Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Sustainability and Culture

Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program The CRC aimed to develop an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability and culture investigating relations between environmental literature and environmental politics. The research emphasized writing as an analytical realm and research tool to explore environmental cultures and conflicts probing humanities' contribution to sustainability and role of literary activity in promoting and

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Green Words, Green Worlds: Environmental Literatures and Politics in Canada

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) A public forum, conference, and workshop sponsored by the Sustainable Writing Laboratory (SWL) held on October 21-23, 2011 in Toronto. The conference-workshop aimed to consider what politicizing the environmental aesthetic might mean in the context of public culture, politics, and the environmental imagination by Canadian writers and scholars

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