17.05.2019 Echoing Ecologies – Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Canadian Studies

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

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

Weitere Informationen zur Tagung:

Echoing Ecologies – Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Canadian Studies