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Conference Events Schedule:
Thursday, September 22nd, 2011 Location: Mason Hall, D3A & B
2:30-3:00 Registration
3:00-4:15 Professional Panel: “Making Ecology Work: Professional Environmental Practices”
Takis Karontonis Director, Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization Chair, Arlington for a Clean Environment
James A. Malcolm Lindroth Development Co., Abaco, Bahamas
Camilo Arango CEM, LEED consultant
Dr. Rory Turner Academic Director, Program in Cultural Sustainability, Goucher College
4:30-6:00 Cultural Studies Colloquium Lecture Series: Dr. Crystal Bartolovich, Syracuse University “Commons and the Limits of ‘Biopolitical Production’”
6:30-8:00 Gallery Opening and Reception: “EcoCultures” EcoCultures is an exhibition bringing together current cultural productions at the intersections of the arts, sciences and the practice of everyday life to explore the interdependence of our social and biological systems.
Friday, September 23rd Location: Mason Hall, D3A & B
9:00-9:30 Registration and Reception
9:30-11:00 Panel One: Theorizing Radical Environmental Activism
Moderator: Gavin Mueller (George Mason University)
Todd LeVasseur (University of Florida) “Environmental Activism: Faith is coming to a Struggle near You”
Michael Loadenthal (Georgetown University) and Jennifer Grubbs (American University) “Ecoterrorists Unite: Negotiating power through public performance”
Scott J. Tulloch (Georgia State University) “The Power of Seeing (or Not Seeing) Where Dinner Comes From: Clandestine Places and the Activist Gaze”
Bradley Kaye (Binghamton University) “Ecology as Coextensive with Economy: Deconstructing the Humanist Ethos”
11:10-12:40 Panel Two: Discourse, Representation, Ecology
Moderator: John Baker (George Mason University)
Jennifer Lawrence (Virginia Tech) “The Resource Curse as a Fait Accompli? Casting Reasonable Doubt on Accepted Knowledge and Proposing New Solutions to Old Problems”
Molly Storment (North Carolina State University) “Scapegoating, Mortification, Tools, and Prosthetics in Christopher McCandless’s and Aron Ralston’s Battles in the Wilderness”
Stacie Kotschwar (Binghamton University) “Green Beauty and the Intersection of Feminism and Environmentalism”
12:40-1:25 Lunch
1:25-2:55 Panel Three: Environmental Policy—International Case Studies
Moderator: Lisa Breglia, PhD (George Mason University)
Emily Pindilli (George Mason University) “Transforming a fossil-based economy to achieve a sustainable future: incentives for energy efficiency and renewable fuels”
Rowan Howard-Williams (University of Pennsylvania) “Global Environment, National Concerns: Environmental Campaigning in Turkey”
Xingting Huang (Southeast University, China) “China’s Low-Carbon Oriented Industrial Planning: A Case Study”
Sarah Surak (Virginia Tech) “Finding Value in the Trash? Power, Waste Regimes and German Vehicle Recycling Legislation”
3:05-4:35 Panel Four: Perspectives on Ecological Alienation
Moderator: Dan Anderson (George Mason University)
Matthew Garcia (Arizona State University) “Land Knowledge”
Ben Woodward (University of Western Ontario) “Schelling on the Assembly Line: Naturephilosophie, Design, and the Inadequacy of Becoming”
Emily Howard (Virginia Tech) “Salvaging the Forest: A Marxian View of Forest Metabolisms”
Timothy Griffiths (CUNY: Brooklyn College) “Of Hobos, Farmers, and Geologists: Mixed Environments and Dual Alienation in Breece D’J Pancake’s ‘Trilobites’”
4:45-5:45 Cultural Studies Colloquium Keynote Speaker: Dr. Timothy Luke, Virginia Tech University
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