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Autumn 2010 speaking schedule

Mike Hulme — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:01:19 +0000

I am giving a number of public/invited talks, lectures and panel debates this autumn, which seek to develop some of the themes of my book Why We Disagree About Climate Change and apply them to new questions emerging in science, policy and society.

Thursday 2 September, 6.45pm (RGS, London) - ‘Enquiring into the state of climate change knowledge: an assessment of IPCC assessments’. The annual Progress in Physical Geography lecture at the RGS-IBG annual conference.

Tuesday 7 September, 7.00pm (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) – ‘What does climate change mean to you?’ The Challenger Society Public Lecture.

Tuesday 14 September, 2.00pm (Aston University) – ‘Why we disagree about climate change’ Keynote lecture of the Sociology Section of the 2010 BA Festival.

Tuesday 28 September, 5.30pm (University of Cambridge) – ‘How do climate models gain and exercise authority?’ Opening public lecture for the CRASSH Conference ‘Challenging models in the face of uncertainty‘.

Friday 8 October, 7.30pm (Emmanuel United Reformed Church, Cambridge) – ‘Climate change – what does it demand of us?’ Public talk as part of the 2010 Earthed Theme.

Friday 5 November, 4.00pm (CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder) – ‘Why we disagree about climate change’ CIRES Distinguished Lecture Series.

Monday 22 November, 5.30pm (Department of Geography, Royal Holloway College, Egham) – ‘Climate change – what are we arguing about?’ The Annual Gordon Manley Lecture.

Tuesday 23 November, 6.00pm (The Wellcome Centre, Euston, London) – ‘Why we disagree about climate change’ The CIBSE Annual Lecture.

The experimental society

Mike Hulme — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:44:01 +0000

On 28 June 2010, I shall be part of a panel discussion, hosted by The Royal Society and the Science & Democracy Network, addressing the question: ‘The experimental society: what happens when evidence, uncertainty and politics collide?’ Places are still available.

Mike Hulme at the Hay Book Festival

Mike Hulme — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:36:07 +0000

I shall be speaking about my book ‘Why We Disagree About Climate Change’ at The 2010 Guardian Hay Festival on Monday 31 May 2010.

Why we disagree about climate change

Mike Hulme — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:56:30 +0000

I shall be presenting the argument of my book Why We Disagree About Climate at a seminar at Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, 75 George Street, Oxford, on Tuesday 24 November at 5pm.

Climate change: four myths, four meanings

Mike Hulme — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:46:32 +0000

I am speaking at the annual Danish Ethnography Conference ’In climate symbols’ on Friday 20 November at the University of Aarhus – ‘Why we disagree about climate change: four myths, four meanings’.

Debate at the Institue of Economic Affairs

Mike Hulme — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:02:37 +0000

I shall be debating the proposition ‘Do science and economics support government action on climate change?‘ with Michael Grubb, Lord Nigel Lawson and Fred Singer at the Insitute of Economic Affairs on Monday 23 November 2009. This event at the Insitute of Directors is now sold out.

Debating why we disagree about climate change

Mike Hulme — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:07:01 +0000

I shall be presenting the argument from my book Why We Disagree About Climate Change, and responding to audience questions at the Battle of Ideas Bookshop Barnie at 1.30pm on Saturday 31 October 2009, at the Royal College of Art, London.

Keynote Conference Talk

Mike Hulme — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:58:35 +0000

I shall be giving a keynote talk ‘Releasing climate change to speak with many voices’ at the forthcoming Global Dialogue 2009 Conference ”Responsiblity across borders? Climate change as challenge for intercultural inquiry on values” at Aarhus University, Denmark, 3-6 November, 2009