ECOPOETICS @ BERKELEY
The term ecopoetics has become increasingly important to scholars and poets alike. It is certainly a critical moment for the field and practice. Please join us in February for a three-day conference that will focus specifically on exploring ecopoetics, taking up such questions as: What is ecopoetics? What representational strategies and sociopolitical commitments might characterize this practice? How might we periodize ecopoetics and situate its modes of cultural production? It is our hope that the conference will bring scholars, poets, and creative artists into sustained dialogue on the historical and contemporary practices of ecopoetics.
The Conference on Ecopoetics will feature scholarly and creative panels, roundtables, and seminars; poetry readings and performances; multimedia presentations; outings and excursions; and a group service project. The conference will bring together scholars and artists, both inside and outside of the academy.
Conference Co-sponsors UC Berkeley English Department UC Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities UC Davis English Department UC Berkeley Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Working Group
Forrest Gander Robert Hass Brenda Hillman Lynn Keller Jonathan Skinner Michael Ziser
Conference Organizers Angela Hume Gillian Osborne Margaret Ronda
Friday, Feb. 22
2-4 p.m. Conference Advisory Board Roundtable on Ecopoetics Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Forrest Gander, Lynn Keller, Jonathan Skinner, Michael Ziser
4:30-6:30 p.m. Editing the Book of Nature: New Anthologies of Ecopoetics Joshua Corey, Camille Dungy, Laura-Gray Street, Ann Fisher-Wirth Precarity, Neoliberalism, Late Capitalism Rachel Greenwald Smith, Matthew O'Malley, Andrea Actis, Nicky Tiso, Miriam Nichols, Marthine Satris
The Troping of Ecopoetic Form Lauren Brozovich, Matthew Cooperman, George Hart, Joshua Schuster, Heidi Lynn Staples, Clara Van Zanten
"We have left our broken house in ecstasy": Ecopoetics Through Travel Charles Alexander, Diana Arterian, Jenny Browne, Todd Fredson, Andy Meyer, Laura Moriarty, Sarah Vap Saturday, Feb. 23
8-10 a.m. The Book, Ecopoetic Instrument Richard Greenfield, Brenda Iijima, Jared Stanley, Tyrone Williams
Embodied Ecopoetics Sean Dempsey, Scott Knickerbocker, Katherine R. Lynes, Richard Cole, Matthias Regan Geopoetics: Thinking Landscapes/Landscaping Thought in German Literature Jason Groves, Tove Holmes, Bernhard Malkmus
Groundworks: A Collaborative Lab Jolie Kaytes, Laura Mullen, Linda Russo, Hazel White
(Im)Permeable Matter: Rocks, Stones, Minerals Tim Cresswell, Rob Halpern, Jasmine Kitses, CJ Martin 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Emergency, Ethics, Ecopoetics: 21st Century Ecopoetry’s Efficacies Brenda Hillman, Angela Hume, Lynn Keller, Myung Mi Kim Field Laboratory for Esoteric Ecologies Kathleen Brown, Adam Dickinson, a.rawlings, Erin Robinsong, Jonathan Skinner
Historical Ecopoetics Mark Cladis, Carolyn Dekker, Rachel Feder, James Finley, Rebecca Porte
New World Ecopoetics Anny Dominique Curtius, George Handley, Juliana Leslie, Jorge Marcone, Fenn Elan Stewart, Mac J. Wilson
2-4 p.m. Chinese Ecoaesthetics Ronald Egan, Chris Tong, Yiman Wang, Winnie Yee Ecopoetics of the City Lara Durback, Pablo Guardiola, Evan Kennedy, Lauren Levin, Michael Nicoloff, Nico Peck, Kathryn Pringle, Yosefa Raz, Barbara Jane Reyes, Wendy Trevino, Stephen Vincent, Alli Warren
Ecopoetics and/as Coexistence Gwenola Caradec, David Gilcrest, Grant Jenkins, John Shoptaw, John Sitter, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor
Environmental Dreamscapes and the Heedless Sublime Nathan Brown, Jed Rasula, Evelyn Reilly, Brian Teare
Poetic Labor Anne-Lise Francois, Gillian Osborne, Joanna Picciotto, Samia Rahimtoola
4:30-6:30 p.m. The Ecopoetics of Film Peter Burghardt, Forrest Gander, Rusty Morrison, Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Illness, Landscape, Healing Margit Galanter, Hillary Gravendyk, Petra Kuppers, Juliette Lee, Neil Marcus, Eleni Stecopoulos
Molecules, Microbes, Parasites Tania Aguila-Way, Karen Andrade, Bo Earle, Megan Fernandes, Charlie Legere
Pacific Ecopoetics Elizabeth Deloughrey, Dina El Desouky, kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Brandy McDougall, Craig Santos Perez
The Thingness of Things: Connecting with the Culture’s Material Trace Allison Cobb, Alicia Cohen, Jennifer Coleman, CA Conrad, Jen Hofer, Kaia Sand
Sunday, Feb. 24
8-10 a.m. (De)composition Stephen Collis, Stephen Cope, Kevin McGuirk, Camilla Nelson, Jordan Scott, Michael Ziser
Garden, Farm, Poetic Form Arielle Greenberg, Sonnet L'Abbe, Louis Kirk McAuley, Stephen Motika, Michelle Niemann
Queering Ecopoetics: Hybridity, Ferality, Eroticism Seminar moderated by Anne-Lise Francois Brook Barman, Michelle Detorie, Julia Drescher, Abby Hagler, Sarah de Leeuw, Dana Maya, Art Middleton, Alyce Miller, Sarah Nolan, Eric Sneathen
Ground Scores: Unburying Ecologies through Embodied Practice David Buuck, Seung-Jae Lee, Rachel Levitsky, Ira Livingston, Jennifer Scappettone, Kathy Westwater
10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The Ghost in the (Drum) Machine: Tracking Remix, Reuse, and Return in Contemporary Ecopoetics Joshua Bennett, Lisa Brown, Katy Didden, Ross Gay, Judith Goldman, Patrick Rosal
Ecopoetics and Affect Seminar moderated by Charles Altieri Caleb Beckwith, Dianne Chisholm, Sarah Dimick, Damon Franke, Anna Hiller, Cate Lycurgus, Laurel Peacock, Lisa Sewell, Mande Zecca
Ecopoetics, Object Relations, and Object-Oriented Ontology Seminar moderated by Nathan Brown Anthony Camara, Duskin Drum, Julia Fiedorczuk, Devin King, Sarah Lewison, Robert Mitthenthal, Eileen Myles, Tze-Yin Teo
Elegy, Mourning, Melancholia John Beer, Catherine Owen, Margaret Ronda, Russell Stone