JE “You Are Here: Poetic Gestures and Creative Ecologies from the Garden”, Montpellier October 17
The program and further information are available on the EMMA research group website: https://emma.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/evenements/je-you-are-here-vous-%C3%AAtes-ici-la-po%C3%A9tique-du-geste-et-%C3%A9cologies-cr%C3%A9atrices
You Are Here: Poetic Gestures and Creative Ecologies from the Garden
One-day conference organized by Molly Gilbertson (Université de Montpellier Paul Valéry, EMMA) and Botagoz Koilybayeva (Charles University, DALC)Friday October 17, 2025, Université de Montpellier Paul Valéry, site Saint Charles, Salle Panathénées
9h15 – Opening remarks
9h30 – Panel 1 – Experimental approaches in visual culture– Matilda Holloway (Lara-Seppia, Université de Toulouse): Recipes From a Photographic Garden: Practicality and Theory of an Alternative Photographic Practice- Géraldine Sfez (CEAC, Université de Lille): « L’absente de tous bouquets »: fleurs et cinéma expérimental- Bota Koilybayeva (DALC, Charles University, Prague): Decolonizing the Garden
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11h30 – Keynote
Jonathan Skinner (University of Warwick), Poems from the Planetary Garden
12h45 – lunch
14h – Panel 2 – Creating and belonging through the garden– John Sannaee (TransCrit) : Writing Gardening and Writing as Gardening the Postcolonial Entanglements of Jason Allen-Paisant and Claire Ratinon’s Contemporary England- Angela Sprecht (Athabasca University) : The Poetics and Practices of Nature Journaling: Building Connections to People and Place- Iuliia Mamaeva (Charles University/ FAMU, Prague): Rooted Elsewhere: Flora, Migration, and the Poetics of Displacement in Animated Cinema- Matt Mahlen (Plasticien-poète): Jardin je joue ajouré : Mattang pour (un archipel) et perdu
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16h – Panel 3 – Alternative methodologies between science and art– Leo El Qawas (School of Intuitive Herbalism) : Plants as Allies : Herbalist Poetic Practices- Bridget Sheridan and Polina Golovátina-Mora (LLA CREATIS, Université de Toulouse ; Norwegian University of Science and Technology – NTNU, Norway) : Rosemary Way: An embodied art project weaving together gardens spaces, tradition and lore- Sally Connie Todd and Caroline Wendling (artists) : Imaginative methodologies and collaborative aesthetics inspired by the natural world
Closing cocktail
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Bénédicte Meillon (10 octobre 2025). JE “You Are Here: Poetic Gestures and Creative Ecologies from the Garden”, Montpellier October 17. Écopoétique. Consulté le 15 février 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/14w34
