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Underground Ecocriticism: New Approaches to the Environmental Humanities
Western University
London, ON
November 2-3, 2012


All events (with the exception of the Nov. 2 keynote) will take place at the Windermere Manor, Conference Centre, Room A 200 Collip Circle, London, ON N6G 4X8







November 2

8:45 Welcome

9:00-10:30 Panel

Chair: Tina Northrup
Jodey Castricano (UBC Okanagan) -  “Vexing Ecocriticism: Notes from the Underground”
Glenn Willmott (Queen's) - “Tragedy in Ecocriticism:  4 Principles”
Rasmus Simonsen (Western) -  Preposterous Ecology”


10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Panel

Chair: Matthew Rowlinson 
Jenny Kerber (U of T) - “'Neither dead nor alive but suitably commemorated': Liquid Topographies of the St. Lawrence Seaway
Joshua Schuster (Western) -  “Regeneration Through Pollution”
Cheryl Lousley (Lakehead) -  “Toward a Grotesque Environmentalism: Reading Barbara Gowdy’s
Domestic Fictions Ecocritically”
Alice Kuzniar (Waterloo) -  “An Unnatural Ecology of the Self: German Romanticism’s Schizoid Symptomology”

12:30-2:00 Lunch

1:30 Bee Tour at Windermere

2:00-3:30 Panel

Chair: Mary Helen McMurran 
Madeline Bassnett (Western) - “Becoming With, Becoming Worldly: The Human-Chicken Relationship in Prudent Choyselat's Discourse Of Housbandrie (1580)
Anne Milne (U of T) -  “Sustainable Knowledge: Eighteenth-Century Studies as Feral Ecocriticism”
Susie O’Brien (McMaster) - “The Downside of Up; Or, What's the Matter with Resilience” 

3:30 Coffee Break

5:00 Keynote Address

Timothy Morton (Rice University) - “Unground, Underground, Ground Under”

Western University, Conron Hall, University College, 224

6:30 Reception

November 3

9:00-10:30 Panel

Chair: Josh Lambier 
Andrew McMurry (Waterloo) - “The Role of Humanities in the Time of Climate Change; or, What to
Do As The World Burns”
Gillian Barker and Eric Desjardins (Western) - “Philosophy and the Environment”

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Panel

Chair: Tim DeJong
Catriona Sandilands (York) - Pro/polis? Bees, Labour and Publicity in Bee Journal
Anne Raine (Ottawa) - “Against the American Grain: Queer Saints, ‘Ecological Indians,’ and Nomadic Aesthetics in Cather and Stein
Molly Wallace (Queen's) - “Precautionary Reading”

12:30-2:00 Lunch

2:00-3:30 Panel

Chair: Madison Bettle 
Tania Aguila-Way (Ottawa) - “Bioscience and Environment in Contemporary Diasporic Canadian Writing”
Andrew Reszitnyk (McMaster) - “Posthuman Vision--Witnessing Photographic Representations of Nonhuman Suffering”
Kelly Wood, artist’s talk (Western)

3:30-4:00 Coffee Break

4:30-6:00 Panel

Chair: Melissa LeBlanc 
Ben Woodard (Western) - “Between the Cyclone and the Vortex: Schellingian Thought for an Ecological Politics 
Michael Sloane (Western) - “Dumpster Diving William Carlos Williams”
Rhiannon Rogstad (Western) - “‘Moving along these pleasant walks’: An Excavation of Emerson’s Natural History in Four Early Lectures”

6:00-7:30 Keynote Address

Sherryl Vint (UC Riverside) - “The Mise-en-scène of Things to Come: Environments, Futures, Science Fictions”

7:30 Closing Remarks

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