New Storylines for Living with Environmental Change

A one-day research conversation organised at Durham University, sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) and the Lived & Material Cultures research cluster (Geography).

Date

Tuesday 20th September, 2011

Venue

Turner Room
Van Mildert College
Mill Hill Lane
Durham
DH1 3LH

The Event

Structured as a day-long workshop, the research conversation is designed to inform an Institute of Advanced Studies-funded project ‘New Storylines for living with environmental change: citizens perspectives’. The workshop will provide intellectual resources for the project, the aim of which is to experiment with novel public engagement techniques and processes in deliberations on the appropriate role of technology in responding to environmental change.

External Speakers

1. Dr Nigel Clark, Open University: http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/people-profile.php?name=Nigel_Clark
2. Dr Bronislaw Szerszynski, Lancaster University: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/Bronislaw-Szerszynski/
3. Professor John Urry, Lancaster University: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/John-Urry/
4. Dr Kathryn Yusoff, Lancaster University: http://www.lec.lancs.ac.uk/people/Kathryn_Yusoff

Outputs

The proposed research conversation will be electronically recorded and, where appropriate, released as a podcast. In addition, a workshop report will be written up, and distributed to the workshop participants.

Further Information

For further information please contact: p.m.macnaghten@durham.ac.uk / m.b.kearnes@durham.ac.uk