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Thursday 9 November

14.15: Welcome

14.30– 16.00: Panel 1

Bron Szerszynski: Rethinking the "Deep" in "Deep Time"

Marius Timmann Mjaaland: Deep and Shallow: Deep Ecology and Deep Time

16.00 – 16.30: Coffee/Tea Break

16.30 – 18.00: Panel 2

Celia Deane-Drummond: Situating Human Evolution in Deep Time — A Theological Critique of Evolutionary Explanantia

Dag Hessen: Perceiving the Risks of Climate Change and Nature Loss in the Deep Future; Are there Evolutionary Constraints?

18.00 – 18.30: Drinks Reception

19.00: Dinner for Speakers

Friday 10 November

09.00 – 10.30: Panel 3

Cecil Abungu:  A Theory of African Traditional Thought on the Long Term Future

Richard Irvine: "So far into the abyss of time": Responsibility and Nihilism as Time Horizons Dissolve

10.30 – 10.50: Coffee/Tea Break

10.50 – 12.20: Panel 4

Tim Middleton: "Conjoined Histories": Liberation Theology in the Anthropocene

Simone Kotva: Is Deep Time a New Apocalypticism?: Perspectives from Contemporary Ecotheology

12.20 – 13.30: Lunch at Campion Hall

13.30 – 15.00: Panel 5

Michelle Bastian: The Dangers of Charismatic Mega-Times

Helge Jordheim: The Anthropocene and the Politics of Self-Periodization

15.00: Concluding Discussion