Ice(St)Ages 1: An Irretrievable Loss? Moving Environments, Fleeting Encounters and Performative Gestures

The first online symposium of the three-part event series asks about the causes, but also the strategic use of ice in the fields of science, literature, arts and performances in order to negotiate existential loss. As an agile and perpetual material, ice not only functions as a topic or metaphor, but increasingly becomes an active agent of scientific and artistic communication regarding the melting poles. Therefore, we wonder: How can the hidden dynamics of Icy Imaginaries be described in the various disciplines? And how far is the figure of melting ice used in order to stage the loss of entire ecosystems?

PROGRAM

Wednesday 19 May 2021

8.00-8.30am CEST / 4.00-4.30pm AEST
Curtain Up for Ice(St)Ages
Dr Anne Hemkendreis (University of Freiburg, Germany)
& Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens (Australia National University of Canberra, Australia)

8.30-9.10am CEST / 4.30-5.10pm AEST
Keynote: The Iceberg and the Ship: Human and Nonhuman Travel in a Warming Antarctic
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Leane (University of Tasmania)

9.10-9.30am CEST / 5.10-5.30pm AEST
Discussion

9.30-9.45am CEST / 5.30-5.45pm AEST
Break (online)

9.45-10.05am CEST / 5.45-6.05pm AEST
Passing by / passed by Arctic Peoples? On Chronotopic Dynamics of Arctic Primitivism in Scandinavia
Prof. Hanna Eglinger (Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

10.05-10.25am CEST / 6.05-6.25pm AEST
Artistic (Re)search Into the Ice: Seeing What We Cannot Grasp, Grasping What We Need to See
Stephanie von Spreter (The Arctic University of Norway)

10.25-10.45am CEST / 6.25- 6.45pm AEST
Discussion

10.45-11.00am CEST / 6.45-7.00pm AEST
Wrap Up

Thursday 20 May 2021

8.00-8.10am CEST / 4.00-4.10pm AEST
Short welcome
Dr. Anne Hemkendreis & Dr. Anna-Sophie Jürgens

8.10-8.40am CEST / 4.10-4.40pm AEST
Materiality of Time. Ice as an Elementary Medium in Art and Ecology
Prof. Dr. Birgit Schneider (University of Potsdam, Germany)

8.40-9.10am CEST / 4.40-5.10pm AEST
Nostalgia for the Ice. Glacial Imaginaries 1850 and Today
Dr. Dominik Schrey (University of Passau, Germany)

9.10-9.30am CEST / 5.10-5.30pm AEST
Discussion

9.30am-9.45am CEST / 5.30-5.45pm AEST
Break

9.45-10.00 am CEST / 5.45-6.00pm AEST
Artistic Performance: “Ice and Water: Reflections on Fluidity
Natalie Reckert (London)

10.00-10.30am CEST / 6.00-6.30 pm AEST
Icy Mediations of Geography: The Life of the Land and of the Sea in Kajutaijuq (2015)
Prof. Dr. Johannes Riquet (Tampere University, Finland)

10.30-10.40am CEST / 6.00-6.40pm AEST
Discussion

10.40-11.00am CEST / 6.40-7.00pm AEST
Comments and Outlook

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Ice (St)Ages 1 is generously supported and hosted by the Alfried Krupp Institute for Advanced Study.