A SEASON OF CLIMATE CHANGE TALKS AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY

The art and science of climate change
A series of four public lectures at the British Library addressing the broader cultural and policy-related themes arising from the symposium

Wednesday 17 October EVERYDAY DISASTERS
Discussant: Dr Nigel Clark, Geography, Open University. Speakers include: Professor Bob Spicer, Earth Sciences, Open University (climateprediction.net).

Monday 5 November CLIMATE CHANGE & HUMAN RIGHTS
Discussant: Dr Michael Bravo, Head of the Circumpolar History and Public Policy Research Group, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. Speaker: Aqqaluk Lynge, President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Greenland.

Monday 19th November THE NEW ICONOGRAPHY OF CLIMATE CHANGE
_ Discussant:_ Professor Denis Cosgrove, University of California, Los Angeles. Speakers: Dr Eric Wolff, Glacier Chemist, British Antarctic Survey, Stephan Harrison, Associate Professor of Quaternary Science, University of Exeter/Senior Research Associate, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Director of Climate Change Risk Management, and Marko Peljhan, artist and initiator of I-TASC (Interpolar Transnational Art Science Constellation), Director, Projekt Atol

Monday 26 November GEOPOLITICS OF COLD
Discussant: Christine McGourty, BBC polar correspondent. Speakers: Professor Doreen Massey, FRSA, FBA, Geography, Open University, author of For Space (2005), and World City (2007), Winner of the Prix Vautrin Lud (the ‘Nobel de Géographie’) in 1998. Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway, University of London, author of Geopolitics in a changing world (1999) and Pink Ice (2002).