Colleagues are warmly invited to virtually participate in the workshop “Exploring an Urban Blue Humanities.” The workshop is hosted at the Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol, and is supported by a British Academy Visiting Fellowship held by Dr. Alessandro Antonello.
The program below includes Zoom links. No registration is required.
Workshop
Exploring an Urban Blue Humanities
October 12-13, 2023
Centre for Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol
PROGRAM
(All times British Summer Time UTC+1)
Thursday, October 12
Zoom – Meeting ID: 992 4521 6887 – Passcode: 832371
11:30 am – 12:00 pm – Workshop Opening and Introductions
Alessandro Antonello, Flinders University
Paul Merchant, University of Bristol
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm – Collaboration, Engagement, Imagination
Jemima Matthews, King’s College London
“Silt and Other Matters: Early modern riverine histories and present-day collaborative practice”
Minna Valjakka, University of Helsinki (V)
“Sustaining Seashores: Contemporary Arts within and for Coastal Ecologies”
Camilla Bertolini et al., Ca’ Foscari University and We Are Here Venice
“Venice is a testing site for citizen engagement as a unified solution for degradation of both city and environment”
2:15 pm – 3:30 pm – Planning, Controlling, Modernity
Claire Campbell, Bucknell University (V)
“The Making and Meaning of a Foreshore: St. John’s, Newfoundland and the Question of Limits”
Kristian Mennen, Utrecht University (V)
“Encroachments upon the seashore: The port of Rotterdam and the emergence of spatial planning in the Netherlands (1945–1970)”
Alexei Kraikovski and Ilona Kraikovskaia, University of Genova
“The urban seascape re conceptualized: coastal experience and societal imagination in the long-term perspective”
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Urban Blue Texts
Abbie Pink, University of Exeter
“‘Trying something different’: Intertidal Futures in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140”
Juliette Bretan, University of Cambridge – virtual
“Urbanity, the nearshore, and post-war transition in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land”
Athira Unni, Leeds Beckett University
“The Metaphorical Ocean: Narrating Littoral Mumbai in Contemporary Indian Fiction”
Friday, October 13
Zoom – Meeting ID: 910 1403 5703 – Passcode: 768559
9:00 am – 10:30 am – Settling and Imagining Asia-Pacific Cities
Kate Stevens, University of Waikato (V)
“The view from Nubukalou: refracted histories of Suva”
Mars Edwenson Briones, University of Cologne
“A Storied Sea: Aquatic Imaginaries and Hydrological Hazards of the Cancabato Bay”
Aireen Grace Andal, Macquarie University (V)
“Oceanic imaginaries through fiction: Examining the fictional city of ‘Masayá’ created by slum-dwelling children in the Philippines”
Stefan Huebner, National University of Singapore (V)
“The Age of Coal’s Urban Legacy: Seeing Floating Settlements and the Energy-Intensive Built Environment from an Oceanic Perspective”
11:00 am – 12:45 pm – Time and Tide
Anindita Ghosal and Arindam Modak, National Institute of Technology Durgapur (V)
“Imag(in)ing Plasticene: Exploring the Ecological Challenges and Urban Innovations in Marine Ecosystem”
Maria Khristine Alvarez, University College London
“Imaginaries of a flood-resilient Manila”
Raina Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University (V)
“Time and Space in River-Cities: Everyday Hydrosocial Relations along Kolkata’s Ghats”
Rhys Anil Madden, London School of Economics
“Thinking about time in the urban intertidal zone”
1:30 pm – 3:15 pm – Change and continuity at the coast
Craig Colten, Louisiana State University and Rachel Carson Center
“Landscapes of Unsettling and Resettling Coastal Cities”
Morgan Daniels, Arcadia University
“Wires and whales”
Katarzyna Jarosz, International University of Logistics and Transport, Wrocław (V)
“Abandoned ships. Exploring aging dockyards in the post-Soviet space”
Elsa Devienne, Northumbria University (V)
“Coastal (Urban) Warriors: An Urban History of Coastal Activism (1960s-2020s)”
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm – Closing discussion and remarks
Alessandro Antonello, Flinders University
Paul Merchant, University of Bristol
