SANAS Biennial Conference 2024

Information, Program, Publication

How to get to the University of Geneva?

From Geneva Airport (Cointrin)

The train station is located within the terminal building and all trains stop at Geneva main station (Gare Cornavin), which is the first stop after departing the airport. The journey takes approximately 7 minutes. Note that due to the volume of traffic, a taxi from the airport to the city is slow and expensive.

From Gare Cornavin (Geneva main train station)

The conference sessions will be held in Le bâtiment des Philosophes, Boulevard des Philosophes 22, 1204 Genève (ignore the obsolete travel directions on this webpage and follow the directions below instead):

Tram 15 departs from a stop that is directly in front of the main train station. Take tram 15 (direction ZIPLO) to the stop "Plainpalais," which is on a round-about and from which Boulevard des Philosophes starts. Follow this street for some 400 meters (around 6 minutes walk) to reach the “Bâtiment des Philosophes” on your right.

To return to Gare Cornavin from the Bâtiment des Philosophes, take tram 15 (direction “Nations”) at Plainpalais OR take Bus 1 (direction “Jardin Botanique”) at the stop “Philosophes,” which is on Boulevard des Philosophes between the university building and the stop "Plainpalais."

Note that you must buy a ticket from the vending machine at the stop before boarding the tram. At registration, your hotel will give you a card that permits free travel on all of the Geneva public transport system.

 

Interactive MAP of the University

 

Where to Stay in Geneva?

There are many hotels in the city center, at different price points, and rooms have NOT been pre-booked for participants. Hotels that are convenient to the conference site are:
 

 

Note that the cost of lunch on both days of the conference as well as the conference dinner on Thursday is covered by the registration fee.

 

Download a copy of these travel details HERE

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Registration in room PHIL 211 from 10h; conference opening at 11h in room PHIL 201

Download a copy of the full conference program, with abstracts and speaker biographies HERE

 

7 November

 

Room

PHIL 201

 

Room

PHIL 211

 

10.00-11.00

 

 

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
 

11.00-12.00

Keynote 1

 

 

 

 

Welcome
 
Prof. Dana Medoro
University of Manitoba
"Abortion and the Secrets of Early 19th-Century Women"
 
 

12.15-13.45

LUNCH  Restaurant du CMU - Université de Genève, Rue Michel-Servet 1, 1205 Genève

 

TIME

PHIL 201 PHIL 102 PHIL 006

14.00-15.30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PANEL 1A
Indigenous Futurism 1
Chair:
Deborah Madsen
 
Diana Martsynkovska, "Native American Temporalities in Gerald Vizenor’s Story 'Custer on the Slipstream' ”
 
Yifei Jing, "Historical Dreams and Dream Songs in Gerald Vizenor’s Waiting for Wovoka"

Matthew Scully, "Rewriting Nature after the Apocalypse: Tommy Pico’s Queer Indigenous Ecology"
 
PANEL 1B
Cyber Futures
Chair:
Suzanne Enzerink
 
Alex Diaz-Hui, "Nightclub Feminisms in Cybernetics"

David Callahan, "Restaging Social Organization in the Far Future: Horizon: Forbidden West "

Mehdi Ghasemi, "Cybercultural Depictions in Post-postmodern Fiction"
 
 
 

 

PANEL 1C
Afrofuturism 1
Chair:
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
 
Marika Ceschia, "Towards a Black Maternal Ecolinguistic Methodology"

Sasha-Mae Eccleston,  "Facing the Future Pasts of Classics in the US through Suzan-Lori Parks"
 
Rocio Davis, "Decolonization, Indigeneity, and Isolationism in Marvel’s Black Panther Films
 
 
 
 

15.30-16.00

PAUSE

 
ROOM 211

16.00-17.30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PANEL 2A
Indigenous Futurism 2
Chair:
David Callahan
 
Niki Karamanidou, "Negotiating Cultural Encounters in Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water"

Kristin Murray, "Layered storytelling in Elatsoe"

Weronika Laszkiewicz, "Reading Survivance in Indigenous Dystopian Fiction"
 
 
PANEL 2B
Temporalities
Chair:
Matthew Sivils
 
James Dorson, "Colliding Temporalities in Recent Literary Genre Fiction"

Viola Marchi, "Fabricating the Ghost: Future Spectralities in 21st century Black Literature and Culture"
 
Manuel Vogelsang, "Queer Pasts/Futures: Todd Haynes’s Versions of the Past"
 
PANEL 2C
Medical Futures
Chair:
Aïcha Bouchelaghem
 
Beatrice Festa, "Futurist      
 Configurations of (Mass) Disability in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One"

Cedric Essi, "Reproductive Futurisms Across the Color Line (1996-2016)"

Markus Schwarz, "Politics of Refusal and Planetary Relations in N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season"
 
 
 

19.30

CONFERENCE DINNER  Café du Marché, Avenue Henri-Dunant 16, 1205 Genève

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8 November

9.00-10.00

Keynote 2

 

Prof. Sherryl Vint
University of California, Riverside
“Retconning America”

10.00-10.30

PAUSE

 
ROOM 211

10.30-12.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PANEL 3A
Posthumanism
Chair:
Andrin Albrecht
 
Nastacia Schmoll, "Post-human Figures as Catalysts for More Human(e) Futures in N.K. Jemisin’s ‘Walking Awake’ and ‘Valedictorian’ "
 
Amina Grunewald, "Towards Multispecies Co-Existence and Animal Justice"

Kimberly Frohreich, "Alternative Racialized Pasts and Futures in HBO’s 2019 Watchmen "
PANEL 3B
Afrofuturism 2
Chair: Sherryl Vint
 
Francesca DeLucia, "Afro-surrealism and Afroturism in film: Sorry to Bother You and They Cloned Tyrone"

Suzanne Enzerink, "Speculative Pasts: Useni Eugene Perkin’s ‘The Image Makers’ "

Mattia Ferraro, Black Identity Through the Swiss Lens in the Works of Baldwin, Carter, and Cole
 
 
PANEL 3C
Eco Futures
Chair: Ana Fraile
 
Lee Flamand, "Climate Catastrophe, Speculative Anarcho-pessimism, and Apocalyptic Beauty in Desert"

Matthew Sivils, "Ecotemporal Anxiety and the Polluted Future in Beston’s The Outermost House"

Ana Fraile, "Decolonial Love and Constellations of Co-resistance in Speculative Cli-Fi from Canada"
 
 

12.15-13.45

LUNCH  Restaurant du CMU - Université de Genève, Rue Michel-Servet 1, 1205 Genève

 

14.00-15.30

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PANEL 4A
Retrofuturism
Chair:
James Dorson
 
Sof Sabbioni, "Building Regressive Futures: Far-Right Literature in the U.S. Book Business"

Barbara Straumann, "Changing the Story to Survive Past and Futurism in Lauren Groff’s The Vast Wilds (2023)"

Judith Rauscher, Gender, "Embodied Citizenship, and the Queer Posthumanism of Manhunt "
 
PANEL 4B
Indigenous Futurism 3
Chair:
Viola Marchi
 
Judit Kadar, "Time, Cognitive Paths and Transformations in Mixed Heritage Southwestern US Fiction"

Nina Reuther, "Reflections about Linguistic Positioning of Events in Time and Space"

Laura Jungblut, "Trickster creates Postindian Time: Disrupting Racializations"
 
PANEL 4C
Lyric Futures
Chair:
Hannah Schoch
 
Hannah Schoch, "Affordances of the Lyric and Theories of Systemic Change"

Andrin Albrecht, "Anaïs Mitchell’s Musical Hadestown and the Circularity of Hope"

Marcel Hartwig, "Gary Snyder’s Deep Ecology Poetry as a Contemporary Lyric Form of Protest"
 
 
 
 

15.30-16.00

PAUSE

 

ROOM 211

16.00

ROOM Phil 201

 

 

SANAS AGM

 

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PUBLICATION

Selected conference papers will be published by Winter Verlag: https://spell.winter-verlag.de/

Conference participants and doctoral students who participate in the accompanying CUSO workshop are warmly invited to submit their papers for consideration.

Instructions, deadlines, and formatting guidelines can be downloaded HERE.

Deadline for the submission of essays: 1 February 2025.

EDITORIAL INQUIRIES and SUBMISSION (email attachment): deborah.madsen@unige.ch

 

Last updated on January 27th 2025