ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

FLASHPOINTS, FORMS, FUTURES

8:45-9:00 Opening remarks: Ursula K. Heise

9:00-10:30 Urban Ecologies

A Tale of Two Infrastructures: The Treatment of Freeways in the Los Angeles River Master Plan
JULY 9TH

Rachael Lee (University of Oregon)

Falling into Form: Hazing Urban Coyotes and Multispecies Justice

Chase Niesner (UC Los Angeles)

Visualizing Tenement Housing Structures – Illustrations, Photos and the Narrative in Eisner’s
The Contract with God
Evelyn Vasquez (UC San Diego)

Evelina, A Young Lady’s Entrance into the Unjustly Planned Urban Space of London
Xinyuan Qiu (Binghamton University)
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

10:30-12:00 Postcolonialism, Myth, Empire

“First we were enslaved. Then we were poisoned”: Environmental (In)justice in the Post-Colonial
French Caribbean
David Vivian (UC Santa Barbara)

The Shadow Lines and Impossibility of Looking Away

Shoumik Bhattacharya (City University of New York)

Spaces of Exception: Deforming Language in Hamid Ismailov's Wunderkind Erzhan/The Dead Lake
Sophie Lockey (UC Berkeley)

"Something Coarse and Concealed:” Violent Myth and Ecological Injury in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady
Arush Pande (Lehigh University)

1:00-2:00 KEYNOTE: Julie Sze

Climate Justice, Satire and Hothouse Earth

2:00-2:30 Coffee break / Zoom social

2:30-3:45 Energy, Climate, War

JULY 9TH

Sunny Side Up? On Solarpunk's Troubled Environmentally Just Futures

Reuben Martens (KU Leuven)

Wars' Slow Violence in A Tale for the Time Being and Waste Tide
Ling Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University)

Palindromic Climates, Alien Icescapes: The Ongoing Artistry of Himali Singh Soin
Clara Wilch (UC Los Angeles)

3:45-5:00 Critical Geographies and Racial Ecologies

Violence, Race, and Environmental Justice in Colombia’s Cauca Region
Martín Ruiz-Mendoza (University of Michigan)

"I have incidentally described her piece by piece" : Maxine Hong Kingston's Ethics of Environmental Writing
Tori McCandless (UC Davis)

A Paradigm for Chicana Environmentalism: An Ecofeminist Approach to Cactus Blood

Carly Heidenfeld (University of New Mexico)