Beyond Environmentalism:

Culture, Justice, and Global Ecologies

May 22-23, 2009
McCune Room Sixth Floor HSSB

UC Santa Barbara

Free and Open to the Public

Featuring Elaine Scarry and Ursule Heise

As our species faces anthropogenic climate change, world water shortages, world famine, the twin projects of giving expression to a truly global ecology and to global environment justice have never been more urgent. What will be the role of literature and the arts in contributing to a sustainable future? More information.

Potential Presentation Topics:

• Imagining Global Ecologies: Weather, Water, Food, Energy Systems
  
• Planetarity
  
• Ecological Citizenship
  
• Environmental Justice and the Limitations of US Race Studies
  
• The Global South and the Making of the Rural
  
• Climate Change Discourse
  
• From Poetics to Policy (Culture's Role in Global Environmental Politics)
  
• Toxicity, Illness, Trauma
  
• Environmentalism Across Media
  
• Environmental Refugeeism
  
• Changing the Terms: From Ecologies to Economies
  
• Ecologies of Empire
  
• Post-Environmentalism
  
• Aesthetics, Justice, and Eco-Activism
  
• Hope

Presented By:
The Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media

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