HOTB2020 Panel 7.6: Strange Futures

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Panel 7.6: Strange Futures

“Nobody Knows Anything for Sure: Uncertainty as Monstrosity in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God”

Matthew Morgenstern (Purdue University)

“Quick: Life and Speed in an Era of Extinction”

Jemma Deer (Harvard University)

“2020 Vision: Futurity and Climate Crisis”

Siobhan Angus and Samantha Spady (Yale University (Angus) and University of Alberta (Spady))

“Apocalypse: A Manifesto for the Futureless”

Jessica Hurley (George Mason University)

“‘Kindling Suns’: Decolonial Spaceflight Imaginaries”

Rachel Hill (Independent Scholar)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 7.5: Queer Ecologies & Ecosexualities

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Panel 7.5: Queer Ecologies & Ecosexualities

“Queer Zombies and the Apocalypse of Man: Ecocriticism, Post-Feminism and Queer Theory in Recent German Literature and Film”

Eva Hoffmann (Whitman College)

“Queer Environmental Futures”

Sabine LeBel (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton)

“Can Truck Sluts Be Environmentalist?”

Nicholas Tyler Reich (Vanderbilt University)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 7.4: *Topias

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Panel 7.4: *Topias

“Always Coming Home: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Utopian Aesthetic”

Lawrence Coates (Bowling Green State University)

“The Way to Utopia in an Environmental Crisis”

Sheryl M. Medlicott (Independent Scholar)

“Solarpunk: Imagining a Political and Ecological Aesthetics for the Future”

David Latour (Université de Clermont-Ferrand)

“Solarpunking the Impasse of the Anthropocene”

Ariel Kroon (University of Alberta)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 7.3: Nonhuman Encounters II

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Panel 7.3: Nonhuman Encounters II

“Literary Ethnobotany as a Site of Possibility? Poetry and Traditional Knowledge of Vegetal Life in the Planthroposcene”

John Charles Ryan (Southern Cross University)

“Fantasy and Urgency: Climate Change and Rewilding the Imagination in Richard Powers’s The Overstory”

Timothy S. Miller (Florida Atlantic University)

“A Nest of Cottonmouths: Snake Lore and White Anxiety in Southern Literature”

Dixon Bynum (University of Mississippi)

“Challenging Humanity: Silence, Loss, and Resilience in the Contemporary French Eco Novel”

Velina Dinkova (University of Colorado Boulder)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 7.2: Nonhuman Encounters, Entanglements, and Agencies I

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Panel 7.2: Nonhuman Encounters, Entanglements, and Agencies I

“‘Chemical Castration’: White Genocide and Male Extinction in Rhetoric of Endocrine Disruption”

Meg Perret (Harvard University)

“Biophony in the Anthropocene: Changes to the Avian Soundscape Since Thoreau’s Time at Walden Pond”

Rebecca A. Durham (University of Montana)

“Bird Count””

Rebecca A. Durham (University of Montana)

“Saltwater Wetlands”

Brian Glaser (Chapman University)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 7.1: From Emergency to Emergent -Cenes

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Panel 7.1: From Emergency to Emergent -Cenes

“Climate Justice Now: Transforming the Anthropocene into the Ecozoic Era”

Cara Judea Alhadeff (Independent Scholar)

“Ecological Gyre Theory: Vortextual Thinking After the Ecologic Turn”

Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse (Independent Scholar (Mitchell) and University of Tasmania (Waterhouse))

“New Imaginaries in the Anthropocene”

Dee Horne (University of Northern British Columbia)

“‘Ancient Permanence’: Thomas Hardy and the Anthropocene”

Jacqueline Dillion (Pepperdine University)

 

 

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HOTB 2020 Panel 6.4: Anthropocene Poetics

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Panel 6.4: Anthropocene Poetics

“‘Things of Each Possible Relation Hashing Against Each Other’: Juliana Spahr’s Climate Crisis Entanglement”

Becca Hamilton (University of Cambridge)

“Listing Atrocity: Queering the Epic with Ecopoetics in Dionne Brand’s Inventory”

Matthew Ellis (Brock University)

“Different Daylight: Crises of Visuality and Futurity in Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s Post-Fluorescent Poetics”

Emily Simon (Brown University)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 6.3: Anthropocene Ethics, Anthropocene Materialisms

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Panel 6.3: Anthropocene Ethics, Anthropocene Materialisms

“Affectsphere as an Ecosphere: Thoreau, von Üexkull, and the Anthropocene of Care”

Dong Yang (University of Georgia)

“Nihilism and Bravery”

Nathan Schmidt (Indiana University Bloomington)

“Teaching Environmental Ethics with Fünf Freunde [Five Friends] (2012) and Five on Kirrin Island Again (1947)”

Fazila Derya Agis (Independent Scholar)

“‘There’s No More Nature’: Beckett and New Materialisms”

Sean Collins (University of Utah)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 6.2: Embodying Emergency

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Panel 6.2: Embodying Emergency

“Which Portal Will We Go Through? Environmental Humanities and Activism in a Time of Distant Bodies”

Arlene Plevin (Olympic College)

“A Speculative Mythology for a Future of Practicing Kinship and Distance”

Agata Kowalewska (Warsaw University)

Bearing Witness in the Environmental Humanities?

Dominic Wilkins (Syracuse University)

 

 

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HOTB2020 Panel 6.1: Excavating Urgency: Slow Violence, Fast Disaster, and What Lies in Wait

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Panel 6.1: Excavating Urgency: Slow Violence, Fast Disaster, and What Lies in Wait

“Post-Apocalyptic Latency Poetics and Living ‘Here'”

Stacey Balkun (University of Mississippi)

“‘Shit Happens’: Excavating Excrement in Contemporary(ish) Ecopoetics”

Elijah Two Bears (University of Mississippi)

“Toward a Corona Journal”

Ann Fisher-Wirth (University of Mississippi)

“Carbon Glow”

Regina Young (University of Mississippi)

 

 

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