About the conference
On November 1-3, 2010, CEMUS, The Centre for Environment and Development Studies and CSD Uppsala, Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development, along with The Sigtuna Foundation are welcoming you to a conference dealing with the underlying moral, existential and psychological aspects of human and societal responses to climate change. This will be a follow up Conference to a similar successful venture held in Sigtuna in 2008. The conference is going to run for 3 days and during that time we will not only be listening to inspiring keynotes and participating in rewarding workshops but also be listening to poetry, music and enjoying social events.
BackgroundToday, most of us know that climate change poses a real and serious threat to our societies. Information reaches us in the shape of numbers and facts in new scientific reports and in media coverage of political meetings and international summits. The message: we need to make deliberate changes in the way we live our lives in order to minimize our environmental impact.
But the changes proposed are often focused on the implementation of economic or technologic solutions and a lot of emphasis is being put on the physical and infrastructural aspects of this new challenge humanity faces. Very little is said about a need to challenge our minds, mindsets and lifestyles to respond to climate change or the moral, ethical and psychological aspects of the changes needed.
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Call for papers and essays
You are warmly welcome and encouraged to submit papers or essays for the conference, preceded in both cases by an abstract. The theme is Climate and Existence and can include key issues such as; spirituality, power, leadership, politics, arts, eco-criticism, ethics, education.
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Keynote speakers
David Abram, cultural ecologist, philosopher, and performance artist, is the founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics.
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American environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, an international climate campaign.
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Professor Harald Welzer, is head of the Research Group "Interdisciplinary Memory Research" at the KWI Essen.
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