Petrocultures Conference 2012

University of Alberta, Edmonton AL, Canada

The Petrocultures Conference 2012 will gather scholars, writers, filmmakers and artists from around the world who are engaged in an exploration of the social and cultural dimensions and impacts of oil and energy.

This evnt will examine and reassess how energy has been and remains an intrinsic part of socio-political life and cultural productivity,

Conference Sessions:

Thursday, September 6

9:00 am – 9:30 am (Le Grand Salon): Breakfast
9:30 am – 10:00 am (Le Grand Salon): Conference Welcome
10:00 am – 12:00 pm: Session 1
Panel 1a: Petrofictions 1: Oil Fantasies (La Salle Historique)
Panel 1b: Oil, Temporality and the Cultural Politics of “Community” in Alberta’s North (Le Grand Salon)
Panel 1c: Art of Intervention (3-04)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Lunch (Le Grand Salon)
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm: Session 2
Workshop A: Hybrid Strategies of Academia-Activism-Media-Art (3-04)
Panel 2a: Strategies of Resistance (Le Grand Salon)
Panel 2b: Gendering Oil (La Salle Historique)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Coffee Break (Le Grand Salon)
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Session 3
Film Screening: Land of Oil and Water (Auditorium, 1-08 Pavillion McMahon)
Workshop B: Community Responses to the Tar Sands (3-04)
Workshop C: Tracing Cultural Connections between Energy Cities (Le Grand Salon)
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Opening of “Petrocultures” exhibition at Gallery @ 501 and Keynote 1: Ursula Biemann

Friday, September 7

8:45 am – 9:15 am: Breakfast (Le Grand Salon)
9:15 am – 11:00 am
Keynote 2: Allan Stoekl (Le Grand Salon)
11:00 am – 11:15 am: Coffee Break (Le Grand Salon)
11:15 am – 1:00 pm: Session 4
Panel 4a: Oil Ontologies (La Salle Historique)
Panel 4b: Petrofictions 2 (3-04)
Panel 4c: Politico-Institutional Histories of Oil (Le Grand Salon)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch (Le Grand Salon)
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm: Session 5
Panel 5a: The Politics of Pipelines (La Salle Historique)
Panel 5b: Petrofictions 3 (Le Grand Salon)
Panel 5c: Glob(oil)ization (3-04)
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm: Coffee Break (Le Grand Salon)
4:15 pm – 6:00 pm: Session 6
Panel 6a: Discipline and Oil (La Salle Historique)
Panel 6b: Oil Sites 1: Alberta (Auditorium)
Panel 6c: Temporalities of Oil (3-04)
Panel 6d: The View from Bataille’s Peak (Le Grand Salon)
6:00 pm: Dinner for presenters and special guests: Narayanni’s Restaurant

Saturday, September 8

10:00 am – 10:30 am: Coffee (Le Grand Salon)
10:30 am – noon
Keynote 3: Warren Cariou (Le Grand Salon)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm: Lunch (Le Grand Salon)
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm: Session 7
Panel 7a: Oil Sites 2: Niger Delta (Le Grand Salon)
Panel 7b: Rhetoric, Meaning, Governance 1 (3-04)
Panel 7c: Logics of the Petrostate (Le Salle Historique)
2:45 pm – 3:15 pm: Coffee Break (Le Grand Salon)
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm: Session 8
Panel 8a: Cultural Histories of Petroleum (La Salle Historique)
Panel 8b: Nation(oil)ism (Le Grand Salon)
Panel 8c: Gendering Oil (3-04)
4:45 pm – 6:15 pm: Session 9
Workshop D: Writing the eye/I in Oil: Contemplating the Everyday Through Images (Le Grand Salon)

Sunday, September 9

9:00 am – 9:30 am: Coffee (Le Grand Salon)
9:30 am – 11:00 am: Session 9
Panel 9a: Art and Politics (3-04)
Panel 9b: Climate for Democracy? Citizenship, Literacy & Public Engagement in a Petro-Culture (La Salle Historique)
Panel 9c: Oil, Psycho-Geography, Trauma (Auditorium, 1-08 Pavillon McMahon)
Panel 9d: Popular Culture (Le Grand Salon)
11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Session 10
Panel 10a: Rhetoric, Meaning, Governance 2 (La Salle Historique)
Panel 10b: Temporalities of Oil (Le Grand Salon)
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Lunch and Group Wrap-Up Session (Le Grand Salon)

There will be more than 100 participants in the conference who will be visiting Edmonton from more than 12 countries.

Organized by: IACSI