Befriending Creation In Times of Climate Crisis

Conference 24. October 2025 at 13-17 (Icelandic time) in Edda Lecture Hall The Conference is in honor of prof. em. Sólveig Anna Bóasdóttir and marks the end of the research project MAFTÍL at the Institute of Theology.

Place: Fyrirlestrarsalur Eddu, Arngrímsgötu 5, 107 Reykjavík kl. 13-17 (Icelandic time) and on Zoom.

The Conference is open to the public and free of charge.

• 13:00-13:15. Opening. Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir (Háskóli Íslands)
• 13:15-14:00. Keynote: “All Flesh is Grass: Queer Ecology and the Possibility of Incarnation.“ Jacob Erickson, Trinity College, Dublin, keynote
• 14:00-15:15. Panel 1. Interdisciplinary Seminar on Climate Change, Sustainability and Human Rights. Florian Freitag University of Duisburg-Essen, Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir, Sigurrós Alice Svöfudóttir and Ole Martin Sandberg, Háskóla Íslands. Respondent: Juan Pablo Santangelo, University of Tarragona
• 15:15:15:45. Coffee break
• 15:45- 16:45. Panel 2. Umhverfi, sjálfbærni og trú í sögu og samtíð. Arnfríður Guðmundsdóttir, HÍ, Bjarni Karlsson, (sjálfstætt starfandi) og Haraldur Hreinsson, HÍ
• 16:45-16:55. Viðbrögð við erindum. Sólveig Anna Bóasdóttir HÍ
• 16:55-17:00. Ráðstefnulok. Jón Ásgeir Sigurvinsson og Rúnar Már Þorsteinsson.