Pictur(e)ing Climate
Pictur(e)ing Climate
Thursday, 19th January 2012
Registration: birgit.schneider@uni-potsdam.de
Location: Telegraphenberg, Potsdam, Building H, Room 19.1
(Please note: Different location on Friday!)
10:00 Registration Board and Welcome with coffee
10:30-10:50 Birgit Schneider: Introduction: Image Politics – Pictur(e)ing Climate
SECTION: The Status of Climate Expert Graphs in IPCC Reports
Chair: Markus Wrobel
10:50-11:40 Timm Zwickel: The Role of Visualizations in IPCC Working Group III
COFFEE BREAK
12:00-12:50 Lynda Walsh: Ethos and Stasis: What Classical Rhetoric Can Teach Us About the Graphics in the IPCC Climate Change 2007 Report
LUNCH
14:00-14:50 Guided tour on Telegrafenberg / PIK
SECTION: Enlightening and Convincing via the Internet
Chair: Christoph Rosol
15-15:50 Georg Feulner: Twist and Shout: Deceptive Graphs in the Skeptical Climate Blogosphere
15:50-16:40 Markus Wrobel / Dominik Reusser: Communicating Results from Climate Change Research with Web-Based Applications – Issues and Challenges
COFFEE BREAK
17:00-17:50 Julie Doyle: Here Today: Moving Images of Climate Change
BREAK
18:00-18:30 Project Presentation: Jörn Krug: Climate Media Factory
Friday, 20th January 2012
Location: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegraphenberg, Potsdam,
Building A 31 (Cupola / „Kuppel“)
SECTION: Climate Change, Media and Activism
Chair: Christine Hanke
09:30-10:20 Elke Grittmann: Between Risk and Sublime. A Case Study on the Visualization of Climate Change during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009 in German Print and Online Media
10:20-11:10 Vera Tollmann: New Strategies deliver New Images. On Artistic Practices in Climate Activism from Nature Snuff to Protest Fiction
COFFEE BREAK
SECTION: Making the Invisible imaginable through Art and Photography
Chair: Isabell Schrickel
11:30-12:20 Ulrike Heine: Why Photography Matters – The Role of Photographic Images within the Global Climate Change Discourse
12:20-13:10 Edward Morris / Susannah Sayler: Capturing the Public: The Role of Art in Climate Change Discourse
LUNCH
SECTION: Climate Knowledge, Climate Control
Chair: Isabell Schrickel
14:30-15:20 Gisela Parak: Aerial Survey Photographs and American Survival Patterns: Exploring the Nation’s Climatic Conditions
15:20-16:10 James Rodger Fleming: Visualizations of Climate Control – Rube Goldberg meets Dr. Strangelove
COFFEE BREAK
SECTION: The Epistemic Value of Visualization in Climate Sciences
Chair: Birgit Schneider
16:30-17:20 Sebastian Grevsmühl: A Hole in the Sky ? Metaphors, Scientific Imagery and Material Culture in Antarctic Research
17:20-18:15 Thomas Nocke: The Role of Visualization in Climate Research Processes – – Final Discussion
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