Speaker guidelines
Wednesday, November 6
Venue: Sophus Bugge’s Building and Harriet Holter’s Building
12.00-12.30: Registration
Sophus Bugge’s Building
12.30-12.45: Welcome:
Helge Jordheim (Academic director, Kultrans) and Kyrre Kverndokk
Auditorium 3, Sophus Bugge’s Building
12.45-13.45: Keynote:
Kevin Rozario Can a Calamity Have a Culture?
Chair: Isak Winkel Holm
Auditorium 3, Sophus Bugge’s Building
13.45-14.15: Coffee Break
14.15-15.45: Sessions
Theodicy, Blame and Responsibility
Room 120, Harriet Holter’s Building
Chair: Isak Winkel Holm
Henrik Svensen: “It’s not my Fault”: Natural Disasters and Their Causes.
Thor Holt: Priests in Despair: Theodicy in Henrik Ibsen´s Brand and Albert Camus´ The Plague
Stormy Weather
Room 124, Harriet Holter’s Building
Chair. Ilan Kelman
Yngve Nilsen: The Development of a Norwegian Storm Warning System 1860-1914.
Kyrre Kverndokk: The Bride of Frankenstorm: The Rhetorics of Weather Extremes.
Ilya Parkins with Shelley Pacholok: Remembering Sandy: The Patriotic Temporality of American Fashion and the Politics of Disaster Recovery
Activism, Environmentalism and Cultural Theory
Room 140, Harriet Holter’s Building
Chair: Anders Ekström
Guro Flinterud: Last Chance to See? Endangerment in the Media.
Coppélie Cocq: Indigenous Perspectives on the Commodification of Nature: Narrative Agency and Activism in Sápmi.
John Ødemark: Converging Apocalypses –“Indigenous” Cultures in the Amazon, the Nature of Culture and the Destiny of Humanity
15.45-16.00: Break
16.00-17.30: Sessions
Ethnographing Disaster Management
Room 120, Harriet Holter’s Building
Chair: Henrik Svensen
Susann Ullberg: Material Matters in Disaster.
Kristoffer Albris: Is Disaster Risk Science Performative? Ethnographic Thoughts on Calculated Uncertainties.
Disaster Imaginaries
Room 124, Harriet Holter’s Building
Chair: Jerry Määttä
Agnes Bolsø: Looking into the Abyss: Considering What to Do. Relations Between Ideas about Ecological Disaster and Political Ideology.
Peer Illner: Il faut être absolument contemporain: Disasters and Contemporaneity
Erik Thorstensen: A Very Small Disaster: Cultural Studies of Nanotechnologies.
Japanese Disaster Culture
Room 140, Harriet Holter’s Building
Chair: Gunhild Borggreen
Aike P. Rots: Shinto and Disaster in Post-2011 Japan: Community Resurrection, Spiritual Care and Theodicy.
Anemone Platz: No Home to Return to – the Missing Link after the March 11 Earthquake.
Thursday, November 7
Venue: Georg Sverdrup’s Building (University Library)
09.00-10.15: Sessions
Recovery and Remembrance
Group Room 4
Chair: Aike P. Rots
Sara Bonati: The Role of the Global in the Local Disaster Recovery: From Media Amplification to Western Participation in Asian Tsunamis.
Constantin Canavas: “…What we Choose to Remember and to Forget.” Negotiating the Memorial of the Disaster.
The Apocalypse in Popular Cultur I
The Staff Room
Chair: Erik Thorstensen
Andreas Graae: The Culture of Contagion: Epidemic Response in 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later.
Jacob Lillemose: They Keep Coming and Coming. The Physical Pressure of Zombies.
10.15-10.45: Break
10.45-12.15: Sessions
Picturing Disasters
Group Room 4
Chair: Kyrre Kverndokk
Susanne Leikam: Transnational Visual Cultures of Disaster: Tracing the Pictorial Repertoire of Early Modern European Earthquake Illustrations into the American West.
Harald Østgaard Lund: «Real Photo Postcards» from Fires and Floods.
Anders Ekström: Time and the Re-Discovery of Disaster.
The Apocalypse in Popular Culture II
The Staff Room
Chair: Agnes Bolsø
Jerry Määttä: Keeping Count of the End of the World: The Many Rises and Falls of Apocalyptic Disaster Stories.
Gaia Giuliani: Fears of Disaster and (Post-)Human Raciologies in European Popular Culture (2001-2013).
Gabriele Proglio: Memory and Re-Signification of the End in a Post-Human Perspective (2001-2013).
12.15-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.30: Keynote:
Frida Hastrup: Troublesome Nature. Danger and Tropical Resources.
Chair: Kyrre Kverndokk
Auditorium 2
14.30-14.45: Break
14.45-16.15: Plenary session
“This is what they did to us”: Race and Gender in the Construction, Destruction, and Reconstruction of Pinhook, Mo.
Auditorium 2
Chair: Coppélie Cocq
Elaine Lawless: Gendered Perceptions of Place: The Pinhook, Missouri, Story of Building a Town and Losing It.
Todd Lawrence: Urbanormativity and Black Invisibility in the Destruction of Pinhook, Mo.
Film: "Taking Pinhook"
16.15-16.00: Coffee Break
16.30-17.30: Keynote:
Diane Goldstein. “Down Goes All the Men”: Narratives and Counter-narratives in the Construction of a Small Town Disaster.
Chair: Torunn Selberg
Auditorium 2
Friday, November 8
Venue: Georg Sverdrup’s Building (University Library)
09.00-10.00: Keynote:
Ursula Heise: Slow Disaster: Endangered Species and the Rule of Law.
Chair: Ander Ekström
Auditorium 2
10.00-10.15: Coffee Break
10.15-11.45: Sessions
Disasters and Art
Room 1
Chair. Susanne Leikam
Line Marie Thorsen: Art and Acute Action: Art as Articulations of Public Concerns in the Wake of the Great Earthquake of North-Eastern Japan
Gunhild Borggreen: Drawing Disaster: Documentary Manga on the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake.
Disaster Management as a Regime of Knowledge I
Room 2
Chair: Ilan Kelman
Christian Webersik: Making Information and Communication Technology Relevant for Disaster Preparedness and Management.
Jacqui Ewart and Hamish McLean: Hindrance or help? A model for the Involvement of Politicians in Communicating with the Public During Disasters.
Hideyuki Shiroshita: The History of Disaster Management in Japan: Why Japanese People had not Started Non-Technical Disaster Management in 1960.
11.45-12.45: Lunch
12.45-14.15: Sessions
Disasters in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Room 1
Chair: Harald Østgaard Lund
Marina Montesano: The Narrative Of The Black Death And The Quest For Meaning In Late Medieval Sources.
Erling S. Skaug: Catastrophism in Italian Fourteenth- Century Art History.
Katrin Pfeifer & Niki Pfeifer: Representations of Natural Disasters in Early Modern Poems.
Disaster Management as a Regime of Knowledge II
Room 2
Chair: Susann Ullberg
Ann Enander, Sofia Nilsson, Aida Alvinius & Susanne Hede:
Framing the Public in Crisis.
Ilan Kelman, JC Gaillard, Jessica Mercer & James Lewis: Learning from Island Histories and Narratives to Improve our Disaster Futures.
Mikael Linnell: Representations of Disaster in Emergency Preparedness Scenarios.
14.15-14.30: Coffee Beak
14.30-15.30: Plenary Lecture
Isak Winkel Holm: Humanistic Disaster Studies: Heinrich von Kleist as Paradigm
Chair: Anders Ekström
Auditorium 2
15.30-15.45: Break
15.45-16.30: Panel Discussion:
Helge Jordheim, Academic director, Kultrans, University of Oslo
Tine Ramstad, Head of Advocacy, The Norwegian Refugee Council
Kristin Sandvik, Director, Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies/Peace Research Institute Oslo
Chair: Kyrre Kverndokk
Auditorium 2
Speaker guidelines
Keynote speakers: 45 minutes.
All other speakers: 20 minutes to present the papers, and 10 of discussion.
Bring your presentation on a memory stick. All rooms are equipped with computer, beamer, and loud speakers.
If you plan to use your own Mac, please bring an adapter.