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[Commlist] Conference - Culture and Global Responsibility: Rethinking Habitability in the Age of the Anthropocene

Tue Apr 04 07:31:09 GMT 2023





*Culture and Global Responsibility: *

*Rethinking Habitability in the Age of the Anthropocene *

*Conference at the University of Warwick*

*May 12-14, 2023*

Dear all,

We would like to invite you to the"Culture and Global Responsibility: Rethinking Habitability in the Age of the Anthropocene <https://warwick.ac.uk/research/priorities/habitability/events/globalresponsibility/>" conference, which will be held in person at the University of Warwick on 12-14 May 2023.

Please registerhere <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/culture-and-global-responsibility-university-of-warwick-12-14-may-2023-registration-559422115607> if you would like to attend. We would be grateful if you could complete the*_registration by Friday, April 21_*, as this will help us to plan the catering and other aspects of the conference.

*Conference Programme:*Please see below.

*Accommodation:* The University of Warwick is located in the outskirts of Coventry and can be easily reached by public transport <https://warwick.ac.uk/services/estates/transport/buses/campus_services/>. The best options near the university are Coventry, Kenilworth, and Leamington Spa, where there are a number of hotels, B&B, Booking.com, and Airbnb.

*Getting to the University of Warwick:*Please checkthis webpage <https://warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/directions/>.

*Conference location: *All panels will take place in the Oculus Building, room OC 1.06, apart from the film screening on Saturday 13, which will take place in the Faculty of Arts Cinema. You can check the campus map _here <https://campus.warwick.ac.uk/?cmsid=13136&project_id=1>_.

Many thanks for your attention and please do not hesitate to contact us at (globalresponsibility2023 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(globalresponsibility2023 /at/ gmail.com)> if you have any questions.

We look forward to seeing you in May!


All the best,

The conference organisers:

Guido Bartolini

Stefano Bellin

Michael Niblett

***Conference programme***

*DAY 1 - Friday, May 12*

_Location: Oculus building, room OC 1.06_

9.30-9.45      Welcome and introduction

9.45-11.30     Panel 1

Chair: Stefano Bellin (University of Warwick)

Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah (University of Warwick): /Decoloniality, Environmental Justice and Indigenous Performance Practices in Africa/

Ben Bowsher (Newcastle University): /Justice in the world? Debates over political possibility and the Anthropocene./

Sarah Hicks (Linköping University): /Memoirs and ‘global responsibility’ towards refugees: How personal narratives can reshape how we think about refugee crises/

Gah-Kai Leung (University of Warwick):/Infrastructural Injustice/

11.30-12.00   Coffee & Tea break

12.00-13.15   Keynote Lecture: Tiago de Luca (University of Warwick)

/At the Centre of a Surrounding World, or Can Film Depict a Global Environment? /

Chair: Catherine Constable (University of Warwick)

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13.15-14.30  Lunch break

14.30-16.15  Panel 2

                      Chair: Guido Bartolini (Ghent University)

Patrizia Sambuco (Independent scholar): /Rethinking the Anthropocene through Regional Literature/

Andrzej Stuart-Thompson (University of Oxford): /“Men with waterfalls of women within”: erotically undoing androcentrism and anthropocentrism in the matriarchal eco-poetry of Natália Correia/

Sue Spaid (Northern Kentucky University and the University of Dayton): /How the Techno-Imaginary Distracts us from Inhabiting Earth/

Vetri Nathan (Rutgers University): /Reflections on Habitability and Social Justice in the Cybercene /(Online)//

16.15-16.45  Coffee & Tea break

16.45-18.15  Roundtable Discussion:

Emily Baker (UCL), Martin Crowley (University of Cambridge), and Rashmi Varma (University of Warwick)

Chairs: Guido Bartolini, Stefano Bellin, and Mike Niblett

*DAY 2 - Saturday, May 13*

_Location: Oculus building, room OC 1.06_

9.30-11.15    Panel 3

Chair: Guido Bartolini (Ghent University)

Leonardo Nolé (Graduate Center – City University of New York): /Representing systemic violence: The role of the collective protagonist in the contemporary world-novel/

Margit Dirscherl (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): /Now we won’t be able to say we didn’t know///

Jesse Van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam): /Climate Migration and the European Art of the Anthropocene/

Caroline Blinder (Goldsmiths, University of London): /A Look From Above: The Beautiful Anthropocene in David Maisel’s Terminal Mirage Series (2003)/

11.15-11.45  Coffee & tea break

11.45-13.00  Keynote Lecture

Stef Craps (Ghent University)

/Lost Words and Lost Worlds: Combatting Environmental Generational Amnesia/

                     Chairs: Guido Bartolini, Michael Niblett, and Stefano Bellin

13.00-14.15  Lunch break

14.15-16.00  Panel 4

Chair: Tiago de Luca (University of Warwick)

Matilde Nardelli (University of West London): /From the Imaginary to the Planetary: Edgar Morin’s Moving Image/

Sarah Helin-Long (University College Cork): /Anthropogenic ‘Sites’ of Convergence in Patricio Guzmán’s Film Trilogy/

Simone Ghelli (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): /A Matter of Luck. //Primo Levi, Science and the Fight Against Life (in light of the COVID-19 pandemic)/

Tom Greaves (University of East Anglia): /Habitation, Constitution and Ephemeral Events/

16.00-16.30  Coffee & tea break

16.30-18.45  Film Screening and Q&A  (*_Location: Faculty of Arts Cinema_*_)_

Esther Figueroa (Online) (Independent researcher and filmmaker)

Chair: Mike Niblett

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 From 19.30 Conference Dinner

*DAY 3 - Sunday, May 14***

_Location: Oculus building, room OC 1.06_

9.00-10.15     Panel 5

Chair: Guido Bartolini & Stefano Bellin

Lucas Rinzema (University of Groningen): /On Dwelling Interdependently: A Film-Philosophy of Precarious Multispecies Homes**/

Alessandra Sau (The University of Sheffield): /Nuclear traces of domestic spaces: residues of palimpsestic memory in the Netflix series Dark (2017-2020)/

Pietro Agnoletto (Online) (Milano-Bicocca University): /The everyday geopolitics. the overbuilding of the coasts through amateur filmmaking/

10.15-10.30  Coffee & tea break

10.30-11.45   Panel 6

Chairs: Guido Bartolini & Stefano Bellin

Beatriz Arnal Calvo (University of Brighton): /Feminist Climate Pacifism: an Ethico-Political Approach to Global Responsibility and Reparations///

Maryeme Ouchen (online) (Ibn Zohr University- Agadir- Morocco): /Resistance to Ideolgical Forces: The case of humour /

Lopez Rafael Fernandez (Texas A&M University): /Attuning to the Hyperobject of Gaia: Environmental Consciousness and Impersonality in Lois Patiño’s In Landscape’s Movement/

11.45-12.00Coffee & Tea break

12.00-13.15 Panel 7

Chairs: Guido Bartolini & Stefano Bellin

Ambika Raja (University of Warwick):/Home and Habitability in Australian literary fiction/

Lu Feng (University of Warwick): /Living in a Frozen World: Reading Water in The Last Days of the World and Bingshan xuehai /

Deam Sully and Xiaozhou Li (UCL and University of Sussex): /Exhibiting the Misanthropocene as Method/

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