INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APOCALYPSE NOW? TECHNOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL THREATS

9.30

Introduction

Bart van Klink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Leon van den Broeke, Theologische Universiteit Utrecht

Marta Soniewicka, Jagiellonian University

Anna Bugajska, Ignatianum University in Cracow

10.00-11.00

Keynote lecture

Chair: Marta Soniewicka

William Franke

Vanderbilt University

Medieval Origins of the Question Concerning Technology and its Contemporary Apocalypses

11.00-11.15

Coffee - Centrum Medialne

11.15-12.15

Session I

Chair: Leon van den Broeke

Steven C. van den Heuvel

Evangelical Theological Faculty Leuven & Theological University Utrecht

Technology and the Climate Emergency: Beyond the Bifurcation, and Towards an Ethics of Responsibility

Bart van Klink

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Spiritual Exercises in the Posthumous Condition: Preparing Law Students for the Apocalypse

Marta Soniewicka

Jagiellonian University

Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Politics and Law and the Heuristics of Fear

12.30-14.00

Lunch – Pinsaria 22, Kopernika 22

14.00-15.20

Session II

Chair: Bart van Klink

Leon van den Broeke

Theologische Universiteit Utrecht

Vita Contemplativa: Apocalypse, Technology, and the End of Manufacturability

Jacek Poznański

Ignatianum University in Cracow

Will Science and Technology Help Guide and Enhance Biological Evolution?

David Levente Palatinus

University of Trnava & Technical University of Liberec

Imaginaries of Planetary Futures: The Expanse and Democracy-to-Come

Anna Bugajska

Ignatianum University in Cracow

Castles in the Cloud: the New Civilization of the Digital Selves

15.20-15.40

Coffee - Centrum Medialne

15.40-16.00

Final discussion and the closing of the meeting