Past eventFri., April 17, 2026, 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m.–Sat., April 18, 2026, 9 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
General: $50; Society of Fellows, Members & Readers: $30 (students and research fellows free) Optional lunch: $20 (each day)
Haaga Hall
12 p.m. | Lunch
1 p.m. | Session 2: Transformations
Extinction is not merely an end; it is a force of transformation, an engine of planetary and conceptual change. Climatic upheavals, ecological ascendancies, and shifting epistemologies have continually reconfigured both the living world and the ways humans make sense of its losses.
3 p.m. | Break
3:30 p.m. | Session 3: Eradications
Despite the advances we have gained in species survival, we have still retained an uncanny ability to do the wrong thing. We know how to love, but as a species, we may be better at hating, ignoring, or simply not caring. If sorrow is about grief for what we love, eradication is about contempt for what we do not.
9 a.m. | Registration and coffee
10 a.m. | Session 4: Resurrections
At the same time that we’ve considered eradicating species, we’ve also found ways to bring the past alive, and in a highly active way, fought back against extinction by resurrecting essential aspects of lost species with new insights and information.
12 p.m. | Lunch
1 p.m. | Roundtable discussion
2:30 p.m. | Concluding Remarks
