Catriona Mills, Rebecca Olive and Nina Clark The University of Queensland “Sinking and Floating on a Shoreless Sea: Co-Reading: ‘The Fool and His Inheritance’” Abstract Drawing from a recent AustLit project on climate change fiction, this paper discusses the earliest...
Allan Rae The University of Stirling “A Submergent Imaginary: The Radical Ecology of J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World” Abstract: This article examines J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World (1962), focussing on its imagination of watery submergence as a vehicle for...
Zümre Gizem YILMAZ KARAHAN Social Sciences University of Ankara “Tracking Climate Change to Ancient Times: Ancient Mesopotamia and Atra-hasis” Abstract Narrativizing flood prevails in most creation myths and stories, including Atra-hasis, an epic recorded on...
Julia D. Gibson Queen’s University “Stories We Tell About the End of the World: (Post)Apocalyptic Climate Fiction Working Towards Climate Justice” Abstract It is perhaps more important than ever for environmental practitioners to grasp that the narratives we/they...
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