9:30AM - 10:00AM

Welcome, Coffee, & Registration In Regency Room in DeVos Center.

10:00AM - 10:45AM

Introduction to the Conference & Opening Remarks

10:45AM - 12:45PM

Panel 1: Evolving Theories on Space & Psychopathy

Chair: Jeff Byrnes (Grand Valley State University)

Safe from Harm? Trauma & the Construction of Safe Spaces

Ulrich Koch (The George Washington University)

Rethinking Trauma through a Developmental Lens: Clinical Perspectives, Historical Challenges

Erika Quinn (Independent Scholar)

Geopsyche. Medical enquiries into the links between the physical environment and the pathologies of the mind (19th and 20th centuries)

Anatole Le Bras (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France)

12:45PM - 2:00PM

Lunch

2:00PM - 3:30PM

Panel 2: Ruined Landscapes and Visions of Disaster

Chair: Matthew Daley (Grand Valley State University)

Imagining Catastrophe: Architecture and Film

Eric Nay (Ontario College of Art and Design University, Toronto, Canada)

Obsession with Danger: Multiple functions of dark tourism sights - The case of radioactive trauma landscapes

Julia B. Köhne (Humboldt University, Berlin)

3:30PM-5:30PM

Reception & Snacks Followed by:

"The Rapids Beneath the Calm: A Walking Tour of Difficult Public Memories in Grand Rapids, Michigan"
A Walking Tour of Grand Rapids led by Professor Matthew Daley

6:00PM

Conference dinner at Bistro Bella Vita, for Panelists & Chairs

9:30AM - 10:00AM

Coffee

10:00AM - 11:30AM

Panel 3: Popular Media Representations and Hidden Narratives of Environmental Stress

Chair: Yue Liang (Grand Valley State University)

Sensing the Aporia: Environmental Trauma, Public Storytelling, and the Toxic Sensorium in Canadian Visual Culture

John Bessai (University College of the North, Thompson, Manitoba, Canada)

Beyond Survival in West Chicago: Multimedia Counter-Storytelling and Youth Healing on the Margins

Jennifer Ventimiglia (Northeastern Illinois University)

11:30AM - 1:00PM

Lunch

1:00PM - 2:30PM

Panel 4: Environment, Psyche, History - Case Studies (1)

Chair: Blair Stein (Grand Valley State University)

Fluid Encounters: Hydrological Psyche of the Midwestern Underground Railroad

Steven Nathaniel (Grand Valley State University) and Ramya Swayamprakash (Grand Valley State University)

Ecologies of Incarceration: Environmental Trauma and Reintegration in a Changing Climate

Joy Ferdinand (University of Arkansas)

2:30PM-3:00PM

Coffee Break

3:00PM-4:30PM

Panel 5: Environment, Psyche, History—Case Studies (2)

Chair: Paul Murphy (Grand Valley State University)

Enemies at the Gate: Disaster, Capitalism, and the Hot Springs World

War I Internment Camp

Heather Perry (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

Climate Trauma and the Irish Revolution: Weather, Disease, and Compensation

Justin Stover (Idaho State University)

4:30PM - 5:00PM

Brief concluding discussion, future goals