The conference "DOES LANGUAGE MATTER? Different Voices, Different Stories: Perspectives on Language Use in Climate Change Text and Talk" will take place at the University of Bergen, on Thursday 25 October 2012 followed by a workshop for PhD candidates and master students on Friday 26 October 2012.

Keynotes

"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)

"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

Preliminary registration to conference coordinator Anje Müller Gjesdal: anje.gjesdal@uib.no





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)