HOTB2020 Panel 2.4: The (Post)Humanities

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Panel 2.4: The (Post)Humanities

“Interdisciplinary Environmental Interventions through Humor and Satire”

Massih Zekavat and Tabea Scheel (Europa-Universität Flensburg)

“Participatory Inclusion in Knowledge Creation in Public Posthumanities Research”

Laura Barbas-Rhoden (Wofford College)

“Eco-Art and Sciences in an Age of Cynicism”

Thomas Asmuth and Sara Gevurtz (University of West Florida (Asmuth) and Auburn University (Gevurtz))

“Environmental Knowledge Production: A Case Study of Journalism Students at the University of Tyumen”

Irina Belyakova and Elena Plakhina (University of Tyumen)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 2.3: Climate Justice in the Classroom

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Panel 2.3: Climate Justice in the Classroom

“We Are in Crisis, and the Importance of a Petro-Politicized Classroom”

Kimberly Skye Richards (University of Fraser Valley)

“Climate Storytelling and Active Learning in Rural America”

Kyhl Lyndgaard (College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University)

“Teaching Environmental Justice with Ana Castillo’s So Far from God”

Sarah Nolan (University of Colorado Boulder)

“Using Cli-Fi to Help Reframe Young People’s Responses to Climate Change”

Judith Wakeman (Independent Scholar)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 2.2: Writing the Future

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Panel 2.2: Writing the Future

“Practices of Hope: Building Creative Community in Ecopoetic Literary Production”

Petra Kuppers and DJ Lee (University of Michigan (Kuppers) and Washington State University (Lee))

“Making Sense of Climate Change: Stories From the AnthropoScenes Competition”

Alexandra Nikoleris, Johannes Stripple, Paul Tenngart, Ludwig Bengtsson-Sonesson (Lund University)

“Purposeful Memoir as a Path to a Thriving Future: The Worldwrights Lead the Way”

Jennifer Browdy (Bard College at Simon’s Rock)

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HOTB2020 Panel 2.1: Models of Sustainability

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Panel 2.1: Models of Sustainability

“Virtual Conferences on the Brink: Critical Reflections on Research-Creation and Digital Collaboration in Times of Crisis”

Emily Roehl, Anne Pasek, Caleb Wellum (University of Alberta)

“Sustainability Studies and the Unsustainable University: A View from the Brink”

Dan Platt (Graceland University)

“Against the Day: HathiTrust, Arks, and the Emergency of the Present”

Heather Christenson, Eleanor Koehl, and Graham Dethmers (HathiTrust)

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HOTB2020 Panel 1.5: Antipodean Environmental Literary Studies on the Brink

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Panel 1.5: Antipodean Environmental Literary Studies on the Brink

“The Future of Housework: Feelings about Domestic Labour in All the Beginnings and Indelible Ink”

Jennifer Hamilton (University of New England (Australia))

“Snaking from Old to New Pathways: A Lyrical Critique”

Susan Hall Pyke (University of Melbourne)

“‘Part of Their Story’: Nonhuman Narratives in Australian Habitat Stories”

Rachel Fetherston (Deakin University)

“Australian Botany on the Brink”

Jessica White (University of Queensland)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 1.4: Auguries of the Anthropocene

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Panel 1.4: Auguries of the Anthropocene

“Chaucer’s Corrupt Air: Atmosphere, Mood, Ecological Crisis”

Ryan Lawrence (Cornell University)

“Was a Climate Change Catastrophe Really Responsible for Frankenstein?”

Alan Marshall (Mahidol University)

“Pastoral Access, Activism, and the Plague Archive”

Sara Torres (University of Virginia)

“Farming Stories: Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Three Sisters and Honorable Cultivation”

Kathryn Dolan (Missouri University of Science and Technology)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 1.3: Disaster Responses

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Panel 1.3: Disaster Responses

“The Implications of Aid in Times of Emergency: Destructive Storms, Climate Change, and Disaster Militarism”

Danielle Crawford (University of California, Santa Cruz)

“The Posthumanities as a Way to Tackle ‘Emergency'”

Christine Daigle (Brock University)

“Attunement as a Response to Climate Emergency”

Trang Dang (Nottingham Trent University)

“(Mis)Reading at High Tide: Emergent Unreadability in an Age of Emergency”

Jessica Holmes (University of Washington)

“The Climate of AIDS: Gentrification, Urgency, and Loss at the End of Nature”

Davy Knittle (University of Pennsylvania)

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HOTB2020 Panel 1.2: Media on the Brink

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Panel 1.2: Media on the Brink

“The Eco-fascist Emergency: An Examination of Godfrey Reggio’s Qatsi Trilogy”

Caren Irr (Brandeis University)

“Reading the Anthropocene in Parasite (2019): Class, Society, and Climate Change”

Seon-Myung Yoo (Texas A & M University)

“‘This Place Is a Mess’: Atlanta’s ‘Woods’ and the Everyday Surrealism of Petro-Capitalist America”

Eric Dean Wilson (CUNY Graduate Center)

“Sounding the Environmental Benefits of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria””

Olusegun Stephen Titus (Obafemi Awolowo University)

 

 

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HOTB 2020 Activists and Artists Gallery

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Academic/Activist Gallery

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Dominic Boyer, Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and author of the duograph Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene from Duke University Press.

Saskia Cornes, Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University.

Ashley Dawson, Professor of English at the City University of New York and author of Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change from Verso Books.

Bishnupriya Ghosh, Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel.

Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of Ecosphere Studies at the Land Institute, Salina, Kansas.

Sarah Jacquette Ray, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at Humboldt State University and author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet.

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HOTB2020 Panel 1.1: Reading on the Brink

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Panel 1.1: Reading on the Brink

“The Ship of This World on Its Voyage to Eternity’: Allegories of Ecological Apocalypse in Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools”

Lydia Nixon (Angelo State University)

“Re-thinking Home in Refugee Picturebooks and Graphic Novels”

Katie Reschenhofer (University of Vienna)

“Observation and Conversation: Post-Apocalyptic Literature and the Young Adult Audience”

Octavia Cade (Massey University)

“Contemporary Literature: The Politics of Aesthetics in The Handmaid’s Tale”

Beatriz Revelles-Benavente (University of Granada)

 

 

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