Wednesday 15 April 16.00–17.45

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3.a
Ecoviolence and Multispecies Justice: Rethinking Responsibility [Roundtable]

Room: JK2–3 0.17
Chair: Susanne C. Knittel

Speakers:

• Susanne C. Knittel
• Salomé Lopes Coelho
• Ifor Duncan
• Tom van Bunnik
• Sofia Lovegrove

3.b
Aquatic Assemblages of/as Resistance and Coexistence [preformed panel]

Room: JK2–3 0.19
Chair: Katharina Fackler

Speakers:

• Katharina Fackler, “Making Kin, Mapping Abundance: Multispecies Relations in Contemporary Hawaiian Poetry”
• Paula von Gleich, “Fugitive Currents: Rethinking Water as a Site of Captivity and Flight in Early Black Autobiography”
• Anna-Lena Oldehus, “Coexisting in Marshlands: Proximity and Relationality in Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s and Pauline Johnson’s (Tekahionwake) Writing”
• Linda Hess, “Voracious Matter: Watery Intimacies in Shonni Enelow’s Carla and Lewis (2014) and Genevieve Simon’s Bloom Bloom Pow (2022)”

3.c
Multispecies Malice: Rethinking Murder beyond the Human [Roundtable]

Room: JK2–3 1.09
Chair: Chloë Taylor

Speakers:

• Naisargi N. Davé
• Elen Abrell
• Deborah Hardt

3.d
Forms of Resistance

Room: JK2–3 1.10
Chair: Rebecca Jordan

Speakers:

• Jaya Sarkar, “When the Water Revolts: Representation of Nonhuman Resistance in Netflix’s Kaala Paani”
• Dominik Ohrem, “Willfulness: On Human Sovereignty’s Wayward Animals”
• Piotr Piekutowski, “Why Look at Rabbits? Narrative Representations of More-than-Human Resistance”
• David Ingram, “Violence and Revenge in Ecohorror”

3.e
Vegetal Agency

Room: JK2–3 1.15
Chair: Imelda Martín Junquera

Speakers:

• Virginia Luzón-Aguado, “‘Little Joe Doesn’t Think at All!’: Representing Plant Agency in Little Joe (2019)”
• Olena Tiaglova, ”Narrating with Plants: Econarratology and Non-Human Vegetal Ontologies in Contemporary Russian Literature”
• Jennifer S. Henke, “Ferocious Fungi, Monstrous Mushrooms? On Fungal Resistance in Contemporary Folk Horror Film”
• Luiza Teixeira-Costa, “Flipping the Parasite Spectrum: Plant Humanities Meet Eco-Physiology”

3.f
Aquatic Animals/Imaginaries III

Room: JK2–3 1.16
Chair: Miryam Danielsson

Speakers:

• Jennifer Leetsch, “Equiano’s Animals: Of Walruses, Whales and Flying Fish”
• Ruth Bryant, “Spoils of Whaling: Commodifying Nature in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Arctic Genre Scenes”
• Annette Bickford, “Yacht-Ramming Orcas: Towards Democratic Interspecies Communities”
• Nguyễn Huy Hoàng, “Mơ mơ màng màng: On the Aesthetic-Ontological Ambiguity of the Holy Whale in Vietnam”

3.g
Pedagogy and Children’s Literature

Room: JK2–3 1.17
Chair: Sara Bédard-Goulet

Speakers:

• Judith Benz-Schwarzburg, “Animal Agency, Autonomy, and Resistance in Picture Books”
• Hanne Bolze, “‘We can’t tame the Forest – it’ll hate us forever’: Vicious Vines and Scary Water in Contemporary Children’s Literature”
• Ida Marie Olsen, “Child-Animal Alliances in Times of Extinction: Rethinking Pedagogy, Environmental Futurism, and Ethics of Resistance through Lydia Millet’s A Children’s Bible”
• Sabina Magagnoli, “Visualising Nonhuman Resistance: A Multimodal Approach to Multispecies Resilience in the EFL Classroom”

3.h
Critical Infrastructures II

Room: JK2–3 1.18
Chair: Celandine Fleur Seuren

Speakers:

• Therese Lilliesköld, “More-than-Human Animals as Knowledge Bearers and Meaning Makers”
• Lena Pfeifer, “Material Resistance: Energy Infrastructures and Narrative Form”
• Thayse Madella, “The Borderlands as a Decolonial Multispecies Locale”

3.i
Sacrifice in the Name of the Modern: The Sacrificed Beings and Territories Strike Back! [preformed panel]

Room: JK2–3 2.17
Chair: Andrea Casals-Hill

Speakers:

• Ingrid Molderez, “Reintegrating the Wolf: What a Predator Teaches Us about Sustainability and Co-living with Nature”
• Caterina Rondoni, “Food Systems as Sites of Multispecies Injustice and Resistance”
• Maria Alessandra Woolson, “The Rapa Nui Multiple Use Marine Protected Area: An Interspecies Community Triumph”
• Andrea Casals-Hill, “Madre del viento negro (2021): More-than-Human Entanglements”

3.j
Artistic Practices I: Writing the Nonhuman

Room: JK2–3 2.18
Chair: Joep Christenhusz

Speakers:

• Wendy Wuyts, “How to Write Nonhuman Characters in Healing Fiction”
• Rosanne van der Voet, “Eiland van Brienenoord: More-than-Human Communities in the Urban Delta”
• Andrea Volken, “Mutualistic Narration: A Non-Hierarchical Framework for Writing with the More-than-Human”
• Matthias de Groof, “The Animals’ Lawsuit against Humanity”

3.k
Canine Configurations

Room: JK2–3 2.19
Chair: Trisha Bhaya

Speakers:

• Ishaan Selby, “Long Teeth of the Law: A Dialogue Between Animal Studies and Critical Police Studies”
• Mustafa Demir, “Caring for ‘Unloved Others’: Media Rhetoric and Street Dogs in Turkey”
• Eri Kato, “Rethinking Dog Breed Ideology and Multispecies Justice in Japan”
• Indrė Liškauskaitė, “Playing with a Dog as an Artistic Practice”

3.l
Ambiguous Encounters and Uncanny Intimacies II

Room: JK2–3 2.20
Chair: Reinhard Hennig

Speakers:

• Judith Meurer-Bongardt, “Ambivalent Encounters: Interspecies Storytelling in the Icelandic films Hross í oss (Of Horses and Men, 2013) and Hrútar (Rams, 2015)”
• Matthias Klestil, “Interspecies Solidarity through Narrative Ambivalence? Versional Storytelling and Nonhuman Animals in Fowler and Martel”
• Stefan Kjerkegaard, “Weird Ecologies in Matias Faldbakken: Clay, Care, and the Monstrous”
• Pavle Luketić, “‘Something We Haven’t Ruined Yet’: Nonhuman Life and Ethical Attention in Jens Bjørneboe’s Powderhouse”