| 13 May 2024 | 13:30 - 16:45 | SG1 & SG2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP | |
- Description
- Programme
- Speaker biographies
Description
Convenors
- Alice Lawrence (University of Cambridge)
- Albert Van Wijngaarden (University of Cambridge)
Speakers
- Daniela Fernandez Catherall (Cambridge Climate Therapists)
- Mike Hulme (Professor of Human Geography, University of Cambridge)
- Judy Ling Wong (Black Environmental Network)
- Joycelyn Longdon (PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge and Founder of ClimateInColour)
- Amy Munro-Faure (Head of Education and Student Engagement at Cambridge Zero)
- Aaron Thierry (Postgraduate Researcher, Cardiff University)
- Isobel Urquhart (Cambridge Climate Therapists)
- Dani from the Artivist Network
Summary
The science is clear: climate change and biodiversity loss are happening. Although there are obvious mitigation actions that can be taken, global strategies and policies are lagging far behind what is needed to keep a rise in the Earth’s temperatures below 1.5 or even 2.0 degrees and conserve the diversity and abundance of life on this planet.
Does this discrepancy between scientific findings and the lack of climate and biodiversity action mean that science and scientists may, or even should, engage in climate and biodiversity activism? And, if so, what would this mean for the traditional conceptions of science as value-free and objective?
In our half-day event, open to academics, students and members of the public, we will explore these and other questions.
If you have specific accessibility needs for this event please get in touch. We will do our best to accommodate any requests.
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Programme
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Panel discussion and Q & A:
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| 14:30 - 15:00 | Tea and coffee break Speakers Corner: |
| 15:00 - 16:15 | Workshop 1 ‘Coping with the climate crisis’ Daniela Fernandez Catherall and Isobel Urquhart of Cambridge Climate Therapists. This experiential workshop will explore the anxiety, distress and despair many people feel when confronted with the climate crisis. We will offer some frameworks for understanding and moving through the painful feelings, an opportunity to share your own experiences and guidance on the best ways to cope. Spaces are limited so please register (£3 fee to help cover the cost of the workshop) |
| 15:00 - 16:15 | Workshop 2: ‘Creativity in activism’ Dani from the Artivist Network In this workshop learn how arts, artists and culture can support organizers and movements in creating systemic change through the innovation, exchange, and dissemination of new forms of political intervention and make your own artivist work in the form of a flag to take home with you. Spaces are limited so please register (£3 fee to help cover the cost of the workshop) |
| 16:15 - 16:25 | Break |
| 16:25 - 16:45 | Reflections and closing remarks
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Speaker biographies
Daniela Fernandez Catherall is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist (BPS), member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, and co-author of Living with the Climate Crisis. She has worked in Adult Mental Health in the NHS for the past 20 years and since 2019 she uses her spare time to support local community, activists, scientists, and organisations with their feelings related to the Climate Crisis and Biodiversity Loss.
Isobel Urquhart is a psychotherapist and a lifelong Socialist. The emancipatory potential of progressive ideas was central to both her early work as a classroom teacher in predominantly working-class areas and in her later work as a teacher-trainer in the Faculty of Education at Cambridge. She sees psychotherapy offers a potentially emancipatory space which can offer different ways of engaging with climate activism using dialogue and reflection.
