THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES
A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE
Panel 2: Multi-Genre Narratives of Global Environmental Crisis
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The Emergence of Climate Change Populism in Ecocinema
Sophie Christman Lavin, Stony Brook University
This presentation will show how contemporary filmmakers use cinematic imaginaries to reveal the speculative fears humans have about global climate change. I argue that climate change populism is a global trend that emerged in early ecocinema film and will explain how filmmakers ultimately express the existential and cultural undercurrents of climate change populism, while interrogating how various socioeconomic classes will fare in the Anthropocene future (more).
Guanaroca: Using a Creation Myth to Raise Awareness of Climate Change
David Taylor, Stony Brook University
Teatro del los Elementos, a theatre group based in Cumanayagua, Cuba, has blended performance, community activism, and sustainability for well over twenty years. Their performance Guanaroca retells the creation myth of the Guanaroca Lagoon, a story that borrows from both Yoruba and Taino mythology. This presentation will discuss the origins of the myth and how Teatro de los Elementos’ performance raises awareness of the lagoon’s peril due to climate change (more).
Stories of Nuclear Disaster and the Anthropocene
Heidi Hutner, Stony Brook University
My talk will focus on my research that includes interviews with victims of nuclear disaster. I will discuss the silencing of nuclear victim stories, and the denial of factual and scientific information on the negative impact of radiation. I will bring in film narratives and literary texts briefly to highlight the cultural/cognitive dissonance between masculinist conceptions of weaponry and energy production, versus stories of mothers, children, indigenous community members, and scientists that counter popular pro-nuclear myths (more).
Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) and the Inang Bayan: Postcolonial Environmental Memory and Climate Change in Filipino Ecocritical Writings
Jeffrey Santa Ana, Stony Brook University
This paper studies Filipino ecocritical writings in English (prose, poetry, and narrative) that depict the confrontation between global climate change and diverse cultures across the Philippines. The paper shows how Philippine literary anthologies about Typhoon Yolanda address a global environmental crisis in ways that are inseparable from assessing the effects of (post-) imperial modernity and neocolonialism in the Philippines (more).
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Panel 4: Eco-critical Cultural Production(s)
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Panel 4: Eco-critical Cultural Production(s)
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After Nemo: Animated Film and the Consequences of ‘Cute’ for Ocean Life
Justyna Poray-Wybranowska and Rachel Levine, York University and University of Toronto
We use Finding Nemo to examine the relationship between popular media depictions of animals, and human consideration of the non-human world. We argue that a more equitable climate future requires imagining alternate models of relationships with nonhuman beings and environments, and that a key way to attempt this task is to take seriously the type of fictional stories which shape how young audiences come to ‘know,’ and subsequently relate to, non-human animals (more).
Networked and Compassionate Eco-Noetic Environments – Art, Technology Design and Education Beyond Utopia
Lila Moore, Cybernetic Futures Institution
This talk introduces the idea of how research and practice from the fields of networked performance and learning, VR, and cyberception demonstrate that new technologies and methodologies can evolve and improve our involvement with the body-mind, one another, and the environment to transform the narrative of the Anthropocene (more).
Still Something Other: Graffiti and Ecology in the Context of Extreme Weather
Evan Gromel, University of Calgary
This presentation considers graffiti as what ecotheorist Timothy Morton has coined “ambient art.” The presentation illustrates the possibility of discovering an ecological mode of art within a form of expression traditionally perceived as a type of social capital, and thus the possibility of a world where earnest ecological consciousness can emerge from where it was once understood to be purely simulated, or outright dismissed (more).
Technocraft: Feminist Materials
Kara Stone, University of California, Santa Cruz
This talk will be a post-mortem by the artists of Technocraft discussing the process of creating the piece as it relates to re-considering women’s histories in technology, and the digital’s relationship to materiality and the earth. The talk will include photos and videos of the art piece which is composed of a deconstructed computer that we then reconstructed or replicated with traditional crafting techniques, and hung piece by piece (more).
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Panel 3: Ecocriticism: Close Readings of the Future
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Panel 3: Ecocriticism: Close Readings of the Future
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Imagining Plant-Like Futures? Vegetal Intelligence in Brian Aldiss’ Novel Hothouse (1962)
John Ryan, University of Western Australia
How might we imagine humanity in 2050 as more plant-like—as in higher synchronization with vegetal temporality in our scientific, technological, cultural, and interpersonal pursuits? How might we resist denying a future to plants and, thus, to ourselves and other beings? This paper will address questions such as these through a reading of Brian Aldiss’ Hothouse, recipient of the 1962 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction (more).
Science Fiction Questions the Foundations of Human Progress: Extrapolations of Desire in James: Tiptree Jr.’s A Momentary Taste of Being
Selena Middleton, McMaster University
This paper explores the ways in which science fiction exposes the mutability of our humanity within the context of ecological collapse as depicted in James Tiptree Jr.’s A Momentary Taste of Being. Tiptree’s narrative explores the transformation of the crew members of an interstellar voyage when they come into contact with an alien species (more).
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Panel 2: Multi-Genre Narratives of Global Environmental Crisis
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A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE
Panel 2: Multi-Genre Narratives of Global Environmental Crisis
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The Emergence of Climate Change Populism in Ecocinema
Sophie Christman Lavin, Stony Brook University
This presentation will show how contemporary filmmakers use cinematic imaginaries to reveal the speculative fears humans have about global climate change. I argue that climate change populism is a global trend that emerged in early ecocinema film and will explain how filmmakers ultimately express the existential and cultural undercurrents of climate change populism, while interrogating how various socioeconomic classes will fare in the Anthropocene future (more).
Guanaroca: Using a Creation Myth to Raise Awareness of Climate Change
David Taylor, Stony Brook University
Teatro del los Elementos, a theatre group based in Cumanayagua, Cuba, has blended performance, community activism, and sustainability for well over twenty years. Their performance Guanaroca retells the creation myth of the Guanaroca Lagoon, a story that borrows from both Yoruba and Taino mythology. This presentation will discuss the origins of the myth and how Teatro de los Elementos’ performance raises awareness of the lagoon’s peril due to climate change (more).
Stories of Nuclear Disaster and the Anthropocene
Heidi Hutner, Stony Brook University
My talk will focus on my research that includes interviews with victims of nuclear disaster. I will discuss the silencing of nuclear victim stories, and the denial of factual and scientific information on the negative impact of radiation. I will bring in film narratives and literary texts briefly to highlight the cultural/cognitive dissonance between masculinist conceptions of weaponry and energy production, versus stories of mothers, children, indigenous community members, and scientists that counter popular pro-nuclear myths (more).
Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) and the Inang Bayan: Postcolonial Environmental Memory and Climate Change in Filipino Ecocritical Writings
Jeffrey Santa Ana, Stony Brook University
This paper studies Filipino ecocritical writings in English (prose, poetry, and narrative) that depict the confrontation between global climate change and diverse cultures across the Philippines. The paper shows how Philippine literary anthologies about Typhoon Yolanda address a global environmental crisis in ways that are inseparable from assessing the effects of (post-) imperial modernity and neocolonialism in the Philippines (more).
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Panel 1: A Speculative Narratology for Climate Futures
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Panel 1: A Speculative Narratology for Climate Futures
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Narrative and Anthropocene Imagination
David Rodriguez, Stony Brook University
An essential part of action in the present is enabled by our image of the future. This presentation will work from now to 2050 through a speculative test of phenomenological theories of imagination that are rather unselfconsciously concerned with how the imagination of the world in the present can affect the future. Through an analysis of three anthropocene texts, I show how these unique imaginative experiences can vitally supplement theorizations of imagination in the anthropocene (more).
Narrative in the Anthropocene
Erin James, University of Idaho
This presentation imagines how narrative can best represent the environmental changes that are to come. Specifically, it engages recent discussions about the Anthropocene to imagine a theory of narrative that is sensitive to matters commonly associated with the epoch. I argue that an “Anthropocene narratology” stands to enrich a universal model of narrative by incorporating ideas pertinent to this new geological epoch and developing a richer vocabulary enabling us to understand better the current state of the world and our relationship to it (more).
Climate Futures, Narrative Experiments
Marco Caracciolo, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
This paper asks how narrative can become a tool for modeling the ambivalence of climate futures. I argue that experimental texts are in a better position than fiction of the realistic variety to build the open-endedness and instability of climate change into a narrative. I focus on five strategies that make this possible, offering concrete examples for each strategy (more).
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THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES
A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE
In this talk, EHI Director Ken Hiltner explains the rather unusual format of this conference and the rationale behind it (view call for papers).
Note that this talk was recorded by Hiltner in his home using a standard computer, a Logitech C920 webcam, and the QuickTime software preinstalled on all Apple computers. No other special equipment was used. The Q&A session on this page is made possible by Wordpress.
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EHI’s nearly carbon-free conference featured in the UCSB Current.
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Conference: Power Dynamics: Media and the Environment
Friday, April 29 / 11 AM
Saturday, April 30 / 11 AM
Loma Pelona Center
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Performing Climate Futures: An invitation to UCSB students to participate in the creative art of speaking about just climate futures.
If you are interested, please send a title and paragraph description of your talk to Professor John Foran at foran@soc.ucsb.edu by Friday, May 6.
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CLIMATE CHANGE: VIEWS FROM THE HUMANITIES
A NEARLY CARBON-FREE CONFERENCE
Panel 14: Ecopsychology
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What is a Cultural Intervention? Working at the Margins
Chris Robertson, Climate Psychology Alliance (speaking on his own behalf)
Seldom addressed in COP21 were the underlying cultural and social dynamics that constrain people from acting in ways that fit their espoused values. This talk seeks to address these issues by looking at how psychotherapists are able to understand these cultural dynamics and complexes that may hinder environmental action (more).
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