Environment

Please note that there are still some places left for the MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network’s symposium “Mediating Environmental Change: Exploring the Way Forward”, held at Bournemouth University Friday next week.

The event is scheduled to run from 09:00 – 18:30, 4th March 2011.

The programme is available online and contains links to abstract for all papers.

The symposium will debate emerging and established forms and practices of environmental communication, including:

Global Issues and Local Contexts
Climate Activism and Citizen Conversations
The Power of Mediation
Conservation, Media and Pedagogy

Speakers include:
James Painter (University of Oxford / formerly BBC World Service)
Rupert Read (University of East Anglia / The Green Party)
Adrian Newton (Bournemouth University / formerly the United Nations Environmental Programme)
Dan Glass (Plane Stupid)
Alex Lockwood (University of Sunderland / Save Our Forests)
Julie Doyle (University of Brighton)
Michael Goodman (King’s College London)

…plus an exciting array of speakers from universities across the UK and overseas.

If you wish to attend, please register using our online system.

The symposium fee is £25 for all delegates. Vegetarian buffet lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Our website has information on travel to Bournemouth and accommodation.

If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

We look forward to welcoming you in Bournemouth on 4th March!

All the best,
Einar Thorsen and Jenny Alexander
Conference Organising Committee

The MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment and Sustainability Network is hosting a panel at the 2011 Annual MeCCSA Conference, 12-14th January at Salford.

Our panel Media and Climate Change is scheduled for Friday 14th January at 13:30 – 15:00 in Studio 3, with the following lineup:

Chair: Muhammad Shabir Khan

Mass media role for climate change communication and global environmental sustainability
Ronju Ahammed, Sustainable Environment & Climate Change Programme, Bangladesh
Mediated Climate Change: Scepticism on the Web and on Television Around Copenhagen
Neil Gavin, University of Liverpool and Tom Marshall, University of Aberystwyth
Towards a (Re)Materialisation of the Spectacular (Celebrity) Objects of Climate Change
Mike Goodman, King‘s College, London
Cosmopolitanism and Justice in British Newspaper Coverage of COP15 Copenhagen 2009 and COP16 Cancun 2010
Unn Laksa, University of Liverpool

There is also another panel that might be of interest, on Wednesday 12th January at 15:45 – 17:15 in Studio 3, entitled Mediating animals: exploring commodification and affect. [Read more…]