ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference
Locating Ecocriticism: Systems, Methodologies, Contexts
University College Dublin, July 30th-31st 2014
School of English, Drama and Film, Newman Building, Room J208
DRAFT PROGRAMME
30th July 2014
08.30-09.00
Registration + tea, coffee and pastries
09.00-09.15
Welcome Address
Professor Anne Fogarty, UCD School of English, Drama and Film
Adeline Johns-Putra, Chair of ASLE-UKI
09.15-10.45
Panel One: Mapping Chaos and Transformation
Chair: Emma Trott (University of Leeds)
- Mary Kristen Layne (University of Glasgow) – The Palimpsestuous Landscape: Environmental Entanglement of Present and Past
- Thue Sebastian (University of Cambridge) – ‘Always the Green Chaos Rather Than the Printed Map’: Chaotic Nature in the Fiction of John Fowles
- Martin Gleghorn (Durham University) – Grasping the Truth: the Automobile and ‘Transformative Earth Systems’ in the work of Will Self and J. G. Ballard
10.45 – 11.10
Break
11.10-12.40
Keynote Paper One: Pablo Mukherjee (University of Warwick)
‘Yet Was it Human?’ Bankim, Hunter and Victorian Famine Ideology of Anandamath
Chair: Kasia Mika (University of Leeds)
Respondent: Michael Paye (University College Dublin)
12.40-13.30
Lunch
13.30-15.00
Panel Two: Posthumanism, Ecology and Theology
Chair: Lenka Filipová (Freie Universität Berlin)
- Rebecca Downes (NUI Galway) – Thinking Beyond the Subject: Jim Crace’s Being Dead and the Resistance to Ecological Thinking
- Stephen Greenfield (University of Wolverhampton) – The Ecological Labyrinthine Rings of Middle Earth
- Emma Trott (University of Leeds) – Jon Silkin: Poetry, Ecology, Religion
Panel Three (Room J207): Waterways
Chair: Martin Gleghorn (Durham University)
- Louise Chamberlain (University of Nottingham) – ‘The interchangeability/ of frames’: Frances Presley and the Bristol Channel
- Mika Perkiömäki (University of Tampere) – ‘The Sovereign of the River and the Sovereign of all nature – in the same trap’ Viktor Astafiev’s Queen Fish: An Ecocritical Approach
- Michael Paye (University College Dublin) – Ireland of the Exclusions: Walter Macken’s Rain on the Wind and the Peripheralisation of the Irish Sea-Fisheries
15.00-16.30
Panel Four: Postcolonial Ecocriticism
Chair: Kasia Mika (University of Leeds)
- Kate Huber (Independent Scholar, Oregon) – Dangerous Goods: Critiquing Capitalism through Commodities – Discussing the Material Agency of ‘Things’ in Amatov Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, Karen Tel Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rainforest, and Leslie Marmon Silko’s Gardens in the Dunes.
- Lenka Filipová (Freie Universität Berlin) – Place as a Process: An Ecocritical Reading of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
- Isabel Galleymore (University of Exeter) – Linking the local with the global: synecdoche and the poetry of Juliana Spahr
- Luciano Brito-Braga (Université de Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle) – Denationalising Nature in Contemporary Brazilian Literature
Break 16.30-17:00
17:00-18.30
Keynote Paper 2: Sharae Deckard (University College Dublin)
‘Fox Spirits’ and ‘Stone Maidens’: (Post)Soviet Energy Regimes and World-Ecological Literature
Chair: Sinead Ni Murchu (University College Dublin)
Respondent: Treasa de Loughry (University College Dublin)
19.45
Conference Dinner at Donnybrook Fair Restaurant
31st July 2014
8.30-9.15
Registration + tea, coffee and pastries
09.20-10.50
Panel Five: 10th-Century – 20th-Century Green Readings
Chair: Kate Huber (Independent Scholar, Oregon)
- Fearghal Duffy (NUI Maynooth) – The Ecology of Early Irish Literature
- Matthew Griffiths (Durham University) – Symbols in Systems: The Great Chain of Being as Ecology and Poetics
- Sercan Hamza Baglama (Durham University) – Ecological Consciousness of D.H. Lawrence in Sons and Lovers
10.50-11.10
Break
11.10-12.40
Keynote Three
Anne Milne, University of Toronto Scarborough –
The Poet as Genius of the Place?: Reading Habitat and Bioregion in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Chair: Adeline Johns-Putra (University of Surrey)
Respondent: Emma Curran (University of Surrey)
12.40-13.30
Lunch
13.30-15.00
Panel Six: The Domestic and the Maternal in Nature: Ecofeminist Analyses
Chair: Ron Milland (Independent Scholar, New York)
- Anna Maguire (University of Sussex) – Systems of Environmental Domesticity: Re-visioning Walden in Jane Smiley’s Good Will
- Megan Welsh (University of St Andrews) – ‘The Violence of Our Ancestors’: Rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune to Explore the Nature of Ecofeminist Possibility
- Rebecca Graham (University College Cork) – ‘A Myth of a Mother-Tongue’: Maternal Landscapes in Éilis Ní Dhuibhne’s The Pale Gold of Alaska and Midwife to the Fairies
15.00-16.30
Panel Seven: Transdisciplinary and Cross-Media Ecocriticism
Chair: Rebecca Downes (NUI Galway)
- Kasia Mika (University of Leeds) – The Games we Play: Inside Disaster: Haiti (2011) and New Methodologies of Criticism
- Cathy Fitzgerald (Independent Scholar, Co. Carlow, Ireland) – Modelling an Applied Artful Eco Action Multi-Constituent Methodology from Within a Small Irish Forest
- Ron Milland (Independent Scholar, New York) – From Theoretical Chaos to Applied Common Ground: An Interdisciplinary Approach to (Re)locating Ecocriticism
16.30-17.00
Break
17.00-18.30
Keynote 4
Brycchan Carey, Kingston University London –
Natural History; Unnatural Slavery
Chair: Emma Curran (University of Surrey)
Respondent: Louise Chamberlain (University of Nottingham)
18.30-18.50
Closing Remarks
Emma Curran (University of Surrey)
Michael Paye (University College Dublin)
18.50-21:00
Wine Reception (UCD Common Room)
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