Representing Climate Change: Ecology, Media and the Arts
Wednesday, 15 October 2008 to Friday, 17 October 2008
Location: Clare Hall and CRASSH

Representing Climate Change:Ecology, Media and the Arts Provisional Programme

Location : Clare Hall and CRASSH                       Date : 15-17 October 2008



Wednesday 15 October

Main Site, Clare Hall

 

5.00-6.00

Main Site, Clare Hall, Herschel Road 

Photography Exhibition View


6.00-7.15

Richard Eden Room, West Court, Clare Hall 

Photography Exhibition Panel Discussion

Emma Dummett (University of Edinburgh)
Chris Steele-Perkins (Magnum Photos)
Diana Korchien (Flipside Vision)

 


Thursday 16 October

CRASSH


9.30-10.00

Registration and Coffee

10.00-10.30

Welcome and Introduction
Benjamin Morris and Bradon Smith

10.30-12.00

Session 1: Arctic Visions
Moderator: Melanie Challenger (UCL)

The ‘poster boys’ of climate change: examining the role of polar bears as climate icons
Saffron O’Neill (Tyndall Centre/UEA)

Imagining Zero: Art, Science, and Climate
Jennifer Gabrys and Kathryn Yusoff (Weather Permitting)

Sea Ice Mapping: Ontology, Mechanics, and Human Rights at the Ice Floe Edge
Michael Bravo (University of Cambridge)
 

12.00-1.00 

Lunch 

1-2.30

Session 2:Artistic Visions
Moderator: Ruth Abbott (University of Cambridge) 

Bridging Data and Experience: Colures and Complications
Jill Coffin (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Gabriela Semeco (Delft University of Technology)

Landscape Painting
Katherine Cooper (University of Cambridge) 

Powerhouse: A Case of Visual Ecopoetics?
Bettina Furnee (Artist in Residence, Kettle’s Yard, www.ifever.org.uk)

Being Provisional
Renata Tyszczuk (University of Sheffield)

 
 

 

2.30-3.00 

Coffee/tea

3.00-4.15

Session 3: Ecopoetics
Moderator: Benjamin Morris (University of Cambridge)

The Cow of Dogtown & the Biocentric Imagination
Michael Hrebeniak (University of Cambridge)

"The Web of  our Noticing": Forms of Attention in Contemporary Nature Poetry
Abbie Garrington (University of Edinburgh)

 

.4.15-4.30 

Short Break 

4.30-5.30 

Session 3: Ecopoetics (Continued)

Tailor, Tinkerer, Scientist, Poet
Caspar Henderson (Journalist)

Plenary Discussion

5.30-6.30 

Wine Reception 

 

Friday 17 October

CRASSH

 

9.30 - 11.00

Session 4: Who Knows What
Moderator:Tom Bailey (University of Cambridge)

Life Beyond Collapse: The Art of Futures-Making
David Haley (Manchester Metropolitan University)

The Calendar of Climate Change: Deep Ecology and a New Vision
Diana Korchien (Flipside Vision)

Designing a Visual Climate for Change
Louise Moana Kolff (University of New South Wales)


11.00-11.30

Tea/coffee break


11.30-1.00

Session 5: Representations, Then and Now
Moderator: David Wrathall (King's College, London)

From Michael Jordan to Melting Glaciers: The Role of Digital Technologies in Imaging Climate Change
Dornith Doherty (University of North Texas)

Interdependence Day: Acknowledging the Political and Cultural Work that Results from 'knowing about climate change'
J
oe Smith (University of Cambridge)

Documenting Sustainable and Unsustainable Development in Rajasthan and Jharkhand
Jennifer Wallace (University of Cambridge)
Robert Wallis (Panos Pictures) 

1.00 - 2.00

Lunch 

2.00-3.30

Session 6: Anglo/American Dialogues on Arts and Ecology

Edward Morris (The Canary Project & Harvard University)
Michaela Crimmin (RSA Arts and Ecology)

3.30-4.00

Tea/coffee break 

4.00-5.30

Keynote Dialogue
Moderator:Terry Barker (University of Cambridge/4CMR)


Oliver Tickell (openDemocracy.net, architect of Kyoto 2)

5.30 

Thanks, Acknowledgements, and Close