Live Webinar: English Literature & Climate Change

In this webinar for school/college students and teachers, Dr Neal Alexander from Aberystwyth University will, through discussion exercises and Q&A, explore the following:

-Imagining climate change
-Language and the politics of climate change
-Literature and the Anthropocene
-Causes and effects: some literary examples
-Literature and the non-human

This entertaining yet challenging interactive session aims:

-To enhance students’ awareness of the ways in which literature can influence and direct the ways in which we think and talk about climate change.
-To encourage students to reflect critically upon the dominant vocabularies, images, and metaphors in the media and popular discourse.
-To raise some key ethical, political, and aesthetic questions concerning the representation of climate change, its causes, and its effects.