Thursday, September 25

1:00-1:30: CONFERENCE WELCOME (Lobby)

1:30-3:00: SESSION ONE

PANEL ONE: Wild Aesthetics (Room 202)
Moderator: Tim Freeman
 
1.     Russell Duvernoy (Western University), "Wild Beauty Makes Nothing Happen: Langer, Zwicky, and Paradoxes of Ecological Betweenness"
 
2.     Joe Balay (Christopher Newport University), "Scream: The Aesthetic Event of Geoengineering"
 
PANEL TWO: The Deep Time of Wildness (Room 201)
Moderator: Chris Lauer
 
1.     Brian Pines (University of San Francisco), "Seasteading: The Wild and the Archetype of the Pioneer"
 
2.     Paul Harris (Loyola Marymount University), "Teluric Lurings: A Dreamology of Geology"

3:15-4:45 PM: SECOND SESSION

PANEL ONE: Montanan Wilds (Room 202)
Moderator: David Macaulay
 
1.     James Hatley (Salisbury University), "The Reaches of Creation: Henry Bugbee's Fluency of the Earthly"
 
2.     Kaleb Cohen (University of Montana), "What Does ‘The Wild’ Mean After Genocide?: Reflections on Doing Philosophy in Montana"
 
PANEL TWO: Critiques of Wilderness (Room 201)
Moderator: Josh Hayes
 
1.     Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University) "Rewilding the Wilderness Idea"         
 
2.     Chris Lauer (University of Hawaiʻi-Hilo), "Commons and Wilderness as Extensions of the Market"

5:00-6:30 PM: THIRD SESSION (Room 201)
Moderator: Brian Treanor
 
Julia Sushytska (Occidental College), "Living in the Tame Times: AI and the Unpredictability of Becoming Human"
(via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84956761849 Meeting ID: 849 5676 1849)
 

Friday, September 26

9:00-10:30 AM: FIRST SESSION
 
PANEL ONE: New Ontologies of Wilderness (Room 202)
Moderator: David Jones (University of Hawaiʻi-Hilo)
 
1.     Tim Freeman (University of Hawaiʻi-Hilo), "The Wild, Wilderness, and Pele’s Fire: The Redemption of Nature in Nietzsche and Gary Snyder"
 
2.     Renée McAleer, "The Umbilical Cord of the Wild, Moving from Anthropocentric to Biocentric Ontologies with Coetzee, Nietzsche, and Bergson"
 

10:45 AM-12:15 PM: SECOND SESSION
 
PANEL ONE: Poeticizing the Wild (Room 202)
Moderator: Meilin Chinn
 
1.     Dominique Walmsley, "Being Wild Through Lyric Thinking"
 
2.     David Macauley (Penn State), "Wild Beauty"
 
PANEL TWO: Nietzschean Wilds (Room 201)
Moderator: Brian Pines
 
1.     Melissa Fitzpatrick (Loyola Marymount University), "The Wild Within: Nietzsche, Self-Affirmation, & the Ethics of Care"
 
2.     David Jones (University of Hawaiʻi-Hilo), of "Supposing Nature were a Wild Woman, What Then?: Absence, Emptiness and the Ten Thousand Things"

1:45-3:15 PM: THIRD SESSION
 
PANEL ONE: Buddhist Wilds (Room 202)
Moderator: Russell Duvernoy
 
1.     Jason Wirth (Seattle University), "Huike Did Not Go Into the Wild" (via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84956761849 Meeting ID: 849 5676 1849)

 
2.     Lane Swanson (Misericordia University), "Taming the Wild Ox, with Bows and Apologies to Davis and Ueda"

3:30-5:00 PM: FOURTH SESSION
 
PANEL ONE: Book Session - Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art (Room 202)
Moderator: Jeff Siemers
Readers: Chris Lauer and Elizabeth Sikes
Respondent: Keren Moscovitch
(via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84956761849 Meeting ID: 849 5676 1849)
 
 
PANEL TWO: Ecopoetic and Weeds (Room 201)
Moderator: Tim Freeman
 
1.     1.     Josh Hayes (Alvernia University), "Into the Wild: The Force of Imagination in John Haines’ Eco-poetics"    
 
2.     Eric Severson (Seattle University), "Gentle Wilding: Toward a Postcolonial Phenomenology of Weeds"
 

Saturday, September 27

10:00-11:30 AM: FIRST SESSION
 
PANEL ONE: The Wilderness Within and Beneath (Room 201)
Moderator: Kaleb Cohen
 
1.     Vicente Muñoz-Reja (Loyola Marymount University), "A Threshold to Our Own Uninhabitable Wilderness: Psychoanalytic Accounts of the Open Wound Between Mourning and Melancholia" 
 
2.     Cecilia Saez (University of Montana), "Liberating the Wild: Schelling’s Dark Ground and the Critique of the Incarceration of Wildness"
 
 
PANEL TWO: Pulling the Wildcard: Daoist, Zen, and Indigenous Reflections on Language and Nature (Room 202)
Moderator: Lane Swanson
 
1.     Meilin Chinn (Santa Clara University), "Wild Conversations: Pure Talk and Empty Listening"
 
2.     Brian Schroeder (Rochester Institute of Technology), "What is 'It'? The Wild Way Beyond Concepts and Words" (via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84956761849 Meeting ID: 849 5676 1849)
 

1:30-3:00 PM: SECOND SESSION
 
PANEL ONE: Finding Wilderness Out West (Room 202)
Moderator: Eric Severson
 
1.    Jessica Elbert Decker (Cal State University, San Marcos), "Bad Guests in the House of Gaia: Artemis and Wild Hospitality" (via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84956761849 Meeting ID: 849 5676 1849)

2.     Erin Stackle (Loyola Marymount University), “Achilleus’s Rage Meets the Anger Rising in the Heart of the River”
 

3:15-4:45 PM: THIRD SESSION
 
PANEL ONE: Finding Wildness in the Rhythms of Life (Room 202)
Moderator: Dominique Walmsley
 
1.     Benjamin Young (University of South Florida), "Wild Times: Entropy, Improvisation, and the Felt Projection of a Flourishing Future"
 
2.     Shane Randle (University of Montana), "Iris Murdoch and Eva Saulitis: How Acceptance of Mortality Connects Us with Reality and the Good"

5:00 PM: Concluding reception, including selection of next year’s theme
 

Sunday, September 28