Session 5

Thursday 16 April 11.30–13.00

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5.a
Simone Weil and “Soft” Resistance: Rootedness, Attention, and Sacredness [preformed panel]

Room: JK2–3 1.15
Chair: Margarita Carretero-González

Speakers:

  • Serrin Rutledge-Prior, “Rootedness and Flourishing: Weil, Nussbaum, and the Needs of the Animal Soul”
  • Carlo Salzani, “The Ethics and Politics of Attention: Justice, Love, and Poetry as Resistance”
  • Zipporah Weisberg, “Animal Sanctuaries: Sacred Sites of Resistance”

5.b
Material Agency in Aquatic Ecologies

Room: JK2–3 1.16
Chair: Béné Meillon

Speakers:

  • Agnese Martini, “Seaweed Tales: Taxonomies and Nonhuman Agency in the Victorian Algal Imagination”
  • Damiano Benvegnù, “After a Storm: Resistance in a Seaweed Herbarium”
  • Diego Cagüeñas, “Interspecies Conviviality: Mollusks, Tides and the Future of Life in Colombia’s Pacific Coast”

5.c
Captivity and Escape

Room: JK2–3 1.17
Chair: Celandine Fleur Seuren

Speakers:

  • Clayton G. Beasley, “Elephant Agency and the Politics of Captivity: Rethinking Zoos as Heterotopias of Resistance”
  • Janine Aloe, “‘Naughty Bears’ and ‘Freedom Monkeys’ – Media Discourse of Escape and More-than-Human Resistance”
  • Mary Shannon Johnstone, “Incarceration and Resistance: An Ethics of Sight within Zoo Animal Photography”

5.d
Of Stone and Mineral Existences and Resistances: Aesthetics, Extractivism, and More-than-Human Communities [preformed panel]

Room: JK2–3 1.18
Chair: Salomé Lopes Coelho

Speakers:

  • Mariana Cunha, “Telluric Cinema: Malena Szlam’s Altiplano (2018) and Archipelago of Earthen Bones – To Bunya (2024)”
  • Rosa Berbel, “Copper Aesthetics in Contemporary Chilean Poetry”
  • HC. Krempels, “The Lithic Other: Exploring Nonhuman Vitality and Personhood through ‘Consensual’ Performance Collaborations with Chalk”

5.e
Speculative Fiction IV

Room: JK2–3 2.17
Chair: Jaya Sarkar

Speakers:

  • Roman Bartosch, “Diegetic Disanthropy: Confrontational Empathy in Venomous Lumpsucker, Afterworld, and A Children’s Bible”
  • Lena Leimgruber Haraldsson, “Blackfish City and the Orca Uprising: Speculative Resistance in the Neo-Colonial Arctic”
  • Ann Imke, “Narrating Speculative Space at Sea: Floating Cities and More-than-Human Ecologies”

5.f
Creaturely Poetics II

Room: JK2–3 2.18
Chair: Sara Bédard-Goulet

Speakers:

  • Anna Potoczny, “A “Squirrel Cage Mind”: Virginia Woolf, Animal Entrapment, and Creaturely Poiesis”
  • Sara Familiar Rodriguez, “Stings and Silences: Ecoanxiety and Ecofeminism Sylvia Plath’s ‘Bee Sequence’”
  • Ene-Reet Soovik, “Resilience and Resistance: Urban Plants in Contemporary Estonian Poetry”

5.g
Multispecies Entanglements (Convivial Communities II)

Room: JK2–3 2.19
Chair: Chloë Taylor

Speakers:

  • Renata Dalmaso and Júlia Zen Dariva, “On Human and Non-Human Entanglements: The Double Slit Experiment of Live Nature Cams”
  • Diana M. Natermann, “Conquest and Counterforce: Masculine Gazes, German Colonial Photography”
  • Alexandra Böhm, “Rewilding and Imaginations of the Primitive: Towards Convivial Communities with the More-than-Human World”

5.h
Imagining More-than-Human Communities through Migration [preformed panel]

Room: JK15a 1.01
Chair: Neha Vora

Speakers:

  • Neha Vora, “Pets in Motion: Transnational Adoption, Commodification, and Nonhuman Politics of Mobility in the Gulf”
  • Rachel Lewis, “Feline Animacies: Multispecies Ecologies of Desire and Belonging in Skiathos”
  • Jessica Maufort, “Trespassing Territories: Boundaries and Multispecies Co-habitation in Canadian and Māori Fiction”

5.i
Nature Bites Back — Paper Jam II

Room: JK15a 1.05
Chair: Kate Huber

Speakers:

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

  • Maureen Knol
  • Tessa van Kats
  • Minke Douma
  • Lily Bakker
  • Nadia Ramirez
  • Emily Tait