Friday 19th - Sunday
21st January 2018
Over three days, four museums in Cambridge will be handing over control
to teams of people to shake up how they share stories about climate
change.
From Friday morning to Sunday afternoon, participants will collaborate
in multi-disciplinary teams to create a prototype museum installation or
experience in one of our collections. The teams will be put together by
the Climate Hack organisers to ensure that they each have the right
combination of skills to bring a brilliant new idea to life – whether
it’s a 3D interactive, an audio interpretation, an immersive experience
or a hands on challenge, the choice is yours! At the end of the weekend
the prototypes will be revealed for the public to play with and enjoy.
More information available online here.
Deadline for submission: 10pm, Sunday 26 November 2017
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Monday, November 06, 2017
Thursday, September 08, 2016
CFP - The Literature of the Anthropocene
Special issue of C21 Literature
The concept of the Anthropocene, deemed by Bruno Latour “the best alternative we have to usher us out of the notion of modernization”, blurs the distinction between human and geological history (Dipesh Chakrabarty). It speaks, too, to contemporary fiction’s concern with the place of humans on the planet, the ways in which they shape - and are shaped by - the natural and technological environments through which they move, and the broader relation between the early twenty-first century moment and ‘deep’ time.
Although the value of the Anthropocene as an official geological epoch is still being considered by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the term is already widely in use to denote the era in which human beings have become a major geological force with significant socio-political implications. Indeed, “In the Anthropocene, social, cultural and political orders are woven into and co-evolve with techno-natural orders of specific matter and energy flow metabolism at a global level, requiring new concepts and methods in the humanities” (Clive Hamilton, François Gemenne, Christophe Bonneuil).
Taking up Hamilton, Gemenne, and Bonneuil’s conceptual and methodological invitation, this special issue of C21 asks: how does literature respond to this new geological era? Are there specific forms, genres, and techniques which are more appropriate than others to represent the temporal and spatial enormity of the era? And how is criticism addressing the Anthropocene?
Possible topics for articles include, but are not limited to:
The concept of the Anthropocene, deemed by Bruno Latour “the best alternative we have to usher us out of the notion of modernization”, blurs the distinction between human and geological history (Dipesh Chakrabarty). It speaks, too, to contemporary fiction’s concern with the place of humans on the planet, the ways in which they shape - and are shaped by - the natural and technological environments through which they move, and the broader relation between the early twenty-first century moment and ‘deep’ time.
Although the value of the Anthropocene as an official geological epoch is still being considered by the International Commission on Stratigraphy, the term is already widely in use to denote the era in which human beings have become a major geological force with significant socio-political implications. Indeed, “In the Anthropocene, social, cultural and political orders are woven into and co-evolve with techno-natural orders of specific matter and energy flow metabolism at a global level, requiring new concepts and methods in the humanities” (Clive Hamilton, François Gemenne, Christophe Bonneuil).
Taking up Hamilton, Gemenne, and Bonneuil’s conceptual and methodological invitation, this special issue of C21 asks: how does literature respond to this new geological era? Are there specific forms, genres, and techniques which are more appropriate than others to represent the temporal and spatial enormity of the era? And how is criticism addressing the Anthropocene?
Possible topics for articles include, but are not limited to:
- Representations of the Anthropocene in fiction, drama, poetry, and non-fiction;
- Anthropogenic apocalyptic narratives, utopias, and dystopias;
- Genre, form, and the Anthropocene;
- Time, temporality, and history in anthropogenic narratives;
- Space and nature in anthropogenic narratives;
- The Anthropocene and literary criticism (e.g. ecocriticism, Marxism, trauma theory);
- Postcolonial literature, diasporas, and the Anthropocene;
- The representation of race, gender, and class in the Anthropocene;
- The Anthropocene and capital;
- Posthumanism, humanism, and the Anthropocene;
- Literature, science studies, and the Anthropocene.
Tuesday, September 06, 2016
CFP - Mediating Climate Change
University of Leeds
Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th July 2017
Confirmed speakers: Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Leeds); Professor Nigel Clark (Lancaster); Professor Alexandra Harris (Liverpool); Professor Mike Hulme (King's College London); Dr Adeline Johns-Putra (Surrey); Professor Gillen D'Arcy Wood (Illinois)
Our experience of climate change is always mediated. Its effects are encountered through changing weather patterns, including the storms, floods, and droughts that afflict communities across the world. They are also encountered through different forms of representation: a novel imagining a desiccated future Earth; a television documentary about coral bleaching; a graph of rising global temperatures. Researchers increasingly understand climate change as a cultural and political issue, and are concerned with the ways in which it is mediated in different contexts, and to different audiences.
This major environmental humanities conference will cross disciplines and periods to analyse the ways in which human beings have tried to make sense of climate change. What difficulties are there in representing climate change? How has it been debated in the past? What new ways of exploring and mediating climate change are emerging as we face an uncertain future?
We welcome proposals of around 250 words for twenty-minute papers suitable for an interdisciplinary audience. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
We also welcome proposals for complete panels and for presentations/panels using non-standard formats. The deadline for proposals is 15 January 2017. Please use the conference email address for all correspondence and proposals: mediatingclimatechange@leeds.ac.uk
Conference organisers: David Higgins and Tess Somervell
Conference advisory team: Jeremy Davies, Dehlia Hannah, Graham Huggan, Sebastien Nobert, Lucy Rowland, Stefan Skrimshire, Kerri Woods
This conference is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through a Leadership Fellowship awarded to Dr Higgins. For further details, see http://romanticcatastrophe.leeds.ac.uk/
Tuesday 4th – Thursday 6th July 2017
Confirmed speakers: Professor Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Leeds); Professor Nigel Clark (Lancaster); Professor Alexandra Harris (Liverpool); Professor Mike Hulme (King's College London); Dr Adeline Johns-Putra (Surrey); Professor Gillen D'Arcy Wood (Illinois)
Our experience of climate change is always mediated. Its effects are encountered through changing weather patterns, including the storms, floods, and droughts that afflict communities across the world. They are also encountered through different forms of representation: a novel imagining a desiccated future Earth; a television documentary about coral bleaching; a graph of rising global temperatures. Researchers increasingly understand climate change as a cultural and political issue, and are concerned with the ways in which it is mediated in different contexts, and to different audiences.
This major environmental humanities conference will cross disciplines and periods to analyse the ways in which human beings have tried to make sense of climate change. What difficulties are there in representing climate change? How has it been debated in the past? What new ways of exploring and mediating climate change are emerging as we face an uncertain future?
We welcome proposals of around 250 words for twenty-minute papers suitable for an interdisciplinary audience. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Representations of climate change in literature, film, the media, and the arts
- Climate change and cultural theory (e.g. posthumanism, new materialism)
- Historical constructions of climate change
- Climate change and the Anthropocene
- The mediation of climate science
- Scales of mediation/climate modelling
- Climate change as a culturally mediated and contingent concept
- The construction of climate change within academic discourse
- Climate change and 'the natural'
- The psychology of climate change (e.g. disavowal, denial, scepticism, affirmation, optimism)
- Climate change in political discourse
- Climate change and the ethics of representation
- Mediation and climate change activism
We also welcome proposals for complete panels and for presentations/panels using non-standard formats. The deadline for proposals is 15 January 2017. Please use the conference email address for all correspondence and proposals: mediatingclimatechange@leeds.ac.uk
Conference organisers: David Higgins and Tess Somervell
Conference advisory team: Jeremy Davies, Dehlia Hannah, Graham Huggan, Sebastien Nobert, Lucy Rowland, Stefan Skrimshire, Kerri Woods
This conference is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through a Leadership Fellowship awarded to Dr Higgins. For further details, see http://romanticcatastrophe.leeds.ac.uk/
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