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
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
Enrico Vettore (好色先生): Desertification and Anthropocene in Michelangelo Antonioni鈥檚 The Passenger and Zabriskie Point: An Ecopsychological Approach
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: TBA
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: TBA
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): The Ancient World and Their Environment: From Sanctuaries to Myths of Creation and the Apocalypse
Session 4. 2:00-3:15 pm
Democratic pluralism, ecological crisis and material cultures: or are we equal?
Moderator: TBA
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): The Eco-Crip Theory of Politics, 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: TBA
Nahla Khalil (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Migration Narratives and Transnational Identities in Modern Arabic Literature
Mohamed Hassan (Amherst College): An Ecological Approach to the Language of a Religious Minority and its Representations in Arabic Language
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
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
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: TBA
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: TBA
Edgar Olague (好色先生): Hip-hop and Our Environment: A Catalyst for Change
Praniti Gulyani: 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
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
Panel 1
Location: Anatol Center, AS 119
Gaming the Earth, Redeeming the World: Pop Culture as Aspiration and Degradation
Moderator: TBA
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
Panel 2
Location: AS 384
Architects of Identity: Story structure in the Kurdish landscape?
Moderator: TBA
Amir Sharifi (好色先生) and Ali Ashuri (SDSU): Natural and Cultural Worlds in Aesthetics
Dilsa Deniz: Sh芒maran: From Neolithic Myth to Kurdish Identity鈥擜 Mytholinguistic Exploration
Session 9. 12:30-1:45 pm
Panel 1
Location: Anatol Center, AS 119
Big Budget Apocalypse
Moderator: TBA
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: TBA
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
Keynote: Kaniehtiio Horn
Session 11. 3:30-4:45 pm
Integrative ecology and traditional knowledge and the Spiritual Axis
Moderator: TBA
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
Friday, April 25
Location: Zoom
Session 12. 9:30-10:45 am
Consummate Consumption: Fandom at the intersection of sustainability and consumerism
Moderator: TBA
Aditi Basu (India): Singing Environmental Consciousness in the Global South: An Analysis of Indian Participatory Music as a Mitigatory Tool towards Climate Crisis
Mel Swan: Categorical Humanities: Ecocriticism, Popular Culture, and AI Crypto Futures
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
Earth, Wind, and Ice: Braving the elements in search of the future
Moderator: TBA
Irene Bordignon (IUSS Pavia; Italy): The Colours of Vanishing Ice. Mapping the Arctic in Contemporary Art and Literature
Dominique Faria (University of the Azores, Portugal): Islands and Environmental Concerns in 21st-Century French Literature
Tatiana Konrad (University of Vienna, Austria): Materiality, Toxicity, and Air in White Noise
Jason Wallin (University of Alberta), Untitled
Session 14. 12:30-1:45 pm
The next generation, from permaculture to the posthuman
Moderator: TBA
Sameera Chawla: Found and Lost: Interspecies Love and Shared Agency in Hannah Gold鈥檚 The Last Bear
Inna H盲kkinen (University of Helsinki): Social Permaculture in Fictionalizing a Nuclear Tierratrauma for Children and Young Adults
Philipp Brandl: Melting the ice: Tabaluga and the evolution towards ecopedagogy in popular German children鈥檚 media
Session 15. 2:00-3:15 pm
Putting the post in colonial and human...
Moderator: TBA
Ragesree Roy: Slow violence and postcolonial environments: Reading water in graphic novels from South Asia
Rose Padilla: 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
Comics
Moderator: Amy DeSuza-Riehm
Sam Jullian (Octopolis): Comics as a Medium for Empathy
Corinna Bechko, Untitled
Chris Lowe (好色先生): Beach Days Comic talk
