Registration and Coffee

Welcome
Barbara Törnqvist-Plewa, Dean of Research, Lund University
Silvana Colella, Chair of ECHIC, University of Macerata

Keynote 1
"What Is the Humanism of the Humanities? Navigating Mission, Passion, and Profession"
Sverker Sörlin, Professor of Environmental History, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Session 1
(Panel): Humanities in Motion
Chair: Johan Östling

“Socialist Book Cafes as Public Arenas of Humanistic Knowledge in the 1970s”
Ragni Svensson, Stockholm University

“Environmental History in the 1960s? An Unsuccessful Research Application and the Circulation of Environmental Knowledge”
David Larsson Heidenblad, Lund University

“The Humanities and the Postwar Public Sphere”
Johan Östling, Lund University
 

Lunch

Session 2
(Paper presentations)
Chair: Silvana Colella

”AI Narratives: Responses of the British Novel to Transhumanism (2019–2021)”
Laura Colombino, University of Genua

“WASP-HS: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities”
Ingar Brink, Lund University

"Taking Back Control: Agency, AI-tracking and Ethics”
Neil Forbes, Coventry University
 

Session 3
(Panel): Digital infrastructures for the Humanities
Chair: Marianne Gullberg, Lund University Humanities lab

Jens Edlund, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Robert Willim, Lund University
Mats Wirén, Stockholm University
Elisabet Göransson, Lund University
Philip Buckland, Umeå University
 

Coffee

Keynote 2
“Humanities at Scale: Humanists in the Long Tail”
Jennifer Edmond, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Trinity College Dublin
 

Session 4
(Paper presentations)
Chair: Isak Hammar

"The Humanities and Future Narratives of the Welfare State: Shifting Regimes of Legitimacy"
Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Uppsala University

“Cultural Heritage Discourses between Environment, Materiality, Politics and Collective Perceptions”
Elena Grandi, Diego Calaon, Shaul Bassi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

“Towards a humanistic and culturally informed conception of suicide: On the relationship between the humanities and suicide prevention”
Kristian Petrov & Patrik Möller, Karlstad University
 

17:15-20:00 Reception
LUX building
 

Registration and coffe

Session 5
(Panel): “Intersecting Crises – The Role of the Humanities Amid Crises of Pandemic, Migration and Climate Change”
Chair: Bharti Arora

“The Humanities and the Enormity of Crisis”
Joanna Wilson-Scott, IASH, University of Edinburgh

“Beyond ‘Crisis’: Why Literature Matters in Approaching the Marginalization of Migrant Workers in the Gulf States”
Nadeen Dakkak, IASH, University of Edinburgh

“Solace in the Humanities: On the Digital (Re)-Framing of Pestilence”
Lucy Hinnie, IASH, University of Edinburgh
 

Coffe

Session 6
(Paper presentations) 
Chair: Zoe Hope Bulaitis

Lunch

Keynote 3
“Cross-Disciplinarity and the Humanities - after the Pandemic”
Helen Small, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
 

14:00 Session 7
(Paper presentations)
Chair: Hampus Östh Gustafsson

”Ladies and Gentlemen… Welcome to the CIRCUS! Interdisciplinary Possibilities and Challenges at Uppsala University”
Ingrid Berg, CIRCUS, Uppsala University

”The Third l: No Dictionary Entries Found”
Ortwin de Graef, KU Leuven

“Public English: Three Responses to Reciprocity between Literature and Policy”
Zoe Hope Bulaitis, University of Birmingham
 

Coffe

Closing Panel Discussion
“The Future of the Humanities”
Chair: Lovisa Brännstedt, Lund University, Humtank

Confirmed speakers:
Gabi Lombardo, Director EASSH, Director of the European Alliance for Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH)

Camilla Serck-Hansen, Research Council of Norway, Head of the Portfolio Board for Social science and Humanities at the Research Council of Norway

Stacey Sörensen, Professor of Physics, Director of Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies, Lund University

Michael Ochsner, president of ENRESSH, the European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities
 

Closing address

ECHIC Annual meeting (open to all ECHIC-members)