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)