Aesthetics in the Age of Environmental Crises
3-5 June 2021, Online/Lahti, Finland
Program
Sessions 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17
All times in the program are in East European Summer Time (Helsinki, EEST, UTC +3).
The full conference program can be downloaded from here.
Thursday, June 3
11:00–12:00 Session 1, Panel 1: Aesthetic Experience, Ecological Emotions, and Fiction
- Panu Pihkala: Environmental Aesthetics and Ecological Emotions
- Aino-Kaisa Koistinen & Sanna Karkulehto: Ethics, Aesthetics and Imagination – Exploring “Planetary Feeling” in Feminist Theory and Contemporary Finnish Poetry
- Kaisa Kortekallio: Weird Aesthetic Experiences in Recent Speculative Fiction
13:30–14:30 Session 3
- Dror Pimentel: Aestheticizing Catastrophe: The Survivalist’s Case
- Marta Benenti and Lisa Giombini: What if it’s for Real? Fictional Narratives and Climate Change
15:00–16:00 Session 5
- Virpi Kaukio: Artists for Mires and the Question of Climate Change
- Marita Isaksson: Environment, AI and Humanities Predation
Friday, June 4
10:30–12:00 Session 7
- Max van der Heijden: Art in the Anthropocene: Affirmative Re-engagement with Nature through Tragic Art
- Tiina Prittinen: Symbioses Stories – Buckthorn the Warrior
- Amrutha MK: Lore and Legends of the Sacred Groves
13:30–14:30 Session 9
- Laura Fumagalli: Neglected Landscapes: Understanding the Concept of the Landscape to Preserve the Environment
- María José Alcaraz León: On the Aesthetic Appreciation of Damaged Environments and its Role in Shaping our Aesthetic Sensibility
15:00–16:00 Session 11
- Yan Li: The Roles of Imagination in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature
- Antonio Ianniello: Sublime, Enactivism and Hyperobjects
17:30–18:30 Session 13
- Katherine Melcher: Aesthetics at the End of the World: the Arts of Sensing, Noticing, and Enjoying
- Desiree Foerster: Liminal Experience of Atmospheric Processes
Saturday, June 5
10:30–12:00 Session 15
- Noora-Helena Korpelainen: Cultivating Aesthetic Sensibility in the Age of Environmental Crises
- Matti Tainio: Living with Darkness
- Mădălina Diaconu: Para-aesthetic Practices and Climate Change
13:30–14:30 Session 17
- Zhen Yang: Aesthetic Experience through Breathing: A Horizon Provided by Chinese Aesthetics
- Thomas Symeonidis: Re-Mapping Aesthetics Experience: The Experimentations with Trans-Media Narrations as Models for the Re-Orientation of Sensitivity