The UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) is hosting a virtual event “Stories of Fire” on March 1, 2021 from 7:00PM-8:30PM EST.
Join us for a talk about an interdisciplinary project exploring how narrative can bridge fire science and lived experience.
About this Event:
UCLA's Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS) invites you to a talk with Erin James and Jennifer Ladino (Department of English) and Teresa Cohn (College of Natural Resources) from the University of Idaho, where they will be discussing their interdisciplinary public project "Stories of Fire."
"Stories of Fire" explores the efficacy of using personal narratives of wildland fire to increase participation in informal STEM learning in rural Idaho. Bringing together a science communicator, a narratologist, a fire ecologist, and a specialist on emotions and public lands, “Stories of Fire” explores narrative as a means of integrating the deep emotion of lived experience with the fire science embedded in it to support a better understanding of wildfire in Idaho. The team's talk will discuss the project as a model for public collaboration between science, the humanities, and communities beyond the university.
This event will take place via Zoom on Monday, March 1st from 4-5:30pm. Please use the following information to access the Zoom meeting:
https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98457280231
Meeting ID: 984 5728 0231
Erin James, Jennifer Ladino, and Teresa Cohn are co-founders of the Confluence Lab, which incubates creative interdisciplinary research projects that bring together scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, and community members, to engage environmental issues in the state of Idaho. Erin James is Associate Professor in the University of Idaho's Department of English, where she teaches global literatures in English and critical theory. She is the author of The Storyworld Accord: Econarratology and Postcolonial Narratives (2015). A Professor of English, Jennifer Ladino teaches and works on American literature and the environment. Her most recent book is Memorials Matter: Affect and Environment at American Memory Sites (2019). Teresa Cohn is a Research Assistant Professor at the McCall Field Campus of UI's College of Natural Resources, where she researches science communication and education, the cultural geography of the American West, and water and hydrosocial relations with emphasis on Indigenous communities.