2:30 Opening remarks
Panel 1: Environmental Encounters in Arts
Moderator: Cajetan Iheka, Associate Professor of English
2:40 pm Chelsea Jack, PhD in Anthropology “An Atmosphere of Dreams’: Hemp, CBD, and Aromatic Landscapes in the Hudson River Valley”
2:57 pm Victoria Baena, PhD in Comparative Literature: “George Eliot’s Theory of Pastoral Ideology”
3:15 pm Tyler Lutz, PhD in Physics: “Framing the End of Ecology: Koyaanisqatsi and Stalker”
3:33 pm Anna Hill, PhD in English: “Toward a Future Imperfect: Archiving American Decay in the Late Twentieth-Century Road Narrative”
3:50 pm Coffee break
Panel 2: Spatial Politics and Social (In)justice
Moderator: Tomo Sugimoto, Yale CEAS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Environmental Humanities
4:05 pm Carlos Alonso Nugent, PhD in English: “Working Through the Archives of Latinx Eco-Media”
4:23 pm Joanna Linzer, PhD in History: “Upstream, Downstream: Negotiating Iron Mining in Early Modern Japan”
4:39 pm Amy Johnson, PhD in Anthropology and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies: “Tending the Garden: Botanical Metaphors and the Nepal State”
5:15pm End of Semester Reception