Activist Arts: Climate Change and the Humanities
ARTHUM 2200E
Dr. Kate Stanley
Can art and literature help us confront the urgent reality of climate change? What function might the humanities classroom serve when the terms of human life seem increasingly precarious? Can aesthetic responses to ecological emergency inspire and sustain impactful climate action? These are some of the questions that will guide our exploration of climate arts and activism. This course will survey a variety of artists and authors who frame their creative work in activist terms, variously testing the possibility that art can provoke dynamic responses to the climate crisis. Alongside our readings, we will devise “climate action projects” that undertake individual daily practices towards climate change mitigation and/or adaptation. Through critical and creative assignments, we will explore how our projects and our study of activist aesthetics inflect one another, anchoring renewed climate response in everyday life.
Poetry Collection
Midori Anderson
Dialogues
Jaya Sinha
Eating with Essex
Steph Katchabaw
Jadyn Smith
Heather Stanley
Isabelle Fox
Giselle D'Anna
DISCOVER
The Plant Journal
Climate Action Project
Havana Laskowski
Clay Meerkamper
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with Julian Coleman-Hilke, Samin Joulaie, Iris Kwan, Monika Lee, Aara Suksi, Tanner Layton, and Joel Faflak