Call for Papers: A Hostile Climate? Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Change
A HOSTILE CLIMATE? MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON CLIMATE CHANGE is a one-day conference that will be held at the University of Leeds on 8th April 2019.
We seek to gather together early career and PGR scholars across all disciplines in climate change research from across the UK . This conference will explore the many different facets of climate change and related environmental catastrophes through the lens of different academic and artistic disciplines, and to hear from PhD and early career researchers producing novel and innovative work on these topics.
Please see below for more details including themes that will be covered.
We are, as many scholars across the globe attest, approaching (or have already passed) the edge of climate change: the threshold at which the runaway effects of anthropogenic climate change will prevent any meaningful attempts to mitigate its consequences for life on Earth. It is widely acknowledged that a temperature rise above 2 degrees centigrade will be catastrophic for humanity and the biodiversity of the planet, but the question remains: how can we implement significant change, in industry, lifestyles, and society at large in order to apprehend or prepare for its effects on those most at risk?
We seek to gather together early career and PGR scholars across all disciplines in climate change research from across the UK, in a multidisciplinary one-day conference at the University of Leeds. We hope to both explore the many different facets of climate change and related environmental catastrophes through the lens of different academic and artistic disciplines, and to hear from postgraduate and early career scholars and artists producing novel and innovative work on these topics. We aim to interrogate and respond to the meaning of ‘hostile climates’ in diverse and receptive ways, hearing from scholars across the humanities, sciences and beyond contribute to engaging discussion on the topic.
From the sciences to the arts, we seek submissions from contributors that cover (but are not limited to) the following questions, topics and prompts:
- The risks of climate change for those living on the margins of society, and how these may be apprehended or mitigated
- How climate change can create hostile or uninhabitable spaces for human and nonhuman life
- Papers that seek to ask what a ‘hostile climate’ may mean within different cultural contexts
- How communities across the globe experience climate change, in a radically different way to those on mainland Europe and the US
- New developments in climate change research: who or what is at the cutting edge in your field?
- How technology, entrepreneurship and science could provide benefits for humanity in a climate-changed world OR the possible negative ramifications of reliance on technology in attempting to solve these issues (e.g. ecomodernism)
- Non-Western, Indigenous and grassroots approaches to (and understandings of) climate change and related environmental issues
- Climate change communication: how can the complexities of climate change be communicated effectively to a range of different audiences? How can communication practices be inclusive or exclusive?
- Climate change and gender: the exclusion/inclusion of the voices of women, trans or non-binary individuals within conversations on climate change
- Climate change and migration: the risks and realities of hostility towards migrants in a climate-changing world, or alternative responses to possible climate change-induced migration
- Understanding and responding to climate-changed environments through music, art and performance
- The under-represented and unexpected possible consequences of climate change
The deadline for submissions of 150-word abstracts for 20-minute papers is 15th January 2019. Please submit your abstracts to ClimateConferenceLeeds@gmail.com.
We ask all contributors to bear in mind that they will be presenting to a diverse and non-specialist audience, and we would like to keep the conference as accessible to all as possible, so all papers presented on the day should include a brief explanation of the research/work being conducted and how it fits in to the wider field. In keeping with the conference aims, too, we ask that all contributors show an awareness of the larger implications of their research, both within their specific field and on a wider scale, and remain open and responsive to other disciplines.
We particularly welcome and encourage submissions from people of colour, contributors who are trans, non-binary, women, differently abled, and refugees or migrants.
We will also shortly be circulating a Call for Artists for this conference. If you would like more details on this or have any other queries, please contact us atClimateConferenceLeeds@gmail.com.
For more information, please visit the website.
