Schedule:
All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. No pre-registration required.
Thursday, October 20th: International House Philadelphia (3701 Chestnut St. Philadelphia 19104)
5:30-6:00 PM Registration (note that no pre-registration is required, and the registration booth will also be available on Friday & Saturday mornings)
6:00-7:30 PM Film Screening: Racing Extinction, directed by Louie Psihoyos
7:30-8:00 PM Q&A with Racing Extinction‘s co-producer Gina Papabeis, Tad Schurr, and Rahul Mukherjee
Friday, October 21st: Kislak Center (6th floor, Van Pelt Library, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia 19104)
If you are not a UPenn student or faculty, ID will be required to enter the library. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. No pre-registration required.
8:30-9:00 AM Catered Breakfast
9:00-9:30 AM Introductory Remarks: Bethany Wiggin, Carolyn Fornoff, and Patricia Kim
9:30-10:50 AM DEEP TIME: moderated by Rita Barnard
- Staffan Bergwik (Associate Professor, History of Science and Ideas, Stockholm University), “Layers of Time: Nature’s Archive in Early 20th-Century Geochronology”
- Reed Goodman (PhD Candidate, Art and Archaeology, University of Pennsylvania), “Timing is Everything: Ecological Temporalities in Early Complex Societies”
- Leah Rubinsky (PhD Candidate, Comparative Literature, University of Washington), “Through the Hourglass: Representations of (Deep) Time in Lyell’s Principles and Carroll’s Alice Books”
- Frank Pavia (PhD Candidate, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University) & Jason Bell (PhD Candidate, English, Yale University), “Microfossils and Macrohistories”
11:00-12:00 PM How can historical particularity be translated? A conversation between Dagomar Degroot (Assistant Professor of History, Georgetown University) and Ömür Harmanşah (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Illinois-Chicago), moderated by Michael Solomon
12:00-12:45 PM Catered Lunch
12:45-2:20 PM TELLING TIME: moderated by Steve Dolph
- Laura Ogden (Associate Professor, Anthropology, Dartmouth College), “Trace Impressions of Being: Inscriptions of Territory in the Fuegian Archipelago”
- Elisha Cohn (Assistant Professor, English, Cornell University), “Realism, in Crisis”
- Emily Wanderer (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh), “Games of Water: Modeling Extinction and Preservation with the Axolotl”
- Hunter Vaughan (Associate Professor, Cinema Studies and English, Oakland University), “Avatar, Server Cinema, and Expediting the End of the World”
- Caroline Wellbery (Professor, Family Medicine, Georgetown University), “Educating Medical Students and Peers about Climate Change: Lessons Learned”
2:30-3:20 PM “Vanishing Sounds: Thoreau and the Sixth Extinction,” a conversation with Wai Chee Dimock (William Lampson Professor of English, Yale University), moderated by Brooke Stanley
3:20-3:40 PM Snack Break
3:45-5:00 PM SPECULATION: moderated by Michael Leja
- Caroline Hovanec (Assistant Professor, English, University of Tampa), “Disaster Time: Diaz, Trethewey, and the Post-Disaster Attention Span”
- Jessica Hurley (Harper-Schmidt Fellow & Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities, University of Chicago), “Modeling the Anthropocene: Probability and Risk in Deep Time”
- Roger Eardley-Pryor (Research Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation), “Ancient Secrets for a Sunny Future? The Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Artificial Photosynthesis”
- Jen Telesca (Assistant Professor, Environmental Justice, Pratt Institute), “Fishing for Time in the Technocratic Paradigm”
5:15-6:00 PM Preview performance in conjunction with A Period of Animate Existence. Invite only.
5:30-8:30 PM High Tide at WetLand: Dinner and drinks at Bartram’s Garden. Invitation only; transportation to be provided. We will collectively take the 36 Trolley, departing from 36th St. Trolley Station and disembarking at 54th St.
Saturday, October 22nd: Kislak Center (6th floor, Van Pelt Library, 3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia 19104)
If you are not a UPenn student or faculty, ID will be required to enter the library. All events are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. No pre-registration required.
10:00-11:30 AM TRACES: moderated by Kim Thomas
- Kate Galloway (Visiting Assistant Professor, Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Wesleyan University), “Listening to and Sounding Discard: Locating the Sonic Traces of Discard Studies in Science and Technology Studies”
- Amanda Starling Gould (PhD Candidate, Literature, Duke University), “Technospheric Media Theory in the Age of the Anthropocene: From Mythological Motifs to Models for Sustainable Digital Practice”
- Iemanjá Brown (PhD Candidate, English, CUNY Graduate Center), “Dirt Eating in the Anthropocene”
- Julia Novak Colwell (Visiting Assistant Professor, Pennoni Honors College, Drexel University), “A Gendered Analysis of Fisherfolk’s Livelihood Adaptation and Coping Resposes in the Face of a Seasonal Fishing Ban in Tamil Nadu & Puducherry, India”
- Nicholas Shapiro (Fellow, Chemical Heritage Foundation), “Chemo-Chapital Succession: From Engineered Woods to Alter-Engineered Worlds”
11:30-12:45 PM PAST/FUTURE: moderated by Paul Saint-Amour
- Meryl Shriver-Rice (Director of Environmental Media, Abess Center for Ecosystem Science & Policy, University of Miami), “Bulldozing the Future and the Past: Cocaine, Wolves and Shark BBQs”
- Paul Mitchell (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania), “Voices in the Rewilderness: Reinhabiting Place, Practice and Knowledge with Human Rewilders in the Western USA”
- Charles Tung (Associate Professor, English, Seattle University), Time Machines and Timelapse Aesthetics in Anthropocenic Modernism”
- Jorge Marcone (Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University), “Fractal Historicities and the Amazonian Literary Imagination”
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