Also sending it to the Pedagog list just in case this didn't go out to them. I had the fortune to see Vandana Singh in action recently at a conference when she narrated her story , 'The scientist and the elder in the Alaskan Arctic.' She is absolutely brilliant in weaving in storytelling as a pedagogy in academia! Pallavi https://naitaleem.wordpress.com/ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:20 PM Subject: [vikalp-sangam-list] Webinar series on Climate Change Fiction & Its Potential for Transformation - Session 1: Climate Change Fiction: South Asia Experience, 17 January To: Radical Ecological Democracy list < [email protected]>, WSM < [email protected]>, Coalition for EJ in India < [email protected]>, Vikalp Sangam elist <[email protected]> Friends, pl join us for what promises to be a v. interesting series! ashish Ashish Kothari Kalpavriksh Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa 908 Deccan Gymkhana Pune 411004, India Tel: 91-20-25654239 https://ashishkothari.in CLIMATE CHANGE FICTION AND ITS POTENTIAL FOR TRANSFORMATION: A WEBINAR SERIES Climate change fiction has come to the fore in recent times as an offshoot of science/speculative fiction, as a way of coming to terms with the reality of global warming and climate change and the likely repercussions for vulnerable species and communities most likely to be affected in the near future. As extrapolations from current trends, such imaginative responses have offered a significant critique of techno-science and the dominant development paradigm and opened out conceptual alternatives and pathways to transformation. Kalpavriksh and Global Tapestry of Alternatives plan to host a series of dialogues and conversations on themes relating to South Asia in particular, seeking to find the interface between fiction, academia and activism. Session 1 Climate Change Fiction: The South Asia Experience In this interaction between authors, scholars and activists, we hope to critically explore the reasons for South Asia being foregrounded as a zone for climate catastrophe in recent Western cli-fi (Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry of the Future, Stephen Markley, The Deluge), as well as discover more about the extent to which this sub-genre has found roots in this region. Amitav Ghosh has led the way in writing novels with this theme (The Hungry Tide, Gun Island), besides critiquing the failure of literary fiction to engage with this set of questions. Has speculative fiction/cli-fi from South Asia begun to offer a nuanced and grounded representation of both the survival mechanisms espoused in the face of existential threats and possibilities for resistance and organisation at the grassroots level emerging in the region, as Vandana Singh and others have argued? Can climate change fiction indicate the scope for alternative paradigms emerging at present and in times to come? Panelists Vandana Singh -- author, Utopias of the Third Kind; physicist & climate change scientist Anil Menon -- author, The Coincidence Plot; Chief Editor, Bombay Literary Magazine Bodhisattva Chattopadhyaya -- Assoc. Prof, Univ of Oslo, and Lead, CoFUTURES Ashish Kothari-- Kalpavriksh, Vikalp Sangam, and Global Tapestry of Alternatives 17 January, 1 pm GMT/UTC; 6.30 pm IST Information: https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/events:2024_climate_change_fiction_... To join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82646306714?pwd=OWdsVTJsdGEvdVdXMmNGOVgyRGpudz09 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vikalp-sangam-list" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vikalp-sangam-list/741f4c42-b1c4-6661-c641... <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vikalp-sangam-list/741f4c42-b1c4-6661-c641-1c65926b464f%40riseup.net?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> .