New Maternalisms Redux &Mapping the Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene Please join us for a series of public events, May 12, 13, and 14, 2016! Exhibition Opening, New Maternalisms Redux, May 12, 6-9pm, FAB Gallery Film Screening, The Motherhood Archives, May 13, 4-6pm, Garneau Theater ...
Mindshare: what's fuelling our future? Speakers from across the globe share their perspectives on the future of energy systems. At the University of AlbertaPosted by Universities Canada on Monday, 18 April 2016 "As the world tries to move away from fossil fuels to cleaner, more renewable...
After Oil explores the social, cultural, and political changes needed to make possible a full-scale transition from fossil fuels to new forms of energy. Written collectively by participants in the first After Oil School, After Oil explains why the adoption of renewable, ecologically sustainable energy...
Registration for Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore is now open. Early bird registration expires on June 1st, 2016. Petrocultures 2016: The Offshore will take place at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland from August 31 – September 3, 2016. The conference will feature Dr. Graeme Macdonald (University of Warwick),...
Petrocultures is very pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of Reviews in Cultural Theory edited by Jeff Diamanti and Brent Ryan Bellamy. The special issue, “Energy Humanities,” gathers experimental and brief accounts of the cultural history of energy in order to figure...
Climate Realism The Aesthetics of Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere Edited by Lynn Badia, Marija Cetinić, and Jeff Diamanti Climate Realism names the challenge of representing and conceptualizing climate in the era of climate change. Climate has traditionally referenced the weather it gathers, the mood it creates, and the settings...
The 2015 UN Climate Convention in Paris (COP21) was an unprecedented gathering of global political leaders, and it will determine the future of climate change politics for decades to come. For many, COP21 was considered to be the last opportunity for national governments to offer...
The Center for Energy & Environmental Research at Rice University has released the inaugural podcast of their series, Cultures of Energy. From iTunes: Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like...
The recent rise of the interdisciplinary subfield of “Energy Humanities” as a prominent critical endeavour has seen an efflorescence of academic and cultural production from around the world focussing on the crucial topic of energy resources. A major spur for this work is, of course,...
AFTER PARIS An Interdisciplinary Response to the UN Climate Convention Art Gallery of Alberta Ledcor Theatre 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq. Edmonton, AB T5J 2C1 January 28 (7:00-9:00 pm) The 2015 UN Climate Convention in Paris (COP21) was an unprecedented gathering of global political leaders, and it will determine the future of...