Final Programme

ASLE-UKI Postgraduate Conference

Locating Ecocriticism: Systems, Methodologies, Contexts

University College Dublin, July 30^th-31^st 2014

 School of English, Drama and Film, Newman Building, Room J208

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 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) – 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 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

 

31^st July 2014

 

Tea, coffee and pastries

8.30-9.15

 

09.20-10.50

Panel Five: 10^th-Century – 20^th-Century Green Readings

Chair: Kate Huber (Independent Scholar)

• 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; National College of Art and Design, Dublin, 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 Club)

 

Sponsors:

ASLE-UKI,

UCD School of English, Drama and Film,

UCD Seed Funding,

The Humanities Institute, UCD

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