Bring an old pair of jeans (or any clothing item!) that needs mending and learn basic hand sewing, embroidery, and visible mending techniques inspired by traditional Japanese Sashiko and Boro stitching. All supplies, including beads, bows, thread, scrap fabric selection, and more will be provided for you to play and get creative with!

Light allergen-friendly snacks and refreshments will also be provided.

All levels welcome, no sewing experience required.

This creative and educational workshop is organized by Hailey, founder of��, and Francine, Founder of��. Both are Ottawa-based zero waste fashion designers passionate about up-cycling. We beleive in circular practices, in loving and repairing your clothes, reducing waste and overconsumption, and in rebuilding our relationship with fashion and the textile arts.

Grab a friend and join us to repair, repurpose, and remix an old pair of jeans!

Room number 4020 in the Nicol Building. Paid parking available on site.

Thank you to our event sponsor:��

Date: 10-12 March 2023

Since the industrial revolution, the advancement of human technology has facilitated the exponential exploitation of nature. The ramifications of this exploitation have prompted researchers to define the current epoch as “The Anthropocene,” where “humans act as a main determinant of the environment of the planet” (Chakrabarty 209). Humanity’s new role as “geological agents” has created uncertainties and induced fears and anxieties about the future of terrestrial life, particularly for minority and marginalized people who are disproportionately affected by climate change (207). In Rehearsals for Living, Robyn Maynard insists that “it would require a deliberate obfuscation to view the racially uneven distribution of harms that the climate collapse engenders as accidental” (9).

While ecological scientists warn of an inevitable environmental catastrophe, climate change activists have begun to raise awareness and call for constructive action to mitigate the concerning situation. The results of the continued efforts of climate scientists and activists encourage us to find communal solutions and build global solidarity—to go beyond narratives of resilience and
create narratives of hope.

Our three-day bimodal conference seeks abstracts for creative writings and academic papers that offer insightful and innovative perspectives on climate change and the Anthropocene. Through interdisciplinary and literary perspectives, we aim to create discussions about the global uncertainties that are posed by climate change and cultivate outlooks of hope.

Papers can cover a range of literary and interdisciplinary categories, including but not limited to:

• Climate activism and literature
• 18th-19th century criticism of pastoral environment and industrialization
• Ecocritical discourse
• Climate anxieties and complacencies
• Forced displacement and the climate diaspora
• Formation and alteration of identities due to climate change
• Relationship between war and climate change
• In/visibility of minorities in environmental action
• Decolonisation, climate justice and climate action
• Climate change and Indigenous practices
• Sustainability and literature
• Climate change: doom and/or hope perspectives in literature

Please submit a 250 to 300-word abstract and a separate 100-word (maximum) author’s biography including institutional affiliation to uottawa.conference@gmail.com by 3rd February 2023. Please remove all personal identifying markers in the document containing your abstract to facilitate the blind review of all submitted abstracts. Selected papers from the conference will be published in the Graduate Students’ academic journal. Send all enquiries to the Conference Communications Coordinator via uottawa.conference@gmail.com.

Works Cited
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “The Climate of History: Four Theses.” Critical Inquiry, vol. 35, no. 2, Jan. 2009, pp. 197–222.
Maynard, Robyn, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Rehearsals for Living. Penguin Random House Canada, 2022, p. 9.

Proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA Options for Teaching series entitled��Teaching Energy Humanities, edited by Debby Rosenthal and Jason Molesky.

Cultures breathe energy. Energy humanities, a swiftly growing subfield of the environmental humanities, works to reveal—and, perhaps, to remake—the interrelationships between cultural practices and energy systems. How a society uses, produces, and distributes energy reflects, as well as shapes, its foundational structures and values. Questions of energy are always already questions of ethics, identity, narrative, and community—in short, questions of culture that invite broad, interdisciplinary humanistic inquiry.

Properly understood, then, scholarship and teaching about energy are the purviews of not only scientists and public policy experts but also literary theorists, art historians, musicologists, actors, philosophers, poets, and architects. Those working in such areas are well-equipped to situate our current energy regime in terms of its overdetermined social and historical bases in, for example, colonialism, racial capitalism, and global class struggles. Yet energy humanities looks beyond concerns of climate change to consider, among other issues, the textual and cultural relations bound up with inputs like wood, whale oil, or the laboring muscles of human and nonhuman beings; the gendered politics of energy systems; the conflicts around historical energy transitions; or the artistic tensions and possibilities fostered by energy shifts such as the rise of steam power, mass electrification, or automobility.

The word��power��derives from the Latin��potere, meaning “to be able.” Energy humanists recognize that extractivist practices are dually able to “power” industrial capitalism and also “power” structures of authority and influence over our societies. The unequal usage, distribution, and access to both kinds of power can reinforce inequity, as shown in many postcolonial texts about energy extraction. Such recent petrofiction and extractivist literatures have a rich history in earlier texts like Herman Melville’s��Moby-Dick, which asks us to consider how energy is made available through the imperial politics of natural resources. This textual lineage can also extend to modern, medieval, or classical literatures dealing with related concerns.

Teaching Energy Humanities��aims to help scholars and teachers equip themselves with practical strategies to incorporate themes of energy and extraction into humanities courses. Potential essay topics might include but are not limited to the following:

• practical strategies for teaching energy humanities with literary texts, either as a unit in a course or as a stand-alone course, to demonstrate that literature can imbue energy studies with narrative purpose
• using creative writing assignments relating to energy issues in the classroom
• teaching energy humanities alongside film, television, or other media
• using energy humanities to design interdisciplinary, collaborative, or team-teaching projects that ask how the energy humanities have contributed to discourses surrounding the Anthropocene, climate change, carbon culture, the sustainability of resources, or environmental degradation
• assignments that push students to recognize the effects of our extraction economy on both bodies and the earth, and particularly on historically marginalized and vulnerable peoples and regions
• strategies for thinking how the humanities have contributed to discussions about economic ideologies embedded in our energy-extraction culture, and how the humanities help us reimagine our energy-intensive high-emissions lifestyles
• best practices for teaching about energy in online and hybrid courses

Please submit a 300–500-word abstract with a short bio or CV to both Debby Rosenthal (drosenthal@jcu.edu) and Jason Molesky (jmolesky@princeton.edu) by 31 October 2022. Authors will be notified of initial acceptance by mid- to late December 2022. Pending the MLA’s peer review of the book prospectus, finished essays of 3,000–3,500 words (including works cited) would likely be due in August 2023.

Queries are welcome, including requests for feedback on ideas. We welcome proposals from all geographical regions and on any topic or historical period. For more information on the MLA Options for Teaching Series, see��.

�վ��ٱ���:��Power and (In)justice in Global Climate Governance: Collaborative Event Ethnography of the UNFCCC Process

Guest Editors: Emily Hite, Jamie Haverkamp, and Charu Joshi

Call for Abstracts

We seek an interdisciplinary group of social scientists interested in conducting collaborative ethnographic research within the global climate governance arena. With this special issue, our goal is to assess the dynamics of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) arena through an interactive process of collaborative event ethnography, with particular attention to issues of�� power and (in)justice. We seek contributing authors who have conducted research at COP meetings, intersessional and facilitative working group meetings, and/or at sites of protest and resistance to the UNFCCC process. Contributing authors will incorporate their experiences and knowledge into the iterative process of collaborative event ethnography by participating in writing workshops and meetings over a 6-month period: before, during, and after UNFCCC events. Please refer to the����for more details on the project, invited themes, and the timeline. Interested and qualified participants, please submit a 500 word abstract and answers to the following questions:

1. What has been your experience working within the spaces of the UNFCCC? Do you plan to attend COP27 or other UNFCCC events this year?

1. Describe your experience conducting ethnographic research as well as your collaborative research experience.

Submit these materials to the Guest Editors by Aug 30, 2022.

Emily Hite��emily.hite@nau.edu

Jamie Haverkamp��jhaverkamp@bates.edu

Charu Joshi��charujoshijp@gmail.com

The has opened the Support to Canadian Think Tanks and Academic Institutions Call for Proposals (CFP).

The objective of this call for proposals is to support research and analysis projects that will identify, accelerate, and evaluate climate mitigation solutions and strategies that will contribute to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.

Projects must align with one or more of the following research themes:

1. Defining the future systems required for net-zero;
2. Obstacles on the pathways to net-zero;
3. Distributional impacts of the pathways to net-zero on workers and their communities;
   1. Motivating net-zero action

To be eligible for funding under this CFP, Lead Applicants must be one of the following:

• not-for-profit non-governmental organization
• university or academic institution
• Indigenous organization

The deadline for submitting a proposal is 3:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on July 18, 2022.

Webinar sessions for prospective applicants about the process of submitting a proposal will be offered in English and French on June 21 and 23, 2022, respectively.

Please visit the online application platform for detailed information on eligibility, to access the Applicant Guide, and to apply for funding.�� For instructions on how to create an account in order to apply for funding, .

For all inquiries related to the Climate Action and Awareness Fund and this funding opportunity, please email:��fasc-caaf@ec.gc.ca

The submission deadline for the symposium is May 23rd. Visit the symposium’s website for more information and to access the online submission form.

~ The Humanities and Social Sciences Respond to Climate Change ~

Inviting submissions for Two-to-Four Minute Thesis presentations and/or Poster Presentations for a one-day Climate Change Research Showcase. Featuring climate change research in the humanities and social sciences at �Ӱ�ԭ��, the showcase will start conversations and collaboration across a range of disciplines and projects.

Proposals Due: 25 February 2020

The Three-Minute Thesis () format was originally introduced for the presentation of graduate student research but has been taken up in recent years to all researchers via the competition. Because it has proven to be such an effective way of sharing ideas across disciplines and research areas, we’re inviting participants to present their work in two to four minutes or as a poster presentation. You may summarize an entire research program, a book or book project, an article, a conference paper, a graduate or undergraduate paper, research-inflected teaching or pedagogy, or a work in progress. This call is open to

Please send a topic description of no more than 50 words to Brenda Vellino (BrendaVellino@Cunet.Carleton.Ca) by 25 February.�� All are welcome to submit!

Panel Organizers:��Susie O’Brien and Heike��Härting

Generally understood as a subgenre of science fiction, climate fiction employs climate change as a thematic and narrative framework and is related but not reducible to petro-fiction. In its dominant form, cli-fi generates dystopic and post-apocalyptic narratives that emphasize the devastating consequences of ecological catastrophes. Such an approach to cli-fi leaves little room for imagining alternative planetary futures and resilience. Indeed, as Amitav Gosh observes, “at the heart of the climate crisis” lies a “broader imaginative and cultural failure” (2016). Similarly, Dipesh Chakrabarty suggests that the climate crisis requires intellectual conversations “in tension with each other: the planetary and the global; deep and recorded histories; species thinking and critiques of capital” (2009).��Indigenous and anti-colonial critics complicate this call, asking, with Métis scholar Zoe Todd: “What does it mean to have a reciprocal discourse on . . . apocalyptic environmental change in a place where, over the last five hundred years, Indigenous peoples faced (and face) the end of worlds with the violent incursion of colonial ideologies and actions?” Mindful of the stories that the theme of climate change opens up, brushes against, or occludes, we wish to consider its usefulness and limitations as a fundamental category of literary production and critique.����

This panel will examine Canadian climate narratives in literature and film and their engagement with planetary thinking. We ask how creative works (re)imagine universality, ecological trauma and “pre-trauma” (Ann Kaplan), vulnerability and resilience,��planetarity��and indigeneity, cross-species collectivities, climate justice and reproductivity, planetary capital and the Anthropocene. Exploring the limits of dystopic and apocalyptic climate narratives, the panel seeks to recalibrate our literary and social imagination on a planetary rather than national or global scale.��

Please send proposals (max. 300 words, in English or French) and a short biography (max 150 words) to��Susie O’Brien (obriensu@mcmaster.ca) and Heike��Härting��(heike.harting@umontreal.ca)��by��January 5, 2019. Those who propose papers must be��members of ACQL��by��March 1st, 2019.��See��the  for��membership��and registration information.