The British Library, the Open University and the Arts Catalyst, present:
POLAR
The Art & Science of Climate Change
Public talks season & interdisciplinary symposium
SYMPOSIUM POLAR: Fieldwork & Archive Fever Monday 19 & Tuesday 20 November
2007 British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, 96 Euston Road, London
NW1 Polar: Fieldwork and Archive Fever is an interdisciplinary symposium
focusing on the curation and production of climate change knowledge in the
polar regions. It brings together scientists, writers, artists, historians
and social scientists with interests in knowledge about the polar landscape
and its broader implications for global climate and society.
10.00 - 17.00 each day
The British Library Conference Centre
Price £25 (including refreshments)
For further information contact Kathryn Yusoff ([log in to unmask] )
http://www.artscatalyst.org/polararchives.html Tickets can be purchased at
the British Library box office T +44 (0) 1937 546546 or in person at the
Information Desk in the British Library
PUBLIC TALKS
POLAR: The Art & Science of Climate Change
Public lectures at the British Library.
Wednesday 17 October EVERYDAY DISASTERS Discussant: Dr Nigel Clark,
Geography, Open University. Speakers include: Professor Bob Spicer, Earth
Sciences, Open University ( climateprediction.net
<http://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 (Libraries of
ice) 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 <http://boxoffice.bl.uk/> T +44 (0) 1937 546546 or
in person at the Information Desk in the British Library
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