Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and the University of California, Santa Barbara
July 10-31, 2020
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Cost: $25 or pay what you can on a sliding scale, starting at $5 USD.
Symposium Schedule
July 10: The symposium begins. All panels go live. Also live on July 10: Elaine Scarry’s keynote talk “Architecture and the Right of Assembly: Black Lives Matter and the Meadows of Frederick Law Olmsted”; a short video by Ken Hiltner on the advantages of nearly-carbon-neutral (NCN) conferences; brief welcome videos by the organizers.
July 16: Kim TallBear’s keynote talk “Beyond the Life/Death Binary: A Feminist-Indigenous Reading of Settler Apocalypse 2020” goes live.
July 18: Screening of the documentary INVASION, followed by a discussion. INVASION deals with the anti-colonial work of the Unist’ot’en Camp of the Wet’suwet’en Nation.
July 21: A gallery of short academic/activist videos goes live; the videos focus on how their work responds to “emergency” and “crisis,” and how they’re rethinking what they do in response to the pandemic, anti-racist protests, and other recent developments.
July 23: Kim TallBear does a live Q & A on her talk.
July 28: Stephanie LeMenager and Jennifer Wenzel hold a live conversation, informed by the academic/activist videos in the gallery. Live discussion.
July 30: Closing social event.
