Keynote Speakers
Michelle Bastian is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Her work crosses critical time studies and environmental humanities, with a focus on the role of time in human and more-than-human communities. From 2020-2021 she holds a Mid-Career Fellowship from the Independent Social Research Foundation, and is working on a project on social time and ecology. She is Editor-in-Chief for Time & Society (SAGE) and a co-editor of a number of collections including, The Social Life of Time (Time & Society), Field Philosophy and Other Experiments (Parallax) and Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds (Routledge). Michelle has recent publications in Environmental Humanities, GeoHumanities, and New Formations. https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-michelle-bastian
Jan Zalasiewicz, Emeritus Professor of Paleobiology at the University of Leicester, has written books including The Earth After Us, The Planet in a Pebble and Geology: A Very Short Introduction, and (with Mark Williams) Ocean Worlds and Skeletons. With Julia Adeney Thomas and Mark Williams, he recently co-authored The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach. As a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, he is also co-editor of the group’s summary The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit: A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate.
Jan Zalasiewicz, Emeritus Professor of Paleobiology at the University of Leicester, has written books including The Earth After Us, The Planet in a Pebble and Geology: A Very Short Introduction, and (with Mark Williams) Ocean Worlds and Skeletons. With Julia Adeney Thomas and Mark Williams, he recently co-authored The Anthropocene: A Multidisciplinary Approach. As member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy, he is also co-editor of the group’s summary The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit: A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate.
https://www2.le.ac.uk/depar…/geology/people/zalasiewicz-ja
JT Fraser Memorial Lecture Speaker
Ritsuko Matsumura completed the doctoral program in 2009 and received her Ph.D. in Agronomy in 2012 from the Graduate School of Kyushu University. She has been working in her current position at The Research Institute for Time Studies at Yamaguchi University since April 2022, after serving as a technical staff member, researcher, and postdoctoral fellow. She is a chronobiologist interested in molecular mechanisms of the mammalian circadian clock.