Human Migration and the Environment: Futures, Politics, Invention
Durham University, UK from 28th June – 1st July, 2015
Concluding the Footprint Modulation art exhibition with social and political contexts and research.
Full details at www.durhamconference.eu
VIDEO DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE CONFERENCE (28 mins):
PLUS the sister film to the above which focuses on the creative and humanising expression of the subject
(contains less than 5 mins in total of footage shared with the above film):
FILM DOCUMENTARY ON ART, MIGRATION AND DISPLACEMENT:
THE FOOTPRINT MODULATION PROJECT (28 mins)
+ LIVE WEBCASTS OF KEYNOTE CONFERENCE SESSIONS
29th June – 1st July
Selected keynote presentations will be webcast live! No special software needed.
http://crossingfootprints.com/footprint-modulation/webcast/
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
- Professor Wendy Brown
(Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley) - Professor Claire Colebrook
(Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University) - Dr Elizabeth Ferris
(Brookings Institute, LSE) - Professor David Held
(Master of University College, Durham University)
Human migration and the environment are two of the most pressing issues of our times. But what is stake when these two phenomena are articulated as a singular relation? By asking this and many other questions, this conference provides a multidisciplinary forum for scholars, policymakers, practitioners and artists to chart out the next generation of research on human migration and the environment. The aim of the conference is to expand the debate on human migration and the environment beyond its current configuration as a problem of causation, law and policy towards a more pluralist debate that acknowledges the multidimensional nature of environmental change and migration. The conference subthemes – ‘futures’, ‘politics’ and ‘invention’ – will consider issues of knowledge, power and innovation the context of human migration and environmental change. The conference should appeal to social scientists, humanities and legal scholars as well as to scientists committed to working with and within the social sciences, humanities and law.
The website at www.durhamconference.eu will keep you up to date with the latest news and developments for the conference as well as providing the details for registration.
This conference Climate Change and Migration is sponsored by COST Action IS1101 climate change and migration: knowledge, law and policy, and theory.
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Organising Committee
- Dr Andrew Baldwin (Durham University)
w.a.baldwin [at] durham.ac.uk
- Dr Francois Gemenne (University of Liège / University of Versailles Saint-Quentin)
francois.gemenne [at] sciencespo.fr
- Dr Dimitra Manou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
dimitra.b.manou [at] gmail.com
