“Eco-anxiety and Spirituality in Literature” International Conference
February 23-24 2023
UC Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
Voir le site du colloque pour les détails: https://ecoanxietyandspiritualityconference.wordpress.com/program/
Thursday, February 23
9:30 Coffee and registration
10:00 Welcome address
10:15 Keynote 1: Bénédicte Meillon (University of Perpignan Via Domitia), “Ecopoetic & Ecofeminist Reenchantment as an Antidote to Ecological Alienation”
11:15 Coffee break
11:45 Panel 1: Eco-anxiety and Spiritual Poetics
- Franca Bellarsi (Université Libre de Bruxelles), “Beat Buddhism or on the Psycho-Epistemological Road from Eco-Anxiety to Ecospirituality”
- Wit Pietrzak (University of Łódź, Poland) “The Sacral in the poetry of Moya Cannon”
- Benjamin Crawford (University of Alabama), “The World After Eden: Spiritual Engagement and Environmental Awareness in Bradstreet”
13:15 Lunch
14:15 Panel 2: Comparative Cosmovisions from Turtle Island and Beyond
- Gyllian Phillips (Nipissing University), “Thanking the Mystery for the Mystery: Navigating Decolonial Land Stories and the Western Reverence for Scepticism in Narratives by Louise Erdrich, Richard Wagamese, and Harold Johnson”
- Jessica Maufort (Université Libre de Bruxelles), “Magic Realism and the Christian Eco-apocalypse in Sandra Birdsell’s The Missing Child”
- Kennedy Dragt (UC Louvain) Breathing Story: Interspecies Ancestral Co-creation in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Dub: Finding Ceremony
16:45 Coffee Break
17:15 Panel 3: Tree Transformations and Arboreal Thought (part 1)
- Sonakshi Srivastava (Ashoka University) “Human, All Too Human : Violence, Existence, and a Probable Mutation”
- Seda Bahar Pancaroğlu (Çankaya University)“Becoming One: Ecospirituality in Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees”
18:15 Coffee Break
19:30 conference dinner at Louvain House
Friday, February 24
9:30 Coffee
10:00 Keynote 2: Samantha Walton (Bath Spa), “Everybody Needs Beauty: cultures of wellness, eco-spirituality, and the search for healing nature”
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Panel 4: Tree Transformations and Arboreal Thought (part 2)
- Clara Soudan (University of Edinburgh), “Ecopoetics of the Overstory by Richard Powers: an apophatic thought of our entanglement with the other-than-human”
- Sofie Schrey (Northumbria University), “Writing The Forest God: An Analysis of Max Porter’s Lanny”
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Panel 5: Beginnings and Ends: Biblical Allusions in the Anthropocene
- Eda Begüm Erer (Yıldız Technical University), “The Last Adam: Dissolving Fears and Transcorporeal Spirituality in J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World”
- Ben De Bruyn (UC Louvain) Space Missionaries
- Tatiana Konrad (University of Vienna), “The End of the World: Images from the Bible in Climate Change Fiction”
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Panel 6: Performance, Prayer, and Poesis: Explorations of Eco-spiritual Practices
- Sarah Cave (Royal Holloway University),“Radical Attention to the ‘Blessed Greenness’: A Practice-Based Paper on Christianity as Sustainable Ecological Practice”
- Olivia Badoi (Saint Louis University Madrid), “Why Tarot Today? Tarot, Modernism, and Contemporary Anxieties”
- Samuel Solnick (University of Liverpool), “Eco-spirituality, Petro-Anxiety and Hydrocarbon Ritual on Merseyside”
17:00 Closing Remarks
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Bénédicte Meillon (21 février 2023). “Eco-anxiety and Spirituality in Literature” International Conference . Écopoétique. Consulté le 16 janvier 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/o1be
