Water Solidarities
Chair: Matthew Zantingh
Jessica Barr, “Confluence”
Joanne Leow, “"be like water"/"fill the sea": Ecological and Political Crises in Hong Kong”
Janine MacLeod, "Making a Counterhegemonic Language"
Remapping Place
Chair: Cheryl Lousley
Lorelei Hanson, “Countermapping the Bighorn Watershed: Shifting divisive politics to a poetics of flourishing”
Matthew Zantingh, “Finding Oil in Southwestern Saskatchewan”
Sarah Krotz, “Caragana: Colonial and Feral Natures in Edmonton's River Valley”
Jenny Kerber, “Salmon, Science, and Knowledge Across Borders in The Kings of the Yukon”
Broken Earth & Shorelines: Speculative Anthropocene Voices
Chair: Jenna Hunnef
Camille van der Marel, “Exceptional Life: Eroding the Everyman Hero in Black and Indigenous Cli-Fi”
Olivia Weigeldt, “Caring for this Seismic Archive: Imagining Geologic Possibilities in the Colonial Anthropocene in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy”
Jen Doyle, "Waterways in The Road"
Feminist Ecologies
Chair: Rachel Jekanowski
Mitch Goldsmith, “Elfriede Jelinek's Greed: Watery Bodies, Vibrant Matter, and Feminist Ecopolitics”
pr0phecy sun, “Feminist Bodies in a Posthuman Mountain Imaginary”
Water Criticism: Ecowriting from the 1960s-80s
Chair: Richard Pickard
Donnie Secreast, “A Wholesome Lust for Destruction: Strategies of Satire in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring”
Wendy Roy, “"The Water in the Locks is Level": Water in a Burning World in P.K. Page's "Unless the Eye Catch Fire"”
Susan Tyburski, “Le Acequia Madre: Conserving a Water Community”
Writing for the People
Chair: Emily McGiffin
Alec Follett, ""A science for the people": The Democratization of Science in Madhur Anand's and Adam Dickinson's poetry"
Cheryl Lousley, “The Good-Natured Environmentalist: Trevor Herriot's Grass, Sky, Song and the Modest_Witness@Populist.Turn”
Richard Pickard, “Reading Nature: Climate Crises, Local Nonfiction, and the Writing Classroom”
Grief and Care
Chair: Jenny Kerber
Joanna Lilley, “Hearing Voices”
Laurie Graham, “What is Here: How Poetry Might Address Ecological Grief”
Kai McKenzie, "Watershed Moment"
Rethinking Ecopoetics
Chair: Kai McKenzie
Glenn Willmott, “What is an Emergency Ecopoetics?”
Adam Dickinson, “Thermography: A Poetics of Heat”
Joshua Schuster, “Notes on Heliopoetics”
Long Histories of Hope
Chair: Kaitlin Blanchard
Elspeth Tulloch, "Reading 'Hope': Hovering between Finalities and Futures in Hintze Hall"
Karen Quandt, "Baudelaire's Seine, Distributary of Hugo's Rhine"
Homings
Chair: Emily McGiffin
Sarah Ens, “Flyway: Tracking Ideas of Home”
David Williamson, “Through disassembled houses of perfect stones”
Conrad Scott, "Navigating Waterline Immersion"
Landforms/Bodyforms: Meditations and Movements
Chair: Richard Pickard
Morgan Young, "On Ground and Movement: Being in Place in Climate Crisis"
Ariel Gordon, "Reading Assiniboine Forest: A forest-bathing walk"
Dreams of Extraction
Organized by Paul Huebener
Chair: Paul Huebener
Conrad Scott, “'Knee deep in the black smoldering waters': Ecocritical Dystopianism and Bacigalupi’s Extractive Futures”
Leah van Dyk, “Dreams as Radical Reparations: Exploitation and Extraction in The Marrow Thieves”
Paul Huebener, “The Politics of Sleep and Dreams in The Marrow Thieves”
Sodden Apocalypse: Literal and Figurative Waters in 21st Century Writing in Canada
Organized by Jessica McDonald
Chair: Wendy Roy
Ian Moy, “Apocalyptic Travel: When Humanity Controls Nature in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes”
Jessica McDonald, “Bad Canadian: Citizenship, Water, and National Ruin in Douglas Coupland's Souvenir of Canada Series”
Mabiana Camargo, “The Gardeners' Waterless Flood: Survival and Resistance in Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood”
Shakti Brazier-Tompkins, “Deep Dreaming: Water, Dreams, and the Apocalypse in Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves”
Oil and Water: Placing Work Poetics and Petro-Narratives
Organized by Melanie Dennis Unrau
Chair: Melanie Dennis Unrau
Kelly Shepherd, “Working on the Water: Industrial Realism in West Coast Poetry”
Emma Gammans, "Applying Systems Thinking to Storytelling to Address Polarization During Energy Transition."
Melanie Unrau, "Duck, Duck, Goose: Waterfowl, Workers, and 'Founding Fathers' (in a Tailings Pond)"
Mya Wheeler, “Deepening Intellectual Investment in the Energy Industry through the Power of Story”
Cripping the Commons
Organized by Kaitlin Blanchard and Richard Pickard
Chair: Kaitlin Blanchard
Polly Atkin, "Why is it Always a Poem is a Walk?: disability, access and ecopoetics"
Jes Battis and John Loeppky, "Accessing Environmentalism"