12-1:15pm. Lunch

Introduction: Stephanie LeMenager, Marsha Weisiger, David Vazquez

1:30-3pm. Rethinking Race/Ethnicity in the Anthropocene

Moderators: David Vazquez, Sarah Wald

Roundtable: Naveeda Khan (Johns Hopkins U), Julie Minich (U Texas Austin), J. Bacon (U of Oregon), Jennifer James (George Washington U)

Provocateur: April Anson (U of Oregon)

3:30-4pm. Keynote Address: “Environmental Justice, Visibility and Recognition in the Anthropocene,” Julie Sze (UC-Davis)

4-4:30pm. Structured Conversation with Julie Sze: Kari Norgaard (U of Oregon), Nicolae Morar (U of Oregon), Taylor McHolm (U of Oregon)

4:30-5pm. Q and A with Julie Sze, Kari Norgaard, Nicolae Morar, Taylor McHolm

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11-12:30pm. Historical Perspectives on the Anthropocene

Moderators: Marsha Weisiger, Matthew Dennis

Roundtable:

Bob Wilson (Syracuse U), Dan Platt (U of Oregon), Nancy Langston (Michigan Tech University), Robert Figueroa (Oregon State U)

12:30-1:30pm. Lunch Break

1:30-3pm. Science and Climate Justice

Moderators: Mark Carey, Stephanie LeMenager

Roundtable:

Megan Fernandes (Concordia U), Janet Fiskio (Oberlin College), Anne Nolin (Oregon State U), Charlotte Rheingold (Clark Honors College, U of Oregon)

Provocateur: Jenny Crayne (U of Oregon)

3:30-4pm. Keynote: “Eco-poetics and Racial Scripts in Age of Extinction/s,” Ricardo Dominguez

4-4:30pm. Structured Conversation with Ricardo Dominguez: Tara Fickle, Gerardo Sandoval, Amy Harwood (Signal Fire)

4:30-5pm. Q and A with Ricardo Dominguez, Tara Fickle, Gerardo Sandoval, Amy Harwood

S p o n s o r s

Dr. David Vázquez, Associate Professor and Head of English

Dr. Marsha Weisiger, the Rocky and Julie Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History

Dr. Stephanie LeMenager, the Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English

Ethnic Studies Department

College of Arts & Sciences

History Department

Environmental Studies

Romance Languages Department

English Department

Honors College

Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies

Women’s and Gender Studies

Center on Diversity and Community

Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities

P a r t i c i p a n t B i o g r a p h i e s

Charlotte Rheingold is a senior Comparative Literature major and a student in the Clark Honors College, with minors in French and Economics. She is involved on campus as the Chief Editor of the Oregon Undergraduate Research Journal, and as a student office assistant in the Philosophy Department. After graduation, she hopes to continue on to graduate school or to pursue an editorial career in the publishing industry.

Gerardo Sandoval is an assistant professor in the department of planning, public policy and management at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on the roles of immigrants in community regeneration, the responses of governments to the presence of immigrants, and the ways that transnational relationships shape the spaces immigrants inhabit.

Julie Sze is an Associate Professor, Director of American Studies, and the founding director of the Environmental Justice Project at UC Davis. Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice won John Hope Franklin Prize. Her second book is Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis.

David J. Vázquez is Associate Professor and Head of English at the University of Oregon. His first book, Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latina/o Identity was published in 2011 with the University of Minnesota Press. He is currently working on two book-length projects that explore the intersections of Latina/o literature and environmental studies.

Sarah D. Wald is Assistant Professor of English and Environmental Studies at University of Oregon. Her first book, California Is in the Heart: Race, Nature, and Contested Depictions of Farmers and Farmworkers, is forthcoming from U of Washington P. Her research focuses on the intersections of environmental humanities and ethnic studies in U.S. literature and culture.

Marsha Weisiger is the Julie and Rocky Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History and an associate professor of history and environmental studies. She is currently at work on two environmental histories of western rivers and a study of the significance of the countercultural movement to the rise of modern environmentalism. Her most recent book is the award-winning Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country (2009).

Bob Wilson is associate professor of Geography at Syracuse University and studies historical geography, environmental history, and environmental social movements. He is the author of Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway, which explores the challenges of managing wild nature in working landscapes. His current project, Forging the Climate Movement, examines the recent outpouring of climate activism in the U.S.

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April Anson is a PhD student in Literature and the Environment at University of Oregon. Her work focuses on indigenous, environmental, and bio-politics in 19th Century American literatures. Her secondary interests include scholarly activism and the tiny house movement.

J. Bacon is a PhD student in the Environmental Studies program at the University of Oregon. Their research interests include indigenous-settler relations, social movements, emotions and environmental justice.

Mark Carey is the associate dean and associate professor of history in the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon. He researches the history of climate change and human-glacier interactions. His first book, In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers: Climate Change and Andean Society (Oxford, 2010), won the Elinor Melville Prize for the best book on Latin American Environmental History.

Jenny Crayne is a second-year Master's Student in Environmental Studies focusing on environmental education, climate change communication, and nonprofit management. Her thesis addresses the issue of climate change in the classroom, including how structural factors, emotional pressures, and the culture of science teaching affect the ways in which educators address this issue.

Matthew Dennis is Professor of History and Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon. His books include Cultivating a Landscape of Peace: Iroquois-European Encounters in 17th-Century America (1993); Red, White, and Blue Letter Days: An American Calendar (2002); Riot and Revelry in Early America (co-editor, 2002); Encyclopedia of Holidays and Celebrations, 3 vols. (editor, 2006); and Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic (2010). His current book project is American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory.

Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed virtual sit-in technologies in solidarity with the Zapatistas communities in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1998. His recent Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab project ( http://bang.transreal.org/) with Brett Stalbaum, Micha Cardenas, Amy Sara Carroll, and Elle Mehrmand, the Transborder Immigrant Tool (a GPS cell phone safety net tool for crossing the Mexico/US border). Dominguez is an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, in the Visual Arts Department and a Principal Investigator at CALIT2, UCSD. He also is co-founder of *particle group*, with artists Diane Ludin, Nina Waisman, Amy Sara Carroll, whose art project about nano-toxicology. http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/particle-group-intro

Megan Fernandes received her PhD in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her MFA in poetry from Boston University. Her academic research draws on science and technology studies, media philosophy, and 20th century Anglophone literature. In the fall, she will be an Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College.

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Tara Fickle is an Assistant Professor of Asian American Literature and Digital Humanities at the University of Oregon. She has written on contemporary American fiction, Asian American cultural politics, and game theory, and is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Serious Play: The Games of Asian America. More information can be found on her website, http://www.ficklet.wordpress.com/

Robert Melchior Figueroa is an associate professor of philosophy at Oregon State University, and currently the Engaged Scholar in Residence at OSU’s Center for Latin@ Studies and Engagement. He co-edited Science and Other Cultures (Routledge 2003) with Sandra Harding and guest edited Ecotourism and Environmental Justice for the Journal of Environmental Philosophy. He’s worked from transdisciplinary engaged philosophy to study environmental justice through multiple dimensions of justice focusing on a wide-range of issues including environmental identity and heritage and Latin@ environmental justice.

Janet Fiskio is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. Her research and teaching focus on community-based projects for environmental justice in the rust belt, including urban farming and anti-tar sands activism. Her essays have appeared in American Literature, Race, Gender, and Class, and The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment. She is currently at work on a book project, Counterfriction: Poetics, Politics, and Performance of Climate Justice.

Amy Harwood has been involved in forest conservation and public lands advocacy since 1998. She is currently the Interim Executive Director of Bark, a watchdog group for Mt. Hood National Forest. In 2008, she co-founded Signal Fire, an organization committed to engaging artists in our remaining wildlands through backcountry travel and experiential education. Amy has participated in many political actions that bring together artistic minds and creative agitators.

Jennifer James is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Africana Studies Program at The George Washington University. She is the author of A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature, the Civil War-World War II. She is currently at work on a book about a 19th century labor riot. Her ecocritical scholarship has recently appeared in American Literary History and Environmental Criticism for the 21st Century.

Naveeda Khan is associate professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism is on Pakistan, studied how sectarian violence was folded into everyday life in Lahore, Pakistan. She is the editor of Beyond Crisis: Reevaluating Pakistan, Number as Inventive Frontier, and The Fate of Our Corruption. Her new work looks at how climate change as a temporal horizon is folding into everyday life in silt islands within the Jamuna River in Bangladesh and she is working on a book manuscript on the topic at present.

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Nancy Langston is Professor of Environmental History at Michigan Technological University. She has served as President of the American Society for Environmental History, Editor of Environmental History and King Carl XVI Gustaf Professor of Environmental Sciences at Umeå University in Sweden. She is the author of three books, including Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES (Yale University Press, 2010).

Stephanie LeMenager is Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English and Environmental Studies at University of Oregon. Her current work considers the Humanities in environmental public culture, with two books in progress, Weathering: Toward a Sustainable Humanities and Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, co-edited by Stephen Siperstein and Shane Hall. Her most recent book is Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century.

Taylor McHolm is a PhD student in the Environmental Science, Studies and Policy program with a focal department in English. His work is situated in the environmental humanities and focuses on the ways in which experimental form in contemporary literature makes visible the intersections of race and environment.

Julie Avril Minich is Assistant Professor of English and Mexican American & Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her book, Accessible Citizenships: Disability, Nation, and the Cultural Politics of Greater Mexico, was published by Temple University Press in 2014. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, MELUS, and the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.

Nicolae Morar is assistant professor of philosophy and environmental studies and an associate member with the Institute of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Oregon. He is coeditor or co-translator of several books, including Perspectives in Bioethics, Science and Public Policy.

Anne Nolin is a Professor in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University where she heads the Mountain Hydroclimatology Research Group. Her research focuses on mountain snowpacks and glaciers, climate change impacts, and how they contribute water for people and for ecosystems.

Kari Norgaard is Associate Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at University of Oregon. Dr. Norgaard has published and taught in the areas of environmental sociology, gender and environment, race and environment, climate change, and sociology of emotions. Her book Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions and Everyday Life was published by MIT Press in 2011.

Daniel Platt graduated from the University of Oregon in December with a PhD in English and a Masters in Nonprofit Management. His dissertation focused on new urbanism and contemporary U.S. fiction. He recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor of 20th Century Literature and Film at Graceland University in Iowa.