Writing Climate / Changing Fictions

Program

Opening Remarks (10:50 - 11:00) Arinori Mori and Christopher J. Armstrong (Chukyo University)

Session 1 (11: 00 - 12:30) Chair: Arinori Mori (Chukyo University) 

1. Mark Weeks (Nagoya University), “SDG's, PERMA and Death: White Noise Then and Now” 

2. Christopher J. Armstrong (Chukyo University), “Ecosickness in David Huebert’s Short Fiction” 

3. Daichi Sugai (Aichi Gakuin University), “Urban Nature Writing: Literary Imaginations of Environmental Realities from Brautigan to Mullen”

Lunch Break (12:30-13:40)

Session 2 (13:45 - 15:15) Chair: Maureen Boulanger (Chukyo University) 

1. Seng Ong (Chukyo University), “The Famine Pastoral: Colonial Famine and Western Visual Culture in China, 1870-1920” (Online presentation) 

2. Yoko Araki (Keiwa College), “Cli-fictionalizing Japan Sinks: Spin-offs and Adaptations of An Earthquake Story and Climate Change” 

3. David S. Ramsey (Notre Dame Seishin University), “Laughing at the Apocalypse: Eco Doom and the Danse Macabre in American Cli-Fi Film” Coffee Break (15:15 - 15:30)

Keynote Lecture (15:30 - 16:30) Chair: Christopher J. Armstrong (Chukyo University)

Dr. John Clement Ball (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada)

“Gun Island v. Blaze Island: Improbability, Risk, and Eco-Cosmopolitanism in Two Recent Climate-Change Novels”

Closing Remarks (16:40-16:50) Arinori Mori and Christopher J. Armstrong (Chukyo University)

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Please pre-register for online attendance by contacting Professor Mori or Professor Armstrong. Deadline: March 23rd Zoom links will be sent out by Friday, March 24th. Arinori Mori (moria@lets.chukyo-u.ac.jp) / Christopher J. Armstrong (cjarms@lets.chukyo-u.ac.jp)