ENVIRONMENTAL GRIEF, HOPE, AND BEYOND
28-30 AUGUST 2023
The Centre for Ethics
University of Pardubice
venue: the historical building of the University of Pardubice, Nám. Čs. Legií 565, room 03004
DAY 1: MONDAY 28 AUGUST 2023
8:30-9:00 registration open
9:00-9.10 welcome and opening
9:10-10:10
KEYNOTE: Tom Whyman (independent/Durham University)
“What's stopping us from being hopeful (in the face of the climate crisis)?”
10:40-11:20
Pablo Fernández Velasco (Trinity College Dublin)
“Ecological grief as a crisis in dwelling”
11:25-12.05
Anna Titov (University of Pardubice)
“Attuning to a Disappearing World: on fear and anxiety as embodied moods”
13:40-14:20
Daniel Paul Zimmer (Stanford University)
“Nuclear Numbing, Climate Anxiety, and the Psycho-Political Consequences of Living Beneath the Sword of Damocles”
14:25-15.05
Mira Reyes (University of Pardubice)
“The Emotional Landscape of Nonhuman Animal Species Extinction: Identifying the Responsible Grief”
15:35-16:15
Quân Nguyen (University of Edinburgh)
In Defence of Despair about the Climate Crisis
18:00
FILM SCREENING (in Divadlo 29):
White on White (2020)
followed by a discussion with the director Viera Čákanyová
DAY 2: TUESDAY 29 AUGUST 2023
ONLINE TALK
9:00-10:00
KEYNOTE: Rupert Read (independent/University of East Anglia)
“Telling the whole truth about our ecological predicament: how grief is love and how the future could be magnificent”
ONLINE TALKS
10:30-11:10
Ella Chiara Vallelonga (University of Adelaide)
“Putting Grief to Work: Hope-Filled Imaginations of Thriving Within Worlds of Risk & Recovery”
11:15-11.55
Aanuoluwapo Fifebo Sunday (Rachel Carson Center, Munich/Adekunle Ajasin University) and Akinpelu A. Oyekunle (University of Pretoria)
“Ubuntu: Towards an African Pro-Environmental Motivation for Waste Ethics”
13:30-14:10
David Rozen (University of Pardubice)
“Promethean Fear as the Founding Emotion of Global Environmentalism”
14:15-14.55
James Hutton (University of Edinburgh)
“Emotions, Ethical Beliefs, and the Climate Crisis”
15:25-16:05
Antony Fredriksson (University of Pardubice)
“Kinship and relationality as foundations for environmental emotions”
16:10-16.50
Chevy Hiceta (University of Göttingen)
“The cry of the earth and the cry of the poor”: Pope Francis’ faith approach to awakening from our ecological crisis
DAY 3: WEDNESDAY 30 AUGUST 2023
9:00-10:00
KEYNOTE: Nora Hämäläinen (University of Helsinki)
Hope and agency in a time of environmental upheaval
10:30-11:10
Ryan Manhire (Åbo Akademi)
“Overcoming Climate Grief: Eliciting Shame, Fear, and Joy Through Moral Persuasion”
11:15-11.55
Ondřej Beran (University of Pardubice)
“Friendship and Politics”
12.00 closing and goodbye