Writing Climate / Changing Fictions
Writing Climate / Changing Fiction
A one-day symposium organized by the British and American Cultural Studies Program, Faculty of World Englishes, Chukyo University, with funding from Chukyo University English Society and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
Saturday, March 25th, 2023 Convention Hall, Annex Building 16, 6th floor Chukyo University (Yagoto Campus) Admission free
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Program
Opening Remarks (10:50 - 11:00) Arinori Mori and Christopher J. Armstrong (Chukyo University)
Session 1 (11: 00 - 12:30) Chair: Arinori Mori (Chukyo University)
1. Mark Weeks (Nagoya University), “SDG's, PERMA and Death: White Noise Then and Now”
2. Christopher J. Armstrong (Chukyo University), “Ecosickness in David Huebert’s Short Fiction”
3. Daichi Sugai (Aichi Gakuin University), “Urban Nature Writing: Literary Imaginations of Environmental Realities from Brautigan to Mullen”
Lunch Break (12:30-13:40)
Session 2 (13:45 - 15:15) Chair: Maureen Boulanger (Chukyo University)
1. Seng Ong (Chukyo University), “The Famine Pastoral: Colonial Famine and Western Visual Culture in China, 1870-1920” (Online presentation)
2. Yoko Araki (Keiwa College), “Cli-fictionalizing Japan Sinks: Spin-offs and Adaptations of An Earthquake Story and Climate Change”
3. David S. Ramsey (Notre Dame Seishin University), “Laughing at the Apocalypse: Eco Doom and the Danse Macabre in American Cli-Fi Film” Coffee Break (15:15 - 15:30)
Keynote Lecture (15:30 - 16:30) Chair: Christopher J. Armstrong (Chukyo University)
Dr. John Clement Ball (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada)
“Gun Island v. Blaze Island: Improbability, Risk, and Eco-Cosmopolitanism in Two Recent Climate-Change Novels”
Closing Remarks (16:40-16:50) Arinori Mori and Christopher J. Armstrong (Chukyo University)
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Please pre-register for online attendance by contacting Professor Mori or Professor Armstrong. Deadline: March 23rd Zoom links will be sent out by Friday, March 24th. Arinori Mori (moria@lets.chukyo-u.ac.jp) / Christopher J. Armstrong (cjarms@lets.chukyo-u.ac.jp)
