Cinema and Climate Change Programme
Friday 11 December 2009
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Please note that this programme is still subject to alteration
Venues (click here for maps of UCL):
Pearson Studio, Pearson Building (on the north side of the UCL main quad)
Slade Gallery, Slade School of Art (on the north side of the UCL main quad)
Haldane Room (at the north-east corner of the UCL main quad)
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| 13.30 | Symposium opens | Pearson Studio |
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13.30 |
Registration, coffee |
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| 13.50 |
Dr Claire Thomson (UCL) |
Welcome & practicalities |
| 14.00 |
HE Birger Riis-Jørgensen, Ambassador of Denmark to the Court of St James |
Opening remarks: Denmark and COP-15 |
| 14.10 |
Henrietta Lynch |
Carbon Audit of the Symposium |
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14.15-15.45 |
Session 1 |
Pearson Studio |
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Professor Matthew Gandy (UCL Geography; Director of UCL Urban Laboratory) |
Sustainable Cinema? The view from the Urban Laboratory | |
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Dr David Ingram (Brunel) |
Argumentation theory and environmental documentaries about climate change | |
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Dr Harri Kilpi (Helsinki, via video-link) |
The ecological impact of the film industry | |
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15.45-16.15 |
Coffee |
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16.15-17.45 |
Session 2 |
Pearson Studio |
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Dr Robin Murray & Dr Joe Heumann (Urbana, Illinois, via video-link) |
The Oil Wells of Baku: The first eco-disaster film? |
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Dr Pat Brereton (DCU) |
Beyond the disaster movie | |
| Davina Quinlivan, KCL |
Cinematic Microtopographies |
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17.45-18.00 |
Break, change of venue |
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18.00-19.00 |
Session 3 |
Slade Gallery |
| Co-hosted with the UCL Slade Word / Image Forum | ||
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Professor Wendy Wheeler (London Met) |
Biosemiotics, word, image |
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Dr Sharon Morris (UCL) |
The Oak. A screening and spoken-word performance |
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19.00 |
Reception and screenings of Danish short films. Danish filmmaker Jakob Gottschau will introduce his film series on environmental change, 'Late Lessons From Early Warnings'. |
Haldane Room, North Cloisters |
