Programme
Keynote Speakers
Elizabeth DeLoughrey
(University of California Los Angeles)
Author ofAllegories of the Anthropocene (2019) and co-editor of, among others,Postcolonial Ecologies (2011).
“Extracting the Depths: Speculative Fictions and Futures.”
Pablo Mukherjee
(University of Oxford)
Author of five monographs, including Postcolonial Environments (2010).
“The Many Futures of Postcolonial Cli-Fi.”
Poetry Reading
Joan Naviyuk Kane
Author of nine collections of poetry, including Dark Traffic (2021) and Ex Machina (2023).
Film Screening
The conference will also feature a screening of three short films about the Arctic at Cinema Riffraff with directors Svetlana Romanova andasinnajaq.
- Lena River (dir. Svetlana Romanova and Chelsea Tuggle, 2015, 20 min)
- Three Thousand (dir. asinnajaq, 2017, 14 min)
- Imajuik (dir.Marc Fussing Rosbach, 2022, 18 min)
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Still from "Three Thousand" by asinnajaq. Courtesy National Film Board of Canada. -
Still from "Imajuik" by Marc Fussing Rosbach. -
Still from "Lena River" by Svetlana Romanova and Chelsea Tuggle.