{"id":14961,"date":"2016-09-14T09:44:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14961"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:21:35","slug":"panel-14-a-role-for-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=14961","title":{"rendered":"Panel 14:  A Role for Literature?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  style='height:65px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=14895\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; color: #808080;\">THE WORLD IN 2050: CREATING\/IMAGINING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=14895\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #808080;\">A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div   class='hr hr-short hr-center   avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #808080; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Panel 14: A Role for Literature?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;no&#8221; image=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/yusuke-asai-waf-1.jpg url=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12640 facebook_text=Share twitter_text=Tweet\u00a0linkedin_text=Link text=&#8221;A Role for Literature? at #ehi16\u00a0nearly carbon-free conference.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><div  style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_three_fourth '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_three_fourth  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_fourth  \" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5iQq87F-ewU?list?&amp;rel=0&amp;theme=light&amp;showinfo=0&amp;disablekb=1&amp;hd=1&amp;autohide=1&amp;color=white\" width=\"853\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_fourth  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_three_fourth  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:1px; margin-top:0px'  class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-6  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\"><em>\u201cFictions of Futurity\u201d: Ecocritical Practice in Contemporary Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">Jessica Holmes, University of Washington<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">This presentation will examine narrative representations of nature and human nature in several contemporary texts. In doing so, the presenter will pose and answer a number of pertinent questions. What does it mean to represent the world as story? How can these texts serve to \u201cimagine\u201d and\/or \u201ccreate just climate futures\u201d? And what role does literary form play in constructing practical critical approaches to global realities? Finally, how can\/does fiction seek to preserve an endangered planet, and perhaps even reverse some of the damage already done? (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14835#Holmes\">more<\/a>).<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><div  style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_three_fourth '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_three_fourth  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_fourth  \" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gx43FwDTueo?list?&amp;rel=0&amp;theme=light&amp;showinfo=0&amp;disablekb=1&amp;hd=1&amp;autohide=1&amp;color=white\" width=\"853\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_fourth  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_three_fourth  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:1px; margin-top:0px'  class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-11  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\"><em>Simulating Futures: An Inquiry into the Efficacy of Cli-fi as the Literary Genre of the Anthropocene<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">Pooja Agarwal, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">There is an urgent need to educate the lay citizen about the impending future that awaits us if we continue to indulge in erratic and excessive materialism and consumption. Climate-fiction offers a creative simulation of imagined futures, often dystopian, apocalyptic, and catastrophic in nature that can shake the reader out of complacency, and mobilize her\/him into definite action and bring about a change at the very level of an individual. This presentation is an attempt to systematically analyze the efficacy of cli-fi as the imaginative literature of the twenty first century (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14835#Agarwal\">more<\/a>).<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p><div  style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_three_fourth '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_three_fourth  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_fourth  \" ><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kCXXLBoCfAw?list?&amp;rel=0&amp;theme=light&amp;showinfo=0&amp;disablekb=1&amp;hd=1&amp;autohide=1&amp;color=white\" width=\"853\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_fourth  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_three_fourth  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:1px; margin-top:0px'  class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-16  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\"><em>The Role of Environmental Literature in Mitigating Climate Change<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">Teja Dusanapudi<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">In order to change our as\u00adof\u00adnow inevitable environmental outcome in 2050, this talk urges that we must create widespread changes to not only the laws that allow for exploitation but also to the increasingly information saturated public. The only feasible way, the presentation stresses to awake the general public to our environmental plight so that change can be made before 2050 is through literature (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=14835#Dusanapudi\">more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div  style='height:40px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-17  el_after_av_one_fourth  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><a id=\"QA\"><\/a>Q &amp; A<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-18  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span class=\"s1\" style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Have questions or comments? Feel free to take part in the Q&amp;A!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><span class=\"s1\">Before posting, you must first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=12500\">register<\/a>.\u00a0Note that questions and comments can be intended for\u00a0individual speakers, the entire panel, or anyone who\u00a0has posted to\u00a0the Q&amp;A. R<\/span><span class=\"s1\">espond directly to a particular question\/comment\u00a0by way of the little &#8220;reply&#8221; below it. The vertical threadlike lines are there\u00a0to\u00a0make it easier to see which part of the discussion (i.e. &#8220;thread&#8221;) you are taking up.\u00a0You can choose to be notified via email (see below) whenever <\/span>a question, answer, or comment is posted to this particular Q&amp;A. 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