BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5328-147c8ea77e65733b100b90e37fbd5435@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260412T203626Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210122T130000 SUMMARY:Expecting the Unprecedented: Speculative Fiction and the Climate Events of the Future DESCRIPTION:\nSpeculative fiction has recently marked a turn in American literature to imagine not just the past of "unprecedented" climate cris es\, but also their future. It has been well established that speculativ e fiction can assist societies in imagining the future of climate crises . However\, it remains to be discussed what the limits of these imaginat ive possibilities are. Further\, what is gained and lost by referring to major climate events as "unprecedented"? Mindful of the limits of specu lative fiction's potential to imagine the futures of climate change\, th is webinar focuses on how speculative fiction might nonetheless help mak e the "unprecedented" feel apprehensible for readers.\n\nPanelists inclu de:\n\nHeather Houser\, Associate Professor of English\, The University of Texas at Austin\n\nHouser is the author of Ecosickness in Contemporar y U. S. Fiction: Environment and Affect (Columbia Univeristy Press\, 201 4) and Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data (Co lumbia University Press\, 2020).\n\nStephanie LeMenager\, Moore Endowed Professor of English\, University of Oregon\n\nLeMenager is the author o f Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (Oxford Universi ty Press\, 2014) and co-editor\, with Shane Hall and Stephen Siperstein\ , of Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities (Routledge\, 2016).\n\nCl aire Colebrook\, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English\, Philosophy\, a nd Women's\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, Penn State\n\nColebrook se rves as co-editor\, with Tom Cohen\, of the book series Critical Climate Change for Open Humanities Press and has authored two volumes in the se ries\, including The Death of the Posthuman (2014) and Sex After Life (2 014).\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email conta ining information about joining the webinar.\n\nFor more details: https: //events.la.psu.edu/event/expecting-the-unprecedented/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Speculative fic tion has recently marked a turn in American literature to imagine not ju st the past of "unprecedented" climate crises, but also their future. It has been well established that speculative fiction can assist societies in imagining the future of climate crises. However, it remains to be di scussed what the limits of these imaginative possibilities are. Further, what is gained and lost by referring to major climate events as "unprec edented"? Mindful of the limits of speculative fiction's potential to im agine the futures of climate change, this webinar focuses on how specula tive fiction might nonetheless help make the "unprecedented" feel appreh ensible for readers.

Panelists include:

Heather Houser, A ssociate Professor of English, The University of Texas at Austin

Houser is the author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U. S. Fiction: Environment and Affect (Columbia Univeristy Press, 2014) and Inf owhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data (Columbia University Press, 2020).

Stephanie LeMenager, Moore Endowed Pr ofessor of English, University of Oregon

LeMenager is the auth or of Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century (Oxfo rd University Press, 2014) and co-editor, with Shane Hall and Stephen Si perstein, of Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities (Routledge , 2016).

Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Engli sh, Philosophy, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Penn State

Colebrook serves as co-editor, with Tom Cohen, of the book seri es Critical Climate Change for Open Humanities Press and has auth ored two volumes in the series, including The Death of the Posthuman< /i> (2014) and Sex After Life (2014).

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about jo ining the webinar.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/even t/expecting-the-unprecedented/

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