The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference

26-27 mai 2025 

University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark

Date d’échéance : 1er novembre 2024

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Overview: This conference seeks to consolidate emergent scholarship and artworks that explore the power of narrative to motivate climate-conscious action. The emphasis in this conference is on climate narratives in practice; in other words, it is concerned with works that apply these narratives in various public-facing contexts.

The study of climate fiction, texts exploring the impact of climate change has proliferated alongside the now-familiar call for better narrative accounts of the Anthropocene.[1] At the same time, it is not enough to generate simply more of these narratives; the crucial task remains to evaluate how they are taken up by readers and audiences and make meaning in the world.[2] To this end, the conference’s presentations will be categorized within three areas where it is possible to assess this literature’s potential impact: the implementation of climate narratives in the classroom (pedagogy); empirical studies of climate fiction’s reception (empirical ecocriticism); and artworks that embed narratives for the purpose of inspiring greater climate consciousness (climate activism). Continuer la lecture de Appel à communications : The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference (Odense, Denmark) →