Application
deadline: 10 January 2012
This
cross-disciplinary conference will explore intersections between culture,
politics, and science in order to enhance our understanding of public policy
addressing climate change. The conference will interrogate the many obstacles
and opportunities confronting U.S. climate policymakers and scientists.
Presenters will be asked to broadly consider how climate change is communicated
and how these processes intersect with ongoing cultural and political issues.
While we will focus on climate change, authors are encouraged to draw lessons
that can be applied to a variety of environmental contexts. Comparative papers
and panels that explore similarities and differences between culture, politics,
and climate policy in the U.S. and other countries are encouraged.
Discussions
about climate change, policy, and science arise in a variety of cultural
settings. Questions of how and whether to address climate change on a national
and global scale are significant parts of political and cultural discourse. How
policy is made, the role of state and non-state actors, the communication of
science and values, and how meaning is derived from our shared culture are all
questions that directly influence policy outcomes. In the context of U.S.
national elections and ongoing international climate negotiations, these
considerations are especially relevant. This conference will address these
questions in the context of the 2012 elections, the COP-18 climate talks, and
other cultural developments.
Keynote
speakers will include: Raymond Bradley, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mike Hulme, University of East Anglia, UK Wendy Parker, Ohio University Spencer
Weart, Center for History of Physics
Papers
and panels on climate change may address, but should not be limited to
questions about: ●
Communication of science ● Media and
environmental policy ● Social
movements/activism ● Political
communication of climate change ● Mediated
representation ● Non-state
actors in climate politics and communication ●
Journalism studies ● Visual
culture ● Consumer culture studies ● Spiritualities of globalization ● Religions and the environment ● Documentary/feature film
Culture,
Politics, and Climate Change is a conference of the Center for Environmental
Journalism at the University of Colorado Boulder.
For
more information, contact:
Deserai
A. Crow, Associate Director, Center for Environmental Journalism
deserai.crow@colorado.edu
This
conference is co-sponsored by the Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Journalism and Mass Communication at the
University of Colorado Boulder, Advertising a2b, The Committee on the History
and Philosophy of Science, the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
(INSTAAR), and the CU Environmental Center.
Cheers,
Max -- Assistant Professor, CIRES Center for Science & Technology Policy
University of Colorado-Boulder ~~ http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/boykoff/
twitter: @boykoff
Senior
Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute University of
Oxford ~~ http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/people/boykoffmax.php
just
released: 'Who Speaks for the Climate?' Cambridge Univ Press www.cambridge.org/boykoff
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