Potentials of Ecocriticisms - AHCS Graduate Student Symposium
FEBRUARY 8th
Location: ARTS W-215, 不良研究所, 845 Sherbrooke West, Montr茅al
16:00 鈥� 19:00
Film screening of Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Followed by a discussion with Director Jennifer Baichwal + reception
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FEBRUARY 9th
Location: Thomson House, 3650 McTavish, Montr茅al
9:00 鈥� 10:15
Panel 1: Landscape, Map and Matter
Moderator: Ayesha Vemuri, 不良研究所
Laurence Charlebois, Concordia University
鈥淩emodelling the Tahitian Landscape: The Legacy of French Occupation in French Polynesia鈥�
Nicolas Holt, 不良研究所
鈥淭rading the Terrain for the Map: Frank Gillette鈥檚 SIX MATRICES and the Limits of Traditional Media Ecology鈥�
jake moore, 不良研究所
鈥淪toried Matter and teaching-a-stone-to-talk inverted; Mattered story and learning how to listen鈥�
10:15 鈥� 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 鈥� 11:30
Panel 2: Plants and Biophilia
Moderator: Robin Lynch, 不良研究所
Andrea Valentine-Lewis, 不良研究所
鈥淎rtistic and Affective Strategies to Combat Solastalgia鈥�
Marcus Prasad, University of British Columbia
鈥淣atures of Consumption: Biophilia, Open Space, and the Mall
11:30 鈥� 12:30
Panel 3: Eco-Marxism
Moderator: Bur莽 Kostem, 不良研究所
Joel Auerbach, 不良研究所
鈥淭he Concept of Potentiality as an Ecocritical Analytic鈥�
Hannah Tollefson, 不良研究所
鈥淐anaries and coal miners; a multispecies energy history鈥�
12:30 鈥� 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 鈥� 14:45
Panel 4: Animals and Body Parts
Moderator: Rach Klein, 不良研究所
Georgia Phillips-Amos, Concordia University
鈥淭he Enclosure and the Crash: Rhinos in the Work of William Kentridge鈥�
Chanelle Lalonde, 不良研究所
鈥淢ourning Extinct and Endangered Birds in Contemporary Art鈥�
St茅phanie Hornstein, Concordia University
鈥淢anhandled: Prescient Ecofeminism in Agnes Denes鈥� Body Prints鈥�
14:45 鈥� 15:45
Keynote: 鈥淔rench Art in the Age of Oil鈥�
Brian R. Jacobson, Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto
This talk examines how France鈥檚 emerging oil industry and its petrochemical subsidiaries came to bear on the French neo-avant-garde and French cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. With particular attention to the work of Yves Klein and industrial filmmakers employed by French oil and gas companies, it investigates how petroleum and its industry created both content and material conditions of possibility for new forms of hydrocarbon art. In what ways, the talk asks, did such art speak back to the extractive industry that made it possible, and with what consequences for our long-term understanding of oil鈥檚 and art鈥檚 entangled ecologies, the politics of France鈥檚 neo-avant-garde, and the climate changing processes named by the so-called Anthropocene?
15:45 鈥� 16:00
Tea Break
16:00-17:00
Panel discussion: Brian Jacobson (UofT), Christine Ross (不良研究所), Darin Barney (不良研究所)
Moderator: Hannah Tollefson, 不良研究所
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Braddock and Irmscher (2009) define ecocriticism as a critical approach that 鈥渆mphasizes issues of environmental interconnectedness, sustainability, and justice鈥� in order to inflect the existing vocabularies, tropes and epistemologies of cultural interpretation.鹿
As such, ecocritical analyses often engage with the material forms and discursive constructions of media infrastructures. Parks and Starosielski (2015) note that media infrastructures have been and continue to be used 鈥渢o claim and reorganize territories and temporal relations.鈥澛� Their material dependence on and interconnectedness with the environment imbricate media infrastructures within issues of resource development, urban planning, Indigenous and national sovereignties, surveillance, labour, etc.
How can art history and communication studies adopt ecocriticism as an interpretative paradigm in their respective analyses? More specifically, in which ways can they incorporate environmental history and ecology in order to develop what Braddock and Irmscher (2009) describe as 鈥渁 more earth-conscious mode of analysis鈥�?鲁
To be held on February 8th and 9th, 2019 in Montreal, Quebec, the AHCS Graduate Symposium will present original and insightful graduate work that addresses questions related to the environmental turn in cultural interpretation.听
Invited speakers and panelists: Brian R. Jacobson (UofT), Jennifer Baichwal (filmmaker), Christine Ross (不良研究所) and Darin Barney (不良研究所)
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鹿 Alan C. Braddock and Christopher Irmscher, A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art History
(Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2009), 2.
虏 - Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielsky (eds.), Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures (Urbana,
Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2015), 5.1
鲁听- Braddock and Irmscher, A Keener Perception, 3. Xyrography #14, 2018
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