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Rejecting the future: Affect and mental health

Datum
06. Mai – 08. Mai 2026 

Col­lo­qui­um by the Insti­tute for Advanced Study Hanse-Wis­senschaft­skol­leg, Germany


Col­lo­qui­um “Reject­ing the future: Affect and men­tal health”
6–8 May, 2026
Insti­tute for Advanced Study Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Del­men­horst, Germany

Orga­niz­ers: Annette Leib­ing & Mark Schweda

Wednes­day, 06 May 2026

1:00 Recep­tion and light lunch at the HWK

1:50 Short wel­come by Stef­fen Band­low-Raf­fal­s­ki, Mark Schwe­da, and Annette Leibing

2:00 – 3:00 Ste­fan Ecks (U Edin­burgh): Pre­dict­ing Unpredictability

3:00 – 4:30 Con­ver­sa­tion; Chair: Ulla Kriebernegg (U Graz)

Luiz Fer­nan­do Dias Duarte (UF Rio de Janeiro): Freez­ing time: Trans­gen­er­a­tionalopac­i­ty and men­tal disturbance

Mar­cos Freire de Andrade Neves (Freie U Berlin): The emp­ty cell next door: Sus­pend­ed futures and affec­tive life on death row

Mark Schwe­da (U Old­en­burg): ‘Tedi­um vitae‘ in the con­text of assist­ed dying

4:30 – 4:50 Cof­fee break („Kaf­fee und Kuchen“)

4:50 – 5:50 Leila Dawney (U Exeter): Chron­ic affects: on com­ing to terms with future­less­ness in a decom­mis­sion­ing nuclear town

Thurs­day, 07 May 2026

9:00 – 10:00 Anne Lovell (INSERM Paris): TBD

10:00 – 10:15 Cof­fee break

10:15 – 12:00 Con­ver­sa­tion; Chair: Isaac Yuen (Berlin)

Matthew Wolf-Mey­er (Rens­se­laer Poly­tech­nic Insti­tute): On anx­i­ety, com­pla­cen­cy, and bore­dom in the Anthropocene

Nolen Gertz (Twente U): War and Exile: On PTSD and mil­i­tary suicide

Clau­dia Boz­zaro (U Mün­ster): “Til death do us part”: the emerg­ing phe­nom­e­non of assist­ed dou­ble suicide.

12:15 –1:45 Lunch + walk

1:45 – 2:45 Ayo Wahlberg (U Copen­hagen): Fer­til­i­ty exhaus­tion in pro-natal­ist China


Fri­day, 08 May 2026

9:00 – 10:00 Stephen Katz (Trent U): The cri­sis of lone­li­ness and the future of aging

10:00 – 10:20 Cof­fee break

10:20 – 11:20 John Marlovits (San José State U): Can the asy­lum speak? Punk chal­lenges to psy­chi­atric con­tain­ment cul­ture in 1970s San Francisco

11:20 – 12:20 Con­ver­sa­tion; Chair: Mark Schweda

Matthew Wor­ley (U Read­ing): ‘Iden­ti­ty, it’s a cri­sis, can’t you see’: British punk and men­tal ill­ness, c.1970s-80s

Annette Leib­ing (U Mon­tre­al): Mud­dled affect: On uncom­mon futures 

12:20 – Final words (MS, AL)