Programme
With the exception of the Conference Dinner, all events take place at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), University of Edinburgh, Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW
Thursday 29 June
1 – 2 – Registration and Welcome Lunch
2 – 3.30 – Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
Opening Keynote: “Transcultural Political Languages”
3.30 – 3.45 – Coffee
3.45 – 6 – Panel 1: Vistas of Climate Change
George Elvin (Ball State University): “Walkabout and Talkabout: Indigenous Ontologies and Majority Discourse in Extreme Environments”
Inge Panneels (Northumbria University): “Beautiful Destruction: Mapping Power Relations of the
Tar Sands through Photography”
Francesco Carpanini (Independent): "On Multinaturalism: From Theoretical Concept to Practical Tool for Resistance"
6 -7.30 – Drinks Reception
Friday 30 June
10 – 10.30 – Coffee
10.30 – 12.45 – Panel 2: Locality, Spatiality, Temporality, and the Literature of Climate Change
Rick Crownshaw (Goldsmiths, University of London): “Climate Change Fiction
and the Future of Memory”
Christina Brennan (University of Manchester): “Eco-thrillers: Ecology and Eco-crime in
Paulo Baciglaupi’s The Water Knife”
Michael Paye (University College Dublin): “Post-cod Newfoundland, the Rise of Amicable Oil,
and the Deconstruction of Fishery Fixes in Michael Crummey’s Sweetland”
12.45 – 1.30 – Lunch
1.30 – 3.45 – Panel 3: Representing Capitalism
Paul Crosthwaite (University of Edinburgh): “‘The Basic Work is Built Around the Sentence’:
Don Delillo and the Labour of Abstraction”
Sam Cooper (University of Nottingham): “‘When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty’:
China Miéville and the Uneven Development of the Anthropocene”
Dominic Jaeckle (Goldsmiths, University of London): “Hotel Texas:
Emerson’s Idea of Inequality” (Video Essay)
3.45 – 4 – Coffee
4 – 5.30 – Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick)
Closing Keynote: “Representation or Registration?: The cultural fix
and a post-semiotic eco-marxism”
7 – Conference Dinner at Henderson's Salad Table Restaurant
1 – 2 – Registration and Welcome Lunch
2 – 3.30 – Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
Opening Keynote: “Transcultural Political Languages”
3.30 – 3.45 – Coffee
3.45 – 6 – Panel 1: Vistas of Climate Change
George Elvin (Ball State University): “Walkabout and Talkabout: Indigenous Ontologies and Majority Discourse in Extreme Environments”
Inge Panneels (Northumbria University): “Beautiful Destruction: Mapping Power Relations of the
Tar Sands through Photography”
Francesco Carpanini (Independent): "On Multinaturalism: From Theoretical Concept to Practical Tool for Resistance"
6 -7.30 – Drinks Reception
Friday 30 June
10 – 10.30 – Coffee
10.30 – 12.45 – Panel 2: Locality, Spatiality, Temporality, and the Literature of Climate Change
Rick Crownshaw (Goldsmiths, University of London): “Climate Change Fiction
and the Future of Memory”
Christina Brennan (University of Manchester): “Eco-thrillers: Ecology and Eco-crime in
Paulo Baciglaupi’s The Water Knife”
Michael Paye (University College Dublin): “Post-cod Newfoundland, the Rise of Amicable Oil,
and the Deconstruction of Fishery Fixes in Michael Crummey’s Sweetland”
12.45 – 1.30 – Lunch
1.30 – 3.45 – Panel 3: Representing Capitalism
Paul Crosthwaite (University of Edinburgh): “‘The Basic Work is Built Around the Sentence’:
Don Delillo and the Labour of Abstraction”
Sam Cooper (University of Nottingham): “‘When the rich grow afraid, they get nasty’:
China Miéville and the Uneven Development of the Anthropocene”
Dominic Jaeckle (Goldsmiths, University of London): “Hotel Texas:
Emerson’s Idea of Inequality” (Video Essay)
3.45 – 4 – Coffee
4 – 5.30 – Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick)
Closing Keynote: “Representation or Registration?: The cultural fix
and a post-semiotic eco-marxism”
7 – Conference Dinner at Henderson's Salad Table Restaurant