Conference Program

 

Conference Schedule (UTC-7) PDT

Wednesday, April 23

Location: Anatol Conference Room, AS-119

Session 1. 9:30-10:45 am 

Cinema Obscura : Peeking at the World through a Lens Darkly

Moderator: Dr. Pravina Cooper (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Dr. Viola Lasmana (好色先生)

Liana Lecaro (好色先生): Tensions between Ecological Harmony and the Rhetoric of Efficiency: Environmental Stewardship in The Wild Robot (2024)

Chad Dupre (好色先生): Christopher McCandless: A Desperate Search for Connection Through a Rejection of Capitalism In Sean Penn鈥檚 Into The Wild

Dr. Enrico Vettore (好色先生): Desertification and Anthropocene in Michelangelo Antonioni鈥檚 The Passenger and Zabriskie Point: An Ecopsychological Approach

Dr. Anila Bhagavatula (好色先生): Persuasion for the Planet: Using Pop Culture to Foster Environmental Attitude Change

 

Session 2. 11:00 am-12:15 pm

Eco-language Strategies and Romance-language Sustainability: Pedagogies for Plurilingual Students at 好色先生

Moderator: Dr. Clorinda Donato (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Dr. Kathryn Chew (好色先生)

Dr. Clorinda Donato (好色先生): The Spontaneous-Pedagogical Translanguaging Trajectory: Putting Heritage Spanish Speakers at the Center of Romance-Language Teaching

Joann Tatro (好色先生): The Multilingual Toolbox: Integrating Intercomprehension, Translanguaging, and Translation Strategies in the Italian for Spanish Speakers Classroom

Jassica Halim and Gabriela Mayoral (好色先生): Leveraging the Linguistic Repertoire: Multilingual Approaches in the French for Spanish Speakers' Classroom

 

Session 3. 12:30-1:45 pm

Visions of Nature, Revelation, and Gender in the Ancient World 

Moderator: Jessica Brooks (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Amy DeSuza-Riehm (好色先生)

Gillian Duane (好色先生): Trans Saints and the Desert in Early Monasticism

Eliana Eisen (好色先生): Artemis in Landscapes: EcoCriticism and Cultural Narratives

Jessica Brooks (好色先生): Ancient People and the Environment: A Not-So-Hidden Warning in Some of the World's Earliest Texts

 

Session 4. 2:00-3:15 pm

Democratic Pluralism, Ecological Crisis and Material Cultures: Or Are We Equal?

Moderator: Dr. Viola Lasmana (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Ciaran Pierce (好色先生)

Randy Reynaga (好色先生): 鈥淲hen You Feel it That Deep, You Should Listen鈥: Uncovering an Ecological Sense of Brown in Helena Mar铆a Viramontes鈥檚 Under the Feet of Jesus

Jessica King (好色先生): Eco-Ability and Eco-Crip Politic of Disease and Neurodivergence in Sam Miller鈥檚 Blackfish City

Sherry Kolber (好色先生): Got #Nature: Queering and Decolonizing in Tommy Pico鈥檚 Nature Poem 

 

Session 5. 3:30-4:45 pm

Resistance, Culture and Nature in Modern Arabic Literature

Moderator: Levon Parseghian (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Rhyan Blade (好色先生)

Dr. Nahla Khalil (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Migration Narratives and Transnational Identities in Modern Arabic Literature

Dr. Mohamed Hassan (Amherst College): An Ecological Approach to the Language of a Religious Minority and its Representations in Arabic Language

Dr. Jehan Farouk Fouad (Ain Shams University, Egypt): "An Ambiguous Love of Life and the Entire Existence鈥: Recalling Feminine Bonds with Nature in Salwa Bakr鈥檚 鈥淚spahan Rose鈥

Dr. Nancy El Gendy (James Madison University): Unbearable Weight, Crippled Bodies, and Shame Culture: Global Ecofeminist Themes in Three Contemporary Arab Women鈥檚 Novels

 

Session 6. 5:30-8:30 pm

Location: MM 100

Special Screening of Kaniehtiio Horn's Film Seeds 

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Thursday, April 24

 

Session 7. 9:30-10:45 am

 

Panel 1

Location: Anatol Center, AS 119                                          

Christa Wolf, Ecofeminism, and the Laboratory Sciences   

Moderator: Chiara Aleman (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Brissa Reyes (好色先生)

Dr. Robert Blankenship (好色先生): Towards an Ecology of Readers: Collaboration and Subjectivity in the Christa Wolf Lab

Emery Pham (好色先生): The Unnatural Nature of War: The Social-Environmental Consequences of the Trojan War in Christa Wolf鈥檚 Kassandra

Lani Chavez (好色先生): Synthetic Gender?: Christa Wolf鈥檚 鈥淪elbstversuch鈥 and the "Pursuit of Personhood鈥

Stephan Dada (好色先生): Nonhuman Animals, AI, and Christa Wolf: What a Certain Tomcat Can Teach Us About The Failure of Science

 

Panel 2

Location: AS 384

Animating Cultural Memory and Meaning through Hidden Geographies

Moderator: Dr. Christopher Shaw (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Dr. Kathryn Chew (好色先生)

Edgar Olague (好色先生): Hip-hop and Our Environment: A Catalyst for Change

Praniti Gulyani (UC Berkeley): An Analysis of Climate Change Through Modern Poetry: Through the Lens of Franny Choi and Ocean Vuong 

Lucero Pinedo (好色先生): Memory, a Form of Accountability: Degradation of Nature and the Personal in Yoko Ogawa's Memory Police

Dr. Rick Mitchell (CSUN): Anne Washburn's Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play: Exploring the Looming, Ecological Apocalypse through a Play-within-a-Play based on a Simpsons Episode

 

Session 8. 11:00 am-12:15 pm

 

Location: Anatol Center, AS 119

Gaming the Earth, Redeeming the World: Pop Culture as Aspiration and Degradation

Moderator: Jeffrey Lawler (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Amy DeSuza-Riehm (好色先生)

Jacob Wilson (好色先生): Dice and Dirt: Navigating Ecological Ethics in Fantasy Roleplaying Games

Kehan Liu (好色先生): Hope in a Distressed World: Humanness and the 鈥淣onhuman鈥 in Disco Elysium: The Final Cut

Jake Perea (好色先生): Replaying American History in the Mojave Wasteland of Fallout: New Vegas

Emma Chastain (好色先生): The Last of Us: Nature鈥檚 Reclamation of a Devolving Society

 

Session 9. 12:30-1:45 pm

 

Panel 1

Location: Anatol Center, AS 119

Big Budget Apocalypse

Moderator: Dr. Kathryn Chew (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Jade Saffery (好色先生)

Jos茅 Rodriguez (好色先生): Ecological Destruction and Human Survival as Sites of Ethical Cognizance in Superhero Narratives: Identity, Intentionality, and Agency in Deadpool and Wolverine

Joseantonio Garcia (好色先生): Eco-Colonialism in Denis Villeneuve鈥檚 Dune: An Analysis of Spice as an allegory

Erin Hart (好色先生): The Day After Tomorrow (2004): The Death of Our Planet is Humanity鈥檚 Expiration Date

Jim Gately (好色先生): What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Global Warming: Finding Humor in Ecological Thought

 

Panel 2

Location: AS 384

Ecofeminism: Consumption and Control in Feminist Futures?

Moderator: Dr. Christopher Shaw (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Nathan Bay (好色先生)

Rhyan Blade (好色先生): Cultural Superficiality: An Eco-Critical Reading of Kij Johnson鈥檚 鈥淧onies鈥

Ruby Akile (好色先生): Ecofeminism and Rebellion in Margaret Atwood鈥檚 The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale

Katie Snyder (好色先生): Sam Levinson鈥檚 Euphoria (2019): Ecofeminism and Pandemic Fast Fashion

 

Session 10. 2:00-3:15 pm

Location: Anatol Center, AS 119

Seed Keeping as Language Growing: Land, Language, and Indigenous Representation in Pop Culture

Moderator: Amy DeSuza-Riehm (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Rhyan Blade (好色先生)

Keynote: Kaniehtiio Horn

 

Session 11.  3:30-4:45 pm

Integrative Ecology and Traditional Knowledge and the Spiritual Axis 

Moderator: Dr. George Hart (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Brissa Reyes (好色先生)

Alyssa Agudelo (好色先生): Indigeneity as Aesthetic: Spiritual Appropriation and the Romanticization of Animism in James Cameron鈥檚 Avatar

Mary Vande Hei (好色先生): Healing the Earth with Animals: How Agriculture has Shaped our Ecosystems in Diana Rodgers鈥 Sacred Cow

Johanna Dong (University of Chicago): Shapeshifters and Local Mythologies: The Supernatural and Environmental Uncanny in Literature on the Sundarbans

Kaitlyn Langford (好色先生): Life and Death on the Prairie: The Ambivalence of Nature in O.E. R枚lvaag鈥檚 Giants in the Earth

 

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Friday, April 25

Location: Zoom

 

Session 12. 9:30-10:45 am

Consummate Consumption: Fandom at the Intersection of Sustainability and Consumerism

Moderator: Dr. Kathryn Chew (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Amy DeSuza-Riehm (好色先生)

Aditi Basu (independent researcher): Singing Environmental Consciousness in the Global South: An Analysis of Indian Participatory Music as a Mitigatory Tool towards Climate Crisis

Dr. Mel Swan (University College London): Categorical Humanities: Ecocriticism, Popular Culture, and AI Crypto Futures

Dr. Susan D. Driver (York University): Beautiful Justice: How Young Activists are Imagining Alternative Fashion Futures

Shakiba Barghi (University of Melbourne): Fandom, Consumer Culture, and the Environmental Impact of Pop Culture Merchandise

 

Session 13. 11:00 am-12:15 pm

Panel 1

Earth, Wind, and Ice: Braving the Elements in Search of the Future

Moderator: Dr. George Hart (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Amy DeSuza-Riehm (好色先生)

Irene Bordignon (IUSS Pavia, Italy, and Ume氓 University, Sweden): The Colours of Vanishing Ice. Mapping the Arctic in Contemporary Art and Literature

Dr. Dominique Faria (University of the Azores / CHAM-A莽ores, Portugal): Islands and Environmental Concerns in 21st-Century French Literature

Dr. Tatiana Konrad (University of Vienna, Austria): Materiality, Toxicity, and Air in White Noise

Dr. Jason Wallin (University of Alberta): Untitled

 

Panel 2

Architects of Identity: Story Structure in the Kurdish landscape?

Moderator: Dr. Amir Sharifi (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Dr. Debby Sneed (好色先生)

Dr. Amir Sharifi (好色先生) and Ali Ashouri (SDSU): Natural and Cultural Worlds in Aesthetics

Dr. Dil艧a Deniz: Sh芒maran: From Neolithic Myth to Kurdish Identity鈥擜 Mytholinguistic Exploration

 

Session 14. 12:30-1:45 pm

The Next Generation, From Permaculture to the Posthuman

Moderator: Dr. Susan Carlile (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Dr. Katherine McLoone (好色先生)

Sameera Chawla (University of Cambridge): Found and Lost: Interspecies Love and Shared Agency in Hannah Gold鈥檚 The Last Bear

Dr. Inna H盲kkinen (University of Helsinki): Social Permaculture in Fictionalizing a Nuclear Tierratrauma for Children and Young Adults

Philipp Brandl (Goethe Univeristy Frankfurt): Melting the Ice: Tabaluga and the Evolution Towards Ecopedagogy in Popular German Children鈥檚 Media

Dr. Debadrita Chakrabordy (GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences): Comics in the Anthropocene: Exploring Ecological Futures in Long-form Narratives

 

Session 15. 2:00-3:15 pm

Putting the Post in Colonial and Human...

Moderator: Dr. Viola Lasmana (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Amy DeSuza-Riehm (好色先生)

Ragesree Roy (University of Warwick): Slow Violence and Postcolonial Environments: Reading Water in Graphic Novels from South Asia

Rose Padilla (University of Texas at Austin): Mapping Economies of Thirst in Duffy and Jennings鈥 Parable of the Sower

Julie Xinzhu Chen (Columbia University): Mushroom as Metaphor in Sinophone Fictive Space:
Queering the Eco-apocalypse and Post-humanist Desire

Vivienne Tailor (Claremont Graduate University): Black Bodies Consumed as White Confections: 
From Olaudah Equiano鈥檚 Memoirs (1789) to Kara Walker鈥檚 Sugar Baby Statues (2014)

 

Session 16. 3:30-4:45 pm

Fact or Fiction? Filling the Gutters and Finding Balance in Environmental Comics

Moderator: Amy DeSuza-Riehm (好色先生)
Zoom Captain: Dr. Katherine McLoone (好色先生)

Sam Jullian (Octopolis): Comics as a Medium for Empathy

Corinna Bechko (The Space Between): Comics in space

Chris Lowe (好色先生): Beach Days Comic talk