Schedule

Thursday, May 2nd, 2019
Room 203
Henry R. Luce Hall
34 Hillhouse Avenue

10:30 – 10:40 | Opening Remarks by Lav Kanoi

10:40 – 12:00 | Panel I: Religion and Representation
moderated by Mary Evelyn Tucker, F&ES + Divinity

– Allegra Lovejoy Wiprud, F&ES, Personhood of Trees in Hindu Practice and Philosophy
– Annalea Rose Thiessen, Divinity, Iconic-Seeing: Shifting the Human Relation to the Earth
– Elena Adasheva-Klein, Anthropology, Humans Are Not Welcome? Blizzards, Adventures, and Death on Wrangel Island
– Ted Hamilton, Comparative Literature, Communicating Vessels: Mario Vargas Llosa and the Cultural Difference of Nature

12:00 – 12:45 | Lunch

12:45 – 2:00 | Panel II: Art & Landscape
moderated by Jennifer Raab, History of Art
– Freya Schwachenwald, History of Art, Ecology, Slavery and Ice Cream. Haunting and Knowing in Fürst Hermann von Pückler-Muskau’s archive
– Jack Hanly, Architecture, Peter Fend, Ocean Earth, and the Artist-Technician
– Anna Thurston, Divinity, Mountains as Markers: British Aesthetic Engagement with 19th Century Himalayan Landscapes
– Andrew Vielkind, History of Art, Demystified Terrains: The Moonscape as Environmental ‘Non-Site’

2:00 – 2:15 | Tea

2:15 – 3:30 | Panel III: Science and Society
moderated by Deborah Coen, History
– Cheng Li, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Planting Socialist Nature: The Rhetoric of Tree-planting in Socialist China, 1949-1961
– Tanmoy Sharma, Anthropology, Oil India Unlimited: Corporations and Collectivities on the margins of India
– Jia Weng, Architecture, Domesticating the Clouds: Weather Modification and the Aesthetic of Scale
– Antonio Ballesteros-Figueroa, F&ES, Framing imperfect worlds: An STS approach to the construction of environmental knowledge

3:30 – 3:45 | Closing Remarks by Abigail Fields

Admission: Free
Open to: General Public