Culture and the Impending Ecocatastrophe
Narratives of Ecology and Sustainable Futures
Summer Symposium
University of Turku, Finland (ONLINE) 20thOctober 2021
PROGRAMME (CEE Times)
11.30–11.45 Introduction, Marta-Laura Cenedese and Helena Duffy, Coordinators of ‘Narrative and Violence’
11.45–12.30 Keynote Lecture: ‘Nostalgia, Ecocatastrophe, or Sustainability? Environmental Storytelling and Ecocritical Theory’, Reinhard Hennig, University of Agder, Norway, Chair: Helena Duffy
12.30–13.45 Session 1: Narrating the Nuclear, Chair: Marta-Laura Cenedese
‘Locating Authority in Envisioning Nuclear Markers’
Robert Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute/Hiroshima City University, Japan
‘Profiling “Solastalgia” in US Nuclear Fiction within “Literary Energy Narratives” Frames
Inna Sukhenko, University of Helsinki/University of Jyväskylä, Finland
‘Nuclear Incidents as Metaphors for Ecocatastrophe in Anticipatory Fiction from Luxembourg’
Sébastian Thiltges, University of Luxembourg
‘Choreographing with Catastrophe’
Malin Palani, Independent scholar and artist
Break – 15 minutes
14.00–15.15 Session 2: Storytelling and Climate Change, Chair: Avril Tynan
‘Feelings of Hope and Helplessness in Norwegian Environmental Storytelling: Knut Faldbakken’s and Maja Lunden’s Climate Change Fictions’
Georgiana Bozîntan, Universitet Babes-Bolyai Cluj-Napoca, Romania
‘Is There Ecofeminism in Contemporary Nordic Climate Fiction?’
Katarina Leppänen, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Writing as Research: Materialising the Environmental Crisis through Experimental Representation’
Rosanne van der Voet, University of Sheffield
‘Aquatic Spaces in Sci-Fi Films: The Anthropocene and Diffraction in Water Planet Imaginaries’
Faeze Rezaii, University of Turku, Finland
Break – 5 minutes
15.20–16.35 Session 3: New Perspectives on the Anthropocene, Chair: Jouni Teittinen
“Ruled by Place”: Annie Proulx Confronts the Ecocatastrophe in Fiction’
Hanna Jocelyn, Rutgers University, USA
‘Crisis as Opportunity: Ecologies of Hope and Transformation in Contemporary Literature’
Elizabeth Tavella, University of Chicago, USA
‘Nature and Gender in Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer: Writing an Ethical Shift in Environmental Perception’
Chloé Bour-Lang, University of Strasbourg, France
‘Interstices of Change: Artistic Production in the Face of Black Anthropocenes’
Spring Ulmer, Middlebury College, USA
16.35-16.45 Closing remarks
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