35.121, Calls: Communicating Climate Hope: Countering Eco-anxiety and Climate Doomism in Research and Practice

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Subject: 35.121, Calls: Communicating Climate Hope: Countering Eco-anxiety and Climate Doomism in Research and Practice

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Date: 09-Jan-2024
From: Elise Stickles [contact at climatehope2024.com]
Subject: Communicating Climate Hope: Countering Eco-anxiety and Climate Doomism in Research and Practice


Full Title: Communicating Climate Hope: Countering Eco-anxiety and
Climate Doomism in Research and Practice

Date: 15-Aug-2024 - 16-Aug-2024
Location: Vancouver, Canada; Tilburg, Netherlands, Canada
Contact Person: Elise Stickles
Meeting Email: contact at climatehope2024.com
Web Site: http://climatehope2024.com

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; Ling &
Literature; Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 08-Apr-2024

Meeting Description:

About the conference
As the impacts of the climate crisis rise, we are also seeing a rise
in eco-anxiety. Although experiencing such emotions may inspire some
to act, for many the result is doomism, and a resulting inability to
act. Therefore, the current Climate Hope event aims to explore the
vital role of effective communication in fostering hope and driving
positive action in the context of climate change.

The rise in eco-anxiety and doomism reflects a disconnect between
understanding the climate crisis and acting to affect positive change.
Communication plays a vital role in resolving this disconnect, aiming
to understand the ways in which people think and talk about the
problem, and to develop ways to promote beneficial framings and
narratives that can contribute to positive, collective change. We see
that academics across a range of disciplines are increasingly
interested in studying climate literacy, effective climate
communication, and positive coping mechanisms. However, for research
to be truly impactful, it must be applied to real-life issues. This
can be difficult for a simple reason – academics do not always talk to
people outside the academic world, even though they are probably
working on similar questions. Therefore, the current event aims to
bring together scholars, communication professionals, activists,
artists and change-makers in a two-day conference on the communication
of climate hope.

Venues
The Climate Hope conference has a “distributed-hybrid” design, which
means that it will be held in-person at two local hubs: one in Europe
(Tilburg University, the Netherlands), and one in North America
(University of British Columbia – Vancouver, Canada). This distributed
design allows for small group engagement and enables more sustainable
local travel. The hybrid design enables collaboration at-a-distance,
allowing real-time and asynchronous communication between hubs and
with remote participants. Participants can indicate in which location
they will attend the conference. At Tilburg the conference will be
located at Mindlabs and at UBC it will be at Green College.

Both local hubs will have a combination of plenary talks by invited
speakers; regular presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes for
discussion); and academic poster presentations combined with
non-academic exhibitions.

Potential topics of the conference may include, but are not limited
to:
* Building Climate Resilience through Communication
* Climate Art and Creativity
* Climate Hope and Resiliency in Literary Spaces
* Environmental Humanities
* Environmental Journalism
* Narratives and (Interactive) Storytelling
* Visual, Multimedia, and Multimodal Climate Messaging
* Climate Activism
* Science Communication and Public Understanding
* Climate Hope Campaigns and Initiatives
* Audience Characteristics and Inclusive Climate Communication
* Indigenous Perspectives on Climate Hope
* Social Media and Online Communities
* Psychology of Climate Doom, Eco-Anxiety, and Eco-Paralysis
* Linguistic Analysis of Climate Communication
* Ecolinguistics

Contact
General questions should be emailed to contact at climatehope2024.com.
Location-specific questions should be emailed to
tilburg at climatehope2024.com for Tilburg University or
ubc at climatehope2024.com for the University of British of Columbia.

Call for Papers:

Although we very much welcome participants from a wide range of
disciplines to the conference, we focus on the following disciplines
in this call for submissions: academics working on climate hope;
artists who produce art in this direction; and community-oriented
activists seeking to foster climate hope in the public sphere. We aim
to organize sessions where perspectives meet, to learn from each
other, and to find out how academia, art, and activism can strengthen
each other. As can be read below, the specific submission guidelines
are different for academics and artists/activists.

Submission Guidelines: Academic Contributions
Submissions for academic contributions should be an anonymized
abstract (maximum 500 words, not including references), submitted as a
PDF file. Interdisciplinary, multi-authored submissions are highly
welcomed. Submissions must be written in English, and the abstracts
will undergo a peer-review process. After acceptance, abstracts will
be published open access on the conference website.

Submission Guidelines: Artwork and Activism Contributions
Artists and activists/community organizers can contribute to the
Climate Hope conference in three ways:

1. Artists can exhibit one or more pieces of climate art in a session
mixed with academic poster presentations and organization exhibitions,
where participants in the conference walk by and discuss with the
artists about their work.
2. Activists can exhibit their organization’s work in a session mixed
with academic poster presentations and artwork exhibitions, where
participants in the conference walk by and discuss with the activists
about their organization’s work.
3. They can apply for a regular presentation, where they do not only
exhibit one or more pieces of art and/or organizing stories, but also
explain the background of this work; the messages it wants to convey;
how it fits into their complete body of work; what inspires them as an
artist/activist; how they see the role of art/activism in the climate
crisis; etc.

Submission Instructions: Artwork Contributions
We define climate art broadly to include not only artwork, but also
works in design, craft, and illustration. The binding principle is
that the work is created primarily to contribute to the climate
debate. Works may include, but are not limited to: drawings, design,
handcrafts, illustrations, computer graphics, film, paintings, prints,
sculptures, and textiles. The selections of artworks will be
determined by a panel of artists.

All submissions should be made electronically via email to the local
conference email address (tilburg at climatehope2024.com or
ubc at climatehope2024.com), along with information about the artists
name, contact details, the title of artwork (if any), and a clear
picture of the artwork. Images should be JPEG files with a dimension
of at least 1800 pixels and no more than 2400 pixels in the larger
direction, saved with maximum quality within these constraints. Should
a URL be more convenient for submission than an image, for example due
to the nature of the artwork, please provide this URL clearly in your
submission e-mail.

Submission Instructions: Activism Contributions
Activists/community organizations interested in participating should
contact the conference organizers directly at
tilburg at climatehope2024.com or ubc at climatehope2024.com by the
submission deadline to discuss how their work can be best incorporated
into the conference.



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