A CENES Symposium on Extinction
Friday, April 26, 2019
Buchanan Tower 997
starting at 9:00 a.m.
Please RSVP to alice.christensen@ubc.ca.
9:00am Welcome/Coffee
9:20-9:30am Opening Remarks
9:30-10:30am Alice Christensen (CENES/UBC): Time to Extinction (Stifter, Eliot, Galten)
10:30-11:30am Katia Bowers (CENES/UBC): Across Geological Time and Space: Confronting the Anthropocene in Vladimir Obruchev’s Hollow Earth
11:30-12:30pm Alec Brookes (Memorial Univ.): Waves of Extinction in Varlam Shalamov’s Plantationocene
-Lunch-
1:30-2:30pm Matthew Hamm (Asian Studies/UBC): Sages of Life and Death: Anthropogenic Influence and Extinction in Early Chinese Thought
2:30-3:30pm Geoffrey Winthrop-Young (CENES/UBC): An Exceptional Time for Hitler’s Cows: Species De-Extinction and Racial Rewilding in the Third Reich
3:30-4:30pm Mark Turin (Anthropology/UBC): Resisting Extinction: Language Revitalization is Not a Metaphor
