UBC Schedule | Communicating Climate Hope

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August 14: Joint Opening Ceremony

The Joint Opening Ceremony will be a hybrid event held both on Zoom and in person at the Pre-Conference Institute at 9:00AM-10:00AM PDT on Wednesday, August 14.

August 15, 2024 Morning

	Green College Graham House Piano Lounge	Green College Graham House Gibson Room	Green College Coach House	ANSO Building Room 134
9:15	Registration and Breakfast
9:45	Coffee Creative Climate Communications Gallery books and activities contributed by our presenters		Opening Ceremony
10:00			Plenary: Storying Regenerative Futures Naoko Ellis and Derek Gladwin Introduction: Grace Nosek Moderator: Stefan Dollinger
10:30
11:00		What is Hope? Or Do You Need a Little Darkness to Get You Going? Don Shafer	Building Bridges: Avoiding Pitfalls in Climate Communications & Cultivating Strategic Partnerships Chloë Fraser	CANCELLED Pedagogy to Promote Climate Change Literacy and Resilience: Lessons from a Large Enrolment Interdisciplinary Online Climate Change Course Tara Holland
11:30		Away from the Jeremiad: Recognizing and Reshaping Narrative Tropes About Climate Change Jeanne Iribarne		Pedagogies of critical hope as a discipline in and among the wildfires Anita Girvan
12:00	Daybreak Board Game Demo Abhirami Senthilkumaran and Fernanda Tomaselli	Lunch and Poster Session in the Great Hall Asserting rangatiratanga and kaitiakitanga in response to colonialism, capitalism and climate change: the case of Ngāi Tahu - Taylor Arnt How can linguistic diversity in English language teaching support environmental justice? - Victor Carreão “Hope vs Hopium:” whose interests are served by the dichotomy of climate hope and doom? - Nick Gottlieb Eco-comedy Boomerangst and Eco-songs - George M. Johnson Empowering Communities to Improve Indoor Air Quality: An Intervention During the 2023 Firesmoke Season - Anne-Marie Nicol, Prem Gundarah, Ravneet Mundi and Riley Condon Can cooperative board games help reduce eco-anxiety? An empirical study in an undergraduate climate course - Abhirami Senthilkumaran and Fernanda Tomaselli Climate Anxiety Among Young People in China and its Connections with Hope and Action - Sumra Siddique and Nosharwan Arbab Abbasi
12:45		Re:Sisters and Luke Wallace Vocal Performances in the Great Hall
1:00-1:30		Poster Session continues

August 15, 2024 Afternoon

	Green College Graham House Piano Lounge	Green College Graham House Gibson Room	Green College Coach House	ANSO Building Room 134
1:30			Panel: Music and Climate Activism Moderator: Kirsten Hedegaard Panelists: Bill Bargeman, Barb Coward, Jason Davis, Anne Harley, and Luke Wallace	Welcome to the Department of Utopian Arts and Letters Kimberly Richards
2:00				Facilitator as Rhizome: Community Engaged Learning and Cultivating Hope Ryan Hilperts
2:30	Coffee and Afternoon Snacks Creative Climate Communications Gallery books and activities contributed by our presenters			A Contemplative Pedagogy of Listening Linda J. Chase
3:00		The Quail, the Parrot, and the Burning House: on the paradox of thriving when the world is on fire Chris Goto-Jones	Panel: Creative Climate Pedagogy Moderator: Grace Nosek Panelists: Paul Shore, Kshamta Hunter, Rae Landriau, Abhirami Senthilkumaran	The Butterfly Affect: Embodying Hopeful Change Beth Osnes-Stoedefalke (will move to Great Hall if the weather is bad)
3:30		Planning for the Climate Emergency: Combining Practical and Spiritual Climate Work Reilly Yeo
4:00			Creating Change as a Collective Rae Landriau	Community-engaged Theatremaking & Musicking for Climate Resilience: two projects out of North Florida Maggie Clifford and Colleen Rua
4:30			Panel: Climate Storytelling Fellowship Moderator: Patricia Lane Panelists: Esmé Decker, Annabelle Liao, Caroline Stampliaka, and Sherry Yu	Singing for a Sustainable Future: The EcoVoice Project Kirsten Hedegaard
5:00
5:30-7:00
7:00-9:30	Conference Dinner: Nuba Kitsilano

August 16, 2024 Morning

	Green College Graham House Piano Lounge	Green College Graham House Gibson Room	Green College Coach House	ANSO Building Room 134
9:00	Registration and Breakfast
9:30	Coffee Creative Climate Communications Gallery books and activities contributed by our presenters		Plenary: Framing Climate Language Teenie Matlock Moderator: Kimberly Grogan
10:00
10:30		Enhancing climate change communication through green creativity in Africa Benjamin Anabaraonye	Figurative framing of climate change mitigation in multimodal environmental campaigns Kimberly Grogan	Climate Concern and Eco-anxiety in BC Youth: Findings from the Youth Development Instrument Judy Wu, Andrés Delgado-Ron and Hasina Samji
11:00		In Our Hands, Beneath Our Feet? Trans-disciplinary Engagement and the wicked ‘Problem of Peat’ in the Republic of Ireland Benjamin Gearey, Claire Nolan, Rosie Everett, Fiona Kearney and Tadgh Crowley	From Microbes to Metaphors: Exploring the Hopeful Writing of Women of Science Maxime Fecteau	Climate Kind Pedagogy Kshamta Hunter
11:30		“In between traditional nature poetry and agitprop, what is there?”: Modern Irish Poetry in Three Studies Lucie Kotesovska, Levi Ross, and Judy Caranto	Rootbound: Harnessing the Power of Young Adult Fiction to Challenge Corporate Climate Propaganda Grace Nosek Moderator: Flossie Baker
12:00
12:30	Daybreak Board Game Demo Abhirami Senthilkumaran and Fernanda Tomaselli	Lunch in the Great Hall
1:00		Lunch in the Great Hall

August 16, 2024 Afternoon

	Green College Graham House Piano Lounge	Green College Graham House Gibson Room	Green College Coach House	ANSO Building Room 134
1:30			Plenary: How Does Climate Hope Feel In Our Bodies? Ashley Fairbanks Moderator: Ihomehe Agbebaku
2:00
2:30	Coffee and Afternoon Snacks Creative Climate Communications Gallery books and activities contributed by our presenters	Changing epistemologies in climate-themed art: Where we are and where we need to go Jana Thompson	How to Play in the Emergency: Practices for generating climate action from the intersections of climate fiction, linguistic theory, and organizing Leah Bobet	Another World is On The Way: Fostering Climate Hope and Action By Shifting From A Destructive to Creative Stance Ayushi Vig
3:00		Museums and Cultural Institutions as Platforms for Imagining Sustainable Futures Amy Harris
3:30		Creating Climate Resilience: Processing Climate Emotions through Artmaking and Dialogue Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky	Evolving activist approaches to climate change: strategies for communication and public engagement Rita Issa and A. T. Kingsmith	Rest, Recovery, Resistance (3Rs): A Framework to Advance Climate Justice by Sustaining Long-term Community Organizing Practices Amidst Complex Climate Emotions Manvi Bhalla, Hayley Brackenridge, and Angelo Aguilar Maurer
4:00			Indigeneity as a Baseline for Climate Change Anxiety Corinna Netherton
4:30			Connecting with Creation in Curve Lake First Nation Jacob van Haaften and Tracey Taylor
5:00	Closing Ceremony