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17th–19th August 2015
Location:
Centre for Women’s and
Gender Research (SKOK)
University of Bergen,
Norway
Organised by:
Centre for Women’s and
Gender Research (SKOK) in co-operation with Duke
University Women's
Studies.
Deadline for registration:
1. June 2015
More information and registration here
Contact: post@skok.uib.no http://www.uib.no/en/skok
Accreditation: 3/5 ECTS
The course/ seminar “Climate Imaginaries: Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Thinking Climate
Change” offers an interdisciplinary investigation of how we imagine climate change in contemporary times. Climate change is increasingly recognized as a global crisis, but how it is understood and imagined differs immensely. These diverse imaginaries form our epistemologies of climate change, and in so doing open for an array of political and moral dilemmas, agencies, strategies and resistances. Critically engaging with feminist and queer perspectives, the course therefore addresses how embodiment, difference, imagination and environment intersect with, challenge and re-imagine climate change debates and its imaginaries.
Keynotes:
(medicine, literature, gender studies),
(comparative literature/gender studies), Donna McCormack (medical humanities/post-colonial studies), Mohammad Salehin (sociology/climate change) and Matthew Stiller-Reeve (climate science/meteorology)
(social work, women and climate change).
Tutors: Scott Bremer (environmental governance/philosophy of science), Kari Jegerstedt
The questions that we will critically examine throughout the course include • How is climate change imagined? • What does it mean to think about climate change from feminist and queer perspectives? • What are the ethical and political challenges raised by climate change and climate imaginaries? • What other critical perspectives should we bring to climate change, and why?