{"id":16892,"date":"2015-10-05T16:10:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T20:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?p=15930"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:42:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T11:42:38","slug":"starting-a-carleton-conversation-the-carleton-climate-commons-working-group-by-professor-barbara-leckie-department-of-english-language-and-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/2015\/starting-a-carleton-conversation-the-carleton-climate-commons-working-group-by-professor-barbara-leckie-department-of-english-language-and-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"FASS Blog – Starting a 杏吧原创 Conversation: The 杏吧原创 Climate Commons Working Group by Professor Barbara Leckie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n FASS Blog – Starting a 杏吧原创 Conversation: The 杏吧原创 Climate Commons Working Group by Professor Barbara Leckie\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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A year ago, in October 2014, a small interdisciplinary group of humanities and social science scholars at 杏吧原创 met to discuss climate change. We wanted to consider what scholars in a range of disciplines, many of which were not the traditional disciplines of climate change research or action, could do to address climate change issues. This meeting was the beginning of the 杏吧原创 Climate Commons Working Group. The discussion was wide-ranging and many of the ideas raised at that first small meeting were realized in the following weeks and months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Climate Commons is now composed of close to 80 faculty and graduate students representing almost all of the departments and schools in the humanities and social sciences at 杏吧原创. We bring together members of the 杏吧原创 community to discuss climate change issues, to share academic work, and to share ideas and articles. The university has long been the place our society dedicates to addressing issues of vital importance. Climate change is one of those issues. The Working Group, then, is a forum for exploring the role of the humanities and social sciences in the pressing climate change conversations of our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Participants at the Fossil Fuel Divestment Roundtable. Photo by Taylor Donaldson.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Last year we organized two roundtables: a Pedagogy and Climate Change Roundtable in the Fall of 2014 and a Roundtable on Fossil Fuel Divestment<\/a> in the Winter of 2015. (Click here<\/a> for more information on fossil free divestment and here<\/a> for the 杏吧原创 Fossil Free Faculty information.) We also hosted an Energy East Pipeline Information Session<\/a> and several reading groups including, last Spring, a university-wide discussion<\/a> of Naomi Klein\u2019s This Changes Everything.<\/em> This coming year continues and extends many of the initiatives begun in 2014-15 as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n