Cultures of Energy 2nd Annual Spring Research
Symposium
Rice University, Houston TX, April 19th-21st
Final Program
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Friday, April 19th
Keynote panel, Farnsworth Pavilion,
Rice Memorial Center, 4p-6p
Welcome by Caroline Levander,
Vice-Provost for Interdisciplinary Initiatives, Rice U
Welcome by Vicki Colvin,
Vice-Provost for Research, Rice U
Introduction by Dominic Boyer, Rice
U
Keynote talk by Constance Penley, U
California – Santa Barbara
Title: “The Environmental Media
Initiative: Transforming Communication and Collaboration among the Sciences,
Humanities, Industry and the Public”
Reception to follow
Dinner: 730p, Sparrow Bar +
Cookshop, 3701 Travis St
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Saturday, April 20th
All panels meet in the Kyle Morrow
Room, Fondren Library, Rice U
A light breakfast will be available from 830a on
Panel A (9a-11a): Histories of
fuel, labor and power
Chair: Kairn Klieman, U Houston
Speakers:
Jean-François Mouhot, Georgetown U,
“Fossil fuels, slavery and climate change: past & present similarities and
interconnections between slavery and fossil fuel use.”
Thomas D. Finger, U Virginia, “Harvesting
Power: Food Energy, Human Labor, and the Industrial Revolution.”
Peter Shulman, Case Western
Reserve, “Engineering Economy: Steam Power and the Politics of Coal in the
United States Before Thermodynamics.”
Panel B (1115a-1245p): Ecological
imaginations, deep and dark
Chair: Jeff Kripal, Rice U
Speakers:
David Haberman, Indiana U, “The
Energy of Cultures.”
Tim Morton, Rice U, “Dark Ecology”
Lunch break 1245p-2p (lunch
provided for all participants and attendees)
During the break, there will be
poster presentations by the following Rice undergraduate students involved in
the Cultures of Energy program: Jay Becton, Emily Hughes, Ginny
Johnson, Miles Kruppa, Melissa Teng, Kaylee
Yocum
Panel C (2p-4p): Communities facing
energic and environmental transformation
Chair: Elizabeth Long, Rice U
Speakers:
Richard Hirsh, Virginia Tech, “The
Stormy Reception of Wind Turbines: Values, History, and the Poorly Articulated
Reasons for Opposition to Wind-Energy Technology.”
Cymene Howe, Rice U, “Anthopocenic Ecoauthority
in Transitions.”
Paul Liffman, El Colegio de
Michoacán and Rice U. “Economies, ecologies and sovereignties in the Wirikuta
silver mining dispute, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.”
Panel D (415p-545p): Modeling and
imaging climate change and pollution
Chair: Melinda Fagan, Rice U
Speakers:
Eric Winsberg, U South Florida, “Climate
Model Pluralism and Entrenchment.”
Aynne Kokas, Rice U, “Circulating
Pollution: Weibo, Twitter, and the Social Networks of Beijing Smog.”
Dinner: 7p, Benjy’s Restaurant,
2424 Dunstan St
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Sunday, April 21st
All panels meet in the Kyle Morrow
Room, Fondren Library, Rice U
A light breakfast will be available from 830a on
Panel E (9a-1030a): Energy,
materiality and power
Chair: Cyrus Mody, Rice U
Speakers:
Stefan Beck, Humboldt U Berlin, “No
Brownouts in Germany: Towards an analysis of energopractices after Fukushima.”
John-Andrew McNeish, Norwegian
University of Life Sciences & Chr. Michelsens Institute (CMI), “Recover
Power through Energy?”
Panel F (1030a-1230p):
Environmental art and media
Chair: Caroline Levander, Rice U
Speakers:
Jenny Lin, U Oregon, “Floating
Social Sculpture: Contemporary Chinese Art amidst Global Change.”
Claire Pentecost, School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, “Of Waste and Work.”
Joe Campana, Rice U, “The Age of
the Enervation? Energy, the Arts, and the Future of Affect.”
Lunch break 1230p – 145p (lunch provided
for all participants and attendees)
The lunch break will feature a
presentation by graduate students Marcel LaFlamme and Derek Woods of the
2012/13 Cultures of Energy multimedia teaching project.
Plenary Discussion (145p-330p): On
to the future of energy and environmental humanities…
Panelists: Jack Zammito (Chair,
Rice U), Bill Arnold (Rice U), Andrea Ballestero (Rice U), Gwen Bradford (Rice
U), Gökçe Günel (Rice U/Columbia U), Constance Penley (UCSB), Joe Pratt (U
Houston) and Alexander Regier (Rice U)
4p-?? Trip to Menil Collection (bus
will pick all interested participants up on campus)
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List of Symposium Participants and Links
Bill Arnold, (Business, Rice University)
Andrea Ballestero (Anthropology, Rice University)
Stefan Beck (Anthropology, Humboldt University,
Germany)
Dominic Boyer (Anthropology, Rice University)
Gwen Bradford (Philosophy, Rice University)
Joseph Campana (English, Rice University)
Melinda Fagan (Philosophy, Rice University)
Thomas Finger (History, University of Virginia)
Gökçe Günel (Cultures of Energy Postdoctoral
Fellow, Rice University/ACLS New Faculty Fellow, Columbia University)
David Haberman (Religion and Ecology, Indiana
University)
Richard Hirsh, (History, Virginia Tech)
Cymene Howe (Anthropology, Rice)
Kairn Klieman (History, University of Houston)
Aynne Kokas (Postdoctoral Fellow in the Chao
Center for Asian Studies, Rice University)
Jeff Kripal (Religious Studies, Rice University)
Jenny Lin (Art History, University of Oregon)
Marcel LaFlamme (Doctoral Candidate in
Anthropology, Rice University)
Caroline Levander (English, Rice
University)
Elizabeth Long (Sociology, Rice University)
Jean-Francois Mouhot (History, Georgetown
University)
John-Andrew McNeish (Anthropology, UMB/CMI,
Norway)
Cyrus Mody (History, Rice University)
Timothy Morton (English, Rice)
Constance Penley (Film and Media Studies,
Carsey-Wolf Center, UC Santa Barbara)
Claire Pentecost (Art and Photography, School of
Art Institute of Chicago)
Joe Pratt (History, University of Houston)
Alexander Regier (English, Rice)
Peter Shulman (History, Case Western Reserve)
Eric Winsberg (Philosophy, University of South
Florida)
Derek Woods (Doctoral Candidate in English, Rice
University)
John Zammito (History, Rice University)
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