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All Conference
sessions and events are held
in the Formby Room of the
Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library. All events are free and open to the public. However, we would appreciate your help in continuing this program. Please consider a donation to
our Sowell Endowment. (Donate here.)
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018
1:00-1:10 pm
Welcome
Dr. Lawrence Schovanec, President of Texas Tech University
1:10-2:00
Clara Bush Vadala (Texas A&M), "Domestic Bestiary, poems"
Margaret Emma Brandl
(TTU), "West Texas: A Letter
to Walt Whitman," a video
essay
2:00-2:30
Caroline Gressett, "Journey through Journals"; Farah Mechref and Marilyn Mathew,
"Finding Your Mate" (TTU undergraduates)
2:30-3:00 - Break
3:00-3:45
Toni Jensen (Univ. of Arkansas), "Carry"
Our apologies, but Dr. Jensen will not be able to attend the conference this year.
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2018
9:30 AM -
Morning Refreshments available in Formby Room
10:00-11:15
Julie Oesper, "Ecofeminism in West Texas"
Megan Lyon, "The Impact of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring in Texas"
Lindsay Keeling, "Environmental Degradation and Post-Socialist Ecology in the Kosovo"
Michelle Ramos, "Charles Darwin: On Humanity's
Unnatural Selection"
Raleigh Darnell, "Statement
of Purpose: Humboldt's
Greenhouses and Herbaria"
(Sul Ross State University)
11:15-11:50
Rajbir Parashar (Dept. of English, RKSD College, India)
"Imaginative Interplay of 'Hot' and 'Cold'
Societies in the Early Poetry of Ted Hughes"
11:50-1:00 - Lunch
1:00-2:30
Touching the Earth: A Roundtable on Non-Anglo and Indigenous Perspectives on Land
Mike Lemon, Michael Borshuk, Bernadette Russo, David Robledo, Darin Williams,
Sara Spurgeon and Cordelia Barrera
(TTU)
2:30-2:45 - Coffee/Snack Break
2:45-3:30
Priscilla Ybarra (Univ. of North Texas)
"On Their Backs the Disaster: How Does Climate Crisis Shape Race, Class, and Gender in the U.S.?"
5:30 Plenary
Trevor Herriot,
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Reception and book signing to follow, all writers’ books available.
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2018
9:30 - Morning refreshments available in Formby Room
10:00-11:15
Denaturalizing the Natural
Briana Stewart, "Discover"
William Brown, "The Hummingbird, Natura Morta, and other poems"
Alexa Dodd, "Not Like Them, Their Only Son, and You'll Know Sin: Flash Pieces"
Beth McKinney, "How I Learned There is Life Beyond Earth, and other poems"
(TTU graduate students)
11:15-12:15
The Fragility of Wilderness: Being "Other" in the Wild
Katie Cortese, Jill Patterson, D. Gilson (TTU)
12:15-1:30- Buffet lunch for all participants
1:30-2:15
The Geometry of Nature, poems
John Poch and Chad Abushanab (TTU)
2:15-3:00
Hope Lenamon, Sarah Huerta, Miguel Vega,
William Felty (TTU undergraduates, Honors College)
3:00-4:00 Closing Remarks
H. Emerson Blake, Editor-in-Chief, Orion
The Sowell Collection Conference is sponsored by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
with additional support from the TTU Office of the President, and the Honors College. We are also grateful for the support of TTU students and faculty.
If you
have any questions, please contact
Kristin Loyd (
kristin.d.loyd@ttu.edu)
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