<div dir="ltr"><div>Also sending it to the Pedagog list just in case this didn't go out to them.<br></div><div><br></div><div>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! <br></div><div><br></div><div>Pallavi<br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://naitaleem.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://naitaleem.wordpress.com/</a><br></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Ashish Kothari</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:ashishkothari@riseup.net">ashishkothari@riseup.net</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:20 PM<br>Subject: [vikalp-sangam-list] Webinar series on Climate Change Fiction & Its Potential for Transformation - Session 1: Climate Change Fiction: South Asia Experience, 17 January<br>To: Radical Ecological Democracy list <<a href="mailto:radical_ecological_democracy@googlegroups.com">radical_ecological_democracy@googlegroups.com</a>>, WSM <<a href="mailto:wsm-discuss@lists.openspaceforum.net">wsm-discuss@lists.openspaceforum.net</a>>, Coalition for EJ in India <<a href="mailto:coalition-for-environmental-justice-in-india@googlegroups.com">coalition-for-environmental-justice-in-india@googlegroups.com</a>>, Vikalp Sangam elist <<a href="mailto:vikalp-sangam-list@googlegroups.com">vikalp-sangam-list@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p>Friends, pl join us for what promises to be a v. interesting
series! <br>
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<p>ashish <br>
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<p><span>Ashish Kothari</span></p>
<p><span>Kalpavriksh</span></p>
<p><span>Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa</span></p>
<p><span>908 Deccan Gymkhana</span></p>
<p><span>Pune 411004, India</span></p>
<p><span>Tel: 91-20-25654239</span></p>
<p><span><a href="https://ashishkothari.in/" target="_blank">https://ashishkothari.in</a></span><span><span> </span></span></p>
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<p> CLIMATE CHANGE FICTION AND ITS POTENTIAL FOR TRANSFORMATION: A
WEBINAR SERIES <br>
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<p> Climate change fiction has come to the fore in recent times as
an<br>
offshoot of science/speculative fiction, as a way of coming to
terms<br>
with the reality of global warming and climate change and the
likely<br>
repercussions for vulnerable species and communities most likely
to be<br>
affected in the near future. As extrapolations from current
trends,<br>
such imaginative responses have offered a significant critique
of<br>
techno-science and the dominant development paradigm and opened
out<br>
conceptual alternatives and pathways to transformation.<br>
Kalpavriksh and Global Tapestry of Alternatives plan to host a
series<br>
of dialogues and conversations on themes relating to South Asia
in<br>
particular, seeking to find the interface between fiction,
academia<br>
and activism.<br>
<br>
Session 1<br>
Climate Change Fiction: The South Asia Experience<br>
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In this interaction between authors, scholars and activists, we
hope<br>
to critically explore the reasons for South Asia being
foregrounded as<br>
a zone for climate catastrophe in recent Western cli-fi (Kim
Stanley<br>
Robinson, Ministry of the Future, Stephen Markley, The Deluge),
as<br>
well as discover more about the extent to which this sub-genre
has<br>
found roots in this region. Amitav Ghosh has led the way in
writing<br>
novels with this theme (The Hungry Tide, Gun Island), besides<br>
critiquing the failure of literary fiction to engage with this
set of<br>
questions. Has speculative fiction/cli-fi from South Asia begun
to<br>
offer a nuanced and grounded representation of both the survival<br>
mechanisms espoused in the face of existential threats and<br>
possibilities for resistance and organisation at the grassroots
level<br>
emerging in the region, as Vandana Singh and others have argued?
Can<br>
climate change fiction indicate the scope for alternative
paradigms<br>
emerging at present and in times to come?<br>
<br>
Panelists<br>
Vandana Singh -- author, Utopias of the Third Kind; physicist
& climate change scientist<br>
Anil Menon -- author, The Coincidence Plot; Chief Editor, Bombay
Literary Magazine <br>
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyaya -- Assoc. Prof, Univ of Oslo, and
Lead, CoFUTURES<br>
Ashish Kothari-- Kalpavriksh, Vikalp Sangam, and Global Tapestry
of Alternatives <br>
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<p>17 January, 1 pm GMT/UTC; 6.30 pm IST <br>
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<p>Information: <a href="https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/events:2024_climate_change_fiction_webinars:episode_1" target="_blank">https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/events:2024_climate_change_fiction_webinars:episode_1</a></p>
<p>To join: <br>
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<div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82646306714?pwd=OWdsVTJsdGEvdVdXMmNGOVgyRGpudz09" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82646306714?pwd=OWdsVTJsdGEvdVdXMmNGOVgyRGpudz09</a></div>
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