Nature Bites Back! – Paper Jam II

Session: 5i
Day: Thursday 16 April
Time: 11.30–13.00
Room: JK15a 1.05
Chair: Kate Huber

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

Speakers:

  • Maureen Knol (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) and Tessa von Kats (Leiden University), “The Monstrous Past: The More-than-Human’s Gothic Presence and Agency in Annihilation”
  • Minke Douma (Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam), “Between Hunger and Solidarity: Cross-Species Resistance in Henry Hoke’s Open Throat (2023)”
  • Lily Bakker (Radboud University Nijmegen), “Interweaving Worlds: Anna Dumitriu’s Fragile Microbiome (2024) as Microbial Resistance”
  • Nadia Rezmires (University of Amsterdam), “Registers of Tenderness and Revenge in Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead”
  • Emily Sait (University of Humanistic Studies), “Ecohumanism in ‘Wild Apples’ by Henry David Thoreau”