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2011 Comparative Literature Conference
From TTU College of Architecture
2011 Comparative Literature Conference: Where Have All the Wild Things Gone? Eco-criticism and Comparative Literature"
Texas Tech University, April 13-16, 2011
Thursday, April 14
1:00–2:00 PM: The Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community, and the Natural World: Texas Tech Undergraduates Celebrate an Archive
Formby Room - Southwest Collection/Special Collections Building
- 1:00-1:10: Diane Warner, Curator for the Sowell Collection, “Some Comments on the Collection”
- 1:10-1:30: Tracey Dove, Texas Tech University, “Chains of Islands, Chains of Thought, Chains of Action”
- 1:30-1:50: Clara Bush, Texas Tech University, Inherently Mammal: Gretel Ehrlich's Transformation in The Solace of Open Spaces
2:00-3:30: Colonizing the Green World(s): Humans and Nature in Literature, Film, and Video Games
Formby Room - Southwest Collection/Special Collections Building
- 2:00: Joya Mannan, Texas Tech University, “The Relationship between Civilization and the Green World”
- 2:15: Jason Jewell, Texas Tech University, “The Western Mystique: A critique of John Ford’s ‘The Searchers’”
- 2:30: Justin Schumaker, Texas Tech University, “Taming the Wild Steed: Man’s Enacted Domination over Nature in the video game Red Dead Redemption”
- 2:45: Maggie Callahan, Texas Tech University, “Global Manipulation in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake”
- 3:00: Melissa Kreindel, Texas Tech University, “Man and Nature: Conquering Each Other in Danny Boyle’s ‘127 Hours’”
- 3:15: Melissa Aday, Texas Tech University, “Representations of the Desert Landscape in Pat Mora’s The Desert is My Mother: El desierto es mi madre”
4:00-5:15: Going Native: Class, Race, and Landscapes
Formby Room - Southwest Collection/Special Collections Building
- 4:00: Gabriel Keehn, Texas Tech University, “’The Blair Witch Project and the New Going Native: A Case Study in Transpositional Nativeness”
- 4:15: Arianne Jaco, Texas Tech University, “’Defeating the Hostiles’: A Reading of West Texas and Palo Duro Canyon”
- 4:30: Landon Lutrick, Texas Tech University, “Application of The-Man-Who-Knows-Indians in James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’”
- 4:45: Laura Zak, Texas Tech University, “Light-Eyed Images of Grace in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony”
- 5:00: Alyssa Tanhueco, Texas Tech University, “Affinity to the Natural in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms”
5:30 - 6:30 PM Keynote Speaker: Jorge Marcone
English 106
- Jorge Marcone is a professor of Latin American Studies at The State University of New Jersey in Rutgers.
Friday, April 15
8:30 -10:00 a.m Author Interventions I
Formby Room, Southwest Collections
- 8:30: Luis I. Prádanos, Westminster College, “Ecological Justice and Border Thinking in Eduardo Galeano”
- 9:00: Rosario Nolasco-Bell, University of Arkansas, “Not Walden Pond: Religion, Nature and the Environment in Ana Castillo's So Far From God and Elmaz Abinader's Children of the Roojme."
- 9:30: María de Lourdes Medrano, UCLA, “Diasporic Narratives of Belonging: Natural Order, Tourism, and the Bolero in Mayra Montero’s The Last Night I Spent with You”
10:00 a.m. Coffee Break
10:15-11:45 a.m. Author Interventions II
Formby Room Southwest Collections
- 10:15: Anthony Qualin, Texas Tech University, “Nature, Culture, and Modernity in the Works of Chingiz Aitmatov”
- 10:45: Carmen Pereira-Muro, Texas Tech University, "Of Oaks and Pines: Landscape, Nationalism and Ecocriticism in Spanish Regional Romantic Poetry"
- 11:15: Charles Grair, Texas Tech University, “Nature as Art in Jena Romanticism”
11:45 a.m. - 1:00pm Lunch
- Catered for conference speakers [Matador Faculty Lounge of Student Union Building]
- Grad Student Lunch with Jackie Brookner (Art 102)
- Spanish Graduate Student Lunch with Jorge Marcone (Qualia Room, CMLL)
1:00 - 2:30 PM Regional Critical Perspectives
Formby Room Southwest Collections
- 1:00 PM: Priscilla Solis Ybarra, University of North Texas, “Mexican American Writing’s Transnational and Bioregional Challenges to Contemporary Environmental Thought”
- 1:30: Dooho Shin, Kangwon National University, Korea, “Re-Vising and Re-Visioning — What Ecocriticism Needs to Eye Asia”
- 2:00 PM: Hsinya Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, “Climate Justice and Trans-Pacific Indigenous Feminisms”
2:30: Coffee Break
3:00 p.m -4:00 p.m.: Keynote speaker: Dana Phillips, “Posthumanism, Eco-criticism, and Natural Science: ‘Books’ Versus ‘Real Knowledge’ in Moby-Dick”
Formby Room, Southwest Collection
- Dana Phillips is a professor in the Department of English, Towson University.
4:00-6:30p.m: Roundtable Presentations “The Landscape and Ecology of West Texas”
ROCOBA 202
- 4:00 p.m.: Chris Taylor, Architect and Director of Land Arts of the American West at Texas Tech University, “Landscape as Knowledge”
- 4:20p.m. Upe Fluckinger, Architect, “Self-sustainability and West Texas”
- 4:40p.m. John Zak, Biologist, “Observations from a Biologist”
- 5:00 p.m. Karen Bone, Activist, “Ecoactivism in West Texas”
- 5:20 p.m. Steve Fitch, Llano Estacado Artist, “Exploring the Llano Estacado”
- 5:40 p.m. Miguel Gandert, Llano Estacado artist, professor in communications and journalism. ““The Stacked Plain: Searching for the Meaning of Stacks in Eastern New Mexico and West Texas”
- 6:00-6:30 Q/A
7:00-9:00 p.m. Llano Estacado: An Island in the Sky Exhibition Reception and book signing, with artists Rick Dingus, Steve Fitch, and Miguel Gandert
School of Art foyer
Saturday, April 16
8:30-10:00 a.m. Water, Deserts, and Microbes
Formby Room Southwest Collections
- 8:30: Tatiana Gajic, University of Illinois, “Histories of Water: Conflict, Containment and River-Imaginary in Recent Hispanic Film”
- 9:00: Fares Alsuwaidi, Harvard University, “The Arabic Desert Novel and the Inchoate in Comparative-Literary Ecocriticism”
- 9:30: Bruce Clarke, Texas Tech University, “’Our Microscopic Allies’: H. G. Wells among the Microbes”
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Animal Interventions I
Formby Room Southwest Collections
- 10:30 Aarón Lacayo, Rutgers University, “Imaginary Beings, Imaginary Genre: Narration, Translation & the Animal in Jorge Luis Borges’ The Book of Imaginary Beings”
- 11:00 Amanda Boetzkes, University of Alberta, “Plasticity as Eco-criticism: Animal Interventions in Contemporary Art”
- 11:30 Kerry Fine, Texas Tech University, Reimagining Subjectivity: Latour and Highway 93
12:00-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 – 2:30 PM Animal Interventions II
Southwest Collections
- 1:00: Agustín Zarzosa, SUNY Purchase, “Posthumanism and the Animal Melodrama”
- 1:30: Shaheena Ayub Bhatti, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Pakistan, University of Arizona, “Where Have All the Salmon Gone? Power and the Powerless in Alexie’s Works”
- 2:00 Maria Whiteman, University of Alberta, “The Sublime Animal”
2:00-2:30 Break
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3:00 PM: Keynote: Jackie Brookner, “Water Incorporated”
Formby Room, Southwest Collection
4:00 PM: Keynote speaker: Cary Wolfe, “Biopolitics, Biopower, and the (Non-human) Animal Body”
Formby Room, Southwest Collection
- Cary Wolfe is a professor in the Department of English, Rice University.
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