Conference Schedule
Friday Night
5:00pm: Dinner with Scott Slovic, Magnolias.
7:00pm: Morgan 109 - Scott Slovic Keynote address, “Living Lightly and Inconsistently on the Campus: Sustainability and the Academic Life” introduction by Amy Patrick
Saturday
8:00am: Simpkins Student Lounge - Coffee, informal pre-conference gathering
9:00am: Simpkins 027 - Opening (Joe Weinberg), First panel
Ecocriticism and Popular Fiction: "Avada Kadavra: Harry Potter and the Sustainability Reading" by Joe Weinberg, "Finding a Sustainable Foundation: Psychohistorical Predictions of Emerging Conflicts in Sustainability Discourse" by Andrew Scott, "Learning Sustainability from a Talking Gorilla: Ishmael's Representation of
Ecological Metaphors" by Caroline Rohner
Moderator: Dr. Amy Patrick
10:00am: Second panel
Ecocritical Literary Analysis: "Nature, Nurture, Mothers, and Myth: An eco-critical look at Barabara Kingslover's 'Homeland'" by Catt Foy, "'Practical Harmony' and Constructive Human Relationships
with Nature: The ecocriticism of Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson and the Prairie Writers Circle" by Judi Mack, "Mobility through Limited Space: Sustainablity and Repatriation in
Gordon Henry's The Light People" by Jen McKee
Moderator: Flannery Scott
11:00am: Third panel
Ecocriticism of Contemporary Works: "Technical Ideology and the Environment in DeLillo's White Noise" by Annie Schnarr, "Unnatural History: Urban Field Guides and Profane
Illumination" by David Banash, "Ecological and Environmental Matters" by Lami Adama
Moderator: Dr. Bradley Dilger
12:00pm: Lunch, location TBA
1:30pm: Re-opening: thank you to Scott Slovic (Bridgette Parsons), Fourth panel
Sustainability and Environmental Culture: "A Lovely Lie: the problematic nature of imagined relationships" by Bridgette Parsons, "Sustainable Communication, Sustainable Community: Working
toward Shared Environmental Values at Western Illinois University" by Amy Patrick, "Lakes into Looking-Glasses: Land speculation in Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow?" by Todd Goddard
Moderator: Matt Lefler
2:30: Fifth panel
Sustainability and Written Language: "Powerful Words: naming names in Middle-Earth" by Zac Dilbeck, "Dwindling Discourse: the limited Sustainability of conversation" by Catherine Lenhardt,
"Liberating Writing: Social Justice and the Role of Writing Classrooms" by Chris Hazlett
Moderator: Dr. Penny Kelsey
3:30: Sixth panel
Sustainability in action:
"Title Pending" by Chris Bevard, "Teaching Environmental Sustainability with My Antonia"
by Emily Brackman
Moderator: Kay Hamada
4:30: Closing (Joe Weinberg).
5:00: party. Location TBA