Preliminary programme Thursday 25 October

8.30 – 9.00 Registration 9.00 – 9.30 Welcome by conference organisers professor Kjersti Fløttum, University of Bergen, and professor Trine Dahl, NHH Norwegian School of Economics.

Voice of the Youth: Climate and the Future. Tone Bjørndal

Keynotes

09.30 "Too hot to handle? Climate change communication and its public response" Marianne Ryghaug, professor, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Studies (CenSES)

10.10 "A Nelson Mandela Approach to the Polarization of Global Warming" Samuel George Philander, Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences, Princeton University and Research Director of ACCESS (African Centre for Climate and Earth System Science), Cape Town

10.50 – 11.05 Coffee break

11.05 "What's 'real' science? Discourses about science, scientists and climate change after climategate and their implications for behaviour change" Brigitte Nerlich, professor of Science, Language and Society, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham

11.45 "Just Tell a Story!: The Power of Communicating Climate Science via Cultural Narrative" Dr Michael D. Jones, Residential Research Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University

12.25 Norwegian representative in international climate negotiations – name to be announced

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.15 Perspectives from politics, business and NGOs

Unni Berge, political advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, former deputy director of ZERO –the Zero Emissions Resource Organisation

Kikki Kleiven, associate professor at the Department of Earth Science, University of Bergen, research director at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and board member, Norwegian Climate Foundation

Paul Joakim Sandøy, incoming leader of Unge Høyre (Young Conservatives) Other contributors to be confirmed.

15.15 – 16.00 Plenary discussion

PRACTICAL INFORMATION Venue: Auditorium “Egget”, Studentsenteret, Parkveien 1, 5007 Bergen

For the conference 25 October:

Preliminary registration to conference coordinator Anje Müller Gjesdal: anje.gjesdal@uib.no Final registration and payment: 10 September 2012 Participation fee: NOK 200 (coffee/tea and lunch included) Payment can be made to account number 76940500857 (University of Bergen) IBAN: NO5276940500857, SWIFT: DNBANOKKXXX

NB!! Please include the following information in your payment: 112000-IF, ”Different Voices, Different Stories”

Students and PhDs: free

For the workshop 26 October: The topics of the conference will be followed up by the organisers in collaboration with professor Marianne Ryghaug and Dr Michael Jones in a one day workshop for 15 -20 PhD candidates/ master students. On the basis of submitted abstracts, 6 –-8 participants will get the opportunity to present and discuss their work.

Deadline for submission of abstract (approx. 500 words): 31 August 2012 To be sent to coordinator Anje Müller Gjesdal: anje.gjesdal@uib.no with copies to Kjersti Fløttum (kjersti.flottum@if.uib.no) and Trine Dahl (trine.dahl@nhh.no)

No fee

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