{"id":3397,"date":"2023-10-29T18:38:47","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T22:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?page_id=3397"},"modified":"2023-11-14T09:50:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T14:50:52","slug":"nov-9-the-climate-virus-cross-crisis-learning-and-imaginative-futures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/nov-9-the-climate-virus-cross-crisis-learning-and-imaginative-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 9: The Climate Virus: Cross-Crisis Learning and Imaginative Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week will discuss Julia Sterling\u2019s recent research in political economy that explores civil society perspectives on lessons learned from Canada\u2019s COVID-19 response towards urgent climate action. She will share her recent findings as they relate to: social supports in crisis, crisis communication, political polarization and a reorientation of values. At the end of the session, Julia will\u00a0guide us through the Imaginative Futures brainstorming exercise she used in her research to imagine what a pandemic-level climate action plan could look like in Canada. She asks, what have you learned from what we have been shown is possible?<\/p>\n

Speaker: Julia Sterling achieved a Bachelors of Global and International Studies with a specialization in Globalization and the Environment in 2021 from Carleton University. She recently graduated from the Master\u2019s of Arts program with the institute of political economy at Carleton University in September.\u00a0Her thesis compares the rapid COVID-19 mobilization efforts to the delayed climate action response in Canada to analyze civil society perspectives about critical lessons learned and potential pathways forward. Julia is passionate about climate justice, alternative knowledge mobilization, and the radical imagination. She is curious about effectively creating spaces for deliberate constructive dialogue in a increasingly digital and polarized world.<\/p>\n

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