9:00 - 9:30 am Light breakfast
9:30 - 9:35 am Welcome Karen Feldman (UC Berkeley)
9:35 - 9:45 am Opening Remarks Lilla Balint (UC Berkeley) and Leonhard Herrmann (University of Leipzig)
9:45 - 11:00 am Eva Horn (University of Vienna): Gaia and the ‘World-Novel:’ Narration in the Anthropocene
○ Timothy M. Lenton and Bruno Latour: “Gaia 2.0”
Moderator: Elizabeth Sun (UC Berkeley)
11:00 - 11:15 am Coffee break
11:15 - 12:30 pm Eckhard Schumacher (University of Greifswald): “Hoffnung auf diesen mystischen World Glitch” – Mud, Muddle, and Speculative (Fan) Fabulation
○ Lisa Krusche: “Für bestimmte Welten kämpfen und gegen andere”
○ Donna Haraway: Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chtuluscene (30-44)
Moderator: Kayla Rose van Kooten (UC Berkeley)
12:30 - 2:15 pm Lunch break
2:15 - 3:15 pm Woraus die Welt gemacht ist | What the World is Made of Judith Schalansky in Conversation with Lilla Balint (UC Berkeley) and Leonhard Herrmann (University of Leipzig)
○ Judith Schalansky: "Ganz Ohr sein"
3:15 - 4:30 pm Jason Groves (University of Washington): Inhuman Intimacies, Insurgent Geologies: The Case of Abdias
○ Adalbert Stifter, selection from Abdias (German)
○ Adalbert Stifter, selection from Abdias (English)
○ Kathryn Yusoff, selection from Geologic Life: Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race
Moderator: Benjamin Beitler (UC Berkeley)
6:00 - 7:30 pm Of Islands and Inventories: A Public Reading by Judith Schalansky (Readings in German & English, Discussion in English)
Location: Dwinelle B-4
Moderator: Jules Pelta Feldman (UC Berkeley)
9:00 - 9:30 am Light breakfast
9:30 - 10:45 am Hannes Bajohr (UC Berkeley): Negative Anthropology of the Anthropocene
○ Günther Anders: "Antiquiertheit"
Moderator: Louise Curtis (University of Greifswald)
10:45 - 11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 - 12:15 pm Caroline Schaumann (Emory): Das Museum der Welt and the Archives of Exploration
○ Christopher Kloeble: Das Museum der Welt
○ Luis Trenker: Helden Der Berge
Moderator: Molly Krueger (UC Berkeley)
12:30 pm Light lunch