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Programme

  • June 19

  • 8:30 Coffee & Conference Registration
    9:00  Welcome & Opening Remarks (Richard Grusin, Jens Kugele, Anna Tabouratzidis)
    9:15

     Keynote I, Richard Grusin (GCSC/RCSC Distinguished Research Fellow), “Tree Mediation, or Arboreal Entanglement”

    | Chair: Ansgar Nünning & Anna Tabouratzidis

    Zoom-Link
    10:30 Coffee break
    11:00

    Panel 1) More-than-human Communication, Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    A) Solvejg Nitzke (Ruhr-University Bochum), “Wood Wide Weavings. The Cultural Poetics of Interspecies Communication”
    B) Evan Wisdom (Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago), “Alternative Arboreal Temporalities. Figures in Wood, Strata in Seed”
    C) Leslie Kremper (Physical Geography, Philipps University Marburg), “Atmospheric Frontiers. The Amazon Tall Tower Observatory's Aerosol Mission”

    | Chair: Jan Rupp
    12:30  Lunch
    14:00

    Panel 2) Meandering Bodies & Thought in Arboreal Spaces
    A) T. Hugh Crawford (Georgia Institute of Technology), “Walking with Trees”
    B) Stephen O’Neill (Maynooth University), “The Arboreal Poetics of Cruising”
    C) Paul Kaletsch (SOAS & GCSC), “The Trees Growing in Our Heads. A Sad Image of Thought”

    | Chair: Evan Wisdom
    15:30 Break & Poster Session
    16:30

    Artist Talk & Presentation Sarah Bird (UC Santa Cruz)
    "Trees/Place. A Strategy for Arboreal-Human Flourishing"

    | Chair: Jens Kugele (GCSC)
    18:30 Dinner
    19:30 Optional: Walk through forest

  • June 20

9:00

Keynote II, Michael Marder (University of the Basque Country),“Vegetal Ontology, as seen through Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Herbarium”

| Chair: Richard Grusin

Zoom-Link
10:30 Coffee break
11:00

Panel 3) Cutting Edge/s
A) Uwe Wirth (Justus Liebig University), "Chimerean Configurations between Hybrid and Graft"
B) Peter Gilgen (Cornell University), "Withering in the Wilds of the Southern Forests. Towards a Posthumanist Aesthetics of Nature"
C) Kirsten von Hagen (Justus Liebig University), "(Re-)Mythicisations of the Forest: An Imaginary Space between Fictionalisation, Materiality and Mediality in the Work of Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba"

| Chair: Solvejg Nitzke
12:30 Lunch
14:00

Panel 4) Arboreal Imaginaries: Myth, Art, Activism
A) Caren Irr (Brandeis), "The Walls of Jericho. Infrastructure and Adoption in a Town Forest" (ONLINE)
B) Patricia Vieira (University of Coimbra), "Amaozonian Contemporary Kené as Tree Writing" (ONLINE)
C) Emma Knickelbine (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "'As the smitten tree gives birth to its fungi.' Arboreality in
Moby-Dick"

| Chair: Paul Kaletsch

Zoom-Link
15:30 Walk to Botanical Garden
16:00 Guided Tour Botanical Garden with Volker Wissemann (Botany, Justus Liebig University)
18:30 Dinner

 

  • June 21

9:00

Keynote III Caroline Edwards (Birkbeck, University of London), “Arboreal Revelation”

| Chair: Richard Grusin

Zoom-Link
10:30

Coffee Break
11:00

Panel 5) Entanglements, Politics, Forms
Andrew S. Matthews (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Following Plants Into The World of Form: Moving From Trees to Biogeomorphology in Central Italy"
Candace Goodrich (Justus Liebig University), "The 'Uninhabited' Sublime. Charting (In)Congruencies between New Traditionalist and Radical Environmentalism"
Theresa Deichert (Kunsthalle Gießen), "Trees as Collaborators and Nuclear Witnesses. Okabe Masao and Minato Chihiro’s
The Irradiated Tree Series: From Hiroshima to Fukushima"

| Chair: Anna Tabouratzidis
12:30

Concluding Discussion

| Chairs: Richard Grusin, Jens Kugele, Anna Tabouratzidis
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Goodbye and bon voyage!