9:30-10:30 Opening & Rural Imaginations Introduction - Esther Peeren // REC A 1.03

10:30-11:30 Keynote I – Jennifer Wenzel // REC A. 103

11:30-11:45 Coffee/tea break

11:45-13:15 Parallel Panels I

• Panel 1: Consuming the Rural, Part 1 // REC A 1.04

  • Chen Zhou (UvA), “Consuming Ecological Food: Practicing Rural Authenticity in the Urban”

  • Rachel Creaney et al. (James Hutton Institute), “Idealising the Rural: The Role of Scottish Mountains in Promoting the Scottish Whisky Brand”

  • Natalia Sánchez Querubín et al. (UvA), “Cottagecore: Romanticising Rural Living Online”

  • Shao Shao (UvA) “Feminized Idyllic Rurality as Spectacle: A Visual and Textual Analysis of Chinese Rural-based Online Celebrities Li ziqi and Dianxixiaoge [ONLINE]

• Panel 2: Rural Migrations and Mobilities // REC A 1.05

  • Chiara Davino (Bologna), “Re-Imagining the Margin: Emigration and Migration in Rural Italy” [ONLINE]

  • Sarah Ropp (UPenn), “Hostile Terrains: Imagining Migrant Children in the Rural US Southwest”

  • Dominika Mikolajczyk (UvA), “Re-Imagining the Rural Idyll: Eastern European Migrants in Contemporary Representations of the Italian and British Countryside”

• Panel 3: Villages and Transitions in the Age of Globalization // REC A 1.06

  • Frans Thissen (UvA), “Imaginations of changing villages in Dutch and Flemish Novels”

  • Sarah Rogers, B. Wilmsen, and N. Zhen (LaTrobe/Melbourne), “Contested rural imaginaries in the Three Gorges” [ONLINE]

  • Joyce Goggin, “Sponge Fishing on the Island of Kalymnos”

• Panel 4: Methodological Interventions and Perspectives // REC A.107

  • Pauline O’Connell (UvA), “Paradox not Paradise, the Rural as a Site of Representational Struggle” (Artistic Research) [Includes film screening of “A Woman’s Culm”, 17.30 mins]

  • Roel van den Oever (VU), “Gazing at God’s Own Country”

  • Maithri (UvA), “Walking and Popular Representations of the Migrant Exodus 2020 in India”

13:15-14:45 Lunch

14:45-16:30 Roundtable 1: Global Hinterlands // REC C 0.01

• Chair: Hanneke Stuit

• Featured Speakers: Sarah Nuttall, Pamila Gupta, Esther Peeren

16:30-16:45 Coffee/tea break

16:45-17:45 Keynote II – Rosemary Shirley // REC A 1.03

9:30-10:30 Keynote III – Corinne Fowler [ONLINE] // REC A 1.03

10:30-11:30 Keynote IV – Maxwell Ayamba // REC A 1.03

11:30-11:45 Coffee/tea break

11:45-13:15 Roundtables

• Roundtable 2: Rural Stakeholders // REC A 2.09

  • Chair: Anke Bosma

  • Speakers: Paul Fischer, Yvonne Faber, Jur Jacobs, Isabella Sueur

• Roundtable 3: Emerging Projects in Rural Studies // REC A 2.11

  • Chair: Tjalling Valdés Olmos

  • Speakers: Max Fraser, Garrett Dash Nelson, Maarten Zwiers

  • Respondent: Jaap Kooijman

13:15-14:45 Lunch

14:45-16:30 Film screening & Q&A – Janna Bystrykh & Wapke Feenstra // REC A 1.03

16:30-16:45 Coffee/tea break

16:45-18:15 Parallel Panels II

• Panel 5: Capitalist and Colonial Hauntings of the Rural: Infrastructural Hauntings // REC A 1.05

  • Mara Duer (Uni. of Buenos Aires), “Contested Rural Imaginations in Argentina” [ONLINE]

  • Ben Stringer (Westminster), “Frankenstein Takes a Stroll”

  • Samantha McCulloch (UvA), “Whose World? Unsettling Property at the Owl House, Nieu-Bethesda, South Africa”

• Panel 6: Capitalist and Colonial Hauntings of the Rural: Everyday Disruptions and Transitions // REC A 1.06

  • Josh Weeks (UvA), “From ‘La Bas’ to the Border (via the Argentinian Pampas): Representing the Rural in Roberto Bolaño’s By Night in Chile and The Insufferable Gaucho”

  • Jesse van Amelsvoort (UvA), “Life Wasn’t Yet Dead: Transitions and the Rural in Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet”

  • Sumati Dwivedia (Columbia), “Before, Beneath, Beyond the Nation: The Region and Its Rurality as Subversive Marks of Literary Genre” [ONLINE]

  • Marcel Strobel (UCal), “A Place Like No Other: Queering Amusement Space in the Midwest” [ONLINE]

• Panel 7: Farms and Infrastructures // REC A 1.07

  • Maria Patricia Tinajero (Portland), “Urban Rural Flow” [ONLINE]

  • Charles Weak (New York City), David Karle (Nebraska – Lincoln), “Bless This Mess: The Sitcom and Invisibility of Globalization in Rural US” [ONLINE]

  • Ruth Sacks (U of Johann), “Aestheticizing Rurality over Ecological Action” [ONLINE]

  • Jolien Klok (WUR), “Understanding Dutch Farmers on the Barricades: The Role of Farming Styles”

9:15-10:45 Roundtables

• Roundtable 4: Present Absences // REC A 2.09

  • Chair: Tjalling Valdés Olmos

  • Featured Speakers: Rowan V. Jaines, Kate Woodward, Lélia Tavakoli Farsooni

• Roundtable 5: Rural Gazes // REC A 2.11

  • Chair: Esther Peeren

  • Featured Speakers: Thoroddur Bjarnaso, Menelaos Gkartzios, Lee-Ann Sutherland

10:45-11:00 Coffee/tea break

11:00-12:00 Keynote V: Wanning Sun (online) // REC A 1.03

12:00-13:00 Keynote VI: Peter Hitchcock // REC A 1.03

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Parallel Panels III

• Panel 8: Consuming the Rural, Part 2 // REC A 1.04

  • Jessica Blackburn (Appalachian State), “Touring and Tasting Appalachian Terroir: Rural Subjectivities, Cultural Rhetorics, and Wine Tourism’s Commodified Imaginations” [ONLINE]

  • Pavel Pospech (Masaryk Uni), “Authentic Food and Banal Gastronationalism”

• Panel 9: Rural Lifeworlds // REC A 1.05

  • Tialda Haartsen (Groningen), “A Life Course and Generational Perspective on Rural Imaginations”

  • Jens Reda (Kiel University) and Marcus Heinz (Leipzig University), “Resonating Ruralities: A Lifeworld Perspective on Rural Civic Engagement”

• Panel 10: Visual Histories of the Rural // REC A 1.06

  • Corinne Geering (Leipzig), “Screening the Rural: Cinematic Imaginations of the Countryside in Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Ukraine after WWII”

  • Peter Veer (Independent), “Dreaming of Old to New in Politics and Film in the Netherlands”

  • Stefan Landsberger (UvA/Leiden), “Visualizing the Rural in Chinese Propaganda”

16:00-16:15 Coffee/tea break

16:15-17:15 Keynote VII – Michael Woods // REC A 1.03

17:15-18:15 Closing Discussion // REC A 1.03