Book Club

Thank you for your interest in Re.Climate’s Book Club! The most-recent schedule and readings can be found on this page.

Schedule

Preparation for each Book Club session:

1. Please select one passage (it could be a sentence or a phrase or even a word) that goes to the heart of the reading for you.
2. Please formulate one question related to the reading.

You don’t need to send the passages or questions ahead of time, just have them ready to reference during the discussion if needed. We may not cover everything, but they’ll help guide the conversation.

Note: Each session will be held via Zoom and will be conducted in English. A calendar link and the reading(s) will be shared by email 2 weeks beforehand. The schedule for Session 4 and beyond is TBD. Readings are shared with permission from the rights holders.

Book Club Host

Barbara Leckie is a professor in the Department of English and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. Most of her work over the last decade focuses on the role of narratives, images and rhetoric in advancing climate action, including Climate Change, Interrupted: Representation and the Remaking of Time (Stanford UP, 2022) and the co-created 6-episode podcast Commons Sense: Reclaiming Common Sense for a Livable Future on the commons, climate change and public conversation. She’s a founding member of the Carleton Climate Commons, an interdisciplinary working group comprised of students, faculty and administrators at Carleton that focuses on the climate crisis through social science and humanities’ perspectives; and co-academic director of Re.Climate, Canada’s centre for training, research and strategy on climate change communication and engagement at Carleton University.