35.122, Confs: Communicating Climate Hope: Countering Eco-anxiety and Climate Doomism in Research and Practice

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Subject: 35.122, Confs: 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


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: Elise Stickles
Contact Email: contact at climatehope2024.com
Meeting URL: http://climatehope2024.com

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

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.

Invited Speakers: University of British Columbia
* Teenie Matlock, University of California Merced, USA
* Naoko Ellis and Derek Gladwin, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada
* Ashley Fairbanks, Creative Director, 100% Campaign, Minnesota, USA

Invited Speakers: Tilburg University
* Noëlle Aarts, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
* Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
*Jenny Pickerill, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom



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