“Nothing in words can be complete”: Multispecies, multilingual poetics (Symposium)

Please join us this Thursday, 27 March, for a symposium featuring presentations by students from Utrecht University’s RMA Comparative Literary Studies, as well as visiting PhD researchers in literary studies. This symposium emerges from the RMA masterclasses “The Poetics Animality” (led by Kári Driscoll) and “The Language of Empire” (led by Mia You), and it will conclude with a keynote poetry reading and talk by Zoë Skoulding, Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University in Wales. This keynote launches an ongoing collaboration between Sustainable Humanities (OSL), Network for Environmental Humanities (UU), and BAK Basecamp.

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

Thursday, 27 March / Drift 27, 0.72, Utrecht University

Welcome: 10:00-10:15

Session 1: 10:15 -11:30

– Metaphors in the Wild: Zoopoetics and Languaging (Maria Treijling, Tessa Höschler, Roos Kreeft)

Coffee break

Session 2: 11:45 – 13:00

– Writing Beyond the Known: Case Studies on Speculative Poetics (Sara Vermeer, Anna Potoczny, Kennedy Dragt)

Lunch

Session 3: 14:00 – 15:15

– Speaking Back: (Non)Identity and Resistance (Amapola Maria Alonso, Shupei Pan, Trisha Bhaya)

Coffee break

Session 4: 15:30 – 16:30,

– In Practice: Translation, Politics, and Multispecies Futures (Joska Hendrikx, Ido Fuchs)

Location change to BAK (a 10-minute walk from Drift 27)

KEYNOTE, 17:00-18:00. BAK (basis voor actuele kunst), Pauwstraat 13a, Utrecht

Poet, translator and scholar Zoë Skoulding (Bangor University) on “Sounding movement: translation and multispecies encounter.” The keynote reading/talk will be followed by a light meal courtesy of BAK’s b.ASIC a.CTIVIST K.ITCHEN.

Poster by Shupei Pan