BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250626T220549EDT-4368nvGnPd@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250627T020549Z DESCRIPTION:\n FEBRUARY 8th\n Location: ARTS W-215\, 51Թ\, 845 Sherbrooke West\, Montréal\n\n16:00 – 19:00\n Film screening of Anthropocen e: The Human Epoch\n Followed by a discussion with Director Jennifer Baichw al + reception\n\n \n\nFEBRUARY 9th\n Location: Thomson House\, 3650 McTavi sh\, Montréal\n\n9:00 – 10:15\n Panel 1: Landscape\, Map and Matter\n\nMode rator: Ayesha Vemuri\, 51Թ\n\nLaurence Charlebois\, Concordi a University\n “Remodelling the Tahitian Landscape: The Legacy of French Oc cupation in French Polynesia”\n\nNicolas Holt\, 51Թ\n “Tradin g the Terrain for the Map: Frank Gillette’s SIX MATRICES and the Limits of Traditional Media Ecology”\n\njake moore\, 51Թ\n “Storied Ma tter and teaching-a-stone-to-talk inverted\; Mattered story and learning h ow to listen”\n\n\n 10:15 – 10:30\n Coffee Break\n\n\n 10:30 – 11:30\n Panel 2 : Plants and Biophilia \n\nModerator: Robin Lynch\, 51Թ\n\nA ndrea Valentine-Lewis\, 51Թ\n “Artistic and Affective Strateg ies to Combat Solastalgia”\n\nMarcus Prasad\, University of British Columb ia\n “Natures of Consumption: Biophilia\, Open Space\, and the Mall\n\n\n 11 :30 – 12:30\n Panel 3: Eco-Marxism\n\nModerator: Burç Kostem\, 51ԹUnive rsity\n\nJoel Auerbach\, 51Թ\n “The Concept of Potentiality a s an Ecocritical Analytic”\n\nHannah Tollefson\, 51Թ\n “Canar ies and coal miners\; a multispecies energy history”\n\n\n 12:30 – 13:30\n L unch Break\n\n\n 13:30 – 14:45\n Panel 4: Animals and Body Parts \n\nModerat or: Rach Klein\, 51Թ\n \n Georgia Phillips-Amos\, Concordia Un iversity\n “The Enclosure and the Crash: Rhinos in the Work of William Kent ridge”\n\nChanelle Lalonde\, 51Թ\n “Mourning Extinct and Enda ngered Birds in Contemporary Art”\n\nStéphanie Hornstein\, Concordia Unive rsity\n “Manhandled: Prescient Ecofeminism in Agnes Denes’ Body Prints”\n\n \n 14:45 – 15:45\n Keynote: “French Art in the Age of Oil”\n\nBrian R. Jacob son\, Cinema Studies Institute\, University of Toronto\n This talk examines how France’s emerging oil industry and its petrochemical subsidiaries cam e 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 indust rial filmmakers employed by French oil and gas companies\, it investigates how petroleum and its industry created both content and material conditio ns of possibility for new forms of hydrocarbon art. In what ways\, the tal k asks\, did such art speak back to the extractive industry that made it p ossible\, and with what consequences for our long-term understanding of oi l’s and art’s entangled ecologies\, the politics of France’s neo-avant-gar de\, and the climate changing processes named by the so-called Anthropocen e?\n\n\n 15:45 – 16:00\n Tea Break\n\n\n 16:00-17:00\n Panel discussion: Brian Jacobson (UofT)\, Christine Ross (McGill)\, Darin Barney (McGill)\n\nMode rator: Hannah Tollefson\, 51Թ\n\n \n\n\n\n Braddock and Irmsc her (2009) define ecocriticism as a critical approach that “emphasizes iss ues of environmental interconnectedness\, sustainability\, and justice” in order to inflect the existing vocabularies\, tropes and epistemologies of cultural interpretation.¹\n \n As such\, ecocritical analyses often engage with the material forms and discursive constructions of media infrastructu res. Parks and Starosielski (2015) note that media infrastructures have be en and continue to be used “to claim and reorganize territories and tempor al relations.”² Their material dependence on and interconnectedness with t he environment imbricate media infrastructures within issues of resource d evelopment\, urban planning\, Indigenous and national sovereignties\, surv eillance\, labour\, etc.\n \n How can art history and communication studies adopt ecocriticism as an interpretative paradigm in their respective analy ses? More specifically\, in which ways can they incorporate environmental history and ecology in order to develop what Braddock and Irmscher (2009) describe as “a more earth-conscious mode of analysis”?³\n \n To be held on F ebruary 8th and 9th\, 2019 in Montreal\, Quebec\, the AHCS Graduate Sympos ium will present original and insightful graduate work that addresses ques tions related to the environmental turn in cultural interpretation. \n \n In vited speakers and panelists: Brian R. Jacobson (UofT)\, Jennifer Baichwal (filmmaker)\, Christine Ross (McGill) and Darin Barney (McGill)\n\n------ ----------------------------------------\n ¹ Alan C. Braddock and Christoph er Irmscher\, A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art His tory\n (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press\, 2009)\, 2.\n ² - Lisa Parks and Nicole Starosielsky (eds.)\, Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures (Urbana\,\n Chicago and Springfield: University of I llinois Press\, 2015)\, 5.1\n ³ - Braddock and Irmscher\, A Keener Percepti on\, 3. Xyrography #14\, 2018\n\n \n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3078 35229842427/\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/331503440790518/\n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190208 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190209 LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She rbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Potentials of Ecocriticisms - AHCS Graduate Student Symposium URL:/ahcs/channels/event/potentials-ecocriticisms-ahcs -graduate-student-symposium-293049 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR