Monday 19 – Tuesday 20 November
SYMPOSIUM
POLAR: FIELDWORK AND ARCHIVE FEVER
The British Library Conference Centre
An interdisciplinary symposium focusing on the curation and production of
climate
change knowledge and the polar regions. This will bring together
scientists, writers,
artists, historians and social scientists with interests in knowledge
about polar landscapes
and the broader implications of this knowledge for global climate and
society.
Keynote Speakers: Professor Denis Cosgrove, University of California, Los
Angeles,
editor of High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains and Ice (2008);
Professor Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, co-editor
of Narrating the Arctic (2002); and Professor Rachel Weiss, Art Institute
of Chicago, curator and author of Imagining Antarctica (1986).
For further information, see www.artscatalyst.org/polararchives.html.
To register, contact Kathryn Yusoff, University of Exeter.
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Price £25 (including refreshments)
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
A series of four public lectures at
the British Library will address the
broader cultural and policy-related
themes arising from the symposium
Wednesday 17 October
EVERYDAY DISASTERS
Discussant: Dr Nigel Clark, Geography, Open
University. Speakers include: Professor Bob Spicer, Earth
Sciences, Open University
(climateprediction.net).
Monday 5 November
CLIMATE CHANGE
& HUMAN RIGHTS
Discussant: Dr Michael Bravo,
Head of the Circumpolar History and Public Policy Research Group,
Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.
Speaker: Aqqaluk Lynge, President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC)
Greenland.
Monday 19th November
THE NEW ICONOGRAPHY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Discussant: Professor Denis Cosgrove,
University of California, Los Angeles.
Speakers: Dr Eric Wolff, Glacier Chemist, British Antarctic Survey,
Stephan Harrison, Associate Professor of Quaternary Science, University of
Exeter/
Senior Research Associate, Oxford University Centre for the Environment,
Director of Climate Change Risk Management, and Marko Peljhan, artist and
initiator of I-TASC (Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation),
Director, Projekt Atol.
Monday 26 November
GEOPOLITICS OF COLD
Discussant: Christine McGourty,
BBC polar correspondent.
Speakers: Professor Doreen Massey,
FRSA, FBA, Geography, Open University, author of For Space (2005), and
World City (2007), Winner of the Prix Vautrin Lud (the ‘Nobel de
Géographie’) in 1998.
Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway,
University of London, author of Geopolitics in a changing world (1999) and
Pink
Ice (2002).
All lectures: 18.30 – 20.00
The British Library Conference Centre
Price £6 (concessions £4)
Tickets can be purchased at the British Library box office
http://boxoffice.bl.uk
T +44 (0)1937 546546
In person at the Information Desk in the British Library.
Symposium and lectures organised by The Arts Catalyst, The British Library
and the Open University
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