San Diego State University Crisis Carnival 2005
13th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

(RE)PRESENTING EARTH
New Horizons in Environmental Rhetoric

Saturday, October 22, 2005
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
At San Diego State University's Aztec Center

An awareness of the environment allows us to have a direct connection to our material world, creating an understanding of the physical and rhetorical frameworks of our lives. Addressing environmental concerns occurs in a wide range of academic, artistic, and social contexts. These may include: literature and rhetoric/composition, urban planning, and biology-based disciplines; and community development inside and outside of the university. Panel presentations & discussion of:papers, poetry, fiction, & artwork

Lunch will be served at 12:15 pm and tickets MUST be purchased in advance. To purchase tickets, please send your name, phone number, and $10.00 for every meal to Jesse Roach, by October 11th, 2005, care of the 
 

 
Crisis Carnival 2005 Presentation Schedule

9:30 - 10: 45 

Plenary: 
Faculty Panel
Featuring Dr. Deborah Chaffin, Philosophy, Dr.Ronald Gervais, English, Dr. William Nericcio, English, and Dr. Helen Regan, Biology, as well as diverse panels with student presentations from across the humanities and beyond.

11:00 - 12:15:  Literary Perspectives
Moderator: Kellie
Perin, Deniz:  "Summons," "The Gleaners," and "Skin" (POETRY)
Cameron, Joshua: "Adam, Samuel, and Nature in East of Eden"
Pistone, Heather:  "Learning to be Present in Nature
Marin, Anna:  "The Identity of Exile in 100 Years of Solitude: Realizing the Imaginary."

11:00 - 12:15: Cultural Perspectives
Moderator:  Amanda Opperman
Howard, Chandra:  "Imperialism is the New Black: Class, Colonialism, and Catalog Shopping."
Ricker, Jim:  "A Quixotic Standpoint: Feminist Experience in Environmental Organizations."
Mitchell, Patricia:  "What Have You Done?" (ART)
Pistone, Paul:  "Why Postmodernism is Bad for the Environment"

12:15 - 1:15:  LUNCH

1:15 - 2:15:  Keynote Speaker: Richard Louv
Emcee: Jim Ricker
Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder. Richard Louv is a futurist and journalist focused on family, nature and community. Among his many accomplishments, Richard is a columnist for The San Diego Union-Tribune, an advisor to the Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World award program and the Scientific Council on the Developing Child, and a Visiting Scholar at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University

2:30 - 3:45:  Spiritual Perspectives
Moderator: Kellie
Cotler O'Roarty, Abi, "Herding Towards Enlightenment."
Stottlemyer, Eric: "The Edge Effect: Emersonian Transcendence and the Evolving Genre of Nature Writing."
Simmons, Alanna: "Untitled" (CREATIVE NON-FICTION)
Cameron, Joshua:  "A Comparative Look at John Muir and Sue Hubbell: The Relationship Between Nature and Human Culture."

2:30 - 3:45:  Critical Perspectives
Moderator: Jim Ricker
Cutrufello, Gabriel: "Reprogramming [In]Human Reality in Philip K. Dick's "The Electric Ant"
Pedersen, Steven, M.:  "'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening': A Burkean/Ecocritical Reading."
Opperman, Amanda: "<RE>Presenting Memory as the Exilic Author's Eternal Landscape."
Pataky, Jeremy:  "Homestead," "Packing," and "Unland." (POETRY)

 4:00 - 5:00 Plenary:  Horizons
Moderator:  Kellie
Roach, Jesse:  "Chivalry and the Environment of Protection: A Standpoint Analysis of Masculine Politeness."
Miller, Cathy: "Salman Rushdie's 'Stereoscopic Vision': Postcolonial Environments in Midnight's Children
Ingrid Vigeant  "A Salton Sea Sculpture and Festival."
Leila:  "Edges," "Glass Beach," and "Some Distance" (POETRY)