{"id":4482,"date":"2025-04-01T13:46:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/?p=4482"},"modified":"2025-04-15T09:59:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:59:30","slug":"climate-commons-with-the-ottawa-international-writers-festival-author-reading-and-discussion-on-ruthanna-emrys-a-half-built-garden-apr-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/climatecommons\/2025\/climate-commons-with-the-ottawa-international-writers-festival-author-reading-and-discussion-on-ruthanna-emrys-a-half-built-garden-apr-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Commons with the Ottawa International Writers Festival: Author reading and discussion on Ruthanna Emrys&#8217;\u00a0A Half-Built Garden (Apr 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University\u2019s Climate Commons with the Ottawa International Writers Festival\u00a0presents an author reading and discussion on Ruthanna Emrys&#8217;<i>\u00a0A Half-Built Garden<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b class=\"\"><span class=\"\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span class=\"\">A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys\u2019s has crafted a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth.<i class=\"\">\u00a0A Half-Built Garden<\/i>\u00a0depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth cautiously entering into dialogue with. It&#8217;s not the easiest future to build, but it&#8217;s one that just might be in reach.<b class=\"\"><br class=\"\" \/><\/b><br class=\"\" \/>In this conversation, Emma D&#8217;Amico will engage Emrys\u2019s work in\u00a0<i class=\"\">A Half-Built Garden<\/i>\u00a0as a starting point to think through writing and reading climate fiction, asking how literature helps us imagine collective approaches to building non-dystopian futures.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"u-center-text\">\n\t<p>\n\t\t<a class=\"button__red button__red--solid\" href=\"https:\/\/writersfestival.org\/events\/spring-20251\/carleton-university-presents-a-half-built-garden\" target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RSVP Here<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span class=\"\"><b class=\"\">Runnana Emrys<\/b> is the author of\u00a0<em>A Half-Built Garden<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Winter Tide<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Deep Roots<\/em>, as well as co-writer of Reactor&#8217;s Reading the Weird column with Anne M. Pillsworth. She writes radically hopeful short stories about religion and aliens and psycholinguistics. She lives in a mysterious manor house on the outskirts of Washington, DC with her wife and their large, strange family. There she creates real versions of imaginary foods, gives unsolicited advice, and occasionally attempts to save the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b class=\"\"><span class=\"\">Emma D&#8217;Amico<\/span><\/b><span class=\"\">\u00a0is a Ph.D. student in the English Department at Carleton University. Her current research focuses on climate emotions, climate-changed futures, and pre-figurative politics in literature. Her approach in research and pedagogy is informed by decolonial, climate affect, and climate justice theories that work to produce new insights into how to address climate-changed futures. Emma is \u00a0also the co-coordinator of Carleton Climate Commons, co-presenter of this event, which brings together scholars, students, and community members to discuss issues surrounding the climate crisis in relation to the humanities and social sciences, to share academic work, ideas, and resources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University\u2019s Climate Commons with the Ottawa International Writers Festival\u00a0presents an author reading and discussion on Ruthanna Emrys&#8217;\u00a0A Half-Built Garden. \u00a0A literary descendent of Ursula K. 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