Session 2

Wednesday 15 April 14.00–15.30

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2.a
The Poetics and Politics of More-than-Human Coexistence in Contemporary Cinema [preformed panel]

Room: JK2–3 0.17
Chair: Katarzyna Paszkiewicz

Speakers:

  • Stephanie Rincón Ramos, “Imagining Otherwise: Multispecies Alliances in Flow and The Wild Robot”
  • Laura Del Vecchio, “‘All That You Change Changes You’: Mutability and Presence in Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)”
  • Katarzyna Paszkiewicz, “Animal Cinematic Poet(h)ics: Multispecies Resilience in the Edgelands”

2.b
Blue Perspectives on Multispecies (In)justices [preformed panel]

Room: JK2–3 0.19
Chair: Bénédicte Meillon

Speakers:

  • Andrea Cabezas-Vargas, ““A Cry for Justice, from Water to Land: The Rebellion of the Frogs in Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona (2019)”
  • Bénédicte Meillon, “Tracking the Ecopoet(h)ical Evolution of Cephalopod (Mis)representations in Blue Literature and Art”
  • Caroline Durand-Rous, “Liquid Survivance: Construing Post-chaos Co-living in Waubgeshig Rice’s Novels”

2.c
Patricia Highsmith’s Beastly Murders [preformed panel]

Room: JK2–3 1.09
Chair: Emelia Quinn

Speakers:

  • Robert McKay, “Patricia Highsmith’s Dark Multispecies Mutualism”
  • Emelia Quinn, “Patricia Highsmith, John Waters, and Misanthropic Camp”
  • Chloë Taylor, “Multispecies Misanthropies in Highsmith”

2.d
Elemental Resistance II

Room: JK2–3 1.10
Chair: Kylie Crane

Speakers:

  • Isabel Pérez-Ramos, “Narrative Strategies and Multispecies (In)justice: Performative Rasquachismo and Double Dialectic”
  • Katharina Karcher, “Living and Dying with Ammonium Nitrate”
  • Emrys Liam Karlas, “Rehabilitation through the Rewilding of the Mine? Human-nonhuman Coexistence in the Kiruna and TECMINE Post-industrial Landscapes”

2.e
Writing Uprising with Plants and Animals [preformed panel]

Room: JK2–3 1.11
Chair: José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

Speakers:

  • Juan Ignacio Oliva, “‘Feel Like an Island’: Environmental Mediumship in Craig Santos Perez’s Docupoetry”
  • Imelda Martín Junquera, “The ‘Weeds’ Strike Back: Decolonizing American Landscapes”
  • José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, “Uprising Texts”

2.f
Aquatic Animals/Imaginaries II

Room: JK2–3 1.15
Chair: Celandine Fleur Seuren

Speakers:

  • Marie Comuzzo, “Listening with Comrade Orca: Becoming Better Animals Through Multispecies Solidarity”
  • Wer Zieman, “Marine Mammal Alliances: Affirmative and Affective Forms of Co-Creating Solidarity Through Conviviality”
  • Mandy Bloomfield, “Lines Cast Otherwise: Poetic Countercurrents in Capitalocene Oceans”

2.g
Speculative Fiction II

Room: JK2–3 1.16
Chair: Mace Bielderman

Speakers:

  • Kerim Can Yazgünoğlu, “‘Mother Nature is a psychopath’: Super-Natures and Vegetal Monstrosity in Ali Shaw’s The Trees”
  • Moira J. Deicke, “Weird Ecologies. Queering Nature and the (Non) Human in Speculative Fiction”
  • Alperen Yedekçi, “The Uncanny Green and Nonhuman Resistance: Ecohorror and Posthuman Ecology in Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing”

2.h
Critical Infrastructures I

Room: JK2–3 1.18
Chair: Ifor Duncan

Speakers:

  • Manon Raffard, “Something in the Water: Smell Experience and Aquatic Ecohorror in Octave Mirbeau’s La 628-E8 (1907)”
  • Kate Huber, “Developing Differently: An Exploration of How Art Imagines Multispecies Modernization”
  • David Alexandre Silva Revés, “Post-Anthropocentric Testimonies of the Rhine River: Material Agency and Eco-Narrativity in the Face of Collapse and Extinction”

2.i
Creature Features!

Room: JK2–3 2.17
Chair: Trisha Bhaya

Speakers:

  • Christian Lenz, “Predators and Protectors: Rethinking the Jungle in Anaconda and Kong: Skull Island”
  • Berit Huntebrinker “There Goes Tokyo Again: Posthuman Entanglements in Shin Godzilla”
  • Christian Hummelsund Voie, “Invasive Alien Ecologies: Troubling Tribbles and Cannibal Space Worms”

2.j
Undrowned Resistance: Aquatic Alliances Across Planetary Waters [preformed panel]

Room: JK2–3 2.18
Chair: Laura Löslein

Speakers:

  • Clara Hebel, “Contaminated Waters: Multispecies Petro-Resistance in Planetary Anglophone Literatures”
  • Laura Löslein, “Animal Allies in the Arctic. From Hunting Seals to Healing Trauma with Jellyfish in Bernd Späth’s Novel Is There Ice in Oklahoma?”
  • Simon Probst, “Coral Collaborations. A Short History of Reef Building as a Practice of Multispecies Justice”

2.k
From Landlocked Imaginaries to the Cloud and Back Again: On Learning to Re-Compose without Rebuilding [roundtable]

Room: JK2–3 2.19
Chair: Cristina Diamant

Speakers:

  • Megen de Bruin-Molé
  • Cristina Diamant
  • Francis Gene-Rowe

2.l
Ambiguous Encounters and Uncanny Intimacies I

Room: JK2–3 2.20
Chair: Sara Bédard-Goulet

Speakers:

  • Rūta Šlapkauskaitė, “Coming to Their Senses: Genre Trouble in Robbie Arnott’s Dusk”
  • Olivia Vázquez-Medina, “Uncanny Intimacies: Larval Aesthetics in Contemporary Latin American Fiction”
  • Ceren Özgüler, “Animals, Ecologies, and Colonial Legacies: Rethinking Nature in Le Clézio’s Novels”