Fordybelsesseminar F: Climate Flash Fiction: Confronting the Imaginative Crisis behind Climate Change

Efterårets obligatoriske program består primært af en række af fordybelsesseminarer. På de enkelte fordybelsesseminarer får du mulighed for at gå i dybden med et enkelt emne inden for en given faglighed. Du ser hvordan forskellige fagligheder udforskes og ny viden skabes.

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Climate Flash Fiction: Confronting the Imaginative Crisis behind Climate Change

v/Lektor Bryan Yazell, Institut for Kultur- og sprogvidenskaber, SDU & professor Patricia Wolf, Institut for Virksomhedsledelse, SDU

The widespread consensus regarding the harm that climate change will, and already has, inflicted on the planet has not resulted in a mass movement to stop this harm. Among other things, what this situation makes clear is that information alone about climate change is not sufficient for generating action. Instead, apocalyptic headlines and stories  might encourage the opposite: a debilitating sense that there is no viable path forward.

This seminar takes direct aim at this imaginative problem by drawing together research theories and practice at the intersection of the humanities and social sciences.  Professor Patricia Wolf and Associate Professor Bryan Yazell have spent the last several years co-developing fiction-writing workshops for high school students on Funen, who write short stories that imagine the impact of climate change in the far future. In the session, they will relate some of the findings from this research and provide background to the role culture and the arts play in shaping our expectations about the environmental crisis. They will also lead participants in a fiction-writing workshop to demonstrate research in action and to generate a discussion about how the narratives we internalize  shape our expectations for the future of the environment. 

FORMÅL

Formålet med Fordybelsesseminar F-rækken er at give et dybdegående indblik i de respektive fagligheder med afsæt i et konkret emne og specifikke cases og herunder at vise nogle af de konkrete metoder, som de forskellige discipliner bringer i anvendelse.

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