Thursday, July 6, 2023

2 p.m. Welcome and Introduction

• Heike Paul (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, BAA) and Katja Sarkowsky (U Augsburg)

2.30 p.m. Panel 1
Historical Dimensions of Environmental Relationality in a More-Than-Human-World
Chair: Catrin Gersdorf (U Würzburg)

• Simone M. Müller (U Augsburg):
  Environmental Citizenship and its Territorial Limits: On US Hazardous Waste and the Struggle for Defining Environmental Protection
• Monique Allewaert (U Wisconsin-Madison):
  Four Suns: Solar Imaginaries, Climate Colonialism, and Planetary Citizenship

4 p.m. Coffee Break


4.30 p.m. BAA Award Ceremony                                 


5.30 p.m.  Keynote 1
Chair: Katja Sarkowsky (U Augsburg)

• Rebecca Tsosie (U Arizona) virtual talk:
  Rethinking Reconciliation: Land-Based Citizenship and Indigenous Futures
  Watch live on YouTube

7 p.m. Reception


 

Friday, July 7, 2023

9 a.m. Panel 2
Literary Representations of Environmental In/Justice
Chair: Julia Faisst (U Regensburg)

• Sonya Posmentier (NYU):
  What Use are Flowers? Lorraine Hansberry's Eco-Apocalyptic Imagination
• Linda Hess (U Augsburg): 
  Satirizing the Eco-Citizen: The Question of Individual Responsibility in E.A. Copenhaver's My Days of Dark Green Euphoria

10.30 a.m. Coffee Break


11 a.m. Emerging Scholars' Forum
Chair: Ina Batzke (U Augsburg)

• Andrew Wildermuth (FAU Erlangen)
  Forging, Foraging, Forgoing: Thoreau as Settler Disaster
• Axelle Germanaz and Sarah Marak (FAU Erlangen)
  Bad Environmental Citizens: Tracing the Limits of (State-Sanctioned) Environmental Citizenship

12.15 p.m. Lunch Break


1.30 p.m. Panel 3
Practices of Environmental Citizenship
Chair: Kirsten Twelbeck (U Augsburg)

• Michael Kotutwa Johnson (U Arizona):
  Redefining Environmental Citizenship: A Hopi Indian's Perspective
• Marit Rosol (U Würzburg):
  Navigating Tensions between Environmental and Social Justice Concerns: The Case of German and Canadian Community Food Initiatives

3.30 p.m. Coffee Break


4.00 p.m. Keynote 2
Chair: Sylvia Mayer (U Bayreuth)

• Jouni Häkli (U Tampere):
  Environmental Citizenship: Between (Unwarranted) Hope and (Unproductive) Despair
  Watch live on YouTube

5.45 p.m. BAA Member's Meeting


 

Saturday, July 8, 2023

9.30 a.m. Keynote 3
Chair: Linda Hess (U Augsburg)

• Joshua Barnett (Penn State U):
  Casting One's Lot: Environmental Citizenship and the Trouble with Care
  Watch live on YouTube

11.00 a.m. Coffee Break


11.30 a.m. Roundtable Discussion
Environmental Citizenship as 'Doing Without'?
Chair: Heike Paul (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

• Michael Kotutwa Johnson (U Arizona)
• Joshua Barnett (Penn State U)
• Isabel Kalous (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

1 p.m.  Wrap-Up and Conference Closing

Admission is free. To register, please send an e-mail to info@amerika-akademie.de.

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