Come join us to discuss experimental writing strategies for climate action with presenters Barbara Leckie, Carmen Warner, Alison Schultz and Sam Bean.
Speakers:
Alison Schultz is a Medical Anthropology Masters student researching the intersections of climate change and maternal health in circumpolar regions of Canada.
Sam Bean is an independent researcher and former master’s student of English literature and climate change at Carleton University. His research focuses on cultural constructions of nature and climate change in Canadian society, Indigenous land-thought and how we can imagine better climate futures.
Carmen Warner is a PhD candidate in Communication at Carleton who researches the spatial politics of difference, discourse, and land in Nova Scotia.
Barbara Leckie is Professor in English and ICSAC and Academic Director or Re.Climate. Her most recent book is Climate Change, Interrupted.
Actions
- Course-led writing prompts: https://www.greendreamer.com/alchemize
Prompts:
Resource List
The following is a list of resources recommended by attendees at our event.
Examples of co-writing (plus opportunities for you to co-write!):
- Dear Body of Water – Collective of digital and mail-art participation to address bodies of water as fellow beings
- Cosmo Sheldrake – Musician
- IMAGINE – An External Review of the Canada Council for the Arts’ Artists and Community Collaboration Fund
- “Beholden: A Poem as Long as the River” by Rita Wong and Fred Wah
Books/articles:
- Rehearsals for Living, by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Butler, J. Precarious Life, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Cohabitation. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 26, 134–151 (2012).
- Liboiron, M. (2020). “Exchanging,” Transmissions: Critical Tactics for Making and Communicating Research. Edited by Kat Jungnickel. MIT Press: 1-15.
- Firsting in Research, by Max Liboiron
- Short, practical essays for those frightened by the ecological crisis. For those in need of a calm presence. By Claude Schryer
- Making the Invisible, Visible: Connections in a System: by Angela Coutinho
Podcast:
- https://conscient-podcast.simplecast.com/