Anthropology and climate functions 2016.

The cultural functions of climate

I delivered the keynote lecture to the Royal Anthropological Institute’s international conference on Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change, held at the British Museum in May 2016.  You can listen to the lecture here and view the accompanying slides here....

Climate change: one, or many?

(8 April)  “Climate Change: One, or Many?”  On Tuesday 8 April I gave a talk in the opening Presidential Session of the Association of American Geographers Conference in Tampa, Florida.  The slides from the talk are available here.

‘Can the climate system be managed by humans?’

(1 November)  My public lecture at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo on Thursday 24 October 2013, ‘The public life of climate change; the first 25 years’, has been blogged about here by Erin Baxter of CIGI … “Whether climate can be managed by humans is the question that set the scene for […]

Writing and climate change

(26 February)  I will be speaking alongside authors, poets and playwrights at the UEA Centre for Writing and Science’s day event on Saturday 25 May at the University of East Anglia: “Writing and climate change: the story so far … how do writers and scientists communicate the controversies of climate change?  Register here.