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Beyond Environmentalism:
Culture, Justice,
and Global Ecologies
May 22 - 23, 2009
UCSB IHC McCune Room, HSSB 6020
Free and Open to the Public
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Conference Schedule:
Friday May 22
8:30 - 9:30AM Coffee |
| 9:30AM Introductory Remarks Chancellor Yang |
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10:00 - 11:45AM Roundtable: "Environmentalism Across Media" |
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| Moderator: George Lipsitz (Black Studies, UCSB) |
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| Constance Penley (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) |
| Nicole Starosielski (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) |
| Volker Welter (History of Art and Architecture, UCSB) |
| Clyde Woods (Black Studies, UCSB) |
| Kim Yasuda (Art, UCSB) |
| Marko Peljhan (Art, UCSB) |
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| 11:45 - 1:00PM Lunch |
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| 1:00 - 2:30PM Panel: Global Aesthetics, Global Ecologies |
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| Chair: Ryan Boyd (English, UCSB) |
| Timothy Morton (Literature and Environment, UC Davis) "The Mesh" |
| Hsuan Hsu (English, UC Davis) "Representing Transnational Toxicity" |
| Louise Westling (English and Environmental Studies, U Oregon) "Stranded on the Ark" |
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| 3:00 - 4:30PM Keynote Lecture: Professor Elaine Scarry, Harvard University "The Floor of the World" |
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| 5:00 - 6:30PM Panel: Justice, Proximity, Scale |
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| Chair: Heidi Hoescht (Law and Society, UCSB) |
| Cheryll Glotfelty (English, U Nevada, Reno) "A Literary Analysis of Nuclear Nimbyism" |
| Stacey Alaimo (English, U Texas, Arlington) "Deviant Agents: The Science, Culture, and Politics of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity" |
| Hillal Elver (Global and International Studies, UCSB) "Law, Language and Global Environmental Politics: Beyond Rhetoric?" |
| Julie Sze (American Studies, UC Davis) "Contesting Discourses of Scale, Environmental Justice and Global Climate Change" |
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| 7:30PM Dinner |
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Saturday, May 23
8:30AM Coffee |
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| 9:00 - 10:30AM Panel: Ecological Empires |
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| Chair: Esther Lezra (Global and International Studies, UCSB) |
| Jill Didur (English, Concordia U, Quebec) "Green Postcolonialism/Ecologies of Empire" |
| Elizabeth DeLoughrey (English, UCLA) "Ecological Time and the Nuclear Pacific" |
| Erin Somerville (Literature and Environment, U Nevada, Reno) "Indigenous Culture, Global Nature: Environmentalism and the African Language Question" |
| George B. Handley (Humanities, Classics and Comparative Literature, BYU) "Ecology, Religion, and Chaos: Negotiating the End of Times" |
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| 11:00AM - 12:30PM Keynote Lecture: Professor Ursula Heise, Stanford University: "Last Chance to See: Extinction, Evolution and the Imagination of the Global Future" |
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| 12:30 - 1:30PM Lunch |
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| 1:30 - 3:15PM Roundtable: "Post-Environmentalism" |
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| Moderator: Brandon Fastman (English, UCSB) |
| Jenny Price (Author and Environmental Historian) |
| Judith Hicks (English, UCSB) |
| Allison Carruth (English, UCSB) |
| Bonnie Foote (English, UCLA) |
| Mike Ziser (English, UC Davis) |
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