With an eye to this year’s upcoming COP26 in Glasgow, the Warwick Environmental Humanities Network, with CRPLA, will be running a two-session reading group on Kim Stanley Robinson’s recent clifi novel The Ministry for the Future (Orbit 2020). 

Monday, June 21, 2-3.30 pm: With a focus on speculative fiction and climate breakdown

Monday, June 28, 2-3.30 pm: With a focus on climate activism, geo-engineering and global governance

Open to Environmental Humanities Network members and interested colleagues from across the university. Each session will feature prepared remarks by an academic from the EHN. The novel is available in hard copy via your local independent bookshop; an Epub copy is available as well. A review by Gerry Canavan in the Los Angeles Review of Books can be accessed here.

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