Conference Agenda

Conference Agenda Monday June 20 1:00 p.m. –6:00 p.m. Registration and Check-in the Tree Suite Lounge 2:00 p.m. –3:45 p.m. Preconference Tour of IU with IU Historian James Capshew. Gather at 2 p.m. in Tree Suite Lounge near registration. Rain or Shine. 4:00 p.m. –4:30 p.m. Welcome/Opening Remarks in the Solarium 4:30 p.m. –6:00 p.m. Plenary 1 (Gretel Van Wieren/ Sarah Pike) 6:00 p.m. –7:30 p.m. Reception in the State Room East Tuesday June 21 7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Registration and check-in, Tree Suite Lounge 8:00 a.m. – 9: a.m. Continental Breakfast in the Solarium 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Plenary 2 (Scott Russell Sanders / Judy Natal) 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Beverage Break in the Solarium Concurrent Session 1

11:00-12:30 (Tree Suites)

Maple Room: “Blurred Boundaries and Expanded Ethics.” James H. Capshew, Tom Berendt Oak Room: “Race, Gender, and the Body as Contested Sites of Wonder.” James Padilioni, Steven Carr, Adriel Trott Persimmon Room: “The Power of Place.” Sarah Osterhoudt, Leigh Pittenger, Kristel Clayville 12:30 p.m. –1:30 p.m. Lunch provided in the Solarium. Concurrent Session 2

1:30-3:00 (Tree Suites)

Maple Room: “Environmental Ethics, Personal Ethics, and Personhood.” Bharat Ranganathan, Emanuelle Burton Oak Room: “Affect and Environmental Consciousness.” Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Joanna Steinhardt, Heather Blair

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Persimmon Room: “Exploring Wonder through Alternative Pathways.” Karis Petty, Elliot D. Ihm, Kristin Pomykala 3:00 p.m. –3:30 p.m. Refreshment Break in the Solarium 3:30 p.m. –5:00 p.m. Plenary 3 (Brendon Larson/ Michael Northcott) Wednesday June 22 8:00 a.m. –9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast in the Solarium 9:00 a.m. –10:30 a.m. “Magic and the Machine: Notes on Technology and Animism in an Era of Ecological Wipe-Out.” Keynote Address by David Abram 10:30 a.m. –11:00 a.m. Beverage Break in the Solarium Concurrent Session 3

11:00-12:30 (Tree Suites)

Maple Room: “Spiritual Experience En Route to Stewardship.” Paul J. Deal, Kerry Mitchell, Thomas S. Bremer Oak Room: “Wonder in Human/ Other-than-Human Encounters.” Sheena Singh, John Moran, David Haberman Persimmon Room: “Wonder in the Making of Environmental Ethics. “ Jonathan Sparks-Franklin, Cheongho Lee, Brian Onishi 12:30 p.m. –1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own Concurrent Session 4

1:30-3:00 (Tree Suites)

Maple Room: “Wonder’s Role in Education, Knowledge, and Inspiration.” Jonathon Schramm and Joel Pontius, Richard Gunderman, Justin Pritchett Oak Room: “Wonder in Restoration, Relationality, and Reechantment.” Peter Jansen, David Seidenberg, Martin Becker Lorca Persimmon Room: “Encountering Natural Wonder through Reading and Writing.” Frank Izaguirre, Shlomo Rosen, David Arnold 3:00 p.m. –3:30 p.m. Refreshment Break in the Solarium 3:30 p.m. –5:00 p.m. Screening of Judy Natal films from Another Storm is Coming 6:00 p.m –9 p.m. Reception and Banquet, Tudor Room, IMU 7

Thursday June 23 8:00 a.m. –9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast in the Solarium Concurrent Session 5

9:00-10:30 (Tree Suites)

Maple Room: “Darker Visions of Human-Nature Entanglement.” Kay Read, Wendy Wiseman, George Handley Oak Room: “The Languages of Wonder and the Nonhuman World.” Rosalyn W. Berne, Rebecca Copeland, William R. Prindle Persimmon Room: “Wonder’s Relation to Unity, Rationality, and Spontaneity.” Sara-Jo Swiatek, Fr. Bob Kalivac Carroll, Eugene Halton 10:30 a.m. –11:00 a.m. Beverage Break in the Solarium 11:00 a.m. –12:30 p.m. Plenary 4 (Whitney Bauman/ Julia Adeney Thomas) 12:30 p.m. Grab `n Go Boxed Lunches in the Solarium

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