(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 […]
Talks
Climate change and the art of memory
(19 August) I shall be joining novelist Maggie Gee, eco-critic Greg Garrard and philosopher Claire Colebrook to discuss ‘Climate change and the art of memory’ at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, 7pm on Wednesday 9 October.
Climate change and virtue: an apologetic
(13 May) ‘Climate change and virtue: an apologetic’. The transcript for my Annual Relgious Studies Lecture at Queen’s University Belfast, 1 May 2013, can be found here.
‘A safe operating space for humanity’: do people’s beliefs need to change?
(24 April) You can view the video here of the talk I gave at the launch of the York Environmental Sustainability Institute, 8-9 April, University of York. The slides are here and I have posted here the transcript of the talk.
Does (climate) science need to be consensual to be authoritative?
(27 February) “Does (climate) science need to be consensual to be authoritative?” You can view my talk here which was given on Wednesday 6 February 2013 at the STEPS Centre Conference on ‘Credibility across cultures‘. A longer version of this is being prepared for a book, but I have posted here a summary of my argument. It […]
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.
What sorts of knowledge for what sort of politics?
(12 November 2012) ‘What sorts of knowledge for what sort of politics?’ I have a new Working Paper posted on the 3S web-site, derived from a series of talks I have given over the last few months.
November speaking dates
(16 October) I shall be speaking on Why We Disagree About Climate Change at two new venues: on Wednesday morning 2 November in Amsterdam at the 6th Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gas Symposium and on the evening of Tuesday 15 November at Trinity College, Dublin, to the Dublin University Geographical Society.
Symposium at Wageningen
(29 September) ‘Climate change: knowledge, risk and governance’ – I shall be speaking at this symposium at Wageningen School of Social Sciences, Wageningen University on Tuesday 1 November (0900-1600hrs), along with Prof Marjolein van Asselt from Maastricht University.
Talk at Off the Shelf Festival in Sheffield.
(5 September) I shall be speaking on Why We Disagree About Climate Change on Wednesday 5 October, 7.30pm, at Sheffield’s Off the Shelf Reading and Writing Festival. Venue: The Auditorium, University of Sheffield.
