“After-scapes”, an international colloquium organized by A.C. Habbard (U. Lille), M. Reker (U. Lisbonne), J.M. Besse (EHESS / CNRS / Géographie-cités) as part of the Landscape program, will take place on
May 26 and 27, 2025
Sala D. Pedro V
School of Arts and Humanities,
University if Lisbon
This colloquium is interested in looking at after-scapes, and what landscapes are, look or feel like, after: After departure, after a war, after destruction, possibly after it no longer even qualifies as a landscape. The aim is to re-inscribe the temporal, and specifically the future dimension, into the understanding of landscape.
Provisional Program
DAY 1: The End of Landscapes?
Introduction
Panel 1: War Landscapes / Ruins
Landscapes of War; The Destruction of Landscapes as the Very Object of Warfare
Panel 2: Ecocide, The Wastes of Modernity: Wasting Modernity?
How Our Contemporary World Has Created Spaces of Desolation, Anti-Landscapes
DAY 2: The Aesthetics and Politics of Afterscapes
Panel 3: The Art of After-scapes and Apocalypses
Looking at After-scapes as Aesthetic Possibilities. How Has the “World After” Been Imagined and Represented?
Panel 4: The Landscape Is Yet to Come
“After after-scapes”: How Can a Common Future be Re-built, Re-imagined, in the Midst of Ruins, Waste and Unlivable Environments?
For further Information : https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/events/paysages-d-apres/
