Western University
London, ON
November 2-3, 2012
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
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”Madeline Bassnett (Western) - “Becoming With, Becoming Worldly: The Human-Chicken Relationship in Prudent Choyselat's Discourse Of Housbandrie (1580)”
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
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”
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”
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”
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”
Sherryl
Vint (UC Riverside) - “The Mise-en-scène of Things to
Come: Environments, Futures, Science Fictions”
7:30
Closing Remarks
