Course Readings/Resources

Readings:

Week 1:

“A Fable For Tomorrow,” Rachel Carson

“Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet,” Margaret Atwood

Week 2:

Global Weirding project

Week 3:

“The Ethics of Adaptation to Global Warming,” Kathleen Dean Moore

Week 4:

“An Athabasca Story,” Warren Cariou

Information on Warren Cariou

Photo essay on the Alberta Tar Sands

Edward Burtynsky photographs of Alberta Tar Sands

Top facts about Alberta’s tar/oil sands 

Week 5:

Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics

Article on agriculture and climate change

Week 6:

“So Hot Right Now: Has Climate Change Created a New Literary Genre?”

Nathaniel Rich article on climate change and the novel

Week 7:

“Weather versus Climate” (Neil deGrasse Tyson explains)

Superstorm Sandy and “The Civilizing Power of Disaster”

“Haiyan, Sandy and Climate Change”

“Mapping Hurricane Sandy’s Deadly Toll” (New York Times interactive graphic)

Sandy: Anatomy of a Superstorm (2012 BBC documentary)

Weeks 8:

FutureCoast, voicemails from the future project

“New Climate-Fiction Game Sends Players Clues From the Future”

Interview with Future Coast creator Ken Eklund

Week 9:

Climate Stories Project

After Water, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio Climate Fiction Podcast

Selection from A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan

 

Other articles about “Cli-Fi”:

New York Times, Room for Debate: Will Fiction Influence How We React to Climate Change?

“Global Warning: the rise of ‘cli-fi’,” article from The Guardian

“College Classes Use Arts to Brace for Climate Change,” NYT article on cli-fi and the UO

 

Presentations/handouts:

Day 1 Presentation

Rachel Carson, Margaret Atwood presentation (weeks 1, 2)

Weeks 2 and 3, plot, narrator, character

Week 4, Alberta tar sands powerpoint

Week 5 PowerPoint (on IDP: 2043 and midterm exam prep)

Week 6, Odds Against Tomorrow

Week 9, FutureCoast

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