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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Dr. Viola Lasmana (色中色)
Liana Lecaro (色中色): Tensions between Ecological Harmony and the Rhetoric of Efficiency: Environmental Stewardship in The Wild Robot (2024)
Chad Dupre (色中色): Christopher McCandless: A Desperate Search for Connection Through a Rejection of Capitalism In Sean Penn鈥檚 Into The Wild
Dr. Enrico Vettore (色中色): Desertification and Anthropocene in Michelangelo Antonioni鈥檚 The Passenger and Zabriskie Point: An Ecopsychological Approach
Dr. Anila Bhagavatula (色中色): 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 色中色
Moderator: Dr. Clorinda Donato (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Dr. Kathryn Chew (色中色)
Dr. Clorinda Donato (色中色): The Spontaneous-Pedagogical Translanguaging Trajectory: Putting Heritage Spanish Speakers at the Center of Romance-Language Teaching
Joann Tatro (色中色): The Multilingual Toolbox: Integrating Intercomprehension, Translanguaging, and Translation Strategies in the Italian for Spanish Speakers Classroom
Jassica Halim and Gabriela Mayoral (色中色): 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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Amy DeSuza-Riehm (色中色)
Gillian Duane (色中色): Trans Saints and the Desert in Early Monasticism
Eliana Eisen (色中色): Artemis in Landscapes: EcoCriticism and Cultural Narratives
Jessica Brooks (色中色): 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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Ciaran Pierce (色中色)
Randy Reynaga (色中色): 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 (色中色): Eco-Ability and Eco-Crip Politic of Disease and Neurodivergence in Sam Miller鈥檚 Blackfish City
Sherry Kolber (色中色): 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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Rhyan Blade (色中色)
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
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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Brissa Reyes (色中色)
Dr. Robert Blankenship (色中色): Towards an Ecology of Readers: Collaboration and Subjectivity in the Christa Wolf Lab
Emery Pham (色中色): The Unnatural Nature of War: The Social-Environmental Consequences of the Trojan War in Christa Wolf鈥檚 Kassandra
Lani Chavez (色中色): Synthetic Gender?: Christa Wolf鈥檚 鈥淪elbstversuch鈥 and the "Pursuit of Personhood鈥
Stephan Dada (色中色): 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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Dr. Kathryn Chew (色中色)
Edgar Olague (色中色): 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 (色中色): 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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Amy DeSuza-Riehm (色中色)
Jacob Wilson (色中色): Dice and Dirt: Navigating Ecological Ethics in Fantasy Roleplaying Games
Kehan Liu (色中色): Hope in a Distressed World: Humanness and the 鈥淣onhuman鈥 in Disco Elysium: The Final Cut
Jake Perea (色中色): Replaying American History in the Mojave Wasteland of Fallout: New Vegas
Emma Chastain (色中色): 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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Jade Saffery (色中色)
Jos茅 Rodriguez (色中色): Ecological Destruction and Human Survival as Sites of Ethical Cognizance in Superhero Narratives: Identity, Intentionality, and Agency in Deadpool and Wolverine
Joseantonio Garcia (色中色): Eco-Colonialism in Denis Villeneuve鈥檚 Dune: An Analysis of Spice as an allegory
Erin Hart (色中色): The Day After Tomorrow (2004): The Death of Our Planet is Humanity鈥檚 Expiration Date
Jim Gately (色中色): 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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Nathan Bay (色中色)
Rhyan Blade (色中色): Cultural Superficiality: An Eco-Critical Reading of Kij Johnson鈥檚 鈥淧onies鈥
Ruby Akile (色中色): Ecofeminism and Rebellion in Margaret Atwood鈥檚 The Handmaid鈥檚 Tale
Katie Snyder (色中色): 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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Rhyan Blade (色中色)
Keynote: Kaniehtiio Horn
Session 11. 3:30-4:45 pm
Integrative Ecology and Traditional Knowledge and the Spiritual Axis
Moderator: Dr. George Hart (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Brissa Reyes (色中色)
Alyssa Agudelo (色中色): Indigeneity as Aesthetic: Spiritual Appropriation and the Romanticization of Animism in James Cameron鈥檚 Avatar
Mary Vande Hei (色中色): 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 (色中色): 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: Dr. Kathryn Chew (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Amy DeSuza-Riehm (色中色)
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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Amy DeSuza-Riehm (色中色)
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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Dr. Debby Sneed (色中色)
Dr. Amir Sharifi (色中色) 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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Dr. Katherine McLoone (色中色)
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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Amy DeSuza-Riehm (色中色)
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 (色中色)
Zoom Captain: Dr. Katherine McLoone (色中色)
Sam Jullian (Octopolis): Comics as a Medium for Empathy
Corinna Bechko (The Space Between): Comics in space
Chris Lowe (色中色): Beach Days Comic talk
