Thursday, November 24

1 EXISTENTIAL HEALTH AND CONSOLATION | 09:00-10:30
Marta Gasparin and Rasmus Johnsen | Associate professors of MPP, Entrepreneurship, philosophy, and organization | Copenhagen Business School | “Craft and the Ethics of Consolation”

Magali Ljungar-Chapelon | Artistic researcher in digital representation and performing arts, Department of design sciences | Lund University | “Virtual sensory artistic experiences for existential health: an interdisciplinary perspective”

Suheel Rasool Mir | Sociology | University of Kashmir | “Challenges of Motherhood in the Border regions of North Western Himalayan Region of Kashmir”
Chair: Carl Johan Fürst | Professor of palliative medicine | The Institute for Palliative Care, Region Skåne and Lund University

2 EXISTENTIAL RESOURCES FOR ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY | 09:00-10:30
Anna Petersson | Senior lecturer and Associate professor of Theoretical and applied aesthetics, Department of Architecture and Built Environment | Lund University |
“Making space in the city for diverse life worlds and temporalities: an explorative investigation of the affordance and territoriality of urban cemeteries”

Ive Brissman | Phd History of religions, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies | Lund University | “Existential Sustainability – Living with Wonder and Wounds”

Robert Rae | Theology | Nazarene Theological College | “Wesleyan-Holiness Resources for Eco-Theology”

Chair: Valentin Jeutner | Associate professor of law, Faculty of law | Lund University

3 EXISTENTIAL SUSTAINABILITY, MARKET MECHANISMS, AND REFLECTION | 11:00-12:30
Hanna Wittrock and Philip Warkander | Phd Textile management | Swedish School of Textiles | “Fashion and Existential Sustainability: An Insurmountable Paradox?”

Ida Simonsson | Senior lecturer of Systematic theology | University college Stockholm | “Just price and sustainable markets – a theological reflection”

Gunnar Sandin | Professor of Architecture, planning and spatial design, Architecture and built environment | Lund university | “Architecture for existential reflection”
Chair: Ida Sandström, Associate senior lecturer of Architecture | LTH-LU

4 DYING AND DEATH: PROCESSING EXISTENTIAL QUESTIONS | 11:00-12:30
Stina Wessman | Senior guest lecturer of Gestalt and Design for sustainable development | Konstfack | “The Bed Book - including visiting children when someone close is being cared for at the end of life”

Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg (and Josefin Gustafsson Andersson) | Associate professor of studies in faith and worldviews, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies | Lund University | “No funeral – other rituals – perceptions on farewell practices for ‘direktare’”

Birgit Rasmussen | Nursing, The Institute for Palliative Care, Region Skåne and Lund University Department of Health Sciences | Lund University | “Dying patients’ wishes and priorities”

Chair: Magdalena Nordin, Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion | University of Gothenburg

5 CREATING EXISTENTIALLY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES | 15:30-17:00
Andreas Hopf | Senior lecturer of Industrial design | Lund University School of Industrial Design | “Alternative facts”

Juliet Jacobsen | Researcher | Lund University and Harvard Medical School | “Response to existential threat: Developing a comprehensive rubric”

Suchismita Das | Sociology | Jadavpur University | “Death, Ancestral Worship and Environmental Sustainability in Village India”

Chair: Martin Garwicz | Professor of neurophysiology, Director of Birgit Rausing Centre for Medical Humanities | Lund university

6 EXISTENTIAL SUSTAINABILITY AS INTERDEPENDENCE | 15:30-17:00
Sandra Kopljar and Ida Sandström | Associate senior lecturer of Architecture, Architecture and built environment | LTH-LU | “Existential Sustainability: An Investigation of Loneliness and Belonging in Relation to Sustainable Housing”

Lizette Larson-Miller | Liturgical Studies, Huron University College | Univ. of Western Ontario | “In the Midst of Death We Are in Life: Meaning in existence at the hour of our death”

Jamie Woodworth | PhD Candidate, Gender Studies & Institute for Palliative Care | Lund University | “Dependency work and sustainable social relations of care in the end-of-life: Feminist perspectives from Sweden”

Chair: Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg | Associate professor of studies in faith and worldviews, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies | Lund University
 

Friday, November 25 

7 THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EXISTENTIAL SUSTAINABILITY | 09:00-10:30
Anna Cabak Rédei | Reader in Cognitive Semiotics, Centre for Languages and Literature | Lund University | “The choreography of human relations: the mise en scène of existential spleen”

Aaron James Goldman | Researcher Philosophy of religion, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies | Lund University | “Is there a tension between de-anthropocentrism and sustainability?: On one potential pitfall of ecotheologies’ use of empirical science”

Ervik Cejvan | Phd Philosophy of religion, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies | Lund University | “Existential Sustainability: Theoretical and Conceptual Development”

Chair: Ida Simonsson | Senior lecturer of Systematic theology | University college Stockholm