FRIDAY, MARCH 3
2115 Tawes Hall
8:45 a.m. - Check-in & Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - Welcoming Remarks, Dr.Fatemeh Keshavarz, Director of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. - Panel 1. Ecological thought, Acculturation, Epistemologies
Moderator: Wendy Timmons, MA Student, Germanic Studies
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Panel 2. Nations, Institutionality and Environment
Moderator: Anja Ketterl, PhD Student, Germanic Studies
12:30 - 2:30 p.m. - Lunch (on your own)
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.- Panel 3. Environmental Inanimacies
Moderator: Abby Trozenski, MA Student, Germanic Studies
3:15 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. - Panel 4. Animal Studies
Moderator: Raleigh Joyner, MA Candidate, Germanic Studies
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - First Keynote Address, Dr. Stephanie Posthumus, McGill University, "Navigating the Northwest Passage: Cultural Ecocriticism in the Age of the Anthropocene." Introduction by Dr. Julie Koser, Germanic Studies
6:00 p.m. - Closing Remarks and Reception
SATURDAY, MARCH 4
2115 Tawes Hall
10:00 a.m. - Check-in, Breakfast
10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Panel 5. Sexuality Studies
Moderator: Cae Joseph-Masséna, PhD Student, French
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Second Keynote Address, Dr. Juan Duchesne-Winter, University of Pittsburgh, Animist Materialism: Representation as Eco-political Praxis in Amazonian Performance", Introduction by Dr. Eyda Merediz, Associate Professor and Department Head, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
1:00 p.m. - Concluding Remarks, Dr. Mehl Penrose, Spanish & Portuguese
For directions to Tawes Hall and a campus map, please see the "How to Get to UMD" tab.
2115 Tawes Hall
8:45 a.m. - Check-in & Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - Welcoming Remarks, Dr.Fatemeh Keshavarz, Director of the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. - Panel 1. Ecological thought, Acculturation, Epistemologies
Moderator: Wendy Timmons, MA Student, Germanic Studies
- John Un, Cornell University: "(In)Human Ontologies and Ecological Balance in Cultural Studies"
- Kassi Burnett, Ohio State University: "The Difficulties in Overcoming Dualism: A Critique of Val Plumwood's Environmental Culture and Monika Maron's Stille Zeile Sechs"
- Ashley Garver, University of Nevada-Reno: "An Ecocritical Reading of Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men"
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Panel 2. Nations, Institutionality and Environment
Moderator: Anja Ketterl, PhD Student, Germanic Studies
- Marta Werbanowska, Howard University: "Cultural Nationalism and the Environment in Merle Collins' Lady in a Boat"
- Rebecca Jordan, University of Connecticut: “'Der Herr auch vergab…': The Infringement of Natural Law and Push towards Revolution In Kleist und Sinclair"
- Emily Sieg, Georgetown University: "The Environmental Costs of Nation-Building in Wilhelm Raabe's Pfisters Mühle"
12:30 - 2:30 p.m. - Lunch (on your own)
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.- Panel 3. Environmental Inanimacies
Moderator: Abby Trozenski, MA Student, Germanic Studies
- Charlotte Vrielink, Raboud University: "The lingering scent of invisible lilacs": An Ecopoetic Analysis of Marcel Proust's Swann's Way"
- Aarón Lacayo, Rutgers University: "Toxic Memories, Damaged Immunity and Ecocide in Julio Hernández Cordón''s Polvo"
3:15 p.m. - 4:10 p.m. - Panel 4. Animal Studies
Moderator: Raleigh Joyner, MA Candidate, Germanic Studies
- Gayathri Goel, Tufts University: "Animal Speaks for the Human-Animal: Posthumanist Significance of Indra Sinha's Animal's People"
- Elizabeth Kirby, New York University: "L'homme que donc je suis: Animal Discourse in Montaigne's Apologie de Raymond de Sebonde"
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. - First Keynote Address, Dr. Stephanie Posthumus, McGill University, "Navigating the Northwest Passage: Cultural Ecocriticism in the Age of the Anthropocene." Introduction by Dr. Julie Koser, Germanic Studies
6:00 p.m. - Closing Remarks and Reception
SATURDAY, MARCH 4
2115 Tawes Hall
10:00 a.m. - Check-in, Breakfast
10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Panel 5. Sexuality Studies
Moderator: Cae Joseph-Masséna, PhD Student, French
- Xinglu Jiang, Duke University: "M Butterfly: Sexual Orientation and Postcolonialism"
- Cae Joseph-Massena, University of Maryland-College Park: "Sounding the Heterotopic Colonial Soundscapes in Marie Vieux-Chauvet's Dance on the Volcano"
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Second Keynote Address, Dr. Juan Duchesne-Winter, University of Pittsburgh, Animist Materialism: Representation as Eco-political Praxis in Amazonian Performance", Introduction by Dr. Eyda Merediz, Associate Professor and Department Head, Department of Spanish & Portuguese
1:00 p.m. - Concluding Remarks, Dr. Mehl Penrose, Spanish & Portuguese
For directions to Tawes Hall and a campus map, please see the "How to Get to UMD" tab.