Ecology and Poetic Modes of Thought

Criar não é imaginação, é correr o grande risco de se ter a realidade.

— Clarice Lispector, A Paixão Segundo G.H.

1-Day workshop on “Ecology and Poetic Modes of Thought”

Org. Bartholomew Ryan

Programme

09:15 Welcome and Introduction to the Workshop

09:30–11:00

António de Castro Caeiro – ‘Deep grief as a fundamental disposition in Hölderlin’

Giovanbattista Tusa – ‘Deviant Ecologies. Notes on poetry and cosmology in Lucretius’ De rerum natura’

Moderator: Luís de Sousa

11:00–11:20 Coffee

11:20–12:50

Gianfranco Ferraro – ‘“Nature has no more love or care for the seed of man than for the ants”. Giacomo Leopardi’s philosophical and poetical conversions’

Vanessa Lemm – ‘Rooted in Other Worlds’

Moderator: Marta Faustino

12:50 – 14:30 Lunch

14:30 – 16:00

Lindsay Sekulowicz – ‘Immortal Flowers and the herbarium of Emily Dickinson’

Antonio Cardiello – ‘Alberto Caeiro as the Ecologist of genuine sensations’

Moderator: Pedro Dotto

16:00–16:20 Coffee

16:20 – 17:50

Ana Falcato – ‘Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello and the Death of the Humanities’

Bartholomew Ryan – ‘The wastelands and landuage of T.S. Eliot and James Joyce’

Moderator: Louis Armand

17:50–18:00 Closing Remarks

Event supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e para a Tecnologia) of the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science under the project UIDB/00183/2020.