COMMUNICATING CLIMATE CHANGE:

CO M M UN IC AT I N G C L I M ATE CHANGE:
D I S C O U R S E S , M E D I AT I O N S A N D P E R C E P T I O N S
UNIVERSITY OF MINHO
19-20 NOVEMBER 2007
B1, Complexo Pedagógico II
www.cecs.uminho.pt/disclimate/conference
19 November
CONFERENCE
PROGRAM
9:00-10:45 OPENING SESSION
Welcome
António Guimarães Rodrigues, Rector, University of Minho, Portugal
(to be confirmed)
Moisés Martins, President of Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University
of Minho, Portugal
Anabela Carvalho, Conference Director
Is climate science being rendered impossible? Uncertainty,
incredulity and silencing
Keynote presentation
Shelly Ungar, University of Toronto, Canada ([email protected])
Climate change and energy in the UK: framings, understandings,
discourses and debates
Keynote presentation
Irene Lorenzoni, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
([email protected])
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:30 SESSION I
14:00-15:20 SESSION II
Chair: Rosa Cabecinhas, University of Minho, Portugal
Stakeholder dialogue as a communication and negotiation tool
in scientific inquiry
Anne Cristina de la Vega-Leinert, Independent researcher associated
with Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Humboldt
University and Alice-Salomon University of Applied Sciences,
Germany ([email protected])
Religious positions on climate change and climate policy in the
United States
Arjan (J.A.) Wardekker, Netherlands Environmental Assessment
Agency (MNP) and Utrecht University, The Netherlands
([email protected])
Arthur C. Petersen, MNP, The Netherlands
Jeroen P. van der Sluijs, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Universal crises demand universal policies: refuting cultural
difference as a real barrier to developing effective universal
policy addressing climate change
Judy M. Ford, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
([email protected])
Chair: José Azevedo, University of Porto, Portugal
Framing climate change in Montreal 2005: an environmental
justice perspective
Mirja Vihersalo, University of Lapland, Finland ([email protected])
Social advertising campaigns about climate change in Spain
Miguel Vicente, University of Valladolid, Spain ([email protected])
An Inconvenient Celebrity? A Live Dearth? Examinations of what
celebrity involvement means for climate science, policy and
public understanding/engagement
Maxwell T. Boykoff, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
([email protected])
Michael K. Goodman, King’s College London, United Kingdom
LUNCH
COFFEE BREAK
15:35-16:00 SESSION III
Contemporary photographers’ consciousness with the
environment
Yolanda Remacha Menéndez, University of Murcia, Spain
([email protected])
16:00-17:30 SESSION IV
Chair: Zara Coelho, University of Minho, Portugal
Newspaper communication on global warming during the last
two decades: different approaches in the US and the EU?
Astrid Dirikx, K.U.Leuven, Belgium ([email protected])
Dave Gelders, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
The climatic turn. A comparative study of European media
discourse on climate change in 2006/2007
Irene Neverla, University of Hamburg, Germany
([email protected])
Risks of communication. The public debate on global climate
change in Germany
Petra Pansegrau, University of Bielefeld, Germany
([email protected])
18:30-19:30 Walking tour in Braga
20 November
9:00-11:00 SESSION V
14:00-16:00 SESSION VII
Chair: Joaquim Fidalgo, University of Minho, Portugal
Chair: Eugénia Rodrigues, University of Minho, Portugal
Climate change and the daily press: did we miss the point
entirely?
Cecilia Rosen Ferlini, Reforma newspaper, Mexico
([email protected])
Javier Crúz, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Analysis of media coverage of the possibility of a thermohaline
circulation collapse
Neil Jennings, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Social representations of climate change in the media and
among citizens
Peter Berglez, Örebro University, Sweden ([email protected])
Ulrika Olausson, Örebro University, Sweden
Framing climate change and climate-proofing: From awareness
to action
Joop de Boer, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
([email protected])
([email protected])
From risk to crisis: framing climate change as an acute threat
Eva-Karin Olsson, Stockholm University, Sweden
([email protected])
Mass media as a source of information about extreme weather
phenomena in Southern Poland
Wojciech Biernacki, Jagiellonian University, Poland
([email protected])
Eric Paglia, Stockholm University, Sweden
Acclimatising nuclear? Climate change, nuclear power and the
reframing of risk in the British news media
Julie Doyle, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
([email protected])
Anita Bokwa, Jagiellonian University, Poland
B. Domanski, Jagiellonian University, Poland
J. Dzialek, Jagiellonian University, Poland
K. Janas, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Media use and social representations of climate change
Rosa Cabecinhas, University of Minho, Portugal
COFFEE BREAK
([email protected])
Alexandra Lázaro, University of Minho, Portugal
Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal
11:15-12:45 SESSION VI
Chair: Ricardo Garcia, Público newspaper, Portugal
Science, banners and climate change? Communicating climate
change and solutions in the news from an NGO perspective
Soenke Lorenzen, Greenpeace International, The Netherlands
([email protected])
Communicating climate change in Portugal: a critical analysis of
journalism and beyond
Anabela Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal
([email protected])
COFFEE BREAK
16:15-17:15 CLOSING SESSION
The media construct of climate change in Germany and its
reception by the audience
Keynote presentation
Hans Peter Peters, Jülich Research Center, Germany
([email protected])
Eulália Pereira, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Paula Mendes, University of Minho, Portugal
Wrap-up and conclusions
Anabela Carvalho, Conference Director
Media discourse on climate change: enunciation, textualization,
reification
Rui Ramos, University of Minho, Portugal ([email protected])
Closing address
Manuel Pinto, Director of Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e
Sociedade, University of Minho, Portugal
LUNCH
18:30 Leave to Guimarães
19:00-20:00 Walking tour in Guimarães
20:00 Conference dinner
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Anabela Carvalho
Eulália Pereira
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