The Carleton Climate Commons Working Group brings together faculty, staff, undergraduate and graduate students at Carleton University to discuss climate change issues in relation to the humanities and social sciences, to share academic work, and to share ideas and articles.
The university has long been the place our society carves out for addressing issues of vital importance to all of society. Climate change is one of those issues. And yet in our increasingly specialized world, the solution to climate change is often perceived to come from science or government or some combination of the two. We think the humanities and social sciences have a role to play here too. The Working Group is a forum for exploring what that role might be.
Each year we organize a series of events including:
Reading groups
Documentary film series
Invited Speakers
Climate Actions (from pipeline protests to fossil-fuel divestment)
Social get togethers
Each week we run a weekly Teach-In series called Noons for Now. Past topics have included:
Climate Grief with Jennifer Baker (Sierra Club Canada) and Anne Raine (Ottawa U)
Climate Storytelling with Nadia Bozak (Carleton U) and Catherine Bush (U of Guelph)
Repair and Climate Change with Laura Hall (Carleton U) and Alexis Shotwell (Carleton U)
Community-Engaged Climate Scholarship with Meera Karunananthan (Carleton U)
Citation Politics with Christina Crespo (CLEAR Lab, Memorial University)
We also organize and support climate action on campus and in the Ottawa community
Interested to learn more? Please go to our website