Flyer - Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research
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Historisches Seminar<br />
Historisches Institut<br />
OESCHGER CENTRE<br />
CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH<br />
<strong>Climate</strong> and beyond<br />
Knowledge Production about Planet Earth and the<br />
Global Environment as Indicators of Social <strong>Change</strong><br />
Bern, 23 – 25 January 2013<br />
(c) Bern Tourismus<br />
The conference brings together historians of the earth sciences and environmental historians.<br />
It aims to explore the social, cultural and political changes induced by earth scientists<br />
and the knowledge and institutions they have created over the last two centuries.<br />
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SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE<br />
The conference will look at the issue of social change through the lens of earth matters. What do we<br />
learn about societies, their norms and collective mentalities by analyzing how people dealt with planet<br />
earth, its history, climate, surface patterns, or the mechanisms underlying its dynamic structure?<br />
Topics of the precirculated papers include, <strong>for</strong> instance, the debate on desertification in the 19th<br />
century, the idea of deep time <strong>for</strong> social thinking about the future or the history of Arctic research.<br />
Each paper presentation will be followed by 20 minutes of comment and discussion. Invited speakers<br />
are Erhard Oeser (Wien, A) and Naomi Oreskes (San Diego, USA). The public evening lecture is<br />
given by Joachim Radkau (Bielefeld, D).<br />
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PROGRAMME<br />
Wednesday, January 23: 14:00 Opening, Presentations<br />
19:00 Public keynote lecture<br />
Thursday, January 24: 09:00 – 18:00 Presentations, Discussions<br />
19:30 Conference dinner<br />
Friday, January 25: 09:00 – 13:00 Presentations, Final discussion<br />
14:30 City of Bern guided tour<br />
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SESSIONS AND SPEAKERS<br />
- Coping with Tectonic and Climatic Hazards: Erhard Oeser (Vienna, A), Kerry Smith (Providence,<br />
USA), Conevery Bolton Valencius (Boston, USA), Brian Rumsey (Lawrence, USA), Anna Carlsson-<br />
Hyslop (Lancaster, UK), Public lecture: Joachim Radkau (Bielefeld, D)<br />
- Global Resources and Knowledge Production: Andrea Westermann (Zurich, CH), Perrin Selcer<br />
(Austin, USA), Christian Kehrt (Hamburg, D)<br />
- Arctic <strong>Research</strong>: Scientific, Economic and Social Impact: Alexandra M. Avdonina (Vladimir,<br />
RUS), Ronald E. Doel (Tallahassee, USA), Matthias Heymann (Aarhus, DK)<br />
- Earth and <strong>Climate</strong> Governance: Naomi Oreskes (San Diego, USA), Ola Uhrqvist (Linköping, S),<br />
Elena Aronova (San Diego, USA; Fribourg, CH), Matthias Dörries (Strasbourg, F), Christoph Rosol<br />
(Berlin, D), Geoffrey I. Nwaka (Uturu, NG)<br />
- Empires, European Experts and the Sciences of the Earth: Ryan Tucker Jones (Pocatello, USA),<br />
Lorena B. Valderrama (Valencia, E), Bernhard C. Schär (Bern, CH), Philipp N. Lehmann (Cambridge,<br />
USA)<br />
The detailed programme is available at:<br />
http://www.oeschger.unibe.ch/events/conferences/climatenbeyond/programme_en.html<br />
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GENERAL INFORMATION<br />
In<strong>for</strong>mation about the conference venue and accommodation will be made available in August 2012<br />
on the conference website:<br />
http://www.oeschger.unibe.ch/events/conferences/climatenbeyond/index_en.html<br />
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REGISTRATION<br />
The registration fee of CHF 80 (students CHF 40) includes (no services can be excluded):<br />
• Conference registration and material (CHF 40 without VAT)<br />
• Coffee breakes and the snack buffet on the last conference day (CHF 40 incl. 8% VAT).<br />
Participation at the conference dinner (24 January) is optional and a supplementary fee of CHF 60<br />
(students CHF 30) will be charged.<br />
Please register until 30 November 2012 at:<br />
http://www.oeschger.unibe.ch/events/conferences/climatenbeyond/registration_en.html<br />
We are looking <strong>for</strong>ward to meeting you in Bern!<br />
Andrea Westermann (andrea.westermann@hist.uzh.ch)<br />
Christian Rohr (christian.rohr@hist.unibe.ch)<br />
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