Histories of a Future Environmental Catastrophe

Day one: 12 January, 2020

9:30 - 10:30 - Opening Session: Greetings and Opening Remarks

• Prof. Leo Corry - Dean, Faculty of Humanities
• Prof. Miri Shefer-Mossensohn - Head of the Zvi

Framing the Discussion

• Dr. Avner Wishnitzer - Tel Aviv University
• Dr. On Barak - Tel Aviv University

11:00 - 12:30 - Antropocene, Capitalocen and Other Scenes

• Prof. Michael Zakim - Tel Aviv University
  The Problem of Plenty
• Dr. Ofri Ilany - Van Leer Institute
  The Search for a (Deep-) Historical Agent

14:00 - 15:30 - Renewables: Paths Not Taken

• Dr. Shira Wilkof - University of Haifa
  “A New Aim for the Man-Environment Relationship:” How Modernist Architects Failed to Shape an Ecological Path for the Postwar World
• Prof. Dan Rabinowitz - Tel Aviv University
  The Rise (and Fall?) of Fossil Fuels: a Speculative History of Energy in the Arabian (Persian) Gulf

16:00 - 17:30 - Industrial Agriculture: Pasts, Pests and Futures

• Prof. Fredrik Meiton - University of New Hampshire
  The (Un)Making of the Global Energy Deficit
• Dr. Natalia Gutkowski - Harvard University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Controlling the Weevil: A Self-defeating Warfare?

Day two: 13 January, 2020

• Prof. Gülhan Balsoy - İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi
  Ottoman Reproductive Policies, Female Agency, and Reproductive Rights in the Future
• Prof. Liat Kozma - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  In a World of Rats and Lice
• Dr. Reut Harari - Tel Aviv University
  Disease, Military Medicine, and Public Health in the Absence of Empire: Thoughts from Meiji Japan

13:00 - 14:00 -  Alternatives at Arm’s Reach: A Short Tour in Tel Aviv University’s First “Green” Building

14:30 - 16:00 - Deep Shit: Excrement Management and Modern Sensibilities

• Prof. Christopher Otter - Ohio State University
  The Sensory Anthropocene: Disgust, Cleanliness, and the Fate of the Earth
• Dr. Tamar Novik - The Max Planck
  Flushed: Anosmic History on the Seat of Modernity

16:30 - Concluding Discussion

• Dr. Avner Wishnitzer - Tel Aviv University
• Dr. On Barak - Tel Aviv University
  ​Histories of a Future Environmental Catastrophe

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