Emotions and Ecology Symposium
Friday 28th June 2024
University of Birmingham: Arts Building, Room 104
From 930: refreshments available
10am – 11: panel session
– Victoria Flood, ‘“Ferlyes on Folde”: Medieval Environmental Imaginaries and Modern Communities of Wonder’
– Gillian Wright, ‘Cowley, Behn and Nostalgia’
– David James, ‘Submarine Sympathies: Blue Planet II’s Sentimental Activism’
11-1130: coffee break
1130-1pm: panel session
– Jake Phipps, ‘“earth-born companion”: Animal Sympathy in Burns’s “To a Mouse”’
– Jimmy Packham, ‘Inarticulate sounds of awe: speaking (of) the seafloor in popular science media’
– Matthew Ward, ‘Percy Shelley’s Laughing Cloud’
1-2pm: lunch
2-3pm:
– John Holmes, ‘Evolution, Environmental Crisis and the Epic Imagination’
– Sara Wood, ‘Social Ecology in the Playground in Grace Paley’s New York Stories’
3-315: coffee and cake
315-415: general roundtable discussion (based on morning papers and the pre-circulated reading below)
– Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age (Introduction)
– Heather Houser, Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect (Chapter 1)
– John Kerrigan, ‘Otters and Others: Ted Hughes to John Kinsella’
From 430: drinks at the Edgbaston Park Hotel
