Climate Change: Science, Culture and the Regional Response
Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges & Universities
5th Annual Conference
January 24-25, 2008
Fordham University
Rose Hill Campus
McGinley Center
Bronx, New York
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Please join us on Thursday, January 24th & Friday, January 25th at Fordham University in Bronx, NY to engage in an intellectual examination of the scientific, socio-political, and educational issues surrounding climate change as it affects the Hudson Valley, and to explore higher education’s role in addressing the issues at individual campuses.
Speakers:
Alexis Rockman, a New York City based artist, will be joining the roundtable discussion, Political and Cultural Response: The Problem of the Problem at the Environmental Consortium’s annual conference. Notable pieces, such as ‘Manifest Destiny,’ depict futuristic scenes of landmarks post-global warming. Joining the interdisciplinary discussion will be climate change historian and author, Spencer Weart and roundtable moderator Andrew Revkin, reporter on the environment for The New York Times.
Peter Iwanowicz, Director of the Climate Change Office for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is confirmed to speak on the panel, Manhattan to Lake Tear of the Clouds: Impacts on the Hudson Valley, along with Jennifer Phillips, Assistant Professor, Environmental Policy at Bard College, William Solecki, Professor, Department of Geography at CUNY Hunter College, and Brian Troy, Senior Environmental Specialist for Con Edison and Adjunct Professor at Pace Law School.
Michael Oppenheimer, Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs at Princeton University, and lead author of the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, will deliver the opening keynote on Friday, January 25th, Global Warming: The Gap between Science and Policy.
Additional Highlights:
- Panel - Manhattan to Lake Tear of the Clouds: Impacts on the Hudson Valley
- Climate Change Curriculum Module Roll-Out (toolkit for faculty and an invaluable resource for students to use at Focus the Nation events on their campus)
- Networking opportunities throughout
- Faculty, administrators, and especially students are encouraged to attend (fee deeply reduced for students!)
EARLY REGISTRATION DISCOUNT: Register before January 5th to take advantage of the early discount fee!
DETAILS AND REGISTRATION: http://environmentalconsortium.org/news/january2008conference/home.htm
* The conference is open to members and non-members of the Consortium.Co-Sponsors: The Environmental Consortium, Fordham University, Pace University, The Beacon Institute for Rivers & Estuaries and Nature-Network
