#  The Environment Forum with Sarah Dimick | Juvenilia of the Climate Movement 

 



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 **March 28, 2024** 

 12:00PM - 12:00PM EDT 

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 **Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133)**  



 

 



 

##  [THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM](/environment-forum)

##  SPEAKER: Sarah Dimick

 *Please note that this event is open to Harvard affiliates only and registration is required.*

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 Examining the Ugandan writer activist Vanessa Nakate’s *A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis* (2021) in relation to other books written by young climate activists—including Greta Thunberg’s *No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference* (2018) and Jamie Margolin’s *Youth To Power* (2020)—this paper analyzes the wave of nonfiction prose emerging from and galvanizing the youth climate movement. It pays careful attention to genre, noting how young adult writers are retooling the memoir in light of precarious environmental futures. It also asks what is revealed and obscured in theorizing these works as environmental juvenilia.

###  About the Speaker

 [Sarah Dimick](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/sarah-dimick) is a literary scholar working in the environmental humanities. Her work is located at the intersection of climate science and global Anglophone literatures of the 20th and 21st centuries. In her broader research and teaching, she engages environmental justice, postcolonial and feminist environmentalisms, animal studies, petroaesthetics, and theories of the environmental future. Her writing appears in *ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment, Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal,* and *Edge Effects,* among other venues.

 This event is co-sponsored by the [Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability](https://salatainstitute.harvard.edu/)

###  About the Series

 [The Environment Forum](/environment-forum) at the Mahindra Center is convened by [Robin Kelsey](https://haa.fas.harvard.edu/people/robin-kelsey), Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard University and [Sarah Dimick](https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/sarah-dimick), Assistant Professor of English, Harvard University.



 

 



 

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