Aesthetics of Crisis, in the IAS, on 13th of MAY 2016.
9.45-10.00 Introduction
10.00-11.00 Mark Anderson (University of Georgia): “Latin America in the Anthropocene: Crisis and Cultural Representation.”
Respondent: Claire Westall (York)
11.15-12.45 Andrew Baldwin (Geography, Durham): “Migration and the family form – portrayals of race and whiteness in climate cinema and fiction”
Thomas Lubek (English, York): “Confronting The Limits to Growth: American SF, Space Frontiers, and Intergalactic Ecologies.”
Respondent: Jenny Terry (Durham)
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 15.15 Jorge Catala-Carrasco (Spanish Studies, University of Newcastle): Crisis, Ecocide and Social Renewal in Graphic Humour and Comics
Kerstin Oloff (MLAC, University of Durham): “The Saccharine Monstrous: Crisis, The World Food System, and Cultural Representation”
Respondent: Francisco-J. Hernández-Adrián (Durham)
15.30-16.30 Louise Hardwick (University of Birmingham): “Experiments in Ecocriticism in the French Caribbean”
Respondent: Zoe Roth (Durham)
Aesthetics of Crisis: 