Dates: 29th-30th March, 2017
Location: King’s College London, UK
Deadline for Abstracts: 15th January 2017
This workshop will explore the relationship between the science, politics and policy of climate change in the post-Soviet world, by considering the historical development of the concept of climate change as a scientific thesis, environmental problem and policy issue. We invite papers that will complement work on the history of the discursive political construction of climate change in the West by examining a highly contrasting (but intimately related) cultural context. In so doing the workshop will provide an in-depth look at how post-Soviet understandings of climate change (scientific, environmental and political) have developed and how they affect post-Soviet policy
If you wish to present a paper, please submit an abstract of up to 250 words via email to Dr Teresa Ashe (t.ashe@open.ac.uk) with the subject heading “Soviet and Post-Soviet Imaginings of Climate’” by 15th January 2017. You will be notified of the decision on your abstract via email by 1st February 2017.
All queries should be emailed to Dr Marianna Poberezhskaya (Marianna.poberezhskaya@ntu.ac.uk) or Dr Teresa Ashe (t.ashe@open.ac.uk).