CLIMATE CHANGE: VIEWS FROM THE HUMANITIES
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Panel 3: The Anthropocene
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“The Cloudflower Blossoms:” Doctor Atomic and Sublime Repetition in the Anthropocene
Patrick Milian, University of Washington
The idea of the sublime is still very much present in the 21st century, though no longer reserved for just natural events; as we’ve entered the Anthropocene, the awe and terror usually reserved for nature has come to include human events. Using the opera Doctor Atomic by John Adams as a case-study, the author presents an alternative way to view the sublime, one that is necessary given mankind’s profound abilities to alter the planet (more).
Vanua in the Anthropocene: Fijian Ontologies and Climate Change
Maebh Long, University of the South Pacific
This paper explores the complexities of the term vanua, an interconnectedness between people and place in which people are figured as belonging to the land. The term translates to ‘land’, which in Fiji includes the water and signifies the ocean’s significance within Pacific Island Discourse. Through the lens of vanua, the author examines the implications of anthropogenic sea-level rise in terms of a trespass and intrusion not merely into place, but into self (more).
Climate Change, AIDS, and Queering the Anthropocene: Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
Kristen Angierski, Cornell University
Queer theory and ecocriticism has a history of conflict rooted in what is deemed natural. This talk explores this clash in the play Angels in America by Tony Kushner where earth and queer crisis collide over what is natural. By studying the competing temporal systems present in the play, the author ultimately argues the necessity of a reconciliation of queer theory and ecocriticism to address climate change (more).
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Panel 11:Environmental Communication
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Panel 11: Environmental Communication
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Al Gore’s Armageddon? The Persuasive Binary of Apocalyptic Rhetoric within Climate Change Discourse
Matthew Fledderjohann, University of Wisconsin, Madison
In order to understand the effectiveness of employing apocalyptic rhetoric, this presentation looks at Al Gore’s public presentations made between 2006 and 2016 along with how his arguments have been taken up and manipulated by antagonistic media sources (more).
Snap, Tag, Share: Seeing the Small Picture of #OurChangingClimate www.ourchangingclimate.us
Sheryl-Ann Simpson, Bret Snyder, N. Claire Napawan, University of California, Davis
This presentation introduces an ongoing participatory environmental design project that utilizes social media to construct small picture narratives of climate change. A main goal of the project is to shed novel light on stories of people being affected by climate change. Beyond explaining the movement and analyzing results from it, the presentation will call for further contributions moving forward (more).
Let’s NOT Talk: Silencing the Climate
Roberta Laurie, MacEwan University
This presentation evaluates the roles of organized climate denial, ideologically motivated reasoning and the privilege of society-environment relationships in the formation of climate denial. It explores the author’s own experience with denial living in Edmonton, next door to the Alberta Oil Sands, and suggests some strategies for effective climate communication (more).
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Panel 10: Justice, Injustice, and Activism
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Panel 10: Justice, Injustice, and Activism
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Valuing Histories of Activism:Empowering Us in the Battle Against Climate Change
Alex Ketchum, McGill University
Food production and consumption are prominent fronts of the climate change battle and have been for several decades. By tracing the historical backdrop of these processes it is possible garner insight into the social and environmental impacts associated with them over time. In particular, this paper looks at feminist food activists to provide a framework of how history can be a valuable field in our current struggle against environmental degradation (more).
Can Environmental Law Work for the People Who Need It Most?
Tamara L Slater, Washington University School of Law
It is often the case that communities harmed most by environmental degradation and climate change are repeatedly marginalized and ignored by our current legal system. This talk utilizes a critical race theory framework to explore why there is a failure on the part of legal regimes to promote equality in light of climate change. Despite this, the author argues that these regimes nonetheless have the capabilities for equality if they are just given the opportunity to do so (more).
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Panel 9: Ecocriticism III
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Panel 9: Ecocriticism III
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Towards a Benjaminian Environmental Historiography: Shattering the Anthropocene
Molly Hall, University of Rhode Island
This talk brings together the historical philosophies of Walter Benjamin with contemporary concerns about environmental discourse. By expanding his ideas of progress to the narrative of ecological collapse, this talk posits the ability for Benjamin’s thoughts to open up political models for sustainable subjectivity (more).
The Rills Not Taken: Hydropower in Early National Science and Poetry
Michael Ziser, University of California, Davis
Utilizing the poet-naturalist Alexander Wilson’s writings and the ornithological fieldwork revolution they inspired, this talk gives new insight into the cultural history surrounding energy and its production. This insight seeks to differentiate between what in our cultural past belongs to sustainable energy practices (and is therefore savable) and what is wedded to intensified carbon emissions (and is therefore not).
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Panel 8: Ecocriticism II
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Panel 8: Ecocriticism II
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Literary Studies and the Geography of Climate Change: Towards a Transpacific Network of Disaster
Danielle Crawford, University of California, Santa Cruz
The adverse effects of climate change are expected to impact the globe unevenly, often with poorer nations who have contributed negligibly to the problem bearing the worst of it. In order to address this injustice, this talk looks towards disaster literature from Asia and the Pacific to both highlight the vulnerability of the area and the transpacific reach of the disasters. (more).
An Environmental Utopia: Black Mirror and the “Trouble with Wilderness”
Ben Van Overmeire, University of California, San Diego
This presentation will explore ecocriticsm through the form of the BBC’s science fiction series Black Mirror, specifically through the concept of an environmental utopia. Focusing on the ‘no-place’ aspect of utopia, the presenter draws a connection between the series and William Cronon’s critique of “wilderness” suggesting how the only way to achieve an environmental utopia may be to remove humans from it (more).
Seeing Whole: Ed Roberson’s Radical Ecology of Vision
Jessica Eileen Jones, Duke University
In efforts to re-envision perspectives of ecocriticism, this talk delves into the understudied nature poetry of Ed Roberson. Roberson’s non-Western ideas of vision, it argues, results in a new way of seeing the world that is fundamentally ecological. In doing so, the author argues that Roberson gives ecocritics the chance to move beyond a mode of critique and theorize instead an alternative ethics of envisioning the natural world (more).
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Panel 7: Ecocriticism I
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Panel 7: Ecocriticism I
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Once but Not Now: Environmental Degradation in Thomas King’s “The Back of the Turtle”
Olivia Pellegrino, University of Toronto
This talk will analyze Thomas King’s novel, The Back of the Turtle, an ecocritical work that looks at the social and environmental consequences of corporations valuing profit over preservation. The author will also connect the novel to apocalyptic environmental narratives so as to better contextualize what it is King does and what his writing says about the future of climate justice (more).
Ecology and the Critique of “History”: The God of Small Things as a Humanist Text
Abhay Doshi, University of Minnesota
This talk examines the radical ecology critics attribute to Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things that dismantles the privileged position of the human over the non-human. In contrast to currents turns to anti or posthumanism, the author stresses that this radical view can only be grasped by retaining certain core humanistic ideals that have been overlooked recently in the humanities (more).
Petrodystopia in Karen Tei Yamashita’s “Tropic of Orange”
Olivia Chen, Washington University in St. Louis
This talk provides a new perspective on Karen Tei Yamashita’s ecocritical work, Tropic of Orange. Building upon established political and literature analyses, the author analyzes Yamashita’s work through the oil culture and its deep connection with the environment and modern society (more).
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Panel 6: Art and Poetry
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Panel 6: Art and Poetry
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Creek Walking Dialogue: Art and Environmental Activism
Brogan Bunt, Lucas Ihlein, Kim Williams, University of Wollongong
This video captures a collaborative effort to explore the role of art in both local and global environmental issues. Through a creek walk that engages both the environment and community members, the authors hope to assess the efficacy of their project and reinvigorate dialogue of art and environmental issues (more).
As climate changes I order a salad’: contemporary poetry and the strange times of climate change
Sam Solnick, University of Liverpool
To fully understand climate change and its implications requires negotiating different spans and moments of time, something that poetry is particularly well suited to. This talk looks at some of the most interesting ways that contemporary poets have considered the relationships between time, technology and poetic form in an era of climate crisis (more).
Teaching the Anthropocene with Graphic Novels
Laura Perry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
This presentation analyzes the potential graphic novels have to explore ecological questions in the classroom. Through readings of two contemporary texts, the talk will show how graphic novels can encourage readers to notice nonhuman presences within narratives and foster discussions of environmental and temporal phenomena that extend beyond human perspectives
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Panel 5: Climate Justice
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Panel 5: Climate Justice
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The Paradox of Activist Capital: Stumbling Our Way Toward Climate Justice?
Bobby Wengronowitz, Boston College
This paper explores the idea and value of activist capital—a subcultural form of capital that operates in organizations and groups fighting for social change. Using climate justice organizing in Boston as a backdrop, the author demonstrates the inherent paradox of activist capital and why organizations are so intent on obtaining it (more).
The Climate Justice Movement and the Economy Since 2000
Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen, Copenhagen Business School
This paper will sift through output of prominent writers and activists that call for fundamental economic change to prevent irrevocable climate change events. It argues that the concept of climate justice, an expanding idea this century, is capable of carrying both the technical and political apparatus necessary for a broader mobilization and an ensuing displacement of global economic power relations (more).
Coping with the COPs, and the Search for Climate Justice
Emily Williams, UC Santa Barbara
Emily Williams works with the Climate Hazards Group in Geography at UCSB and is a co-founder of the Climate Justice Project. She has attended COPs 19, 20, and 21. Her focus is on climate justice, and her research interests are in the interdisciplinary study of climate science, social science, and policy (more).
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Panel 4: Fossil Fuels
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Panel 4: Fossil Fuels
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Red, White, Blue, Green, Magenta?: Possibilities of Solidarity in the Anti-Fracking Movement
Corrie Ellis, University of California, Santa Barbara
This presentation explores the diversity found in the anti-fracking movement across the nation. Rather than being a source of division for the movement, the author suggests that this diversity is a great asset to the movement, and a necessary one if it is to grow and succeed in curbing the fracking industry (more).
The Aesthetic Disvalue of Burning Fossil Fuels
Ewan Kingston, Duke University
This talk calls for a reduction of individual carbon emissions not on the ground of moral grounds, but of aesthetics. By looking at the energy flow of burning fossil fuels and by assuming the world has aesthetic value, the author concludes that burning of fossil fuels coheres less with the natural world than their green alternatives. The author touches upon the implications of this idea as well (more).
“Keep It In the Ground”: Global Warming and the Challenge of Redefining Hydrocarbons
Bart H. Welling, University of North Florida
In this talk the stage is set for humanities to change how we interact with fossil fuels. While science can inform us about the relationship of fossil fuels and global warming, it is the responsibility of the humanities to change our relationships with the fuels. If we are to avoid the worst of climatic events this will be a necessary step to ensuring we leave these fuels in the ground and pursue greener alternatives (more).
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Panel 3: The Anthropocene
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Panel 3: The Anthropocene
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“The Cloudflower Blossoms:” Doctor Atomic and Sublime Repetition in the Anthropocene
Patrick Milian, University of Washington
The idea of the sublime is still very much present in the 21st century, though no longer reserved for just natural events; as we’ve entered the Anthropocene, the awe and terror usually reserved for nature has come to include human events. Using the opera Doctor Atomic by John Adams as a case-study, the author presents an alternative way to view the sublime, one that is necessary given mankind’s profound abilities to alter the planet (more).
Vanua in the Anthropocene: Fijian Ontologies and Climate Change
Maebh Long, University of the South Pacific
This paper explores the complexities of the term vanua, an interconnectedness between people and place in which people are figured as belonging to the land. The term translates to ‘land’, which in Fiji includes the water and signifies the ocean’s significance within Pacific Island Discourse. Through the lens of vanua, the author examines the implications of anthropogenic sea-level rise in terms of a trespass and intrusion not merely into place, but into self (more).
Climate Change, AIDS, and Queering the Anthropocene: Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
Kristen Angierski, Cornell University
Queer theory and ecocriticism has a history of conflict rooted in what is deemed natural. This talk explores this clash in the play Angels in America by Tony Kushner where earth and queer crisis collide over what is natural. By studying the competing temporal systems present in the play, the author ultimately argues the necessity of a reconciliation of queer theory and ecocriticism to address climate change (more).
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Panel 2: The Digital/Environmental Intervention
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Panel 2: The Digital/Environmental Intervention
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Adapting to Changing Climates – Towards Teaching in Digital Environments
Danen Poley, Dalhousie University
While not all disciplines stand to benefit from the increasing move to digital teaching environments, the humanities certainly do. By making more texts available in digitized form, students are freed from having to travel to institutions of higher learning to study them. The author defends the opportunity this presents and argues the ethical exigency of embracing this move to the digital. digital environments have the opportunity to reach students in previously impossible ways (more).
Communicating Beyond Borders: The opportunities and challenges of digital communication to further the climate conversation
Ann Dale & Jaigris Hodson, Royal Roads University
Despite near unanimous accord over the imminent and irreversible effects of climate change, these issues are often phrased as a debate within the popular media. This talk will emphasize the role social media can play in this debate and how the media realm can be expanded in new spaces in future years (more).
Online Architectural Education as a Facilitator of a Sustainable Future
Samuel Fardoe, formerly of Curtin University, (speaking on his own behalf)
Online education tends to result in a smaller carbon footprint than equivalent education in person. The benefit of online education can go beyond this as well by providing better learning opportunities than would otherwise be possible. Using architecture as a case study, this paper argues that the greater sustainability of online educational practices helps to foster greater sustainable practices within its students(more).
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