Friday 17 April 9.15–11.00
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6.a
Some We Love, Some We Hate: Why It’s So Hard to Care for Invasive Species [preformed panel]
Room: JK2–3 1.10
Chair: Eline Tabak
Speakers:
- Henry Strivens, “Fascist Squirrels and Dog Whistles: The Exploitation of Ecological Issues in Far-Right British Politics”
- Katie Kung, “Killing for Conservation: Invasive Species, Taxonomical Impulse, and Storying a Predator-Free New Zealand”
- Vincent Bijlman, “The Ruddy Duck Invasion in Europe: The Construction of a Threat to Global Biodiversity in the Late 20th Century”
6.b
Post-/Decolonial Ecofiction
Room: JK2–3 1.15
Chair: Mia You
Speakers:
- Demi Wilton, “Interspecies Conquest and Interplanetary Displacement in Claire G. Coleman’s Terra Nullius”
- Caitlin MacDonald, “Mouthful of Mud: Unearthing the Anthropocene in Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist”
- Lisa Cristea, “Sonic Sensescapes and Multispecies Entanglements in Indian English Short Stories”
6.c
Animal Advocacy
Room: JK2–3 1.15
Chair: Salomé Lopes Coelho
Speakers:
- Alexa Weik von Mossner, “Between Resistance and Resilience: Nonhuman Agency and Sentience in Farm Sanctuary Documentaries”
- Claudia Alonso-Recarte, “The Contingencies of ‘If’ in Animal Advocacy Documentary Film”
- Brycchan Carey, “The Robin, the Bullfinch, the Starling, and the Chough: Eighteenth-Century Cagebirds and the Origins of the English Anticruelty Movement”
- Laura Brown, “Challenging the ‘Voiceless Animal’: Talking Dogs and Animal Spirituality in Early-Twentieth-Century Anti-Vivisection Campaigns”
6.d
Resistant Trees and Unruly Landscapes
Room: JK2–3 1.16
Chair: Lena Pfeifer
Speakers:
- Stefano Rozzoni, “Resistant Trees in Simon Armitage’s (Eco)Poems (2019–2024)”
- Rosamund Paice, “‘How many stately oaks must buy a fan?’ Brian Fairfax’s rewriting of Andrew Marvell’s ‘Upon Appleton House’”
- Soolmaz Moeini, “Modern Agriculture, Multispecies (In)Justice, and Environmental Migration in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s Rural Narratives”
- Michael Markwick, “Shadowtime Ecologies: Caterpillars, Bones, and Unstable Landscapes in the Painterly Imagination”
6.e
Urban Infrastructures of Hope [preformed panel]
Room: JK2–3 1.17
Chair: Hanna Hoorenman
Speakers:
- Claudia Hirtenfelder, “Animals as Urban Problems and Solutions”
- Carlo Salzani, “Legal Infrastructures and Ideological Dismantling: The Case of Street Dogs in southern Italy, Turkey, and India”
- Konstantin Deininger, “No Future? Hope and Practical Utopias for Urban Animals”
6.f
Convivial Communities II
Room: JK2–3 2.18
Chair: Tessel Janse
Speakers:
- Leonardo Bruno Barbosa, “The Elusive Encounter: Sound, Image, and the Media of Nonhuman Resistance in Birdwatching Ethnography”
- Claudia Cristalli, “Christ Stopped at Eboli: A Multispecies Ethnography”
- Swad Bruneel, “Ethnography in Farm Animal Sanctuaries”
- Elana Neil, “Tiny 5 Safari”
6.g
Theorizing Water Resistance [Roundtable]
Room: JK2–3 2.17
Chair: Ifor Duncan
Speakers:
- Marrigje Paijmans
- Julée Al-Bayaty de Ridder
- Rosanne van der Voet
- Guðrún í Jákupsstovu
6.h
Embodied Performance and Wounded Landscapes
Room: JK2–3 0.19
Chair: Susanne C. Knittel
Speakers:
- Kitija Balcare, “Ecotheatre as In-Between Space: Wounded Landscapes and Traps within Them”
- Agnė Narušytė, “The Inflamed Body as a Future Landscape: Installation by the Artistic Duo Pakui Hardware and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė in Venice Biennale”
- The Wondersearch Collective (Issy Clarke, Styn Grieten, Saskia Stehouwer, and Harry Wels), “The Dandy Explorer: A Tale of Many Voices”
- Eliane Beaufils, “The Art of Alliances with Ecosystems”