Program

The Garden: Ecological Paradigms of Space, History, and Community

8th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE)

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

4pm – 6:30pm

Room 0.001

Conference Opening

Welcoming Addresses

Prof. Dr. Roland Baumhauer (Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Würzburg)

Prof. Dr. Serpil Oppermann (President of EASLCE, Cappadocia University, Turkey)

Prof. Dr. Catrin Gersdorf (Chair of American Studies, University of Würzburg, Local Organizer)

 

Keynote: 

Catriona Sandilands, York University, Canada

Gardening in the (M)Anthropocene

Introduction: Serpil Oppermann, Cappadocia University, Turkey

 

6:30pm – 9 pm

Reception

First Floor

 

Thursday, September 27, 2018

9am – 10:30am

Room 0.001

Keynote:

Axel Goodbody, University of Bath, UK

Nature as Cultural Project: Gardens in German Literature

Introduction: Uwe Küchler, Universität Tübingen, Germany

 

10:30am – 11am

Coffee Break

First Floor

 

11am – 1 pm

 

Panel 1: Gärten in der deutschen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte

Room 1.004

Chair: Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University, TX, U.S.A.

Anke Kramer, Universität Siegen, Germany

Gartenwochen im Phantasus: Gartenästhetik und ökologisches Denken in Ludwig Tiecks Erzählungen

Lydia Doliva, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany

“Vor einem Jahr durchwanderte ich wieder den treu erhaltenen, gepflegten Goethe-Garten in der Stadt” (Koch 1886). Der Garten als Erinnerungsort.

 

Panel 2: Uncanny Gardens

Room 1.003

Chair: Sladja Blažan, University of Würzburg, Germany

Hanna Straß-Senol, Universität Oldenburg, Germany

Toxic Gardens: Inversions of the Paradise Myth and the Critique of Science in Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter” and Sinha’s Animal’s People

Rosanne van der Voet, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Postcolonial (Anti-)Garden – Enclosed Ecological Spaces in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People

Raffaele Russo, Milan, Italy

The Garden of Armida: Tasso’s Eco-Erotic Utopia in Gerusalemme Liberata

Camilla Brudin Borg & Imre Göthe, Gothenburg University, Sweden

The Uncanny Garden: Monsters and Pastoral in Miyazaki's Nausicaä

 

Panel 3: Horticultural Poetics I

Room 1.002

Chair: Christine Gerhardt, Universität Bamberg, Germany

Melissa Zeiger, Dartmouth College, NH, U.S.A.

Anne Spencer’s Garden Emancipation

Katherine R. Lynes, Union College, NY, U.S.A.

“frustration of flowers”: Gardens in Black Ecopoetics

Christine Gerhardt, Universität Bamberg, Germany

Emily Dickinson's Garden Ecologies

 

Panel 4: Fiction and the Horticultural Imagination I

Room 1.013

Chair: Rachel Nisbet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Reinhard Hennig, University of Agder, Norway

Nordic Negotiations of Ecocitizenship in the Anthropocene Garden: Charlotte Weitze’s Novel Den afskyelige

Imelda Martín Junquera, Universidad de León, Spain

Tijuanian Dystopias: The Anti-Eden in Rivera’s Sleep Dealer and Gomez Peña’s Ethno-Cyborg Projects

 

Panel 5: Garden Art/Art Gardens I

Room 1.012

Chair: Miriam Fernandez-Santiago, Universidad de Granada, Spain

Gabriele Dürbeck, University of Vechta, Germany

Anthropocenic Features Under the Surface: Blurring the Boundaries in Jason deCaires Taylor’s Interspecies Marine Sculpture Gardens

Miriam Fernandez-Santiago, Universidad de Granada, Spain

The Musical Garden: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Genetic Experimentation in Richard Power’s Orfeo

Franca Bellarsi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

An Urban Garden of Stone, Metal and Glass: Art Nouveau Design and Ecopoetics

Timo Müller, University of Regensburg, Germany

The Machine in the Garden? Nature and Technology in Caribbean Visual Art

 

Panel 6: Reading German Gardens

Room 1.010

Chair: Frederike Middelhoff, University of Würzburg, Germany

Frederike Middelhoff, University of Würzburg, Germany

“Without care in the world, I stood in a sumptuous garden”: How German Romantics Plough the Allegorical Garden

Judith Rauscher, University of Bamberg, Germany

Groundwork, Fieldwork, Topopoetics: Reading Lorna Goodison's “The Garden of St Michael in the Seven-Hilled City of Bamberg”

Helga G. Braunbeck, North Carolina State University, NC, U.S.A.

Shadows of the Anthropocene in Gardens of Contemporary German Literature

 

1pm – 2 pm       

Lunch

Mensateria

 

2pm – 4pm

 

Panel 7: How (Not) to Narrate the Anthropocene: Storytelling, Realism, and Environmental Change

Room 1.012

Chair: Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Surrey, UK

Hannes Bergthaller, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan

Cultivating Our Garden in the Anthropocene: Reading Candide as a Critique of Anthropodicy

Shawn Worthington, University of Pennsylvania, PA, U.S.A.

The Coal Garden: Proletariat Fiction and American Anti-Environmentalism

Dana Phillips, Towson University, MD, U.S.A.

Points of View and Just-So Stories: Narrating Environmental Change

Adeline Johns-Putra, University of Surrey, UK

Plotting Realism in the Anthropocene: Narrative and History Outside the Flow of Time

 

Panel 8: Der Garten in mittelalterlicher Literatur: Raum, Mythos und Erzählfunktion

Room 1.004

Chair: Hans Rudolf Velten, Universität Siegen, Germany

Theresa Specht, Universität Siegen, Germany

Der Kampf im falschen Paradies: Gärten im Erec und Laurin

Mareike Engel, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany

Boumgarten schœne, rehtez wîp, unverzageter man. Der Garten als Heterotopie in den Artusromanen Hartmanns von Aue

Hans Rudolf Velten, Universität Siegen, Germany

Fiktionale und faktuale Gärten im Mittelalter: Raum und Umwelt in den Traktaten von Albertus Magnus und Petrus de Crescentiis

 

Panel 9: Fiction and the Horticultural Imagination II

Room 1.003

Chair: Katherine R. Lynes, Union College, NY, U.S.A.

Yi-Peng Lai, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

Writing Modern Irish Gardens: Politics and Eco-politics of Irish Horticultural Imaginations

Bénédicte Meillon, Université de Perpignan, France

Mountain Top Removal Mining vs Garden Ecopoet(h)ics in Ann Pancake’s Strange as This Weather Has Been

 

Panel 10: Horticultural Poetics II

Room 1.002

Chair: Sue Edney, University of Bristol, UK

Rachel Nisbet, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Cultivating a Georgic Ethos of Care in William Wordsworth’s and Alice Oswald’s Garden Poetry

Valeria Meiller, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

The Language of Flowers: Marosa Di Giorgio’s Plant Writing

Aytül Özüm, Hacettepe University, Turkey

Production and Consumption, Love and Terror, Forgetting and Remembering as Represented in Latife Tekin’s Allegorical Novel Unutma Bahçesi (Garden of Forgetting)

 

Panel 11: Garden Writing/Life Writing I

Room 1.013

Chair: Michaela Keck, Carl von Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg, Germany

Vera Alexander, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

Garden Writing as Life Writing: Green Thoughts in No Man’s Land

Micha Gerrit Philipp Edlich, Leuphana University, Germany

My Garden, Myself/My Self: Reading Contemporary North American Gardening Life Narratives

Shiuhhauh Serena Chou, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Field of Action: Gardening and/as Zen Worlding in Wendy Johnson’s Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate

Harri Salovaara, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

The Klettergarten as a Socio-Ecological Heterotopia

 

4pm – 4:30pm   

Coffee Break

First Floor

 

4:30pm – 6pm

 

Panel 12: Garden Writing/Life Writing II

Room 1.004

Chair: Vera Alexander, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

Julia Libor, Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Reading 21^st Century Women’s Garden Memoirs

JoeAnn Hart, Gloucester, MA, U.S.A.

Cape Ann Madonnas

Diane P. Freedman, University of New Hampshire, NH, U.S.A.

The Island Garden/ I-land Garden: Celia Thaxter and the Meaning of Gardening and Gardening Restoration for Cultural Memory

 

Panel 13: Misecogyny, Ecocide, and Friction

Room 1.003

Chair: Susan S. Morrison, Texas State University, TX, U.S.A.

Susan S. Morrison, Texas State University, TX, U.S.A.

Countering Misecogyny and Ecocatastrophe in Hawthorne’s “Rappaccini’s Daughter”: The Paradigm of Viriditas and Grace

Erika Berroth, Southwestern University, TX, USA

Ecocide and Genocide in Marica Bodrožić’s Short Story “Der Lilienliebhaber”—Lover of Lilies

Sue Edney, University of Bristol, UK

A Garden ‘full of sound and fury’: Tennyson’s Maud and Talking Flowers

 

Panel 14: Cinematic Gardens: Interrogating Space, Gaze, and Otherness in Environmental Film

Room 1.012

Chair: Alexa Weik von Mossner, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Alexa Weik von Mossner, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

Back to the Roots: Race, Space, and Community in Urban Farming Documentaries

Margarita Carretero-González, Universidad de Granada/GIECO-Franklin Institute, Spain

A Garden is a Farm is a Refuge: Forms of Otherness and Politics of Space in The Zookeeper’s Wife

Michaela Castellanos, Mid-Sweden-University, Sweden

Displaying the Dolphin Body in Ocean Theme Parks and Recent Cetacean Films

 

Panel 15: Composing Unruly Anthropocene Gardens

Room 1.002

Chair: Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University, TX, U.S.A.

Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University, TX, U.S.A.

Gardens in the Dark Green in the Anthropocene, or Tame Plants run Amok

Serenella Iovino, Università di Torino/Rachel Carson Center LMU Munich, Italy/Germany

The Reverse of the Sublime: Dilemmas (and Resources) of the Anthropocene Garden

Emiliano Guaraldo, University of North Carolina, NC, U.S.A.

Flora Povera: Botanical Life and the Art of Giuseppe Penone and Piero Gilardi

 

Panel 16: The Garden in Margaret Atwood’s Work

Room 1.013

Chair: Timo Müller, University of Regensburg, Germany

Michaela Keck, Carl von Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg, Germany

Paradise Retold: Garden of Delight in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy

Gabriele Rippl, University of Bern, Switzerland

Margaret Atwood’s Gardens

Carmen Concilio, University of Turin, Italy

The Garden as Democratic Space in M. Atwood and D. Lessing

 

6pm – 7pm

Room 0.002

Editorial Board and Advisory Board Meeting (ECOZON@)

 

7:30pm – 11pm

Wine Tasting

 

Friday, September 28, 2018

9am – 10am

Room 0.001

Members Meeting

 

10am – 10:30am

Coffee Break

First Floor

 

10:30am – noon

 

Panel 17: Der Garten: Heterotopie, Utopie, Dystopie

Room 1.004

Chair: Helga G. Braunbeck, North Carolina State University, NC, U.S.A.

Lucie Taïeb, Brest University, France

Gärten und Mülldeponien, Mülldeponien als Gärten: Einige Beobachtungen zur wechselseitigen Beziehung zweier Heterotopien

Sieglinde Grimm, Universität zu Köln, Germany

„A green Thought in a green Shade”. Andrew Marvells Garten-Gedichte und ihre Spuren in Wilhelm Lehmanns Naturlyrik

Marita Meyer, Freie Universität Berlin/Berlin European Studies Program, Germany

Gärtnern in der Stadt: Vom Schrebergarten über die Gartenstadt zum urbanen Gärtnern

 

Panel 18: The Garden and the History of Land Use

Room 1.003

Chair: Hans Rudolf Velten, Universität Siegen, Germany

Ulrike Plath, Tallinn University, Estonia

Growing the Wild? Wild Food in Baltic Premodern Gardens

Solvejg Nitzke, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Cultivating Relationships: Proto-Ecological Knowledge in Peter Rosegger’s Journal Der Heimgarten

 

Panel 19: Garden Varieties: Desert, Plantation, Backyard

Room 1.002

Chair: Hanna Straß-Senol, Universität Oldenburg, Germany

Isabel Pérez-Ramos, Independent/GIECO Instituto Franklin, Spain

Gardening the Desert: Literary Perspectives of Gardening in Native American and Chicana/o Literature of the US Southwest

Peter Mortensen, Aarhus University, Denmark

“A Coffee-Plantation Is a Thing that Gets Hold of You and Does Not Let You Go”: Tangled Transactions in Karen Blixen’s Out of Africa

David Lombard, University of Liège, Belgium

US Literature and the Toxic Sublime: Technology in the Pastoral Garden

 

Panel 20: The Garden As Material Practice I

Room 1.013

Chair: Ina Bergmann, University of Würzburg, Germany

Felicity Hand, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

The Kruger National Park: White Environmentalists versus Black Poachers?

Benjamin Ferguson, Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, France

Salmon Ranching in Urban Alaska

 

Noon – 1pm

Brown Bag Lunch

 

Afternoon           

Excursion Program

 

Saturday, September 29, 2018

9am – 10:30am

Room 0.001

Keynote:

Robert S. Emmett, Virginia Tech, U.S.A.

Cultivation, Insurgency, Charity: Public Food Gardens in the Penumbral Period

Introduction: Alexa Weik von Mossner, University of Klagenfurt, Austria

 

10:30am – 11am

Coffee Break

First Floor

 

11:00am – 1pm

 

Panel 21: Media, Pop Culture, and Film

Room 1.004

Chair: Carmen Flys-Junquera,  GIEGO-Franklin Institute/University of Alcalá, Spain

John Parham, University of Worcester, UK

Understanding Environmental Communication: Can Social Media Lead Us Back to the Garden?

Christopher Oscarson, Brigham Young University, UT, U.S.A.

The Garden as Ecomedia

Christina Caupert, Universität Augsburg, Germany

Digging Up and Giving Back: Garden Ecology in Mackenzie Crook's BBC Series Detectorists

 

Panel 22: Ethics, Poetics, Aesthetics

Room 1.003

Chair: Judith Rauscher, University of Bamberg, Germany

Mark Cladis, Brown University, RI, U.S.A.

Rousseau’s Ecological Garden as a World in which to Live

Artis Svece, University of Latvia, Latvia

Weeding the Garden: Ecocritical Analysis of a Social Practice in the Context of the Culture/Nature Border

 

Panel 23: Philosophical Gardens

Room 1.012

Chair: Greg Garrard, University of British Columbia, Canada

Timo Maran, University of Tartu, Estonia

It grows! Garden as an Ontological Metaphor for Human-Environment Relations

Simon Schleusener, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

The Machine Is the Garden: Concepts of Ecology and Nature in the Anthropocene

Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University, UK

The Garden in Anthropocene Nature Writing

Nurten Birlik & Merve Günday, Middle East Technical University, Turkey

A Lacanian Interpretation of Garden as an Eco/Heterotopia in Auden’s “Their Lonely Betters”

 

Panel 24: Cultivating Life in Barren Spaces

Room 1.013

Chair: Katie Ritson, Rachel Carson Center LMU Munich, Germany

Katie Ritson, Rachel Carson Center LMU Munich, Germany

Cold Earth, Infertile Soil, Human Extinctions: Lessons from the Past in Sarah Moss’ Novels Cold Earth (2009) and Night Waking (2011)

Lucy Rowland, University of Leeds, UK

Dunes, Desertification and the Possibility of Refuge in Clare Vaye Watkins’ Gold Fame Citrus (2015)

Eline Tabak, Rachel Carson Center LMU Munich, Germany

Imagining the Honeybee & Insect Decline in the Novel

 

1pm – 2pm

Lunch

First Floor

 

2pm – 4pm

 

Panel 25: The Garden as Material Practice II

Room 1.004

Chair: Christina Caupert, Universität Augsburg, Germany

Linda Heß, University of Frankfurt, Germany

The National Park as Resistance: The Alt-National Park Services as a Reaction to Climate Change Politics in the Era of Trump

Greg Garrard, University of British Columbia, Canada

Derek Jarman’s Gay Georgic

 

Panel 26: Four Faces of Eden

Room 1.012

Chair: José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/GIECO Franklin Institute UAH, Spain

José Manuel Marrero Henríquez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/GIECO Franklin Institute UAH, Spain

Touring Through the Garden of Eden

Diana Villanueva-Romero, University of Extremadura/GIECO Franklin Institute UAH, Spain

The Myth of the Garden of Eden in Female Primatology

Carmen Flys-Junquera,  GIECO-Franklin Institute/University of Alcalá, Spain

Joan Slonczeswski’s “Elysium” Science Fiction Cycle: Questionable Paradises

Juan Ignacio Oliva Cruz, Universidad de La Laguna/GIECO, Spain

Rotten Apples in Eden Gardens: Post-Pastoralism in Deprived Literary Orchards

 

Panel 27: Fiction and the Horticultural Imagination III

Room 1.002

Chair: Heike Raphael-Hernandez, University of Würzburg, Germany

Chantelle Bayes, Griffith University, Australia

The Inscribed Gardens of Tan Twan Eng’s The Garden of Evening Mists and Fiona MacGregor’s Indelible Ink

Erika Lemmer, University of South Africa, Republic of South Africa

Escaping into Make-Believe Worlds: Revisiting The Garden of Evening Mists (2012)

Matthias Klestil, Universität Bayreuth, Germany

The Machine Under the Garden: African American Meta-Pastoral in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

 

4pm – 4:30 pm

Closing Remarks & Farewell

Room 0.001

 

Conference Venue for Opening, all Keynotes, Panels, and Meetings:

Zentrales Hörsaal- u. Seminargebäude Z6

Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg

Ground Floor (Rooms 0.001, 0.002), First Floor (all other rooms)