Very excited about Premodern Ecologies, happening at University of Colorado, Boulder, this week. I'll be speaking about "On the Exterranean" and, more importantly, listening to fabulous keynotes and papers by the likes of Steve Mentz, Miri Rubin, Paolo Squatriti, and many others.
Premodern Ecologies: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Interaction with the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe October 20-22, 2016 Website THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 5:00-6:30pm Fourth Annual James Field Willard Lecture: Location: British and Irish Studies Room, Norlin Library Miri Rubin (History, St. Marys University of London) “The Ecology of the Medieval Parish” 6:30-7:30pm Reception FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21 (all events in UMC 247 unless otherwise noted) 8:30-9:00am Registration & Coffee 9:00-9:15am Conference Introductions 9:15-10:15am Plenary Lecture 1 Paolo Squatriti (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor) “Worrisome Weeds: Exotic Plants and Biological Invasions in the Early Medieval Mediterranean” 10:15-10:30am Short Break 10:30am-12:00pm Session 1: Conditions and Perceptions in the Early Middle Ages Chair: TBA Danielle Joyner (Southern Methodist University) “A Savin Bush in the Cloisters: The Art of Nature in the Plan of St. Gall” Tim Newfield (Princeton Environmental Institute) “Complicating Climate-Dearth Linkages in the Carolingian World” Renée Trilling (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campagne) “Marking time: The Place of the Human in Anglo-Saxon Cosmology” 12:00-1:00pm Catered Lunch 1:00-2:30pm Session 2: Intentional Sustainability in Premodern Woodlands Chair: TBA Richard Keyser (University of Wisconsin at Madison) “Medieval Conservation: Definitions and the Example of French Woodlands” Abigail Dowling (Mercer University) “Pour la grante richesse: Sustainable Natural Resource Management at the Estate of Hesdin, 1302-1329” Sara Morrison (Brescia University College at Western University) “Traditional Woodland Management in Seventeenth-Century Sherwood Forest” 2:30-2:45pm Short Break 2:45-4:15pm Session 3: Rocks and Roots in Early Modern Europe Chair: TBA Harriet Archer (Newcastle University) “Retributive Earth: Exemplary History, Posthumanism, and John Higgins’ Histories of King Forrex (1574 and 1587)” Phillip John Usher (New York University) “On the Exterranean: Towards of Phenomenology of Extraction” Perry Guevara (Emory University) “Milton’s Root Brain: Minimal Cognition in the Garden” 4:15-5:00pm Break with coffee, tea, and cookies 5:00-6:00pm Plenary Lecture 2 Ann Harris (Depauw University) “Entangled Ecologies: Stone and Will in Pre-Modern Brittany” 6:00-8:00pm Reception Location: 5th Floor Lounge and Terrace, UMC Building SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 (all events in UMC 247 unless otherwise noted) 8:30-9:00am Coffee & Pastries 9:00-10:00am Plenary Lecture 3 Steve Mentz (St. Johns University) “Dissolving Hamlet: An Anthropocene Reading” 10:00-10:30am Short Break 10:30am-12:00pm Session 4: Calamity and Control in the High Middle Ages Chair: TBA Tobias Hrynick (Fordham University) “Water as Labor, Water as Weapon: Mill Dispute and Water Power in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem” Manon Williams (University of Colorado at Boulder) “Rights and Usage of Woodlands in Thirteenth-Century Normandy” Elizabeth Swedo (Western Oregon University) “Mundane Disasters: Icelandic Society and Environment in the Late Middle Ages” 12:00-1:00pm Box Lunch 1:00-2:30pm Session 5: Hagiographic and Literary Landscapes Chair: TBA Britton Brooks (University of Hawai’i at Manoa) “Eco-Criticism and the Natural World: Native Soundscapes in Felix’s Vita Sancti Guthlaci” Andrew M. Richmond (The Ohio State University) “Evaluating the Spaces of Romance: The Savage Nature of Civilized Land in Sir Degrevant” Shannon Garner-Balandrin (Northeastern University) “Into a Cloven Pine: The Ecological Uncanny in Early Modern Romance” 2:30-2:45pm Short Break 2:45-4:15pm Session 6: Birds and Bugs in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Chair: TBA Cristina Martelli (University of Maine at Orono) “Sustainable Practices, Territorial Control and the Capture of Game Animals and Birds: Examples from North and Central Italy between 1300 and 1550” Nodin de Saillan (University of Colorado at Boulder) “Worms, Rats, and Ravens: Charting the Cultural Construction of Vermin from Edward II to James I” Roya Biggie (CUNY Graduate Center) “The Pedagogical Potential of Beetles in Thomas Moffet’s The Theater of Insects and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline” 4:15-5:00pm Break with coffee, tea, and cookies 5:00-6:00pm Reflections by Richard C. Hoffmann (York University) followed by a general discussion open to all conference participants 6:30-10:00pm Conference Banquet Location: Café Aion, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave. Boulder Comments are closed.
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