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PAScapes invites you to a two-day conference exploring waste landscapes in (post)authoritarian contexts through historical, philosophical, and sociological perspectives. The event brings together scholars to discuss how industrial and nuclear waste, technocratic infrastructures, and heritage practices shape environments and lived experience.📅 Wednesday, 17 December 2025
09:30–10:00 Welcome
10:00–11:00 Mintautas Gutauskas, The Insignificance and the Sublime of Waste
11:00–12:00 Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, From Castle Mounds to Landfill Mountains: The Politics of Inheritance and Destruction in Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Waste Landscapes in Lithuania
12:00–13:30 Lunch break
13:30–14:30 Axel Andersson, The Pharmacological Cairn: Nuclear Waste and the Centralized State
14:30–15:30 Victoria Donovan, ‘Toxic Commoning’ in Ukraine’s Industrial Borderlands: Making Waste Culture in Lysychansk, Mariupol, and Siverskodonetsk
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–17:00 Marko Marila, The Principle of Hope in Environmental Art
17:00–18:00 Francisco Martinez, Digging Shadows: The Ecological Memory of Soviet Modernity
18:00–20:00 Reception
📅 Thursday, 18 December 2025
09:00–10:00 Patrick Zapata, Authoritarian Waste Regimes and the Politics of Commoning. Learning from the case of Nicaragua’s La Chureca
10:00–11:00 Kristupas Sabolius, On Compost-ability
11:00–11:30 Coffee break
11:30–12:30 Vaiva Daraškevičiūtė, Beyond the Visuality of Anthropocene Landscapes: Waste, Abjection, Uncanny
12:30–13:30 Saulius Geniušas, Phenomenology of Solastalgia: From Transcendental Homelessness to Transcendental Placelessness
13:30–14:30 Lunch break
14:30–15:30 Svitlana Matviyenko, “Donetsk Chornobyl:” The Deep Time of Warfare
15:30–16:30 Nicolas De Warren, Living Alone in a World of Wounds: Life in the Aftermath in Kimura Yūsuke's Sacred Cesium Ground, Indra Sinha's Animal's People, and Strugatsky Brothers' Roadside Picnic
16:30–17:00 Reflection / Wrap-up
📍 Vilnius University, Faculty of History, Room 211
For more information, abstracts, and speaker details, visit: pascapes.lt/the-landscapes-of-waste-ecosocial-perspectives
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Universiteto g. 7, 01513 Vilnius, Lithuania, Universiteto gatvė 7, LT-01131 Vilnius, Lietuva, Vilnius, Lithuania
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