Tag Archives: climate change

Call for Papers – Climate Change, Sustainability and an Ethics of an Open Future

Societas Ethica, the European Society for Research in Ethics, in cooperation with the ESF (European Science Foundation) network A Right to a Green Future is calling for papers for their Annual Conference, this year held in Soesterberg, Netherlands on August 22-25, 2013. It will be the 50th Societas Ethica conference.

Nigerian theatre mixes oil and climate, on the ground

Wallace Heim writes: “The Nigerian playwright and academic Greg Mbajiorgu got in touch with us after reading Robert Butler’s blogs on Ashdenizen on the difficulties of writing plays about climate change. Greg sent us his play, Wake Up Everyone, which has a preface quoting from this blog. Wake Up Everyone began as a commission by [...]

A Climate Change in the Art World?

An interesting article on www.artnews.com, written by Robin Cembalast, gives insight about the impact of Hurricane Sandy on the art community in New York and shows that Sandy could have been the wake-up call for the community to realize that action against climate change is required on their part. Barry Bergdoll, MoMA’s Chief Curator of [...]

Art installation (removal) leads to controversy at Wyoming University

British environmental artist Chris Drury´s art installation Carbon Sink: What Goes Around Comes Around created back in July 2011 on the Wyoming university campus, was originally intended to inspire a conversation about a prevalent environmental problem in the region. Global warming has, so scientists say, led to less pine beetles dying off by below zero [...]

Call for Papers: Media and Climate Change

Papers are welcomed for a special issue of the journal Environmental Communication: A Journal of Culture and Nature (Official Journal of IECA) to be published in March 2014 on the topic of Media Research on Climate Change. Acknowledging the vast amount of academic research done over the past decade on the media coverage of climate [...]

Drawing the line

As reported in The New Yorker,  eco-artist Eve Mosher was more or less forcefully reminded of one of her older projects by the more recent catastrophic event, Hurricane Sandy. Back in 2007 over the course of six months, she drew a line of chalk through Brooklyn representing 10 feet above see level. Comparing the results [...]

The Psychology of Climate

A broader view on the connection between the climate – the very air we breathe – and psychology On the 28th September 2012, a seminar on The Psychology of Climate took place in Oslo, organized by BI Norwegian Business School. Some presentations were recorded and are now available on Youtube.

Event: Screening of ARTPORT_COOL STORIES III

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 – Claustro Renacentista + Aula Capitular, Centro del Carmen, Calle Museo 2, 46003 Valencia, Spain ARTPORT_making waves presents the 19 finalists and the winner of the third edition of animation and short videos about climate change, COOL STORIES FOR WHEN THE PLANET GETS HOT III followed by a panel “The contemporary [...]

Alternative Conference for the Rio Summit

Taking place on June 16th and 17th, 2012 in London, UK.  At the central London Universities – SOAS, the Institute of Education (IOE) and University College London (UCL). Organised by the Campaign against Climate Change with the School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Department for Development Studies. Opening plenary in IOE, Thornhaugh Street off [...]

A Call for Youth to Attend the International Climate Negotiations

SustainUS is accepting applications to go to the United Nations climate negotiations in Doha, Qatar. All youth 18-26 are eligible to apply to attend as a youth delegate  in Doha, Qatar from November 26 to December 7, 2012. Before the conference youth train other youth to be adept at understanding international climate policy, lobbying, communicating [...]

Call for papers for Nordic Summer University summer session 2012 – kreds 2

Learning from the future – towards cultures of sustainability This year’s summer session of the Nordic Summer University will take place on July 28th – August 2nd, in Denmark, at Brandtbjerg Højskole near Vejle. The NSU is organized in “study/reflection circles”, working with a theme for 3 years. This is the last session of circle/kreds [...]

Peninsula Europe: The Force Majeure

Workshop, Presentation and Panel Discussion with Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison (Santa Cruz, CA) – Friday 01/06/2012, 2 pm – 7.30 pm in Lueneburg, Germany Workshop: 2 – 5 pm – Please register: info(at)kim-art.net Presentation and Panel Discussion: 6 pm s.t.  Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lueneburg – Scharnhorststrasse 1, Campus Hall 25, 21335 [...]

Key Issues Guide on Indigenous knowledge and climate change

Indigenous communities have long been recognised as being particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to the close connection between their livelihoods, culture, spirituality and social systems and their environment. At the same time, however, this deep and long-established relationship with the natural environment affords many indigenous peoples with knowledge that they have [...]

The Cultural History of Climate Change

Call for papers Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 27 – 28 August, 2012 Historians since Herodotus have argued that climates shape cultures. We can no longer ignore the fact that cultures also shape climates. Today’s climate is increasingly a material effect of the history of industrialisation. The climate of the coming centuries will be [...]

Partnering for the Climate: An Artist/Scientist Mixer

New York, The Noguchi Museum Sunday, February 12, 2012, 3 pm In times of climate change and global warming individuals as well as communities are confronted with fragmented, confusing and often overwhelming news and data about these themes. In order to make sense of these facts the largely disconnected linking between art, research and the [...]