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Speakers

Rok Brajkovič, a university-educated geologist, is employed at the Geological Survey of Slovenia, where he researches former environments that have disappeared in deep geological time. He applies sedimentological studies to the most diverse interdisciplinary fields, with the most focus on geoarchaeology, where he contributes to a deeper understanding of human history through the study of the origins of stone artifacts.

Blaž Vičič studied geology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering in Ljubljana, earned his PhD at the University of Trieste, and continued his research of earthquakes at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Miramare. He has a strong passion for geophysical phenomena as well as more down-to-the-ground geology like minerals and rocks, and often participates in citizen science projects and shares his knowledge with university students from different countries.

Matthew Wolf-Meyer is a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Tampere University and
Member of the Faculty of Social Sciences. His second book, Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology (2019) is an auto-ethnographic exploration of speculative fiction as a source of social theory in the context of global and local catastrophes. He lives and works in Helsinki.

Beti Žerovc is an art historian, art theorist and researcher in the areas of visual art, the art system since the mid-nineteenth century, and public monuments in the territory of former Yugoslavia with a focus on their role in society. She is the author of a book When Attitudes Become the Norm; The Contemporary Curator and Institutional Art (IZA and Archive Books, 2015).