Mike Hulme , Professor of Climate and Culture from the Department of Geography, King’s College London will be presenting a distinguished lecture titled: Writing Climate Change: the Story So Far …
When: Thursday, November 13th, 2014
Time: 5:30pm- 7:00pm
Location: Azrieli Theatre 302
ALL WELCOME
Abstract: The story of climate change has become too univocal. There is an orthodoxy – even a hegemony – which does not do justice to the complexities of what is happening to climates around the world, nor how such changes are understood. It is an orthodoxy which is not just inadequate, but also dangerous. A cultural analysis of climate and its changes is needed, to think through the different ways in which policies and other interventions to deal with climatic dangers might be designed and enacted.
Biography: Mike Hulme is Professor of Climate and Culture at King’s College, London. His work explores the idea of climate change using historical, cultural, and scientific analyses, seeking to illuminate the numerous ways in which climate change is deployed in public and private discourse. His book Why We Disagree About Climate Change (Cambridge, 2009) was chosen by The Economist as one of its books of the year.