Schedule

9:50 – Online Access Opens (for spectators)

10:00 – Welcome Address

10:10 – KEYNOTE ADDRESS

• Dr Sam Haddow, ‘Looking Back at Our Future Ruins: Waste, Suicide, and Beauty in Contemporary End-of-the-World Fictions’. University of St Andrews.

11:10/15 – Coffee Break

11: 30 – PANEL 1: WASTED SPACE

• Elina Paivinen, ‘What is Waste in the Atomic Age? Denise Levertov’s “Post-Bomb” Poetry’. University of Cambridge.
• Nora Bergbreiter, ‘On the Image of Discomforting Waste Landscapes’. Karlsruher Institute of Technology.
• Fani Apospori, ‘”A cracked dome, a rising sea”: On Marshallese Nuclear Necropoetics of Waste’. University of Edinburgh.

13.00 – Lunch

14.00 – PANEL 2: WASTED BODIES

• Gefan Wang, ‘“A Drunkard’s Paradise”: Reading Alcoholism, Family, and Alienation in Ōe Kenzaburō’s Man’en Gan’nen no Futtoboru (1967)’. Kings College London.
• Charlotte Haley, ‘Life in Plastic: Body Boundaries and Consumption under Barbie’. University of Edinburgh.
• Helena Vilalta, ‘Administrative Waste: Howardena Pindell’. Central St Martins, London.

15.30 – Tea Break

15.45 – PANEL 3: WASTING AWAY

• Molly Smith, ‘Seamus Heaney’s Peat Bog’s: Landscapes of Waste and Decay or Spaces of Queer Reproduction?’. University of St Andrews.
• Juliette Bretan, ‘Too many ruins’: Impossible Waste and Possible Recovery in Post-war Depictions of East-Central Europe’. University of Cambridge.
• Ally Louks, ‘Olfactory Waste in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby‘. University of Cambridge.

17.15 – ROUNDTABLE

18.00 – Wine Reception