Free | Held in English | Taking place online via Zoom. Click here to join

e for emergence invites you to join a reading group on ecocriticism and the narratives that shape our understanding of climate change, fossil fuels, and coloniality.

Together, we will explore texts at the intersection of science, sociology, politics and the arts—digging into the complex relationships between humans, the things we experience as nature, and the direct or indirect violence we inflict on ecosystems (including, by extension, each other).

The second reading session of e for emergence focuses on Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability (2025) by Callahan and Mankin, recently published in the renowned scientific journal Nature. In it the authors explore the path from climate science to courtroom justice, describing the method of end-to-end attribution—linking specific climate change related damages to the companies that produce the fossil fuels that are the root cause. 

Their findings reveal that the top five individual companies are found to be responsible for heat-related losses on the order of trillions of dollars. The text touches upon and gives rise to questions concerning climate liability: Who should be held responsible? Can economic calculations capture loss? Can transformative change be accomplished through the judicial system?

Artists Susanne M. Winterling and Rajat Mondal and climate scientist Kajsa Parding will facilitate the conversation, bringing perspectives on the possibilities, limits and implications of seeking climate justice through legal frameworks.

Download the text here.

e for emergence is a series of art and science dialogues convened by Anita Akbarzadeh Solbu and Susanne M. Winterling. It is held as part of PRAKSIS Hosts, a new initiative supporting artists and organisers seeking to create dialogue and build community.