This is Day 2 of a two-day event on the cultures, concepts and pedagogies of Energy Transitions. It will take place in H204 in UCD's Humanities Institute.
This event is hybrid, and it is free but ticketed. Food and beverages will be provided.
This symposium will consider how creative and critical works, and global historical case studies, from sites as varied as Canada, Ireland, Japan, Russia, the UK, US, and Western Sahara, offers us ways into interrogating the desires, affects and community formations generated by carbon-based societies, while imagining alternative nature-society relations (MacDonald 2014). Papers will examine cultural responses to the utopian promises and contested enclosures emerging from the transition to renewable energy, including analyses of historical energy transitions as vehicles for liberatory anti-colonial narratives of resource sovereignty (Nixon 2011, Huber 2013, Barrett and Worden 2014); contemporary cultural resistance to top-down energy infrastructural development (Allan, Lemaadel, Lakhal 2022, Bresnihan and Brodie 2023); and the role of speculative utopian imaginaries in narrating anticipated energy futures (Williams 2019, Deckard 2022).
Speakers include: Sheena Wilson (University of Alberta), Katja Bruisch (Trinity College Dublin), Lily Toomey (Trinity College Dublin), Hiroki Shin (Queen’s University Belfast), Joanna Allan (Northumbria University), Alexandra Campbell (University of Glasgow), Nick Lawrence (University of Warwick), Jonathan Skinner (University of Warwick), Lucy Burnett (Lancaster University), Rhys Williams (University of Glasgow)
See the full schedule here: https://texerenetwork.com/justtransitions/call-for-papers/
