ASLE-UKI 2022 Conference: Outline Programme
This page contains the outline programme. Follow the links for the detailed programme for each day, which will open in a new page.
- Saturday Online Programme and Registration Information
- Tuesday Full Programme
- Wednesday Full Programme
- Thursday Full Programme
Abstracts for papers and panels in the in-person sessions (Tuesday-Thursday) are available by following the links below.
For information about registration, venues, excursions, the conference dinner, and other practical matters, please visit the main conference page.
Saturday 3 September
Saturday Full Online Programme
9.00 am: Opening Remarks and Event Introduction.
9.30 am: Parallel Sessions 1
10:50 am: Ten-minute break
11.00 am: Publishing Workshop
12:30 pm: One-hour lunch break
1.30 pm: Parallel Sessions 2
3.30 pm: 30-minute break
4.00 pm: Online Networking event with breakout rooms.
6.00 pm: Online day ends.
Saturday Full Online Programme
Monday 5 September
5.00 pm: Meeting of the ASLE-UKI Executive Committee (Committee only)
8.00 pm: Informal pub gathering at the City Tavern (All welcome). Pub grub is available.
Tuesday 6 September
8.30 am: Coffee and Registration
9.00 am: Welcome from the President of ASLE-UKI, John Miller (University of Sheffield), and the chair of the conference organising committee, Brycchan Carey (Northumbria University).
9.15 am: Plenary 1: Samantha Walton (Bath Spa University) ‘Everybody Needs Beauty: The History, Politics and Future of “Healing Nature”‘
10.30 am: Coffee
11.00 am: Parallel Sessions 1
12.45 pm: Lunch
1.30 pm: Parallel Sessions 2
3.00 pm: Coffee
3.30 pm: Parallel Sessions 3
5.00 pm: Comfort break
5.10 pm: ASLE-UKI Biennial General Meeting
6.15 pm: Wine Reception sponsored by Cambridge University Press. Includes the launch of Modern British Nature Writing, 1789-2020: Land Lines and The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene, as well as presentation of the winners of the 2021 ASLE-UKI Book Prizes.
7.15 pm: Creative Writing Reading Event
Wednesday 7 September
8.30 am: Coffee
9.00 am: Parallel Sessions 4
10.45 am: Coffee
11.15 am: Plenary 2: Roundtable Discussion on Time and the Environment chaired by Brycchan Carey
12.45 pm: Lunch
1.30 pm: Excursions or self-guided time
7.30 pm: pre-dinner drinks in the lobby of the Sutherland Building
8.00 pm: Conference Dinner in the Great Hall of the Sutherland Building
The Sutherland building is on Northumberland Road at the centre of the main city campus.
- Find the Sutherland Building on Google Maps
- Campus Map (the Sutherland Building is building number 27)
Thursday 8 September
8.30 am: Coffee
9.00 am: Parallel Sessions 5
10.45 am: Coffee
11.15 am: Parallel Sessions 6
12.45 pm: Lunch
1.30 pm: Parallel Sessions 7
3.00 pm: Comfort Break
3.10 pm: Plenary 3: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett (Northumbria University). ‘Earth, Sea, Sky and In-between: Readings from The Grassling, Swims, Of Sea and Moss’
4.25 pm: Closing remarks: ASLE President, Conference organisers
4.45 pm: Conference ends
5.00 pm: Informal social gathering at a local pub
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