9:30
Walkin with tea/coffee
9:50
Welcome message from Ted Sanders, Professor of Dutch Language Use and Discourse Studies and Vice-rector of research at Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ
10:00
Panel 1: Arts in the Anthropocene: Raising Ecological Awareness
- Remy Fraanje (RMA Philosophy, Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ), Seeing Differently: How Visual Art can Change our Way of Seeing the Environment
- Paraskevi Zafeiroudi (RMA Musicology, UU), Conducting Change: Dutch Orchestras and their Path to Sustainability
- Mai-Linh Hà n Nguyên (RMA Dutch Literature and Culture, UU), Heat as a Literary Motif: From Oppression to a Protest against Climate Change
11:15
Panel 2: Environmental Violence and the Legacy of Colonialism
- Bart Kersten (History), Historicizing Ecological Grief in The Narragansett Dawn
- Shupei Pan (RMA Comparative Literary Studies, UU), A Tibetan Geography of Violence: Resistance with Non-human Allies in Tsering Woeser’s Writing
- Bo Blanksma (RMA Gender Studies, UU), Diseases as Weapons of War: Toxic Pollution and Disability as a Continuous Colonial Project
- Liam Beechouk, Jonathan Vince (MA Conflict Studies and Human Rights, UU), The Wadi Gaza Nature Reserve and Environmental Violence
12:45
Lunch break
13:45
Roundtable discussion: Braiding for Impact
Chair: Professor of International History and the Environment Liesbeth van de Grift (Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ)
14:45
Coffee break
15:00
Poetry reading
Students of the minor Environmental Humanities will read their own poems.
15:15
Panel 3: What Should the Netherlands Learn from the Past?
- Chair: Amber Striekwold, PhD Candidate in History, UU. Respondents: Hiske Arts, Fossilvrij NL and UU alumna of the year; Michiel Purmer, Natuurmonumenten; Ragnhild Scheifes, Sustainable Thinking.
- Nina Litsios & Ronja Kops (MSc Sustainable Development, UU), Untangling Affective Layers of a Horticultural Garden in a Former Dutch Domestic Colony
- Sam Thomassen (RMA History, UU), History of Hunting in Twentieth-Century Dutch Nature Management
- Jesse Krebber (RMA Gender Studies, UU), The Dutch Nitrogen Crisis: Envisioning Sustainable Food in the Face of Agro-Capitalism
- Luc van Vliet (MSc Human Geography, ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ of Amsterdam), What Kind of Climate Justice Do We Need? Breaking the Liberal Impasse by Mobilising Desire
16:45
Borrel
