race

Doom and Bloom: Friederike Mayröcker’s Anthropocene lateness
Nicola Thomas

Designing Temporal Ecologies
Larissa Pschetz, Maike Gebker, Susanne Wieland

4.00-4.15 Break

4.15-5.30 Anthropocene: One or Many?
Lukas Verburgt

The climate crisis and multispecies justice in the time of the Anthropocene
Catherine Price

Title TBD
Jeroen Oomen


7.00 Dinner at the Sun Hotel, Lancaster, 63-65 Church Street, LA1 1ET

Friday 18th March

9.00-10.00 Nik Marsdin – Discussing the Morecombe Bay Curriculum and local Eden Project

10.00-10.15 Break

10.15-12:15 Roundtable – future project directions and possible funding bids

12.30 Lunch


Attendees
Bergit Arends, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, The Courtauld Institute
Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, Research Fellow, Bielefeld University
Nigel Clark, Professor, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
Blake Ewing, College Lecturer in Politics, Hertford College, University of Oxford
Dan Finch-Race, Assistant Professor in Geography, University of Bologna
Maike Gebker, Designer
Rupert Griffiths, Research Associate, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University
Nik Marsdin, Project Lead, Morecambe Bay Curriculum, Lancaster University
Paul Merchant, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Film and Visual Culture, University of Bristol
Niklas Olsen, Professor of History, University of Copenhagen
Jeroen Oomen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Urban Futures Studio, Utrecht University
Larissa Pschetz, Lecturer in Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Catherine Price, Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Nottingham
Emily Spiers, Senior Lecturer in German and Co-director, Institute for Social Futures, Lancaster University
Rachel Squire, Lecturer in Human Geography, Royal Holloway
Bronislaw Szerszynski, Professor in Sociology, Lancaster University
Nicola Thomas, Lecturer in German, Lancaster University
David Tyfield, Professor of Sustainable Transitions and Political Economy, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
Lukas Verburgt, Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
Gordon Walker, Professor, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
Susanne Wieland, Designer


Local information
The easiest way to travel from the city of Lancaster to the university campus is on the bus. Numerous bus routes depart from Common Garden Street in Lancaster city centre for the campus, with buses leaving roughly every ten minutes and taking 10-15 minutes, traffic permitting. Look for buses 1 and 1A to Lancaster University, 40, 41 or 42 to Garstang. Buses 100 and 4/4X also go to campus but take a less direct route. You can buy a return ticket using a contactless payment card or cash for £3.40. See the University of Lancaster website for more travel information.
The conference venue, InfoLab, is approximately a ten-minute walk from the main bus stop on campus. See the campus map – we are in the purple building marked INF.

Emergency contact: Nicola Thomas +447538538660