In this group we’ll be reading BIPOC authors discussing the climate crisis in fiction and non-fiction works. Open to everyone!
If you’re interested in joining, please contact Danielle DiNovelli-Lang (Danielle.Dinovelli@carleton.ca) and/or Barbara Leckie (barbaraleckie@icloud.com).
Up Next:
24 April 2023, 7PM, (contact us for location information*): Olufemi Taiwo’s Reconsidering Reparations (2022)
*Our winter meetings will be taking place in-person, pending COVID safety guidelines. However, we also welcome virtual participation in the meetings. If you’d like to zoom-in to our discussion, please email Danielle or Barbara.
Past Meetings:
Winter 2023 Schedule
6 March 2023, 7PM: Malcolm Ferdinand’s Decolonial Ecology (2022)
Fall 2022 Schedule
2 November, 11AM, Dunton Tower Room 1816: Max Liboiron, Pollution is Colonialism (2021)
13 December, 11AM, Dunton Tower Room 1811: Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book (2013)
Summer 2021 Schedule
26 July, 3:00PM: N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season (the first book in the Broken Earth Trilogy) (2015)
Winter 2021 Schedule
18 January, 1:00 PM: Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018)
22 February, 1:00 PM: Katherine McKittrick, ed., Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis (2015)
29 March, 1:00PM: Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower (1993)
10 May, 1:00PM: Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (2019)
Fall 2020 Schedule
16 November, 2:30PM: Our first book is Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves (2017)
14 December, 2:30PM: Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (2016)
Tentative book list:
Fiction
- Octavia Butler, The Parable of the Sower
- Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves
- N.K. Jemisin, The Broken Earth Trilogy
- Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow
- Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones
Non-Fiction
- Joshua Bennett, Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man
- Ailton Krenak, Ideas to Postpone the end of the World
- Amitov Ghosh, The Great Derangement
- Tiffany Lethabo King, The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
- Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being
- Lauret Savoy, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
- Kathyrn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
- Ian Baucom, History 4 Degrees Celsius