FMS Workshop on Climate Change Literature

April 22 - 23, 2016

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst

Organizers:

  • Prof. Dr. Sina Farzin (FMS Member)
    University of Hamburg
  • Susan Gaines, M.Sc. (FMS Board of Directors)
    University of Bremen
  • Emanuel Herold M.A. (FMS Member)
    University of Bremen

FMS Workshop on Climate Change Literature

April 22 - 23, 2016

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst

Organizers:

  • Prof. Dr. Sina Farzin (FMS Member)
    University of Hamburg
  • Susan Gaines, M.Sc. (FMS Board of Directors)
    University of Bremen
  • Emanuel Herold M.A. (FMS Member)
    University of Bremen

Program

April 22, 2016

10:00 - 10:45    Welcome, Announcements and Introduction
10:45 - 11:35    Sascha Dickel
                            Speculative Futures
11:35 - 12:25    Adeline Johns-Putra
                           
Fiction of the Future: The Climate Change Novel and the Figure
                            of the Child
12:25 - 14:00    Lunch
14:00 - 14:50    Anna Barcz / Thorsten Heimann
                            Cultural Constructions of Floods and Climate Change in Poland
                            and Germany. Literary, Media and Agents Knowledge in
                            Odra River Regions
14:50 - 15:40    Alexandra Nikoleris / Johannes Stripple / Paul Tenngart
                           
Narrating Climate Futures
15:40 - 16:10    Coffee break
16.10 - 17:00    Sonja Fücker / Uwe Schimank
                           
Fictional Facts: Communicating Climate Science in the
                            Mirror of Literary Reception
17:00 - 17:50    Simone Rödder
                           
The Climate of Science-Art and the Art-Science of the Climate:
                            Meeting Points, Boundary Objects and Boundary Work
18:00 - 19:30    Dinner
19:30                  Saci Lloyd
                            The Carbon Diaries 277/297
                            
Reading & Panel Discussion

April 23, 2016

09:30 - 10:20    Sina Farzin / Emanuel Herold
                           
Framing Fiction with Fact: Science and Literature in the
                            Peritexts of Climate Change Novels
10:20 - 11:10    Jules Buchholtz
                            How Al Gore Set the Future on Fire. We are in this Together. Truth,
                            Knowledge and Conviction in Scenarios of Climate Change
11:10 - 12:10    Panel Discussion: P. Weingart / A. Johns-Putra / M. Brüggemann
12:10 - 13:30    Lunch - Departure

Program

April 22, 2016

10:00 - 10:45    Welcome, Announcements and Introduction
10:45 - 11:35    Sascha Dickel
                            Speculative Futures
11:35 - 12:25    Adeline Johns-Putra
                           
Fiction of the Future: The Climate Change Novel and the Figure
                            of the Child
12:25 - 14:00    Lunch
14:00 - 14:50    Anna Barcz / Thorsten Heimann
                            Cultural Constructions of Floods and Climate Change in Poland
                            and Germany. Literary, Media and Agents Knowledge in
                            Odra River Regions
14:50 - 15:40    Alexandra Nikoleris / Johannes Stripple / Paul Tenngart
                           
Narrating Climate Futures
15:40 - 16:10    Coffee break
16.10 - 17:00    Sonja Fücker / Uwe Schimank
                           
Fictional Facts: Communicating Climate Science in the
                            Mirror of Literary Reception
17:00 - 17:50    Simone Rödder
                           
The Climate of Science-Art and the Art-Science of the Climate:
                            Meeting Points, Boundary Objects and Boundary Work
18:00 - 19:30    Dinner
19:30                  Saci Lloyd
                            The Carbon Diaries 277/297
                            
Reading & Panel Discussion

April 23, 2016

09:30 - 10:20    Sina Farzin / Emanuel Herold
                           
Framing Fiction with Fact: Science and Literature in the
                            Peritexts of Climate Change Novels
10:20 - 11:10    Jules Buchholtz
                            How Al Gore Set the Future on Fire. We are in this Together. Truth,
                            Knowledge and Conviction in Scenarios of Climate Change
11:10 - 12:10    Panel Discussion: P. Weingart / A. Johns-Putra / M. Brüggemann
12:10 - 13:30    Lunch - Departure