Friday, April 7th
3222 Angell Hall

9:00 Introductory Remarks
Sidonie Smith, Chair, Department of English

9:10 Keynote Address
John Elder (Middlebury College) more info
"The Ecosystem of Meanings in Robert Frost's "Spring Pools"

10:15-12:00 Scholarly Panel
T.S. McMillin (Oberlin College) more info
"The Meaning of Rivers"
Randall Roorda (University of Kentucky) more info
"Antinomies of Participation in Wilderness"
Lauren La Fauci (University of Michigan) more info
"'Regions of Hopeless Disorder': Swampland and Racial Discourse in the Antebellum South"

2:00-3:00 Poetry Reading
David Baker (Denison University) more info
“Midwest Ecologues and Other Poetry”

UMMA, Apse, 1st Floor
3:30-5:00 Photographs
Emmet Gowin (Princeton University) more info
"Changing the Earth and Other Experiences"

UMMA, Apse, 1st Floor
7:30-9:00 Reading
Joy Williams more info
"One Acre "

Saturday, April 8th
Rackham Building
East Conference Room

10:00-11:45 Scholarly Panel
Thomas Hallock (University of Mississippi) more info
"Immortality and the Archive; or, Finding Life in the Art of William Bartram"
Kent Ryden (University of Southern Maine) more info
“Regional Nature and the Nature of Regions”
Rochelle Johnson (Albertson University) more info
"Susan Fenimore Cooper's Historicized Picturesque"

12:00-1:00 Reading
Janisse Ray more info
"How Clear-Cut Does It Have to Be? Language, Community & the Politics of Wholeness"

2:30-4:00 Tour of Nichols Arboretum
by its Director, Robert Grese
Meet at Urban Environmental Education Center at the Historic 1837 Burnham House
1610 Washington Heights, entrance to Arboretum near UM Medical Center.
In case of rain, there will be a virtual tour.

Presenters' books will be on sale in Angell Hall. additionally, Emmet Gowin's book will be on sale at UMMA.