Lectures: Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time

Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time examined the challenges of thinking with deep time in the Anthropocene, via three linked strands: Enchantment; Violence; and Haunting. The series was funded by the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh).

Enchantment

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  Unexpected Encounters with Deep Time: Enchantment (Introduction)

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  Deep Time & Enchantment Keynote: Prof Libby Robin (Australian National University/National Museum of Australia): ‘Cabinets of Curiosity: Objects of Strange Change’

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  Christina Fredengren (Stockholm University), Deep Time Materialising

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  Christine Hansen (University of Gothenburg): ‘The Politics of Time in a Fire Zone’

Violence

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  Eva Giraud (Keele University): ‘Matters of (violent-) care in the Manhattan Project Beagle Colony’

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  Uli Beisel (Bayreuth University) & Franklin Ginn (University of Bristol): ‘Immunity, Infectivity and Awkward Flourishing in the Plantationocene’

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  Jeremy Kidwell (University of Edinburgh): ‘On Killing the Little Ones: Narratives of Violence and Eradication in Bacterial Perspective’

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  Greg Hollin (University of Leeds): ‘Regimes of violent-care: Democracy, climate change, and rare earth mining in Greenland’

Haunting

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  Owain Jones (Bath Spa University), ‘On Ecocide, Haunting and (self)Destruction: (hugging the lamppost till the train passes)’

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  Deep Time & Haunting Keynote Lecture: Astrid E.J. Ogilvie (INSTAAR and Stefansson Arctic Institute), ‘Weather and Witchcraft in the Sagas of Icelanders’

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  Stefan Skrimshire (University of Leeds), ‘Confessing the Anthropocene’

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  Introduction to “Haunting” Workshop by David Farrier