Conference Program
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 Protectionp - 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
Registration
Admission is free. To register, please send an e-mail to info@amerika-akademie.de.
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Location
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Karolinenplatz 3, 80333, München
Contact
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Telephone
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