Climate Fiction – Science, Stories or Seeds of Transformation?

Internationally renowned award winning authors like Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi and Ian McEwan are turning to the emerging literary genre of Climate Fiction – or Cli-Fi – to tell stories set in a climatically changed world. The Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative invites you to a panel discussion on Cli-Fi that will discuss the nature and roots of the genre and its impact or influence beyond simply telling stories. Can a story trigger a social movement? Does it offer science lessons? Could a book change politics or societies?
How?

Adding some interactivity to the discussion, the panel will engage attendees to create on-the-spot Cli-Fi storytelling with a short flash fiction exercise.

Light lunch will be served.
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The Panel:

Joni Adamson
Professor of English and Environmental Humanities,
ASU Department of English
Senior Sustainability Scholar,
Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability

Clark Miller
Associate Director, Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes
Senior Sustainability Scientist,
Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability

Sydney Lines
ASU LightWorks Communications Program Coordinator

Manjana Milkoreit
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives

The Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative is an ASU partnership between the Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives, the Center for Science and the Imagination, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.

climateimagination.asu.edu