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SUMMARY:Climate Fictions / Indigenous Studies (24-25 January 2020) - Speak
 er to be confirmed
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DESCRIPTION:Critical Indigenous studies can neither be perceived as niche\
 , nor trivialized as topical. In the way climate-capitalism has become an 
 existential threat\, a sincere engagement with Indigenous knowledges has b
 ecome ineluctable. This conference seeks to initiate a multidisciplinary c
 onversation on climate change\, as conceived by\, and re-inscribed within\
 , Indigenous literatures. So far within the small domain of English Humani
 ties\, contemporary climate fiction by Indigenous authors have presented a
 n urgent need to converse with scientific and social-scientific approaches
  to climate change. Centring these literatures\, especially at a universit
 y such as Cambridge that is itself implicated in climate capitalism\, is v
 ital to confront the racial nature of climate change discourse which overl
 ooks those who are leading the resistance in theory and praxis. These lite
 ratures tie the material to the literary\, forging new links between resur
 gence movements and academic scholarship. These literatures also provide a
  narrative space for the local exigencies of land to feature within a glob
 al discourse on climate.\n\nClimate fictions by writers like Alexis Wright
 \, Linda Hogan and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\, among others\, have shone
  critical light upon the effects of slow violence of climate change and th
 e global political nexus of extractive governments and industries on the e
 cology and human lives. Within Indigenous climate fictions\, much as withi
 n academic\, journalistic and new hybrid forms of writing\, long entrenche
 d binary between the ‘human’ and ‘nature’ is itself reshuffled\, j
 ust as existing anthropocentric anxieties of climate change are destabiliz
 ed by the re-interrogation of the place of the human within the ecological
 .\n\nAt the same time\, the change in climate is not in postponement\, mak
 ing it predictive\, but in continuum with human history’s interaction wi
 th nature\, tying settler-colonialism and resource-capitalism to catastrop
 hes like flash floods\, melting glaciers\, and rising temperatures. Indige
 nous populations around the world are affected through forced dispossessio
 ns\, that\, in turn\, have had a profound impact on their politics\, cultu
 res\, languages\, and literatures. The complicity of governments and acade
 mic institutions in abetting the ramifications of capitalism induced clima
 te change has brought together an allied community of writers\, scholars\,
  activists\, artists and filmmakers to form a network of strength and soli
 darity across nations. Several movements and landmarks like Idle No More\,
  Dakota Access Pipeline Protest\, Niyamgiri\, and Uluru Statement from the
  Heart\, builds upon a strong culture of protest within and outside the re
 alm of Indigenous fictions.\n\nAccommodation will be provided to all speak
 ers at the conference. Dependent on the outcome of additional applications
  for funding for the event\, travel bursaries may be available for partici
 pants selected through the Call for Papers. Preference will be given in th
 e first instance to Indigenous delegates travelling from abroad. If you wo
 uld like to be considered for travel support\, please give details of your
  likely costs and any institutional support that may be available to you w
 hen submitting your proposal. 
LOCATION:Rooms SG1 &amp\; SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Ca
 mbridge\, CB3 9DT
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