17.05.2019 Echoing Ecologies – Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Canadian Studies

Internationale Konferenz, 22.-24. Mai 2019, Marburg Centre for Canadian Studies

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Am Marburger Zentrum für Kanada Studien findet vom 22.-24.05. eine internationale Tagung zum Thema ‚Echoing Ecologies - Interdisciplinary Perspectives‘ statt. Prof. Dr. Angela Krewani, ebenfalls Mitglied im Zentrum für Kanadaforschung , tritt als Mitorganisatorin der Tagung auf. Dr. Tina Kaiser und Sophia Gräfe, Institut für Medienwissenschaft, halten Vorträge zu den Themen „Leaves in the Wind: Some Thoughts on Almost Forgotten Kinship Between Nature, Film and Image“ und „Ecologies of Behavior - Media and Politics in Early Bio-Acoustics“. Die Tagung beginnt am 22.05. um 17.00 mit einem Empfang im Historischen Rathaussaal in Marburg.

Konferenzprogramm

MITTWOCH/WEDNESDAY, 22. Mai 

Ort: Historischer Rathaussaal (Townhall Marburg)

17.00 – 17.30 WELCOME SPEECHES
  • Dr. Thomas Spies, Mayor of Marburg
  • Prof. Dr. Carmen Birkle, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages
  • Dr. Alessandra Boller, Prof. Dr. Angela Krewani, Prof. Dr. Martin Kuester, Organizing Committee
17.30 – 18.30

TALK & READING

Henry Beissel, “Poetry in an Ecological Crisis”

18.30 – 20.00 RECEPTION & BOOK PRESENTATION

DONNERSTAG/THURSDAY, 23.Mai

Ort: Senatssaal (Biegenstraße 12)

8.30 – 9.00 REGISTRATION
9.00 – 9.30 CONFERENCE OPENING
The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Canada’s Ambassador to Germany
9.30 – 10.30 PANEL I: CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES: FIRST NATIONS LITERARY ECOLOGIES
Chair: Maria Löschnigg
  • Moritz Ingwersen (Konstanz), “How Do We Behave as Good Relatives: Decentering Ecology Through Canadian Indigenous Literatures”
  • Martin Kuester (Marburg), “’Earthly Paradise’ and/or ‘Stolen Land’? An Ecocritical Reading of
  • Canadian Indigenous and Mennonite Writing
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break incl. Poster Presentation
“Environmental Learning” (Matthias Dickert, Anna Lena Jung, Tim Oefner, Maybritt Keller (Gelnhausen/Marburg))
11.00 – 12.30 PANEL II: ATWOODIAN ECOLOGIES & ECO-FEMINISM
Chair: Alessandra Boller
  • Chiara Feddeck (Aachen), “From Survival to Ustopia: Eco-Feminism and Gender Roles in Margaret Atwood’s Work”
  • Carmen Birkle (Marburg), “Dystopian Ecologies in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale”
  • Ying Wang (Marburg), “The Handmaid’s Tale from an Eco-Feminist Perspective”
12.30 – 13.45 Lunch Break
13.45 – 14.45 KEYNOTE LECTURE I
Chair: Angela Krewani
  • Adrian Ivakhiv (University of Vermont), “Image Ecologies, from Altamira to YouTube”
14.45 – 15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 – 16.30 PANEL III: LITERARY AND CULTURAL ECOLOGIES
Chair: Moritz Ingwersen
  • Maria Löschnigg (Graz), “’Wordsworth in the Tar Sands’: Canadian Ecopoetry and Intertextuality”
  • Alessandra Boller (Marburg), “Under (De-)Construction: The Cultural Work of Canadian Eco- Dystopian Fiction”
  • Diana Wagner (Marburg), “Nature and Ecology in Contemporary Canadian Fiction”
16.30 – 16.45 Coffee Break
16.45 – 18.15 PANEL IV: THE DYNAMICS OF RESILIENCE, REPRESENTATION, RECOGNITION
Chair: Martin Kuester
  • Claire Omhovère (Montpellier), “Learning from the ‘Dish With One Spoon’: Convivality and Ecological Resilience in Daniel Coleman’s Yardwork: A Biography of an Urban Place”
  • Frederik Bleiber (Marburg), “Environmental Writing in a (De-)Colonized Environment: Chances and Limits for a Green Partnership”
  • Paul Murphy (Québec), “Les répresentations sociales de dinosaures au Canada”
18.45 – 19.00

SCIENCE SLAM
Klaus-Peter Profus (Marburg)

Technologie- und Tagungszentrum (TTZ, Software Center 3)

19.00 – 20.00 TALK & READING
Nancy Holmes (University of British Columbia Okanagan), “Winging It: Art, Bees and the Land”
20.00 Conference Dinner at Technologie- und Tagungszentrum

FREITAG/FRIDAY, 24. Mai

Ort: Senatssaal (Biegenstraße 12)

9.00 – 9.30 REGISTRATION
9.30 – 10.30 PANEL V: LINGUISTIC AND DIDACTIC PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Martin Kuester
  • Rolf Kreyer (Marburg), “Orality in First Nation Literature: The Linguistic Perspective”
  • Matthias Dickert (Gelnhausen), “The Call of Ecology in Canadian Teenage Fiction”
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break incl. Poster Presentation
11.00 - 13.00 PANEL VI: MEDIA ECOLOGIES
Chair: Adrian Ivakhiv
  • Angela Krewani (Marburg), “Ecological Approaches in Canadian Documentary”
  • Martin Speer (Dortmund), “The Specific Problems of the Term ‘Canadian Media Ecologies’”
  • Sophia Gräfe (Berlin/Marburg), “Ecologies of Behavior – Media and Politics in Early Bio-Acoustics”
  • Tina Kaiser (Marburg), “Leaves in the Wind: Some Thoughts on the Almost Forgotten Kinship between Nature, Film and Image”
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE II
Chair: Martin Kuester
  • Robert Boschman (Mount Royal University Calgary), “Legacies of Abandonment in Uranium City, Canada: A Visual Journey into Environmental Trauma”
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee Break
15.15 – 16.15 MODERATED DIALOGUE + Q&A: Ecologies and Future Knowledges
Nancy Holmes and Henry Beissel
16.15 – 16.30 Closing Remarks

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