Nature Bites Back! – Paper Jam I

Session: 4h
Day: Thursday 16 April
Time: 9.15–11.00
Room: JK15a 1.05
Chair: Kári Driscoll

Papers by students in the OSL Seminar “Nature Bites Back: Nonhuman Resistance in the Contemporary Cultural Imagination”.

Speakers:

  • Eirini Arampatzi (Utrecht University), “Parasitic Relations and Communal Living”
  • Anouck Masse (Utrecht University), “Nonhuman Resistance in a Dairy Goat Farm”
  • Sara Rocha Fritz (Leiden University), “Slaughter, Suicide, and Sabotage: Dying Out of Turn in Of Cattle and Men by Ana Paula Maia”
  • Shupei Pan (Utrecht University), “Toward a Pluvial Narratology: Ng Kim Chew’s Work of Rain”
  • Roos Kreeft (Utrecht University) and Trisha Bhaya (Utrecht University), “Light Eaters and Entangled Worlds in Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Amnesty’”
  • Kamil Korus (University of Amsterdam), “Tree Epigenetics: ‘Strange Fruit’ and the Problem of Bodily Integrity”
  • Dániel Kemény (University of Amsterdam), “The Other Eats Back: bell hooks’s ‘Real Primitive Paradise’ as Non-Human Resistance in Tibor Bödőcs’s Mulat a Manézs and the 2026 Hungarian Parliamentary Election”