Sustainability at ASLE 2013
Carbon Footprint
From arranging bus transportation to and from the airport, to creating a pedestrian-friendly conference, to our hybrid shuttle buses, we have tried to minimize our carbon footprint at the conference. We have also established a carbon offset program. Funds donated for carbon offsets during registration will be matched in amount by ASLE and donated to “atmosfair,” a non-profit organization based in Bonn, Germany (see http://www.atmosfair.de/en/home for more information). Although ASLE recognizes the limitations of carbon offsets, we still believe they can play an important role. If you would like to donate and have not yet, you may do so at the registration desk.
Program, Name Tags and Folders
Attendee name badges are 100% recycled paper, and the holders are made of biodegradable and reusable plastic. We will have receptacles at registration to drop the nametags in after you are done using them, in the hope that we can reuse them at future conferences. The registration packet folders contain 100% post-consumer content. The program was printed locally using recycled paper and cover stock.
Banquet and Receptions
Every effort has been made to work with campus catering to use local, organic, and sustainable products when possible. The food at the banquet and receptions will incorporate these ingredients, and local beers will be served.
Logo Items
The logo items at the conference are made of sustainable, recycled, organic or biodegradable materials. If you pre-purchased items during online registration, you can pick them up at the registration desk. If you did not pre-purchase an item, a limited number of these items are available for purchase at the registration desk.
Things You Can Do to Contribute to a More Sustainable Conference:
- Be mindful of how many times you print your conference paper, and print only necessary documents employing smaller margins, duplex printing, and other strategies to reduce paper and ink consumption
- Consider posting handouts to a website or using PowerPoint rather than printing copies to distribute
- Shut off lights and technology in academic and residence rooms when not in use
- Patronize local and/or sustainable businesses for your needs while in Lawrence
- Walk, bike, or make use of public transportation while in Lawrence
- Make use of recycling receptacles on campus
- Reduce food waste and minimize consumption of heavily packaged foods
- Bring your own reusable water bottle or coffee mug, or purchase one at the conference.
For information on the University of Kansas and sustainability, go to http://www.sustainability.ku.edu/Plan/index.shtml
Spencer Art Museum Exhibitions
The Spencer Museum of Art at KU has curated two small exhibitions from their permanent collection to coincide with the ASLE Conference:
Teaching Gallery: Ecocritical Art History
May 14 - June 9, 2013
Gallery 319
These works have been selected to complement a pre-conference seminar organized by Professor Alan Braddock at the College of William & Mary concerning the emerging study of ecocriticism in the field of art history. Research topics of particular interest include natural history illustration, 19th-century photographic depictions of fog, Robert Adams photographs, representations of glaciers, and issues related to ecocritical assessments of contemporary art.
Conversation XIV: Water
March 23 - July 28, 2013
20/21 Gallery Conversation Wall
Water is timeless... or is it? This installation of works explores contemporary artists’ perspectives on the elixir of life: H20. Many of the works assembled for this installation take an ecocritical approach to the subject matter, exploring pollution and scarcity, whereas others address water less literally and more symbolically, as a cleansing or destructive force. From this selection of 20th- and 21st-Century works, a subtle visual dialogue emerges between the Kaw River of Kansas and the Yangtze of China. Work by ASLE presenter and artist Lisa Grossman is featured in this exhibit.
Museum Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday Friday & Saturday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday; Noon-4 p.m. Sunday.
Thematic Streams
Streams are a tool to help conference participants select sessions they wish to attend. Wherever possible, we have tried not to schedule too many panels in the same stream concurrently so that participants with related interests can attend each other's presentations. But since some streams have received many more panel and paper submissions than others, some doubling up has been unavoidable, and some streams are not represented in every time slot.
Panels form part of one of the following streams, which are listed next to the panel title in the program:
Conference Registration Desk
Location: Lobby, Kansas Memorial Union
Tuesday, May 28, 12-7pm
Wednesday, May 29, 8am-5pm
Thursday, May 30, 8am-5pm
Friday, May 31, 8am-1pm
Saturday, June 1, 8am-1pm
Campus Housing Check-In Desk
Check-in is at the main desk in the lobby of the dorm you have been assigned: Corbin Hall, GSP Hall, KK Amini Scholarship Hall or Margaret Amini Scholarship Hall. These desks will be open 24 hours a day during ASLE, beginning May 27 at 9am and ending June 2 at 2pm. Staff members for conference services are easily recognizable, as they will be wearing red KU logo polo shirts.
Important: you must also check out with staff in person, and turn in your keys to them. If you do not check out in person and keys to your room are not returned, ASLE will be charged for the remaining nights of the conference, and for changing the locks on your room. These charges will then be passed on to you to pay in full.
Dining Options
The Market Café in the Kansas Memorial Union will be open May 28-June 1 from 7am-3pm. It offers a wide variety of foods, including a salad bar and vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options. There is a coffee shop on the fourth floor of the Union (The Pulse) open till 5pm that serves drinks and snacks. ASLE will also offer a complimentary continental breakfast in the lobby of the Union on Sunday, June 2 from 8am-11am. The best option for dinner will be the many restaurants in downtown Lawrence; the conference shuttles will run at dinnertime and most of the downtown restaurants and bars are within walking distance of the dorms (1/4 mile to a mile), although the walk back is uphill. The food at the banquet and receptions will be vegetarian with vegan and gluten free selections.
Downtown Shuttle
Free shuttle buses (they will have a sign saying “private shuttle”) will be running continuously between campus and downtown in the morning and evening. Shuttle buses will be running on a 30 minute loop. The first 15 minutes of every half hour will cover arrival to/ departure from the downtown stops (Tuesday 4:00-4:15, 4:30-4:45, 5:00-5:15, etc.) and second 15 minutes will cover arrival to/ departure from Union (Tuesday 4:15-4:30, 4:45-5:00, 5:15-5:30, etc.). General schedule is:
- One bus running continuously between 4:00-9:30 pm on Tuesday May 28th
- One bus running continuously from 7:30-10:30 am and from 4:30- 9:30 pm on Wed. May 29, Thursday May 30, and Saturday June 1.
- One bus running continuously from 7:30-10:30 am, 12-1 pm, and 5:30-9:30 pm on Friday May 31.
The stops will be: The Union, Wheatfields (heart of downtown), Eldridge Hotel, Spring Hill Suites
Airport Shuttle
A reservation and advance payment is needed to ride the ASLE airport shuttle. Shuttles will drop off and pick up at the campus residence buildings, downtown hotels and the Union (for those staying at the Oread). Those staying at the Oread will board their buses at the Union.
If you have a flight delay, please email us with your new arrival information at ASLEshuttle@gmail.com. If you cannot email, call (785) 393-6032 and leave a message. We will do our best to set up a new shuttle time for you and email or call you back, but cannot make guarantees.
Conference airport shuttle buses will be running between Lawrence at the Kansas City airport (MCI) according to this schedule:
From the Airport
Date |
Frequency |
Shuttle Schedule |
Drop Off Locations |
May 27 |
1 time |
6:00 pm |
All buses will drop off at Spring Hill Suites Hotel, Eldridge Hotel, the GSP/Corbin dorm complex, the Oread Hotel, and finally the Scholarship Halls |
May 28 |
Every hour |
From 10:00 am to 9:00 pm |
1 time |
11:00 pm |
May 29 |
2 times |
12:00 pm (noon) and 3:00 pm |
To the Airport
Date |
Frequency |
Shuttle Schedule |
Pickup Locations |
June 1 |
2 times |
7:00 am and 11:00 am |
Saturday, June 1st: Oread, Scholarship Halls, GSP/Corbin complex, Eldridge, and Spring Hill Suites |
June 2 |
Every hour |
Every hour from 5:00 am to 12:00 pm (noon) |
Sunday, June 2nd: Kansas Union, Scholarship Halls, GSP/Corbin complex, Eldridge, and Spring Hill Suites (Oread guests should board buses at the Union) |
1 time |
2:00 pm |
Technology and Business Services
Attendees will have free access to the guest wireless network from their own laptop computers anywhere on campus. The password will be emailed to you right before the conference and will be available at the registration desk.
All classrooms are equipped for most media needs except Skype. If you plan to use tech in the classrooms, your best option will be to bring your own laptop; Mac users should bring a standard (VGA) adaptor as well. You will also be able to use the computers in the rooms for your tech needs; the generic user id and password to access the computers will be given out at registration. Instructions on how to use the technology in the classrooms are posted in the classrooms, but if problems arise the tech help desk number is (785) 864-1200.
Jayhawk Ink (2nd floor of the Kansas Memorial Union across the hall from the main bookstore) offers shipping via UPS and can assist with any printing needs. Attendees get campus pricing at $.02 per page for b/w and $.25 per page for color. They are closed on Mon- day, May 27, but will be open from 8:30-5:30 Tuesday-Friday and Saturday from 10:00-5:30.
Library Hours
Watson Library is next to Fraser Hall, where many of the sessions will be taking place. Here are the hours:
Mon, May 27 (Memorial Day), Closed
Tuesday-Friday, May 28-31, 8am - 5pm
Sat, Jun 1, Closed
Sun, Jun 2, 1pm-5pm
Message and Meetups
We will have a board at the registration desk to post your notes and messages. Feel free to post to and check our ASLE Facebook and Twitter, use hashtag #asle13 for updates and to connect with other conference attendees.
Mentoring Meetings
These one-hour meetings are designed to welcome graduate students and new members to the ASLE community and to provide professional mentoring to graduate students beyond their home departments. There are a few open slots if you are still interested in this opportunity. Contact Mark Long, ASLE Mentoring Coordinator, at mlong@keene.edu.
Weather in Kansas
While it is highly unlikely that severe weather will threaten your safety while you are at the conference, dangerous storms do happen here, and this is the season for them. In the event of a tornado warning, loud sirens will sound throughout Lawrence and the KU campus; you should take shelter immediately if you hear one go off. The Kansas Memorial Union and other buildings on campus have shelters where you will be safe. For more information on what to do in the event of severe weather, please see: http://kualerts.com/severe-thunderstorm/.
Welcome to Lawrence!
On behalf of the University of Kansas, greetings to all of the attendees of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Tenth Biennial Conference. Hosting this event has particular significance for us because of the university's long-standing commitments to scholarship on environmental issues in the humanities and sciences, and sustainable practices in our institution- al and personal lives. We are a year and a half into the implementation of a campus-wide strate- gic initiative "Sustaining the Planet, Powering the World," which will build on KU's strengths in climate change studies, interdisciplinary environmental studies, and alternative energy and transportation science. Our Center for Sustainability actively promotes sustainable practices in operations, education, research, and campus life, and our well-established Environmental Studies program fosters active and engaged interdisciplinary scholarly dialogue. I'm delighted to be able to support our faculty and students in hosting one of the major conferences in the environmental humanities, and to welcome you to the University of Kansas and Lawrence
Jeffrey Vitter, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Thank You!
Many thanks to our hosts at University of Kansas, especially:
- Jeffrey Vitter, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
- Danny Anderson, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Ann Cudd, Associate Dean for the Humanities
- Marc Greenberg, Interim Associate Dean for the Humanities
- Victor Bailey, Director of the Hall Center for the Humanities
- Anna Neill, Chair, Department of English
- J. Christopher Brown, Director, Environmental Studies Program
- Danny Novo, Project Coordinator, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Web Services
- Kate Meyer, Assistant Curator, Spencer Art Museum
- Emily Ryan, Coordinator, The Commons
- Jonathan Perkins, Director, Ermal Garinger Academic Resource Center
- Sharon Leatherman, Office Manager for Events Services, Kansas Union
- Whitney Fox, Catering Coordinator, Kansas Union
- Lisa Eitner, Special Events, KU Bookstore
- Chris Sewalish, Assistant Director for Apartment Living, Student Housing
- Lori Whitten, Administrative Associate, Department of English
- Clare Echterling, Publishers’ Exhibit coordinator, shuttle coordinator, and all-around organizer of many things
- The Graduate Student Volunteers: Creighton Brown, Ali Brox, Dustin Crowley, Aaron Long, Annie Lowe, Ann Martinez, Ashley Ortiz, Jessica Weatherford, Mary Beth Woodson
- And most especially to ASLE Managing Director Amy McIntyre and site host Byron Caminero-Santangelo. Without their commitment of time, energy, and intelligence, this conference would not have been possible.
We also owe a debt of gratitude to the following people:
- NEW-CUE President Joe Doll, and NEW-CUE (Nature and Environmental Writers, College and University Educators) for their generous sponsorship of two travel grants to independent scholars and graduate students.
- The Conference Travel Awards Committee: Sarah Jaquette Ray, Anthony Lioi, Andrew Hageman and Tom Hillard
- Conference proposal review committee: Catriona Sandilands and Anthony Lioi (special thanks to Anthony for help in naming panels) Book and Paper Awards coordinator Tom Lynch
- The judges for ASLE’s biennial awards in Ecocriticism and Environmental Creative Writing:
- Scholarly Book: Stacy Alaimo, Mark Long, Lewis Ulman
- Creative Writing Book: Jeff Thomson, Bernie Quetchenbach, Janine DeBaise
- Graduate Student scholarly paper: Serpil Opperman, Dan Wylie, Jenny Kerber
- Graduate student creative paper: Susan Hawthorne, Brian Bartlett, John Ryan
- Preconference Workshop coordinator Greta Gaard
- Authors’ Reception coordinators Salma Monani and Catherine Meeks
- Community grants co-coordinators Joni Adamson and Mark Long
- Christoph Irmscher and Ursula Heise, the host and program coordinator of the 2011 biennial conference, for their guidance and support
Publishers' Exhibit
Hours
Wednesday, May 29: 8:30am – 5pm
Thursday, May 30: 8:30am – 5pm
Friday, May 31: 8:30am – 1pm
Saturday, June 1: 8:30am – 12pm
Location: Alderson, Kansas Memorial Union
Exhibitors
American Scientist
Ecotone
Milkweed Editions
Orion Magazine
Oxford University Press
Penguin Group USA
The Scholar's Choice
University of Virginia Press
University of Georgia Press
University of Nevada Press
University of Illinois Press
University of Utah Press
*Note: KU Bookstore/Jayhawk Ink will offer the plenary speakers’ books for sale/signing by authors in the Ballroom Parlors at each plenary session. They offer 15% off and can arrange shipping for customers.
2013 ASLE Book and Paper Award Winners
Ecocriticism Book Award:
Rob Nixon, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Published by Harvard University Press
Environmental Creative Writing Book Award:
David Gessner, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill
Published by Milkweed Press
Ecocriticism Graduate Student Paper Award:
William Lombardi (University of Nevada, Reno)
"Unequal Burdens: An Outline for Postlocal Ecocriticism and Notes on the Location of Ecosocial Justice" (session 2S)
Environmental Creative Writing Graduate Student Paper Award:
Maya Laxmi Kapoor (University of Arizona)
"The Slowness of Our Eyes: A Creative Nonfiction Look at Life Through a Microscope" (session 4K)
Travel Award Winners
Travel Award Winners
$500 ASLE Graduate Travel Awards
Kiu-wai Chu, Univ. of Hong Kong/Univ. of Idaho
Vera R. Coleman, Arizona State University
Ng’ang’a wa Muchiri, University of Miami
Samuel Awuah-Nyamekye, University of Leeds
Jamie Bolker, Fordham University
$250 ASLE Graduate Travel Awards
Chantal Bilodeau, Independent Scholar
Fabiana Dimpflmaier, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’
Yeonhaun Kang, University of Florida
Jennifer Bargara Sibara, University of Southern California
Patricia H. Audette-Longo, Concordia University
Jasmine Johnston, University of British Columbia
Yvonne Kaisinger, University of Salzburg
Adele Tiengo, State University of Milan
Benjamin Vogt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lauren Woolbright, Clemson University
$250 NEW-CUE Travel Awards
Lindsay Dunne Jacoby, University of Maryland, College Park
Maya L. Kapoor, University of Arizona
ASLE Officers & Coordinators
Voting Officers
President: Paul Outka, University of Kansas
Vice-President: Mark Long, Keene State College
Immediate Past President: Joni Adamson, Arizona State University
Diversity Coordinator: Salma Monani, Gettysburg College
Graduate Student Liaison (senior): Andrew Hageman, Luther College
Executive Council
Allison Carruth, University of California, Los Angeles (2013-2015)
Christoph Irmscher, Indiana University, Bloomington (2012-2014)
Stephanie LeMenager, University of California, Santa Barbara/University of Oregon (2012-2014)
Anthony Lioi, The Juilliard School (2011-2013)
Sarah Jaquette Ray, University of Alaska, Southeast (2013-2015)
Kimberly Ruffin, Roosevelt University (2011-2013)
Coordinators
Executive Secretary: Karla Armbruster, Webster University
International Liaison: George Handley, Brigham Young University
Graduate Student Liaison (junior): Andrew Husband, Texas Tech University
Graduate Student Mentoring Program Coordinator: Mark Long, Keene State College
Awards Coordinator: Tom Lynch, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Professional Liaison Coordinator: Tonia Payne, Nassau Community College - SUNY
ASLE News Editor: Catherine Meeks, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
ISLE Editor: Scott Slovic, University of Idaho
Book Review Editor, ISLE: Tom Hillard, Boise State University
Site Host
Byron Caminero-Santangelo, University of Kansas
Staff
Managing Director: Amy McIntyre
Participants in the Author's Reception
Adamson, Joni and Kim Ruffin. American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Cititizenship: Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons. Routledge, 2013. ISBN 978-0-415-62823-59307
Byl, Christine. Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods. Beacon Press, 2013.
ISBN 978-0-8070-0100-4
Caminero-Santangelo, Byron and Garth Myers. Environment at the Margins: Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa (ed.). Ohio UP, 2011.
ISBN 978-0821419786
Carruth, Allison. Global Appetites: American Power and the Literature of Food. Cambridge, 2013. ISBN 978-1107032828
Corbett, Julia. Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West. University of Utah Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-69781-249-4
Estok, Simon; Greta Gaard and Serpil Oppermann. International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism (ed.). Routledge, 2013. ISBN 978-0-415-82260-2
Estok, Simon; Won-Chung Kim. East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN 978-1137274311
Fallon, Katie. Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird. Ruka Press, 2011. ISBN 098-3011117
FISHER-WIRTH, Ann. Dream Cabinet. Wings Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0916727932
FISHER-WIRTH, Ann. The Ecopoetry Anthology (ed.). Trinity University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1595341464
Forns, Roberto. Nudos como estrellas (Nude like the stars). Editorial Nido de Cuervos, 2012. ISBN N/A (Peruvian)
Galeano, Juan Carlos. Yakumama and Other Mythical Beings. Centro de Estudios Teológicos de la Amazonia, 2011. ISBN 978-612-45058-2-9
George Haskell, David. The Forest Unseen. A Year's Watch in Nature. Penguin, 2012. ISBN 978-0670023370
Hess, Scott. William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship: the Roots of Environmentalism in Nineteenth-Century Culture. U of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0813932323
Howell, Rebecca Gayle. Render / An Apocalypse. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012. ISBN 978-0986025730
Hueter (Warner), Diane. After the Tornado. Stephen F. Austin Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-62288-009-6
Jenkins, Mckay. What's Gotten into Us?: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World. Random House, 2011. ISBN 978-1400068037
Kirkpatrick, Kathryn. Our Held Animal Breath: Poems. WordTech Edition, 2012. ISBN 978-1936370917
Knickerbocker, Scott. Ecopoetics: The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language. University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-55849-955-3
Knopp, Lisa. What the River Carries : Encounters with the Mississippi. U of Missouri Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8262-1974-9
Ladino, Jennifer. Reclaiming Nostalgia: Longing for Nature in American Literature. U of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0813933368
Lindholdt, Paul. In Earshot of Water. U of Iowa Press, 2011.
ISBN 978-1-58729-984-1
Lundblad, Michael. The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature and Culture. Oxford UP, 2012. ISBN 978-0199917570
Lundblad, Michael. Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory. Columbia Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-231-15283-9
Lynch, Tom and Susan N. Maher. Artifacts and Illuminations: Critical Essays on Loren Eiseley (ed.). U of Nebraska Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8032-3403-1
Lynch, Tom, Cheryll Glotfelty, Karla Armbruster. The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, Place (ed.). U of Georgia P, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8203-3592-6
Marshall, Ian. Border Crossings: Walking the Haiku Path on the International Appalachian Trail. Hiraeth P, 2012. ISBN 978-0-9835852-5-1
McAdam, Rhona. Digging the City: An Urban Agriculture Manifesto. Rocky Mountain Books, 2012. ISBN 192-7330211
McCutchan, Ann. River Music: An An Atchafalaya Story. TAMU Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-60344-289-3
Montgomery Fate, Tom. Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father's Search for the Wild. Beacon Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0807000984
Murray, Robin and Joe Huemann. That's All Folks?: Ecocritical Readings of American Animated Features. U of Nebraska Press, 2011.
ISBN 978-0803235120
Murray, Robin and Joe Huemann. Gunfight at the Eco-Corral: Western Cinema and the Environment. U of Oklahoma Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0806142463
Nagy, Kelsi. Trash Animals: How We Live With Nature's Filthy, Feral, Invasive and Unwanted Species. U of Minnesota Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8166-8055-9
Nelson, Darby. For Love of Lakes. Michigan State University Press, 2012.
ISBN 978-1611863021-4
Outka, Paul. Race and Nature from Transcendentalism to the Harlem Renaissance. Palgrave Macmillan, Paperback Edition, 2013. ISBN
978-1-137-28052-7
Philips, Anna Lena. A Pocket Book of Forms. To Do in the New Year, 2013. chapbook; no ISBN
Ray, Sarah Jaquette. The Ecological Other: Environmental Exclusion in
American Culture. U of Arizona Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8165-1188-4
Richardson, Barbara. Tributary. Torrey House Press, 2012.
ISBN 978-1-937226-04-6
Roberts, Suzanne. Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail. U of Nebraska P, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8032-4012-4
Roberts, Suzanne. Plotting Temporality. Pecan Grove PRESS, 2012.
ISBN 978-1-937302-00-9
Rogers, Susan Fox. My Reach: A Hudson River Memoir. Cornell U Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8014-5007-5
Rust, Stephen, Salma Monani, and Sean Cubitt (ed.). Ecocinema Theory and Practice. Routledge AFI, 2013. ISBN 978-0-415-89943-7
Ryan, Terre. The Ecstatic Nation: The American Landscape and the Aesthetics of Patriotism. University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-55849-873-0
Saulitis, Eva. Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss Among Vanishing Orcas;. Beacon Press, 2013. ISBN 807014354
Saulitis, Eva. Many Ways to Say It. Red Hen Press, 2012. ISBN 1597092428
Schaberg, Christopher. The Textual Life of Airports. Bloomsbury, 2012. ISBN 978-1441189684
Seymour, Nicole. Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination. U of Illinois Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0252079160
Specq, François (w/ Laura Dassow Walls, and Michel Granger). Thoreauvian Modernities: Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon. U of Georgia Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8203-4429-4
Stephens, Liz. Days are Gods. Bison Books, UNP, 2013. ISBN 803243545
Storey, Gail. I Promise Not to Suffer. Mountaineering Books, 2013. ISBN 978-1-59485-745-4
Straight, Nathan. Autobiography, Ecology, and the Well-Placed Self: The Growth of Natural Biography in Contemporary American Life Writing. Peter Lang, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4331-1225-6
Stuckey, Priscilla. Kissed by a Fox. Counterpoint, 2012. ISBN 978-1-58243-812-2
Terrill, Ceiridwen. PART WILD: Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dogs. Scribner, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4516-3482-2
Thornber, Karen. Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures. U of Michigan Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-472-11806-9
Weltzien, Alan (rep for Lindholdt). The Snowpeak. Foothills Press, 2013.
ISBN 978-0-931053-65-8
Wohlpart, Jim. Walking in the Land of Many Gods: Remembering Sacred Reason in Contemporary Environmental Literature. University of Georgia Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0820345239
ASLE Book Award Winners:
Gessner, David. The Tarball Chronicles: A Journey Beyond the Oiled Pelican and into the Heart of the Gulf Oil Spill. Milkweed Editions, 2012.
ISBN 978-1571313379
Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard
University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-067404
Parking
Guests do NOT need parking permits. All resident hall lots are free (this does not include metered spaces). Pay-as-you-go parking is also available in a covered lot adjacent to the KU Union. Do NOT park in other lots on campus; you will be ticketed.
All resident hall lots are free (this does not include metered spaces), including lots 100-105, 107, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 121, 124 and 128.
Here is a link to the full-size pdf Parking Map from KU: http://www.parking.ku.edu/map.pdf
The Kansas Jayhawk
So-called “Bleeding Kansas” was the site of brutal paramiltary struggles between pro-slavery and Abolitionist settlers from roughly 1855-1858, in advance of a vote that would decide whether the Territory entered the Union as a Free or Slave state. Violence persisted throughout the Civil War, including attacks by Kansas native John Brown and his sons, and the infamous "Quantrill's Raid" on Lawrence in 1863 that burned most of the town to the ground and killed more than 150 men and boys. "Jayhawk" was an insulting term used by proslavery settlers for their anti-slavery opponents—combining the hawk's stealth and the quarrelsome jay's propensity to steal from other birds. For more information on the history of the jayhawk, see: http://www.ku.edu/about/traditions/jayhawk.php.