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SUMMARY:Petrocultures 2018: Energy Transition: Sites and Subjectivities
DESCRIPTION:A roundtable discussion moderated by Imre Szeman.
URL:https://www.justpowers.ca/event/energy-transition-sites-and-subjectivities-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20180830T013000
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SUMMARY:Petrocultures 2018: Conference Session 2A—Modalities of Transition
DESCRIPTION:Presentations include: \n\nMark Simpson\, Imre Szeman: On Energy Impasse: Cultural and Social Barriers to Energy Transition\nRhys Williams: Genre\, Energy and Community in the Transition\n\nLocation: Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre \nTickets:  \n(Conference rates apply). \n£220/£95 – Full Conference (Waged/Unwaged) \n£55/£30 – Day Rate (Waged/Unwaged)
URL:https://www.justpowers.ca/event/petrocultures-2018-modalities-of-transition/
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SUMMARY:Petrocultures 2018 Conference: Transition
DESCRIPTION:Petrocultures is an international\, multi-disciplinary conference on oil cultures and energy humanities\, motivated by the core notion that the humanities and social sciences have significant input to add to both knowledge of oil and energy\, and the irrevocable process of transformation. \nThe international field has grown rapidly since the inaugural Petrocultures conference in Edmonton\, Alberta\, Canada in 2012\, producing scholarly and creative work across numerous platforms\, disciplines\, genres\, and territories. While much work has been done to highlight the social and cultural significance of fossil fuels\, the ecological unfeasibility of high-carbon life urgently compels us to think\, imagine\, and realize a world ‘after oil’. The organizing theme of Petrocultures 2018 is Transition\, which may be culturally interpreted in a variety of ways. The conference will provide an important forum for examining and extending existent framings and sitings of oil and petroculture\, while also striving to consider the social\, cultural\, and aesthetic life of alternative forms of energy\, such as wind\, solar\, and hydro power.\n​\nThis is the first Petrocultures conference to be held outside North America. Scotland is an excellent location from which to contemplate the petrocultural and beyond. The country’s relationship with its offshore oil industry offers a rich backdrop for examining all the contradictions and controversies\, opportunities and challenges oil has presented to modern petroculture and the world-ecological condition it has fostered. As a relatively late site of oil and gas extraction\, Scotland has always been acutely perceptive of the inevitable ‘ends’ of oil. Much recent focus has been on the reality of decommissioning its petro-infrastructure\, and the social consequences of this event. Attempts to become a leading site of renewable energy have been accompanied by bold climate policy initiatives. Illuminating parallels can be drawn\, therefore\, between Scotland’s experience and that of other key oil-sites—from Ireland\, Canada and Norway to the Netherlands and the City of London—but also with emergent low-carbon initiatives seeking to install a culture of transition\, across the continent and the globe. Petrocultures 2018 will bring together scholars\, policy-makers\, industry employees\, artists\, and public advocacy groups from across Europe\, North America\, and beyond. \nTickets:\n£220/£95 – Full Conference (Waged/Unwaged)\n£55/£30 – Day Rate (Waged/Unwaged)
URL:https://www.justpowers.ca/event/petrocultures-2018-conference-transition/
LOCATION:University of Glasgow—Gilmorehill Campus\, University Avenue\, Glasgow\, G12 8QQ\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20180406T150000
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SUMMARY:Petrocultures Lecture with Rhys Williams
DESCRIPTION:“Generic Energetic: Contemporary Popular Genres as Tools for Transition.”\nThinking with the young genre of solarpunk\, this talk proposes a way to answer two large questions. Firstly\, how do the structures of popular contemporary genres – their traditions\, the narrative and symbolic strategies that they make available\, their meaning-making affordances – how do these shape our efforts to imagine alternative energy futures? And secondly\, how is the real-world crisis – the urgent need for transition – transforming these popular genres? \nBeginning with an argument for a historical and situated methodology that builds from John Rieder’s recent intervention into genre studies\, the talk considers the real-world communities of practice engaged with solarpunk\, and outlines the early process of accretion that gives rise to the genre. It then identifies and takes a deep dive into two elements of the generic tradition that shape and are shaped by solarpunk: Light\, and Magic\, and how these elements inform the kinds of alternative energy futures imagined within the genre. This work stands as a first effort in a larger project to understand the intersection of contemporary popular genres – SF\, Fantasy\, Utopia\, weird\, eerie\, what might be loosely termed the fantastical genres – as tools for meaning-making\, on the one hand\, and the urgent need for transition to a renewable future\, on the other. \nRhys Williams is a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow at Glasgow University. His research is focused on questions of genre\, energy\, environment\, and pedagogy\, in particular using the tools of contemporary genre to make meaningful and desirable alternative futures. He has published in Science Fiction Studies and Paradoxa\, and is the editor of Paradoxa 26: SF Now.
URL:https://www.justpowers.ca/event/petrocultures-lecture-with-rhys-williams/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch of Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale
DESCRIPTION:Hot off the press from MIT this month.\nPlease join us for the launch of this book on the Alberta Oil Sands\, by authors Matt Hern and Am Johal\, illustrated by the internationally recognized cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco. \nAuthor Matt Hern will be at the University of Alberta to give a presentation on this recently released book. Following that\, four respondents will give short provocations on their reactions to the book. We will then open up the floor\, for a larger conversation with the audience. Everyone is welcome. \nSome coffee and snacks will be available. \n  \nDr. Matt Hern:\nMatt Hern is a community organizer from East Vancouver\, BC ( səlil’wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)\, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territory. He is the co-director of Stay Solid Industries\, teaches at several universities and lectures widely. He is the author of many books\, including What a City is For: Remaking the Politics of Displacement (MIT\, 2016) and Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life (MIT\, 2018). \nRespondents:\nDr. Angele Alook is proud member of Bigstone Cree Nation\, an Indigenous labour researcher for the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE)\, Staff Advisor on the Environmental Committee for AUPE\, and steering-committee member for the Indigenous Labour History Project for ALHI (Alberta Labour History Institute). Dr. Alook also brings Indigenous and feminist perspectives and research methods to several Canada Tri-Council-funded initiatives concerned with climate and energy justice\, including the Corporate Mapping Project and Just Powers. \nAriel Kroon is a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta\, studying Canadian post-apocalyptic science fiction published between 1948 and 1989. She analyzes the imagination of crisis and disaster from an ecological standpoint and is in the process of evaluating these texts as the grounds of an alternate imaginary\, one inflected by authors’ struggles with gendered identity\, colonial rule\, environmental consciousness\, cultural continuance\, and the ever-present threat of a nuclear apocalypse despite not belonging to a major world power. She holds a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and has published both scholarly work and poetry. \nDr. Rhys Williams is a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow at Glasgow University. His research is focused on questions of genre\, energy\, environment\, and pedagogy\, in particular using the tools of contemporary genre to make meaningful and desirable alternative futures. He has published in Science Fiction Studies and Paradoxa\, and is the editor of Paradoxa 26: SF Now. \nFor more information on this book follow this link.
URL:https://www.justpowers.ca/event/book-launch-of-global-warming-and-the-sweetness-of-life/
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SUMMARY:Art :: Climate :: Energy :: Activism
DESCRIPTION:ARTISTS AND SCIENTISTS MERGING TOGETHER IN ONE EVENING\nThe University of Alberta is hosting a Leonardo Art\, Science\, Evening Rendezvous (LASER) event. For more information about this event and LASERAlberta\, click here. \nThis event will feature three globally renowned artists\, designers\, and scientists to cross-pollinate their research and creativity by presenting their own work. The theme of this LASERAlberta is art\, climate\, energy and activism. The panel will speak 6 PM to 7.30PM on April 3rd in the Telus International Centre\, room 150.\n  \nArt :: Climate :: Energy :: Activism\nThis LASERAlberta panel brings together the three lead researchers of Just Powers\, a research initiative addressing the impact and importance of decolonial feminist theory\, and practice for thinking through alternatives to petrocapitalism. In addition to giving an overview of the Just Powers project\, Co-Investigators Loveless\, Mookerjea\, and Principal Investigator Wilson\, will discuss Speculative Energy Futures\, a sub-project of Just Powers that brings together a carefully chosen group of artistic and humanities researchers with science\, social science and policy experts to investigate the challenges of energy transition. \nTogether participants will produce a research-based art exhibition as well as a series of publications\, bringing attention to the importance of arts and humanities perspectives on the social and cultural impacts of energy transition informed by the latest research emerging from the IPCC and Future Energy Systems. Just as our current society – this petroculture that we live in – has been shaped by oil\, so too will our futures be shaped around new energy systems and the networks of power that develop around them. Organized around the central idea of the Just Powers research network\, this panel proposes energy transition as one of the most pressing intersectional feminist issues of our time. \nDr. Natalie S. Loveless is a conceptual artist\, curator\, and assistant professor of contemporary art history and theory in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta\, where she also directs the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory. She is co-lead of Speculative Energy Futures\, a multi-year project that is part of the Just Powers initiative led by Dr. Sheena Wilson and funded by the Future Energy Systems CFREF\, the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) and a SSHRC Insight grant. Her book\, How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation\, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. \nDr. Sourayan Mookerjea is director of the Intermedia Research Studio in the Department of Sociology (University of Alberta)\, where he specializes in decolonizing social theory\, critical globalization studies\, and intermedia research. His current projects include SSHRC funded research on The Commons and the Convergence of Crises\, Toxic Media Ecologies: Critical Responses to the Cultural Politics of Planetary Crises and is co-director of Feminist Energy Futures and iDoc@Just Powers. He is a founding member of RePublicU\, a critical university studies project\, and of the Arts and the Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory. \nDr. Sheena Wilson is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta\, co-director of the international Petrocultures Research Group\, and research-lead on Just Powers\, an interdisciplinary and community-engaged initiative focused on climate justice organized around socially just energy transition for all. Funded by a Tri-Council SSHRC grant and the Future Energy Systems’ Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF)\, the research initiatives ongoing under Just Powers include\, amongst others\, Feminist Energy Futures: Power Shift and Environmental Social Justice; 2) Speculative Energy Futures 3) iDoc and 4) Bigstone Cree: A Vision for the Future. Dr. Wilson’s monograph in process is titled Deep Energy Literacy: Toward Just Futures. \nLASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks is Leonardo’s international program of evening gatherings that bring artists and scientists together for informal presentations and conversations. LASER Talks were founded in 2008 by Bay Area LASER Chair Piero Scaruffi and are in over 25 cities around the world. To learn more about how our LASER Hosts and to visit a LASER near you please visit our website. (leonardo.info/lasert-talks) \nThe mission of the LASERs is to provide the general public with a snapshot of the cultural environment of a region and to foster interdisciplinary networking. \nAbout Leonardo/ISAST\nLeonardo/The International Society for the Arts\, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST) is a nonprofit organization that serves the global network of distinguished scholars\, artists\, scientists\, researchers and thinkers through our programs focused on interdisciplinary work\, creative output and innovation. From its beginnings\, Leonardo/ISAST has served as THE virtual community for purposes of networking\, resource-sharing\, best practices\, research and events in Art/Science/Technology. \nSOCIAL MEDIA: #LASERTalks\, #LASERAlberta\nFacebook.com/LeonardoISAST : Twitter.com/LeonardoISAST : Instagram.com/LeonardoISAST
URL:https://www.justpowers.ca/event/art-climate-energy-activism/
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SUMMARY:Future Energy Systems Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Just Powers team is involved in the 2018 Future Energy Systems Symposium. The event includes a full day of student presentations showcasing the research underway​ in the almost 50 projects of Future Energy Systems. Presentations will begin at 8:30 a.m. and conclude with a reception and poster viewing session at 5:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend the presentations\, the reception and poster session\, or the entire day. The free\, public event will be held on the University of Alberta North Campus\, but space may be limited so please RSVP if you plan to attend. \n8th floor\, Donadeo Innovation Centre for Engineering \nUniversity of Alberta\, North Campus​
URL:https://www.justpowers.ca/event/future-energy-systems-symposium/
LOCATION:The Metadata Maze
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SUMMARY:Just Powers Annual Team Meeting
DESCRIPTION:​Just Powers Annual Team Meeting: March 8-9\, 2018 \nFollowing the official launch of the Just Powers initiative on March 6th\, 2018 on the Change for Climate Stage at the IPCC Cities and Climate Change Conference\, the entire Just Powers team will come together from across Canada for the first time. This meeting will include co-applicants and collaborators engaged in various aspects of projects occurring under Just Powers\, including Feminist Energy Futures: Power Shift and Environmental Social Justice\, iDoc\, Speculative Energy Futures\, and more. \nSpeculative Energy Futures First Annual Team Meeting: March 8-11\, 2018 \nThis March 2018 meeting also marks the first annual gathering for Speculative Energy Futures\, which brings together the artists\, activists\, policy makers\, and academics. This team will work together over the next several years on an aesthetic and interdisciplinary response to the social and cultural impacts of energy transition. Together\, participants will produce a large-scale\, evidence-based exhibition as well as a series of publications\, bringing attention to the importance of arts and humanities perspectives\, informed by the latest cutting edge research coming out of Just Powers\, the IPCC\, and Future Energy Systems. Speculative Energy Futures will officially launch on March 1st\, 2018 (5:30-7:00)\, when Natalie Loveless and Sheena Wilson speak with other brilliant climate justice scholars and artists at the Alberta Gallery of Art on the evening panel The Power of Art to Influence Social Change.
URL:https://www.justpowers.ca/event/just-powers-and-speculative-energy-futures-annual-team-meeting/
LOCATION:The Metadata Maze
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20180306T160000
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SUMMARY:Change for Climate Community Series
DESCRIPTION:This moderated conversation explores “climate justice\,” with a focus on just energy transition\, as understood by environmental social justice activists\, anti-poverty activists\, decolonial climate activists\, alternative media and community arts activists\, writers\, and scientists. \nEPCOR Stage – Hall A \nShaw Conference Centre
URL:https://www.justpowers.ca/event/change-for-climate-community-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20180305T130000
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SUMMARY:iDoc workshop: speculating on future energy systems
DESCRIPTION:The iDoc workshop at IPCC will showcase the knowledge of scientists\, cities\, activists\, policymakers\, and citizens by probing possible energy systems futures and technologies envisioned by Future Energy Systems (FES) teams. The intermedia documentary process began just six months ago and is already generating multidisciplinary discussion. iDoc research mobilizes an updated social science methodology known as the Fogo Process\, first used by the National Film Board. The Fogo method reciprocally shares recorded discussions among relevant community members\, policy-makers\, and researchers to move towards resolution of seemingly intractable problems. \nSalon 8 \nShaw Conference Centre
URL:https://www.justpowers.ca/event/idoc-workshop-speculating-on-future-energy-systems/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20180301T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20180301T190000
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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion – The Power of Art to Influence Social Change
DESCRIPTION:This panel on Art and Environmentalism is a joint initiative of the Art Gallery of Alberta and the University of Alberta’s Change for Climate: Art for Change project. Joan Greer will introduce and moderate the discussion which will feature presentations by artists and scholars Brittney Bear Hat\, Debra Davidson\, Natalie S. Loveless\, Peter von Tiesenhausen and Sheena Wilson\, followed by discussion. The panel is held in conjunction with Peter von Tiesenhausen’s AGA exhibition\, Songs for Pythagoras\, in which the landscape of Alberta features as a primary source of inspiration\, with sustainability being a longstanding and integral concern in his work. Von Tiesenhausen along with the other panellists will explore the power of art to influence social change in society\, with a focus on its power to influence climate action.
URL:https://www.justpowers.ca/event/panel-discussion-the-power-of-art-to-influence-social-change/
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