Viral Life program

9:30 Welcome and introduction by Solveig Arnesen, Director of Vitenparken
9:45 Introduction of keynote 1, by moderator Nora Vaage
9:55 Keynote 1: Luís Graça & Marta de Menezes (PT): Adaptive responses
10:00 Break
10:45 Cammack Lindsey (DE): Discussing holobionts and relics from the revolution
11:00 Break
11:15 Hanna Halsebakke (NO): Aske til Aske
11:30 Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen (DK/FI): The Voices of Stones
11:45 Sara Worgan (UK): Bio-Frankenstein
12:00 Lunch
12:55 Introduction keynote 2, by moderator Nora Vaage
13:00 Keynote 2: Anna Dumitriu (UK): Art and the Impact of Infectious Disease
13:45 Break
13:55 Introduction keynote 3, by moderator Nora Vaage
14:00 Dag-Ragnar Blystad (NO): Can plant viruses give their hosts ornamental value?
14:45 Pei-Ying Lin (TW/NL): Virophilia
15:00 Cook-along with Haffi + Break
16:00 Laura Splan (US): Unraveling
16:15 Gavin Vaughan (UK): Should we have the right to transmogrification?
16:30 Break
16:45 Roland van Dierendonck (NL/NO): Viral Art
17:00 Ziwei Wu (CH/UK) & Lingdong Huang (CH/US): Mimicry  
17:15 Break
17:55 Introduction keynote 4, by moderator Nora Vaage16:45
18:00 Heather Dewey-Hagborg (US)Lovesick: Biotechnology and Intimacy 
18:45 Wrap up of the day and goodbyes17:00