We have an exciting program lined up for all you registered for ClimateExistence 2026! Updates on parallel session will be announced next week.
Registration: https://doit.medfarm.uu.se/bin/kurt3/kurt/8914111 (see form for conference fees)
If you have any questions please contact conference coordinator Daniel Mossberg, sms or call +46 073-065 02 28.
Exhibitions and rooms open throughout the conference
Monday November 16
The program will be updated up until November 16. Click on rooms to get directions and maps.
Time |
Program |
| 08.45-09.15 | Registration [22 Mingle space outside of Humanities Theatre] |
| 09.15-09.20 | Daniel Mossberg Welcome to ClimateExistence 2026! [22-008 Humanities Theatre, English Park Campus] |
| 09.20-10.30 | Kevin Anderson Keynote 1 followed by panel
Kevin Anderson, Professor of Energy and Climate Change, University of Manchester, will deliver a keynote during day 1, November 16, bringing us the latest on the state of the climate, carbon budgets, climate justice, and rapid transitions. https://www.cemus.uu.se/ce-2026-ka/ Followed by panel. [22-008 Humanities Theatre, English Park Campus] |
| 10.30-12.00 | Ida Lod Interactive Walking Performance
Ida Lod, Independent Artist, https://idalod.com/ will facilitate an artistic exploration and walk in the Botanical Garden and Orangeriet, Linneaus Hall. Pick up coffee, tea on the way out. [Starting outside of entrance 22-008 Humanities Theatre, English Park Campus] |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch [To be announced] |
| 13.00-14.45 | Parallel sessions 1
Session 1
… [22-0031 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 2
… [22-1009 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 3
… [22-1017 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 4
… [2-0076 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 5
… [2-0024 Seminar room, English Park Campus] |
| 14.45-15.15 | Fika break with coffee, tea and fruit [22 Mingle space outside of Humanities Theatre] |
| 13.00-14.45 | Parallel sessions 2
Session 1
… [22-0031 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 2
… [22-1009 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 3
… [22-1017 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 4
… [2-0076 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 5
… [2-0024 Seminar room, English Park Campus] |
| 17.00- | Allt ljus på Uppsala, light festival with art installations in Uppsala https://www.alltljuspauppsala.se/ [Uppsala] |
| 18.30- | 18.30- Conference reception, dinner at CEMUS, with open mic and thematic rooms. [CEMUS Library, Geocentrum, Villavägen 16] |
Tuesday November 17
The program will be updated up until November 16. Click on rooms to get directions and maps.
Time |
Program |
| 09.00-10.00 | Finlay Malcolm Keynote 2
Finlay Malcolm, Research Officer, University of Warwick and Research Fellow, University of Manchester, will give a talk on “Christian Climate Advocacy and Activism in the UK: Emotions, Ethics and Theological Creativity”. https://www.cemus.uu.se/ce-2026-fm/ [22-008 Humanities Theatre, English Park Campus] |
| 10.00-10.15 | Fast-fika, coffee and tea on the way to parallel sessions [22 Mingle space outside of Humanities Theatre] |
| 10.15-12.00 | Parallel sessions 3
Session 1
… [22-0031 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 2
… [22-1009 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 3
… [22-1017 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 4
… [2-0076 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 5
… [2-0024 Seminar room, English Park Campus] |
| 12.00-13.00 | Lunch [To be announced] |
| 13.00-14.45 | Parallel sessions 4
Session 1
… [22-0031 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 2
… [22-1009 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 3
… [22-1017 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 4
… [2-0076 Seminar room, English Park Campus]
Session 5
… [2-0024 Seminar room, English Park Campus] |
| 14.45-15.15 | Fika with fruit, coffee and tea [Matikum Restaurant, English Park Campus] |
| 15.15-17.00 | Åse Eliason Bjurström, Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri and Miriam Sannum Warm Data Lab
Warm Data Lab, facilitated by Åse Eliason Bjurström, Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri and Miriam Sannum, inviting participants into a process of shared inquiry across multiple contexts, drawing on Nora Bateson’s work on Warm Data and transcontextual mutual learning. https://www.cemus.uu.se/ce-2026-wdl/ [Matikum Restaurant, English Park Campus] |
| 17.00- | Buffé dinner [Matikum Restaurant, English Park Campus] |
| 17.30- | Allt ljus på Uppsala, light festival with art installations in Uppsala https://www.alltljuspauppsala.se/ [Uppsala] |
| 18.30-20.30 | Kim Stanley Robinson Uppsala Ministry of the Future (separate registration needed)
And as a separate event evening November 17, but in the same Uppsala as the conference: Kim Stanley Robinson, Looking to the Stars; Science, Fiction and the Power to Shape the Future, register here: https://www.uu.se/en/uunifi/uunifi-goal-conflicts/uppsala-ministry-for-the-future [University Main Building] |
Wednesday November 18
The program will be updated up until November 16. Click on rooms to get directions and maps.
Time |
Program |
| 09.00-10.30 | One feeling, though One image, sound beginnings and ends
One feeling, though One image, sound beginnings and ends – bring your own impressions to the Humanities Theatre stage. [22-008 Humanities Theatre, English Park Campus] |
| 10.30-12.00 | Artistic beginnings and ends
Artistic beginnings and ends. Botanical Garden and Orangeriet, Linneaus Hall. [Starting outside of entrance 22-008 Humanities Theatre, English Park Campus] |
How can we stay with the trouble and dwell in the collapsing space between the urgent and the eternal?
The global landscape of 2026 is defined by a sense of fracture and eroding baselines. We see it in the stalling currents of the Atlantic and the geopolitical tensions stretching from the Arctic to the Middle East. As carbon budgets dwindle and the 2030 threshold looms, the distance between scientific projections and our lived reality has vanished. We inhabit a strange paradox where we are simultaneously running out of time and standing at the threshold of a new, long-lasting era of instability. In the face of tipping points and a shifting world order, we gather in Uppsala to search for meaning and community, feeling our way through the darkness.
How do we maintain a sense of place and direction when the natural and political maps are being redrawn and discarded? In an age of extreme weather and ecological loss, how do we navigate the tension between immediate crisis and the slow, deep time of the earth? If the systems we relied upon are failing, what new bridges can we build between the practical needs of survival and the existential need for meaning? How can we stay with the trouble and dwell in the collapsing space between the urgent and the eternal?
CEMUS, CRS, and Uppsala University invite you to join us for an engaging ClimateExistence conference! We aim to be a creative meeting place for artists, activists, academics, faith practitioners, and anyone interested in the existential and practical aspects of the climate emergency.