Vegetal Poetics: Narrating Plants in Culture and History
Vegetal Poetics: Narrating Plants in Culture and History
https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/vegetal-poetics-conference
https://plants.sites.arizona.edu/
Program:
Thursday, June 6 (Vorlesungssaal of the Museum)
1pm Guided Tour through exhibit “People and Plants” with Curator Kathrin Meyer (for panelists, meeting in the lobby of the museum)
2:30pm Welcome Address (Solvejg Nitzke, Joela Jacobs, Isabel Kranz,)
3–4:30pm Political Gardens (Joela Jacobs)
Andrée-Anne Kekeh-Dika (University of Paris 8): Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings, or the Possibilities of “Green”
Christine Gerhardt (University of Bamberg): “My Jungle fronts on Wall Street”: The Plant Politics of Emily Dickinson’s Exotic Gardens
4:30pm Coffee Break
5–6:30pm Plant Potentials (Isabel Kranz)
Helga Braunbeck (North Carolina State University): Writing Trees and Chasing Spirits: Marion Poschmann’s and Esther Kinsky’s Third Nature Poetics
Eva Axer (Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research): Metamorphosis of Plants 2.0: Can the Plant be a Paradigm for the Investigation of Dynamic Complexity in Literary Theory?
7–8:30pm Reading and Discussion with Sabine Scho: “Pflanzen erzählen – Pflanzen zwischen Wissenschaft und Dichtung” with Solvejg Nitzke, Isabel Kranz, and Joela Jacobs
This is a public event taking place in German. Panelists are invited to attend or take a break.
Friday, June 7 (Martha-Fraenkel Saal, Conference Center of the Museum)
9–10:30am Literary Botanies (Joela Jacobs)
Rachel Bouvet (University of Quebec at Montreal) and Stephanie Posthumus (McGill University): The Botanical Imaginary
Oliver Völker (Goethe University Frankfurt): Intricate Plants and Figures of Growth in Alfred Döblin‘s Writings
10:30am Coffee Break
11am–12:30pm Arboreal Poetics (Nicole Thesz)
Patrícia Vieira (University of Coimbra): The Amazonian Rainforest in Literature, Cinema and Art
Susan McHugh (University of New England): Forest Thinking in Contemporary Environmentalist Film and Fiction
12:30pm Lunch
2–3:30pm Vegetal Temporalities (Isabel Kranz)
Klara Schubenz (University of Mainz): On Stifter‘s Law of Gradualness
Robert Barrett (University of Illinois): The Vegetal Temporality of Medieval British Drama
3:30pm Coffee Break
4–5:30pm Vegetal Agencies (Solvejg Nitzke)
Giulia Pacini (College of William & Mary): Saving the Body Politic: Ensuring the Flow of Tree Sap in French Revolutionary Discourse
Ragnild Lome (Linköping University): Imaginations of Plant Agency in the 1950s and 60s: Readings of the Short Story Trapperne by Cecil Bødker and the Radio Play The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
6–7pm Reading and Discussion with Christian Lehnert: “Narrating Plants – Plants between Science and Poetry” with Solvejg Nitzke, Isabel Kranz, and Joela Jacobs
This is a public event taking place in German. English translations will be provided. Panelists are invited to attend or take a break.
8pm Conference Dinner (for panelists)
Saturday, June 8 (Martha-Fraenkel Saal, Conference Center of the Museum)
9–10:30am Plant Bodies (Solvejg Nitzke)
Alessandro Buccheri (LabEx haStec/Centre Jean Pépin): Talking about Plants in Ancient Greek Poetry and Medicine: A Dialogue between Homer and Hippocrates
Pamela MacKenzie (University of British Columbia): The Hand, the Eye, the Microscope and the Knife in Nehemiah Grew’s Anatomy of Plants (1682)
10:30am Coffee Break
11am–12:30pm Romantic Plants (Christina Becher)
Anke Kramer (University of Siegen): Dynamic Plants in Tieck’s Phantasus
Michael Bies (Free University Berlin): Vegetal Life, Vegetal Poetics, and Goethe’s Novella
12:30pm Lunch
1:30–-3pm Plant Palpations (Frederike Middelhoff)
Jana Kittelmann (University Halle-Wittenberg): “Amor unit plantas”: Plants as Actors in 18th-Century Idyll and Love Poetry
Maren Mayer-Schwieger (Leuphana University Lüneburg): Phytotaxis: Getting in Touch with Climbing Plants
3pm Coffee Break
3:30pm Concluding Remarks (Joela Jacobs, Isabel Kranz, Solvejg Nitzke)