13.00–13.15: Opening words

13.15–14.45: Session 1
Michael Lundblad (prof., University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway): Idiorrhythmy and Its Discontents: Keywords for Multispecies Immersive Cultural Studies (MICS)
Claudia Lindén (prof., Ratatǫskr member):TBA
Gunnar Eggertsson (researcher, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland): Mother Lynx and Asshole Goose: Animal Stories in a Digital Landscape
Chair: Ann-Sofie Lönngren

14.45-15.15: Coffee

15.15–17.00: Session 2
Amelie Björck (senior lecturer, Ratatǫskr member): A question of scales: Reading the film Bullhead through a microscope
Sune Borkfelt (research assistant, School of communication and culture, Aarhus University, Denmark): From Black Beauty to Richard Parker: On Names and Namelessness in Animal Narratives
Emma Kihl (doctoral student, Ratatǫskr member); Jacob Broms Engblom (artist, The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm); Marta Badenska Hammarberg (artist, The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm): Speculating with Artistic Practices
Chair: Oscar von Seth

17.00–18.00: Mingle

19.00: Dinner

9.00–10.30: Session 3
Camilla Flodin (researcher, Ratatǫskr member): Utopian Animals: Notes on Adorno, Alice in Wonderland and Struwwelpeter
Karoliina Lummaa (ass. prof., University of Turku, Turku, Finland): Laridae: Lessons on Immersion, Ambiguity and Resilience
Oscar von Seth (doctoral student, Ratatǫskr member): The Wolf in Hermann Hesse’s Der Steppenwolf
Chair: Claudia Lindén

10.30–11.00: Coffee

11.00–12.30: Session 4
Hanna Mattila (doctoral student, lecturer, Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Norway): TBA
Ann-Sofie Lönngren (senior lecturer, ass. prof., Ratatǫskr member): Reading for Change: Decolonizing Literary Animals in Northern-European Indigenous and National Literature
Elisabeth Friis (senior lectuter, ass. prof. Lund University, Sweden): ‘Would you Instruct me Now?’ Following Carlo in the Letters and Poems of Emily Dickinson
Chair: Amelie Björck

12.30-12.45: Closing words