INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE APOCALYPSE NOW? TECHNOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL THREATS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE



APOCALYPSE NOW? TECHNOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL THREATS



7th MARCH 2025



IGNATIANUM UNIVERSITY IN CRACOW



PROGRAMME



Site: Conference Hall of the Faculty of Philosophy – Media Center (Centrum Medialne), Kopernika 269.30 Introduction Bart van Klink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Leon van den Broeke, Theologische Universiteit Utrecht Marta Soniewicka, Jagiellonian University Anna Bugajska, Ignatianum University in Cracow10.00-11.00 Keynote lecture Chair: Marta Soniewicka William Franke Vanderbilt University Medieval Origins of the Question Concerning Technology and its Contemporary Apocalypses11.00-11.15 Coffee - Centrum Medialne11.15-12.15 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 ApocalypseMarta Soniewicka Jagiellonian University Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Politics and Law and the Heuristics of Fear12.30-14.00 Lunch – Pinsaria 22, Kopernika 2214.00-15.20 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 Selves15.20-15.40 Coffee - Centrum Medialne15.40-16.00 Final discussion and the closing of the meeting