FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Thursday, May 12, 2016 – Schedule of Events

Breakfast & Introductory Remarks | 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom

Panel 1 | 9:00 AM – 10:50 AM | Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom

Panel Chair: Zephyr Frank, Professor of History, Stanford

“The Anthropocene and the Posthuman in Don DeLillo’s Novels”

Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Professor of Comparative Literature, Aarhus University

“Bone, Meat, and Brain-Stuff: American Naturalism and the Possibility of Post-Anthropocentric Character”

Victoria Googasian, PhD Candidate in English, Stanford

“Language of Animality, Non-Heroic Resistance, and Urban Indigenismo in Montacerdos“

Patricia Valderrama, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature, Stanford

Panel 2 | 11:10 AM – 1:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom

Panel Chair: Ewa Domanska, Professor of Theory and History of Historiography, Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznan, and Anthropology, Stanford

“Oil, Sugar, Color, Rhythm”

Rachel Price, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, Princeton University

“Post-Anthropogenic Making: Exohabitating Atmospheres, Reefs, and Neighborhoods”

David Stentiford, PhD Candidate in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford

“‘Truth as Cadaver’: Material History in Bolaño’s Nocturno de Chile“

Monica VanBladel, PhD Candidate in Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford

Lunch | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center Boardroom

Keynote Address: “Staying with the Trouble: Making Oddkin in the Chthulucene” | 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM | Old Union Clubhouse Ballroom

Donna Haraway, Distinguished Professor Emerita of the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department, UC Santa Cruz

Roundtable Discussion & Closing Remarks | 4:15 PM – 5:00 PM | Old Union Clubhouse Ballroom

All participants, with distinguished guest Rodolfo Dirzo, Bing Professor in Environmental Sciences, Stanford, and materia faculty coordinators Héctor Hoyos, Ximena Briceño, and Marília Librandi-Rocha, Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford

Dinner | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | Oregon Courtyard, Pigott Hall (Bldg 260)

Event Sponsor:
The Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Environmental Humanities Project, the Sense and Sound Research Unit, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Program in Modern Thought and Literature, and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Contact Email:
pvalderr@stanford.edu, monicavb@stanford.edu