Thursday, June 8
h 14:15 Welcome
Marco Balboni (University of Bologna)
Lorenzo Costaguta (University of Bristol)
Angela Santese (University of Bologna)
Gaetano Di Tommaso (Roosevelt Institute for American Studies)
h 14:30-15:45 Keynote lecture
Davide Orsini (Rachel Carson Center)
US Nuclear Power and the Global Environment: An Epic of Solutionism from Containment to Climate Change
h 16:00-17:15: Ideas, Narratives, and Actors of Anthropogenic Change:
Chair: Dario Fazzi (Leiden University / Roosevelt Institute for American Studies)
Dean Clay (University of Hull)
The Sierra Club: Environmental Activism and American Empire, 1892-1912
Jacopo Bonasera (University of Bologna / Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies)
The Ecological Cost of Freedom - W. Vogt, H.F. Osborn and the Discover of the Anthropocene
Iason Zarikos (Panteion University Athens)
Deferred to the Future: Post-Denialist Right and Climate Change
h 17:15-17:45: Coffee Break
h 17:45-19:00: Critical Approaches in Art and Literature
Chair: Elena Lamberti (University of Bologna)
Paul Hutchinson (University of Bristol)
The Migrant Father of the Dust Bowl: Picturing Gender in an Environmental Disaster
Inna Sukhenko (University of Helsinki)
Situating Feminism Literary Extremities within Narrating U.S. Nuclear History: Intermedial Ecocritical
Perspective on Anti-Nuclear Activism in U.S. Nuclear Fiction
Justyna Wierzchowska (University of Warsaw)
Skulls, Bones, and the Great America: An Ecocritical Reading of Georgia O’Keeffe’s Mid-Career and Late Paintings