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ANTHROPOCENE NOW! Ecology, Ethics, Politics
Standish Room (Science Library) The University at Albany, SUNY Friday, April 20 Registration & Breakfast Welcoming Remarks Elga Wulfert, CAS Dean Glyne Griffith, Chair, English Department Ecology: Life / Extinction Branka Arsić (Columbia), Marvelous Extinctions: Melville on Animal Suffering Thangam Ravindranathan (Brown), Vanishing Elephants Vesna Kuiken (SUNY-Albany), Shell Heap Idiorrhythmy: Jewett and the Native Americans Paul Stasi (SUNY-Albany), “We Had Seen the World Dead”: Virginia Woolf’s Anthropomorphic Imagination Richard Barney (SUNY-Albany) Break Ethics: Energy / Fuel Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia), Pitfalls of Geological Consciousness Jeffrey Nealon (Penn State), The Bodacious Era Kristen Hessler (SUNY-Albany), Humanity as a Moral Identity and the Search for a New Environmental Ethic Karen Pinkus (Cornell), Climate, Before Anything Else? Bret Benjamin (SUNY-Albany) Coffee & Snack Break Keynote Lecture Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins), The Subtle Strength of "Natural Influences": Henry Thoreau and Us Keynote Lecture Response James Lilley (SUNY-Albany) Saturday, April 21 Politics: Subject / Community Morton Schoolman (SUNY-Albany), Reconciliation with Nature: Aesthetic Education and the Visual Image in Whitman's Poetry Kir Kuiken (SUNY-Albany), Hölderlin’s Earth William Connolly (Johns Hopkins), The Urgency of Time and the Politics of Swarming Gregg Lambert (Syracuse), Reflections upon A Silurian Lake Mary Valentis (SUNY-Albany) Lunch Round Table: The Anthropocene @ SUNY-Albany & SSFB Daniel Goodwin (SUNY-Albany), on Future Perfect: Picturing the Anthropocene Gregg Lambert, on the Society for the Study of Bio-Political Futures (SSFB) Joshua Bartlett (SUNY-Albany), Jane Bennett, Sarah Giragosian (SUNY-Abany), Daniel Goodwin, Gregg Lambert, Caitlin Scheufler Maccio (SUNY-Albany) Charles Shepherdson (SUNY-Albany) |