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DESCRIPTION:\n	FEBRUARY 8th\n	Location: ARTS W-215\, McGill University\, 845 
 Sherbrooke West\, Montréal\n\n16:00 – 19:00\n	Film screening of Anthropocen
 e: The Human Epoch\n	Followed by a discussion with Director Jennifer Baichw
 al + reception\n\n \n\nFEBRUARY 9th\n	Location: Thomson House\, 3650 McTavi
 sh\, Montréal\n\n9:00 – 10:15\n	Panel 1: Landscape\, Map and Matter\n\nMode
 rator: Ayesha Vemuri\, McGill University\n\nLaurence Charlebois\, Concordi
 a University\n	“Remodelling the Tahitian Landscape: The Legacy of French Oc
 cupation in French Polynesia”\n\nNicolas Holt\, McGill University\n	“Tradin
 g the Terrain for the Map: Frank Gillette’s SIX MATRICES and the Limits of
  Traditional Media Ecology”\n\njake moore\, McGill University\n	“Storied Ma
 tter and teaching-a-stone-to-talk inverted\; Mattered story and learning h
 ow to listen”\n\n\n	10:15 – 10:30\n	Coffee Break\n\n\n	10:30 – 11:30\n	Panel 2
 : Plants and Biophilia \n\nModerator: Robin Lynch\, McGill University\n\nA
 ndrea Valentine-Lewis\, McGill University\n	“Artistic and Affective Strateg
 ies to Combat Solastalgia”\n\nMarcus Prasad\, University of British Columb
 ia\n	“Natures of Consumption: Biophilia\, Open Space\, and the Mall\n\n\n	11
 :30 – 12:30\n	Panel 3: Eco-Marxism\n\nModerator: Burç Kostem\, McGill Unive
 rsity\n\nJoel Auerbach\, McGill University\n	“The Concept of Potentiality a
 s an Ecocritical Analytic”\n\nHannah Tollefson\, McGill University\n	“Canar
 ies and coal miners\; a multispecies energy history”\n\n\n	12:30 – 13:30\n	L
 unch Break\n\n\n	13:30 – 14:45\n	Panel 4: Animals and Body Parts \n\nModerat
 or: Rach Klein\, McGill University\n	\n	Georgia Phillips-Amos\, Concordia Un
 iversity\n	“The Enclosure and the Crash: Rhinos in the Work of William Kent
 ridge”\n\nChanelle Lalonde\, McGill University\n	“Mourning Extinct and Enda
 ngered Birds in Contemporary Art”\n\nStéphanie Hornstein\, Concordia Unive
 rsity\n	“Manhandled: Prescient Ecofeminism in Agnes Denes’ Body Prints”\n\n
 \n	14:45 – 15:45\n	Keynote: “French Art in the Age of Oil”\n\nBrian R. Jacob
 son\, Cinema Studies Institute\, University of Toronto\n	This talk examines
  how France’s emerging oil industry and its petrochemical subsidiaries cam
 e to bear on the French neo-avant-garde and French cinema during the 1950s
  and 1960s. With particular attention to the work of Yves Klein and indust
 rial filmmakers employed by French oil and gas companies\, it investigates
  how petroleum and its industry created both content and material conditio
 ns of possibility for new forms of hydrocarbon art. In what ways\, the tal
 k asks\, did such art speak back to the extractive industry that made it p
 ossible\, and with what consequences for our long-term understanding of oi
 l’s and art’s entangled ecologies\, the politics of France’s neo-avant-gar
 de\, and the climate changing processes named by the so-called Anthropocen
 e?\n\n\n	15:45 – 16:00\n	Tea Break\n\n\n	16:00-17:00\n	Panel discussion: Brian
  Jacobson (UofT)\, Christine Ross (McGill)\, Darin Barney (McGill)\n\nMode
 rator: Hannah Tollefson\, McGill University\n\n \n\n\n\n	Braddock and Irmsc
 her (2009) define ecocriticism as a critical approach that “emphasizes iss
 ues of environmental interconnectedness\, sustainability\, and justice” in
  order to inflect the existing vocabularies\, tropes and epistemologies of
  cultural interpretation.¹\n	\n	As such\, ecocritical analyses often engage 
 with the material forms and discursive constructions of media infrastructu
 res. Parks and Starosielski (2015) note that media infrastructures have be
 en and continue to be used “to claim and reorganize territories and tempor
 al relations.”² Their material dependence on and interconnectedness with t
 he environment imbricate media infrastructures within issues of resource d
 evelopment\, urban planning\, Indigenous and national sovereignties\, surv
 eillance\, labour\, etc.\n	\n	How can art history and communication studies 
 adopt ecocriticism as an interpretative paradigm in their respective analy
 ses? More specifically\, in which ways can they incorporate environmental 
 history and ecology in order to develop what Braddock and Irmscher (2009) 
 describe as “a more earth-conscious mode of analysis”?³\n	\n	To be held on F
 ebruary 8th and 9th\, 2019 in Montreal\, Quebec\, the AHCS Graduate Sympos
 ium will present original and insightful graduate work that addresses ques
 tions related to the environmental turn in cultural interpretation. \n	\n	In
 vited speakers and panelists: Brian R. Jacobson (UofT)\, Jennifer Baichwal
  (filmmaker)\, Christine Ross (McGill) and Darin Barney (McGill)\n\n------
 ----------------------------------------\n	¹ Alan C. Braddock and Christoph
 er Irmscher\, A Keener Perception: Ecocritical Studies in American Art His
 tory\n	(Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press\, 2009)\, 2.\n	² - Lisa 
 Parks and Nicole Starosielsky (eds.)\, Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of
  Media Infrastructures (Urbana\,\n	Chicago and Springfield: University of I
 llinois Press\, 2015)\, 5.1\n	³ - Braddock and Irmscher\, A Keener Percepti
 on\, 3. Xyrography #14\, 2018\n\n \n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/3078
 35229842427/\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/331503440790518/\n
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190209
LOCATION:W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 rue She
 rbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Potentials of Ecocriticisms - AHCS Graduate Student Symposium 
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/channels/event/potentials-ecocriticisms-ahcs
 -graduate-student-symposium-293049
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