Krakow 2025

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

APOCALYPSE NOW? TECHNOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL THREATS

7^th MARCH 2025

IGNATIANUM UNIVERSITY IN CRACOW

PROGRAMME

Site: Conference Hall of the Faculty of Philosophy – Media Center (Centrum Medialne), Kopernika 26

9.30	Introduction Bart van Klink, Vrije University Leon van den Broeke, University of Utrecht Marta Soniewicka, UJ Anna Bugajska, UIK
10.00-11.00	Keynote lecture Moderator: Marta Soniewicka William Franke, Medieval Origins of the Question Concerning Technology and its Contemporary Apocalypses
11.00-11.15	Coffee – Centrum Medialne
11.15-12.15	Session I Moderator: 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 University, Educating in the Shadow of Extinction: Marina Garcés’ Posthumous Condition and the Future of Bildung Marta Soniewicka, UJ, Apocalyptic Rhetoric in Politics and Law – Crisis and Polycrisis
12.30-14.00	Lunch – Pinsaria 22, Kopernika 22
14.00-15.20	Session II Moderator: Bart van Klink Leon van den Broeke, University of Utrecht, Homo faber and the quest for success? Jacek Poznański, UIK, Will science and technology help guide and enhance biological evolution? David Levente Palatinus, University of Trnava, Imaginaries of Planetary Futures: The Expanse and Democracy-to-Come Anna Bugajska, UIK, Castles in the Cloud: the New Civilization of the Digital Selves
15.20-15.40	Coffee – Centrum Medialne
15.40-16.00	Final discussion and the closing of the meeting

William Franke