Conf: Energy, Empire, and Extractivism in the Age of Conrad, 14-15 May

Energy, Empire, and Extractivism in the Age of Conrad

Olympe de Gouges Building

Room 830

Université Paris Cité

DAY 1: Tuesday, May 14^th, afternoon (1.30pm-6.45pm)

1.30 pm – Coffee and introduction

Panel 1. Subterranean Energies – Chair: Edouard Marsoin (U. Paris Cité)

2 pm-2.30 pm – Michael Jonik (U. of Sussex): “Demonology: Diabolical Impulses, Secret Agencies, and Unforeseen Causes in Dostoevsky and Conrad”

2.30 pm-3 pm – Tom Nurmi (NUST): “Every Atom Weeps: Mining Realism, Black Labor, and the Tools of Empire”

3 pm-3.30 pm – Q & A

3.30 pm-3.45 pm – Break

Panel 2. (Writing) After Conrad – Chair: Fiona McCann (U. de Lille)

3.45 pm-4.15 pm – Mary Galli (Harvard U.): “Extractivism and Narrative Inconclusion in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water”

4.15 pm-4.45 pm – Eddy Kent (U. of Alberta): “Beyond Heart of Darkness: Imagining an Anticolonial Future Energy System in Nisi Shawl’s Everfair”

4. 45 pm-5.15 pm – Parushi Ruhil (Indian Institute of Technology): “Legacy of Empire: Extractivism, Agriculture, and Power in Postcolonial India”

5.15 pm-5.45 pm – Q & A

5.45 pm-6 pm – Break

6. pm-6.45 pm – Dana Luciano (Rutgers U.): “Settler Geology and the End(s) of the World”

                          Chair: Cécile Roudeau (U. Paris Cité)

                                    Drinks (and dinner for panelists)

DAY 2: Wednesday, May 15^th, morning (8.45 am-12.15pm)

8.45 am – Coffee

Panel 3. Phantoms of Capitalism – Chair: Thomas Dutoit (U. de Lille)

9 am-9.30 am – Sara Thornton (U. Paris Cité): “Becoming Mineral: Bodies and Extractivism from Dickens to Conrad”

9.30am-10 am – Susannah Mandel (Independent scholar): ““Domesticated With the Horror”: “Business,” “Survival of the Fittest,” and the Ethics of Extractive Exploitation in Joseph Conrad and Edith Wharton 

10 am-10.30 am – Richard Anker (U. Clermont Auvergne): “‘The Haunted Oikos of Fiction. H. James’s Ghosts, the Afterlife of Theory, and the Phantoms of Anthropogenic Climate Change” 

10.30 am-11 am – Q & A

                                    11 am-11.15 am – Break

11.15 am-12.15 am – Jesse Oak Taylor (U. of Washington): “For Every Book, a Tooth”

                                   Chair: Estelle Murail