
All sessions take place in the Music Building.
Thursday, October 1
8:30–9:00 Registration
9:00–10:50 Session 1
Setting the Stage | Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- Erica L. Grimm | Salt Water Skin Boats: Attentiveness and Art in the Anthropocene
- Edith Krause | Disposable
- Sam Pimentel | What’s in Store: The Challenge of Sea-Level Rise
10:50–11:10 Break
11:10–12:15 Keynote Address | Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- Peter von Tiesenhausen | In-Tending a Future
12:15–1:10 Lunch
1:10–2:15 Session 2
Literary Journalism | Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- Loranne Brown | By any other Name: Literary Journalism Meets the Anthropocene
- Scott Jacobsen | Idealist Journalist as Realist Artist: Responsibility in Collection, Collation, and Reportage on Environmental Issues
New Voices: Undergraduate Session | Room 201 Abstracts + Bios
- Ariana Hurt | The Music of the Spheres Trees: How Nature Inspires Music
- Aveline Bouwman | An Aesthetic of Indulgence: Environmental Illness and Politics of Consumption in Infinite Jest
2:15–2:30 Break
2:30–4:50 Session 3
Place(s) | Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- Brandon Craft | Moonlight in the Pines: How Developing a Phenomenology of Forested Places Convinced a Forest Ecologist of the Need for Art in order to Communicate the Beauty of a Fire-Dependent Ecosystem
- Thom Jencks | John Luther Adams and the Ecological Change in Listening
- Alexandra Harper | The Artist’s Gift of Wild Hope in a Homeless Culture
- Pamela MacKenzie | Bioart, Decay and the Lost Icons of Industry
Friday, October 2
9:00–10:50 Session 4
The Body Poetic | Norma Marion Alloway Library Garden* Abstracts + Bios
*weather permitting - session will be held in Room 210 in case of rain
- Daniela Elza and Su-Lin Tseng | Stepping in Tune with our Bodies of Water: A Poetry-Dance Collaboration
- Lynn Fels, Viki Kelly, Kathryn Ricketts, Celeste Snowber | Interrupted Vulnerabilities: An Ecotracing of Embodied Poetics and Place
10:50–11:10 Break
11:10–12:15 Keynote Address| Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- Tim Lilburn | Ontological Loneliness and the Balm of Metaphor
12:15–1:10 Lunch
1:10–2:25 Session 5
Deep Conversations | Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- Nicolas Noble | Precursory Aesthetics to the Deep Ecology Movement
- Sharon Fish Mooney | A Strain of the Earth’s Sweet Being: Gerard Manley Hopkins and Vincent van Gogh in Conversation
Education for Sustainability | Room 201 Abstracts + Bios
- Sarah Kay Frydenlund | Growing Socially Responsible Artists through Sustainable Creative Practices
- Zuzana Vasko | Aesthetic Education Informing our Relations with Nature
2:25–2:45 Break
2:45–4:30 Session 6
Art Practices | Room 210 Abstracts + Bios
- Doris Auxier | A Gentle Noticing: Nature Informing a Rhythm of Life
- Mary Abma | Art-Science Collaborations in Contemporary Art Practice – An Artist's Perspective
- Helma Sawatzky | Data Mulch: A Phenomenology of Slow Photography
Lyric Thinking | Room 201 Abstracts + Bios
- Kirsten Alm | “To Rebuild What We Destroy”: Mourning in the Poetry of Robert Bringhurst
- Carl Tracie | Poetry and Environmental Concern
- Katharine Bubel | Sea Rhythm, Resonance and Relinquishment in Jan Zwicky’s “Envoy: Seven Variations”
Saturday, October 3
Offered in conjunction with the Verge Conference Oct 1-2.
Sea Change Colloquium
- 9am - 5pm // Instrumental Hall, Music Building. Full schedule
- Free and open to the public, but you must register
- More info
Blaauw Eco Forest Celebration
- 11:00am - 12:30pm // Music Building Room 201
Two years of discoveries in the Blaauw Eco Forest. Presentations by Dr. David Clements and Chris Hall. - 1:00-2:30pm | Forest at 257A Street off 84 Ave in Langley
Blaauw Eco Forest Celebration
Program: Han Shan poetry exhibit and poetry readings coordinated by Susan McCaslin, followed by a forest dance choreographed by Eleanor Felton. - Registration is free, with the option to purchase a catered bag lunch in the forest. Lunch must be pre-purchased.
- More info