More-than-Human Studies Symposium

Register before May 9 by clicking on the following link: registration.

Tuesday:

13.30-14.00 Welcome and introduction

14.00-14.45 Keynote: “Coyotes in Chicagoland: Narrative Encounters in the More-than-

Human City,” Babette B. Tischleder, University of Göttingen

14.45-15.15 Coffee break

15.15-15.45 “‘I live the City:’ Emerging Radical Kinship Connections in N.K. Jemisin’s The

City We Became,” Jenny Bonnevier, Örebro University

15.45-16.15 “On a Poetics of More-than-Human Relation in Claire of the Sea Light,” Julia

Wewior, University of Wuppertal

16.15-16.45 “‘A Frenzied Mob of Weed and Thorns:’ Resistant Flora in George Washington

Cable,” Phillip James Grider, University of Göttingen

16.45-17.00 Break

17.00-17.30 “Making Kin with Mushrooms,” Sofia Wijkmark, Karlstad University

17.30-18.00 “Science Fiction, Children and Interculturality,” Andreas Jacobsson, University

of Gothenburg

Wednesday:

9.00-9.45 Keynote: “Human-Other Entanglements in Speculative Future Arctics,” Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, Umeå University 

9.45-10.15 Coffee break

10.15-10.45 “The Ghostly Phenomenology of Avian Migration in Fred Bodsworth’s Last of

the Curlews,” Lisa Bölinger, University of Göttingen

10.45-11.15 “Transcending Conquistador Humanism: More-than-Human Entanglements in

Contemporary Caribbean Fiction,” Lea Espinoza Garrido, University of Wuppertal

11.15-11.45 “Dangerous Connections and Dissolving Boundaries in Daisy Hildyard’s The

Second Body and Emergency,” Marinette Grimbeek, Örebro University

11.45-12.15 “The Bacon Factory: On Animal Labor in Zoo Games,” Erik van Ooijen,

Karlstad University

The symposium is organized with financial support from Magnus Bergvalls Stiftelse.