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Hope & Uncertainty: How We Talk about Ecological Catastrophe

September 6, 2024
Hope and Uncertainty. How we talk about ecological catastrophe, and interdisciplinary colloquium.

About the Event from the Organizers

 

We鈥檙e delighted to announce the 2024 version of the now-annual Environmental Humanities colloquium 鈥淗ope & Uncertainty: How We Talk about Ecological Catastrophe,鈥 running on the afternoon of September 19, 2024.

 

This year鈥檚 colloquium features an international community of scholars working at the intersection of literary studies, science, and environmental humanisms for an urgent shared project: developing effective methods for communicating about ecological and climate crisis in ways that think beyond catastrophic doom narratives. (See schedule and abstracts, below, and poster, below and attached.)

 

Please join us for a keynote, several short talks and plenty of time for discussion and making connections across fields at and beyond the University of Toronto. Light refreshments will be provided鈥攑lease bring your own container, utensils, and mug to help minimize waste!

 

To attend any or all of the events (including hybrid attendance options for Prof. Maurer鈥檚 keynote address and/or Panel 1), please complete this brief form: .

 

Contacts

Email us at daniel.newman@utoronto.ca and/or ja.boyd@mail.utoronto.ca with any questions.

 

Agenda

12:00-2:00. Keynote Address (in person, with hybrid option)

鈥淭he Ocean on Fire: Pacific Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists,鈥 by Professor Ana茂s Maurer (French & Comparative Literature, Rutgers University)

 

2:30-3:30. Panel 1. Pacific Nuclear Ecologies (in person, with hybrid option)

鈥淐o-Conjuration: Practicing Decolonial Nuclear Criticism,鈥 by Professor Lisa Yoneyama (East Asian Studies and Women & Gender Studies, UTSG)

鈥淲riting the Nuclear Free Pacific in Fiji,鈥 by Professor Rebecca Hogue (English, UTSG)

鈥淲ood and Water,鈥 by Professor Melissa Gniadek (English & Drama, UTM)

4:00-6:00. Panel 2. Narrative & Ecology (in person). Five 10-minute talks, followed by an hour of discussion and Q&A


鈥淓ntangled Extractions and Textured Landscapes in Surire (2015),鈥 by Isidora Cort茅s-Monroy Gazit煤a (Spanish & Portuguese, UTSG)

鈥淚nternal Ecologies: Gut Health in Medicine and Popular Fiction, 1870s-1930s,鈥 by Dr Louise Benson James (English, Ghent University)

鈥淪erious, Hopeful, Boring: Storying Climate Justice in Kim Stanley Robinson鈥檚 The Ministry for the Future,鈥 by Dr Ciar谩n Kavanagh (English, Ghent University)

鈥淔luid Forms: Reading Waters in Rita Wong鈥檚 undercurrent,鈥 by Marina Klimenko (English, UTSG)

鈥淥f mice and mirrors: Affective ecologies in Yaa Gyasi鈥檚 Transcendent Kingdom (2020),鈥 by Dr Shannon Lambert (English, Ghent University)


After the colloquium, those who are interested can gather for a drink and more conversation at the 

鈥淗ope & Uncertainty鈥 was made possible thanks to generous financial, logistical and promotional support from the Departments of English (UTSG) and English & Drama (UTM), the School of the Environment, the Jackman Humanities Institute, and the Environmental Humanities International Doctoral Cluster (EH-IDC).

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