Sunday

All talks, panels, and roundtables will be held at the University of Vermont. Artistic and musical events will be at various locations in Burlington.

SYMPOSIUM OPENING ASSEMBLY

10:00-10:30 am, Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center

Introductions and agenda setting, with Vermont poet-laureate Chard deNiord, Gund Institute director Taylor Ricketts, and others. EcoCultureLab coordinator Adrian Ivakhiv will describe the goals of Feverish World and invite audience members to participate in collaborative efforts to meet them. Among the goals: to experimentally develop new ways of regaining a sense of “agency” over the future. If the environmental crisis, as Natalie Jeremijenko has described it, is at root a “crisis of agency” — we don’t know what to do or how to do it, and the old and trodden ways of confronting problems only leave us more “stuck” in the same grooves — then the crisis cannot be resolved by the methods, strategies, or disciplinary paths of the past. How to proceed forward, then? Can art help us feel our way to new approaches? What sorts of experiments should be tried, designed, and developed? By whom and in what contexts? Feverish World aims to explore these questions through conversation and practical experiment.

Panel:

SITUATING OURSELVES IN A FEVERISH WORLD

10:30 am-12:00 noon, Grand Maple Ballroom, Davis Center

Where are we, and who are we, today in this world, this time, this land? What are the landmarks by which we need to re-situate ourselves in our places and spaces (cities and regions), our cultural and political terrains, and our collective spiritual condition as a global society riven by stark inequality and wildly competing interests and worldviews?

Poet, writer, and digital artist Tina Escaja, Abenaki historian, archaeologist, and ethnobotanist Fred Wiseman, and cultural theorist and eco-philosopher Adrian Ivakhiv will reflect on the cultural, historical, and emotional contexts of our feverish world.

TENTWORKS / TENT TALKS

12:00 to 1:30 pm, University of Vermont campus and vicinity

Over three dozen TentWorks will be laid out in the Feverish World Tent City, located outdoors between the Davis Center, Bailey Howe Library, and the University Green, with some indoors in the Davis Center. Further info on TentTalks will be available at the event. Lunch will be available from food trucks. Conversation is encouraged.