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All Conference
sessions and events are held
in the Formby Room of the
Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 2017
Conference participants are encouraged to attend:
7:00 pm “You Can’t Drink Oil”: Social Justice, Native Lands, and Standing Rock.
A Roundtable discussion with Barry Lopez, Toni Jensen, and Alex Pearl. Sponsored by the Literature, Social Justice, and Environment Concentration of the English Dept. In Lecture Hall 001, English Building.
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017
1:00-1:10 pm
Welcome -
Opening Remarks, Dr. Bella Gerlich, Dean of Libraries
1:10-2:00
Christian Knoeller, Purdue
University, "Islands of
Time: Paul Gruchow's Legacy
in Environmental History"
2:00-2:50 -
Session A - Creative Work
Diane Hueter, TTU, "Summer Music: Old Poems, New Poems"
Toni Jensen, Univ. of
Arkansas, “Women in the
Fracklands: On Water, Land,
Bodies, and Standing Rock”
2:50-3:10 - Break
3:10-4:00 - Session B -
Personal Essay and Narrative
Nonfiction
Kurt Caswell, TTU, "I Don't
Believe in Despair Anymore"
Jordan Fisher Smith,
California, reading from
Engineering Eden
4:00-5:30 - Reception to
honor Stephen J. Small,
donor of the Stephen J.
Small Conservation
Collection. Welcome, Dr.
Bella Gerlich, Dean of
Libraries, followed by
Remarks on the Collection by
Stephen Small.
FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 2017
9:30 AM -
Morning Refreshments available in Formby Room
10:00-10:55 -
Session C - Creative
Work
Joey Chavez, Sul Ross State Univ., "Memento, an Alpine Story"
Margaret Emma Brandl, TTU, "On Keeping Notebooks"
Nancy Wayson Dinan, TTU, "Writing Post Post-Apocalypse: Situating Creative Work in a Time of Sustained Crisis"
10:55-11:05 -
Break
11:05-11:55 - Session D
Shelley Armitage,
Univ. of Texas at El Paso, prof.
emeritus,"Living Memoir: Writing the Llano Estacado"
Theron Francis, Sul Ross
State Univ., "The Poetry of Marfa Lights"
noon-1:00 - Lunch
1:00-1:20 - Kate Brunson, TTU Honors College, "Work of Imagination"
1:20-2:30 - Texas Tech University, Graduate Students
in Architecture
Victoria McReynolds, Professor
Jennifer Beam, " Playa Lakes
within the Llano Estacado"
Roberto Becerra, "A Network
of Space"
Sergei Frizzell,
"Projections from the
Horizon"
Caleb Lightfoot, "The
Pyramid and the Cylinder"
Mario Ramos, "Hidden Forces"
Rebekah Reyes, "In a Handful
of Dust"
Christopher Verette, "Liquid
Gold"
2:30-3:00 - Coffee/Snack Break
3:00-3:50 - Session E
Jill Brady Hampton, Univ. of South Caroline-Aiken, "Fire and Ice: Gretel Ehrlich's Journey"
Priscilla Ybarra, Univ. of North Texas, "The Mexican American Leopolds: Decolonizing Love and the Land"
4:00-4:35
Derek Sheffield, Wenatchee Valley College, "Hitched: Fish & Daughters, Mountaintops & Trayvon"
5:30 Plenary
Stephen Graham Jones,
Univ. of Colorado-Boulder, author of Mongrels: A Novel and Growing Up Dead in Texas
Reception and book signing to follow, all writers’ books available.
SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2017
9:00 - Morning refreshments available in Formby Room
9:30-10:25 - Session F - Engaging Nature in New Territories: Perspectives in Environmental Pedagogy
Mike Lemon, TTU, "Pin it: Digital Mapping and Online Anthologies as Mediated Space in Nature Writing Curriculum"
Scott Morris, TTU, "Looking for Squirrels: The Video Essay as a Way of Seeing Nature"
Luke Morgan, TTU, "Hope and Speculative Territories: A Heuristic for Effective Environmental Literature Pedagogy"
10:30-11:25 - Session G - Nature and Multiculturalisms: Environmental Literatures as Social Critique
Apryl Lewis, TTU, "Healing from the Ecosystem in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day"
Jasmine Epstein, TTU, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: Susan Brind Morrow, Barry Lopez, and the Spiritual Cost of Natural Destruction"
Bernadette Russo, TTU, "Eco-Feminism and Indigenous Cultural Resurgence: Wakening"
11:30-12:15 - Session H
- Poetry
Clara Bush Vadala Texas A&M, "Animals
Inside Out: Veterinary
Surgery and the Grassland
Animals"
Leslie Marie Aguilar, Univ. of Missouri, "Border Song: Exploring Liminal Landscapes"
12:15-1:30 - Buffet lunch for all participants
1:30-2:40 -
Session I - Dead Animals and Their Literary Meaning
This panel explores the broadly interpreted manifestations and articulations
of dead animals and aims to create a new appreciation for them. Each of the four
presentations will be a short reading of literary nonfiction that aims to uncover the unexpected in putreyfying, seasoned, unheralded flesh.
Lina Ferreira, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.
Kendra Green, Dallas Museum of Art
Clinton Crockett Peters, Univ. of North Texas
Sarah Viren, TTU
2:45-3:30 - Plenary
Barbara Ras, San Antonio, poet, author of Bite Every Sorrow and The Last Skin
3:30 Closing Remarks, Diane
Warner
The Sowell Collection Conference is sponsored by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
with additional support from the TTU Office of the Provost, Honors College, and Dept. of English.
If you
have any questions, please contact
Kristin Loyd (
kristin.d.loyd@ttu.edu)
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