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Welcome to the conference page for the GREEN Conference, the 2020 meeting of Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, March 5-8 in Los Angeles.<\/h3>\n

If we want to understand where we are, and where we might be going, we have to figure out how we got here. What is the history of environmentalism and sustainability? The GREEN conference will gather an international host of experts in the history of sustainable cultures and environmentalism to explore what that history offers today, both to understand the sources of environmental degradation and the climate crisis, and to expose alternatives and roads not taken.<\/p>\n

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Setting the ambitious goal of a carbon-neutral conference, our innovative program incorporates carbon calculation and offsetting for attendees, as well as a “virtual stream” of conference papers presented from remote locations, and a simulcast of those papers, including livechat, for those who want to participate online.<\/p>\n

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It also features plenary talks by Kim Stanley Robinson, renowned science fiction author and futurist, and Pablo Mukherjee, a scholar of colonial environmentalism, as well as a plenary round table on sustainable research practices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Keynote Speakers<\/h3>\n

Plenary talks by Kim Stanley Robinson and Pablo Mukherjee<\/h1>\n

Kim Stanley Robinson<\/h2>\n

\"KSRsmall\"Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of more than a dozen climate and science fiction novels, and has received numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the World Fantasy Award. He has been described as “one of our last great Utopian writers,” a “political visionary,” and a “climate-obsessed sci-fi genius.” Before becoming a writer of fiction, he received a Ph.D. in English, under the direction of Frederic Jameson. He has given numerous lectures on the history of exploration, the problem of climate change and environmental degradation, and the importance of utopia to political thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Pablo Mukherjee<\/h2>\n

\"PabloProfessor Mukherjee’s areas of research include Victorian to contemporary imperial\/colonial and anti-imperial\/colonial cultures, Postcolonial theory and literatures, Crime Fiction, Travel Writing, Environmental\/Eco theory and literatures. Science Fiction, and Comparative and World Literary Systems. He is the\u00a0author of\u00a0Natural Disasters and Victorian Imperial Culture: Fevers and Famines,\u00a0Postcolonial Environments: Nature, Culture and Contemporary Indian Novel in English,<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Crime and Empire: Representing India in the Nineteenth-Century<\/em>. With his colleagues at the Warwick Research collective (WReC), he is editing a book called\u00a0Combined and Uneven Development: Towards a New Theory of World-Literature<\/em>. A small spin-off of this work has been a special issue of the\u00a0Yearbook of English Studies<\/em>\u00a0on ‘Victorian World Literatures’ that he guest-edited. And he is currently completing a book on the relationship between science policy and science fiction in postcolonial South Asia, and working with his WReC colleagues on a volume of\u00a0Keywords<\/em>\u00a0in World-Literary Studies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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