Session 4

Thursday 16 April 9.15–11.00

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4.a
Invasive Species I

Room: JK2–3 1.15
Chair: Celandine Fleur Seuren

Speakers:

  • Melvin Geib Caballero, “The Political Inclusion of Invasive Species”
  • Hatib Kadir, “The Resistance of Co-species Invasion at the Eastern End of Indonesia”
  • Barrie Blatchford, “America’s “Global Goose-Chaser”: Nelson Gardiner Bump, the Foreign Game Introduction Program, and the Scientific Theory of Wild Animal Introductions”
  • Deborah Hardt, “Beasts of No Nation: Pablo Escobar’s Cocaine Hippos and the Audacity of Survival”

4.b
From Below: Subsurface Disruptions [preformed panel]

Room: JK2–3 1.16
Chair: Reinhard Hennig

Speakers:

  • Anna Seidel, “Narratives of Disintegration, Catalysts of Solidarity: Galician Oil Texts as Agents of Non/Human Kinship”
  • Frederike Felcht, “Multispecies Relationships, Subsurface Extraction, and the End of the World: Agnar Lirhus‘s and Rune Markhus’s Norwegian Picture Book Hva var det hun sa? (2014)”
  • Sophie U. Kriegel, “The Dis/Connective Power of Oil in West African Petrofiction”
  • Katie Ritson, “Literature and Energy Precarity: Texts We Can Warm Ourselves By”

4.c
Artistic Practices II

Room: JK2–3 1.17
Chair: Jessica Ullrich

Speakers:

  • Laura Ouillon, “Tree Yarnbombing Against the High Speed Two Project: Arboreal Craftivism as Interspecies, Community Solidarity”
  • Alicija Kochanowicz, “Dripping, Flowing, Soaking – How to Dissolve Art into Reality”
  • Angela Tait, “Holders of Soup and Meaning: Clay as Feral Material in Contemporary Ecological Art”
  • Christina Goestl, “The Universe Is Not Only Queerer Than We Suppose, It Is Queerer Than We Can Suppose”

4.d
Gardens and Gardening

Room: JK2–3 1.18
Chair: Sara Bédard-Goulet

Speakers:

  • Axel Goodbody, “Kin in the Anthropocene? Weeds in Gardening Narratives”
  • Brussels Health Gardens, Heide Maria Baden, Viktorija Baltušienė, Justina Maslauskaitė, Jonas Vytautas Petri, Vitalija Povilaityte-Petri, Lisa Sattell, Peter Yeo, and Wendy Wuyts, “Co-creating Relationships with Resisting Hogweeds”
  • Eline Tabak, “Tending to Small Life: On Biodiversity (Loss), Seed Saving and Storytelling”
  • Nelly Mäekivi and Riin Magnus, “Semiotic Perspectives on Resistance and Care in Multispecies Urban Gardens”

4.e
Speculative Fiction III

Room: JK2–3 2.17
Chair: Matthias Klestil

Speakers:

  • Sylvia Mayer, “Ursula K. Le Guin’s Poetics of Resilience: Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies Coexistence”
  • Esther-Marie Schilling, “In Forests & Along the Shores: Non-Human Spaces as Gendered Contact Zones in Speculative Fiction”
  • Manuela Crivelli, “Dengue Boy: Imagining Hybridity as Resistance on a Damaged Earth”
  • Yu-Ching Wang, “Re-Worlding: Multispecies Intimacy and (in)Justice in Becky Chambers’s Monk and Robot Series”

4.f
Creaturely Poetics I

Room: JK2–3 2.18
Chair: Merve Tabur

Speakers:

  • Amanda Wang, “‘Who Benefits’: Materiality of Language and Injustice in Indigenous Poetry”
  • Meliz Ergin, “Interspecies Poetics and Humanimal Embodiment in Contemporary Turkish Poetry”
  • Elizabeth Smith, “The Bacterium Ate My Poem”
  • Kennedy Dragt, “Books and Being: Buddhist Practice in Ruth Ozeki’s The Book of Form and Emptiness”

4.g
Convivial Communities I

Room: JK2–3 2.19
Chair: Emelia Quinn

Speakers:

  • Émilie Dardenne, “Zooinclusivity”
  • Aylin Walder, “An Introduction to Affinity Studies: Embracing Material Identity to Be(Come) More”
  • Massih Zekavat, “From Multispecies Justice to Emancipatory Worlding”
  • Sophie Ingle, “Reimagining the Ethics of Gene Drive Engineering Through Donaldson and Kymlicka’s Animal Citizenship Framework”

4.h
Indigenous Ecologies

Room: JK15a 1.01
Chair: Caroline Durand-Rous

Speakers:

  • Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne, “Anti-Extractivist Visualities and Indigenous Ecologies Otherwise”
  • Doro Wiese, “Sharing Worlds: Human and Animal Motherhood in Tanya Tagaq’s Teeth Apape”
  • Halbe Hessel Kuipers, “Eye to Eye with the Wild, Radical Alterity, and the Limits of the Modern Cosmology”
  • Bethany Davison, “Im/material Landscapes in the Arctic Iconotext: Reading Tanya Tagaq’s Split Tooth”

4.i
Nature Bites Back — Paper Jam I

Room: JK15a 1.05
Chair: Kári Driscoll

Speakers:

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

  • Anouck Masse
  • Sara Rocha Fritz
  • Shupei Pan
  • Roos Kreeft
  • Trisha Bhaya
  • Eirini Arampatzi
  • Kamil Korus
  • Dániel Kemény