Program

Registration & Refreshments

Location: Science Atrium

8:00–9:00

Welcome Remarks

Location: Science Atrium

8:45–9:00

• Natasha Rebry
• LPIRG
• Mattew Letts

Panel 1: Outside Perspectives — Nature and the Environment in the French and Spanish-speaking World

Moderated by: Beth Gerwin

Location: Science Atrium

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9:00–10:15

• Stories of Motherhood and Nature in Venezuelan Cinema
  Omar Rodríguez
• Questioning Human Nature: Balzac’s A Passion in the Desert (1830)
  Beth Gerwin
• Power struggles: Between Nature, nurture, and neglect in Frappabord (Horsefly) by Mireille Gagné
  Steven Urquhart
• Convulsive Nature: Théophile de Viau and the Poetics of Ecological Revolt
  Tabitha Spagnolo

Coffee Break

10:15–10:30

Panel 2 (Concurrent): Rethinking Sustainability in Practice and Discourse

Moderated by: Natasha Rebry

Location: Science Atrium

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10:30–11:45

• Rooted in Sustainability: Exploring Medical Plants for a Thriving Campus Ecosystem
  Katerin Varela & Mai Eagle Speaker
• Towards Transformative Climate Change Education: Questions and Pedagogies for Educators
  Stephanie Leite
• More Than Anxiety: Youth and the Moral Injury of Anthropogenic Climate Change
  Jodi Newman
• (Un)natural Brewing: An Industrialization of Environment
  Stephanie Laine Hamilton

Panel 3 (Concurrent): Human and More-than-Human Worlds

Moderated by: Dana Lew

Location: S8003

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10:30–11:45

• Crop and Crop Wild Relative Landesque Capital among Amazonian Runa in Ecuador
  John Robert White
• The Epistemics of Loss: Absence as Medium in Ecological Design
  Tushar Kant
• Re-imagining Climate Futures: Playful Simulations and the Power of Hope
  Shara Merrill
• The Double-Edged Sword: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Environment
  A K M Iftekhar Khalid

Lunch

Location: Science Atrium

12:00–12:45

Posters and Creative Projects

Introduction by: Jocelyn McKnight

Location: Science Atrium

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12:30–1:00

• Narration through Nature: Game Environments as Subjects in Ghost of Tsushima
  Dara-Lynn Boras
• Simulations and Play for Climate Futures
  Shara Merrill
• Greyscale Lemurs
  Mason Gatner
• The Forms of Landscape
  Michal Krawczyk

Panel 4: Pommotsiiysinn Sapaatsima’pi

Moderated by: Andrea Cuellar

Location: Science Atrium

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1:00–2:15

• Documenting Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Through the Lens of the Blackfoot People
  Jordan David
• Receiving Guidance from Áísínai’pi with Our Relatives
  Blair Many Fingers (Sisiksi/Mixed Coins)
• Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Two-Eyed Seeing
  Kimmy Eckert
• Repatriation of Keystone Plant Species (Waterton)
  Iinakay Mountain Horse

Coffee Break

2:15–2:25

Panel 5: Blackfoot Language and the Poetics of Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Moderated by: Patrick Wilson

Location: Science Atrium

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2:25–3:55

• Native and Invasive Species as Seen through the Blackfoot Language
  Ninna Piiksii (Dr. Mike Bruised Head)
• Kitáwahsinnooni ki I’pówahsin. Land and Language
  Api’soomaahka (William Singer III)
• Aokakio’sato’p Ksaahkoyi: Land-based Environmental Education for Stewardship of the Land
  A’poyaakii (Amanda Fox) & Mía’nístsínihkíaakii (Caroline Russell)

Coffee Break

3:55–4:05

Panel 6: Wilderness of Mind

Moderated by: Natasha Rebry

Location: Science Atrium

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4:05–5:20

• Cognition, Ecology, and Tok Pisin
  Jocelyn McKnight
• “The Peace of Wild Things”: A Case For Environmental Poetry in the Anthropocene
  Indie Verona MacGarva
• Backyard Wilderness
  Leila Armstrong
• Mushrooms at the End of the World: Infecting the Anthropocene with Fungal Eco-Horror
  Natasha Rebry Coulthard

Closing Remarks & Awards

Location: Science Atrium

5:20–5:30

• Natasha Rebry