Call for abstracts - PhD course "Climate Exchanges: Language, Media and Politics"

[Anje Müller Gjesdal]

Call for abstracts - PhD course - Paris, 16 – 17 June 2014


"Climate Exchanges: Language, Media and Politics"


The University of Bergen (UiB) and Uni Rokkansenter, in cooperation  
with Centre franco-norvégien en sciences sociales et humaines  
(http://www.paris.uio.no/fr-web/) offer a course for PhD and Postdoc  
fellows at the Centre franco-norvégien en sciences sociales et  
humaines, 190, Av. de France, 75013 Paris.


Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2014


Abstracts of approximately 500 words are to be submitted by January  
15, 2014 to: kjersti.flottum at if.uib.no and  
dag.elgesem at infomedia.uib.no. Notification of acceptance or rejection  
of abstracts will be sent to you by February 15.


The course 'Climate exchanges: Language, Media and Politics' aims at a  
cross-disciplinary meeting between plenary speakers and PhD candidates  
on some of the crucial questions related to climate change: its  
representation, diffusion and interpretation in various contexts.  
Perspectives from natural, media, political and linguistic sciences  
will be raised, and various methodological approaches will be  
demonstrated. The course is aimed at PhD students and early stage  
researchers (post docs).


All lectures and discussion will be in English. There will be  
question/answer and comments after lectures and in each session.  
Student presentations are 10-15 min. each with 15-20 min discussion.  
There will be one appointed discussant for each student presentation.


Practical Arrangements:
Accommodation is covered for all PhD students/Postdocs who are giving  
presentations and for invited lecturers. The French-Norwegian Centre  
will do the necessary hotel bookings. Travel costs will not be covered.

All meals are covered for all lecturers, participating students and  
French guest students.

For further information, please contact Vegard Rivenes, Dept. of  
Foreign Languages, University of Bergen: vegard.rivenes at if.uib.no.



Preliminary programme

Monday 16 June

09:30-10:00
Welcome and introduction

10.00-10.20
Helge Drange, Bjerknes Centre,UiB: Update on climate change research /  
IPCC AR5

10:30-13:00
- Kjersti Fløttum, UiB: “Linguistic representations of climate change  
and their interpretations”

- Dag Elgesem, UiB: “Polarization and diffusion in the climate change  
blogosphere”

- Jean-Baptiste Comby, CARISM, Université Panthéon-Assas/Institut de  
presse français: “Climate changes as a public problem and the social  
order's conservation in France”

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15.30
3 student presentations

Coffee break

16:00-17:30
3 student presentations

20.00 Dinner

Tuesday June 17
10:00-13:00
- Nicolas Baya-Laffite & Tommaso Venturini, Sciences Po, Paris:  
"Mapping Controversies on Climate Change Adaptation"

- Siri Gloppen/Elisabeth Ivarsflaten/Lise Rakner/Endre Tvinnereim:
"Climate change and public opinion" and "Politics of climate change"

- Mike Hulme, University of East Anglia/King’s College London:
“Writing climate change: the story so far ...”

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14:00-15.30
3 student presentations

Coffee break

16:00-17:30
3 student presentations

17:00 Closure



Best regards,

Anje Müller Gjesdal, Dept. of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen

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