Thursday, November 7, 5–6pm: Public Lecture by Lisa Ottum (Xavier University) Lisa Ottum is Associate Professor of English at Xavier University, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is co-editor of Wordsworth and the Green Romantics: Affect and Ecology in the Nineteenth Century (University of New Hampshire Press, 2016) and has written numerous articles on the intersections of ecocriticism, affect studies, Romantic-era literature, and contemporary environmental education. Her talk is titled "The Deep Time Life Kit: Thinking Tools for the Anthropocene." This public lecture will take place in the Library Tower East Room. A social gathering will follow at The Tipping Point.
Friday, November 8, 10am–3pm: Alabama Symposium (Taylor Center, Room 221) 10–10:30am: Breakfast 10:30am–12pm: Workshop/Roundtable Discussion 12–1pm: Lunch 1–1:45pm: Lecture by Lisa Ottum (Xavier): "Monsters of Our Own Making: Mary Shelley and the Feel of the Anthropocene" 1:45–2:30pm: Lecture by Deanna Kreisel (Ole Miss): "The Future and Its Discontents: Eco-Time in Two Victorian Poems" 2:30–3pm: Closing