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SUMMARY:Icy Humanities: A Collaborative Symposium  - Speakers' details are
  shown below
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CONTACT:Professor Michael Bravo
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual event of roundtable discussions with Arc
 tic humanists and glaciologists. This event represents a collaboration of 
 Boston University’s Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Futu
 re\, the University of Cambridge’s Scott Polar Research Institute\, the 
 International Glaciological Society’s Symposium on Ice in a Sustainable 
 Society (ISS)\, and the University of Bristol’s School of Geographical S
 ciences.\n\nSession 1: Icy Humanities | 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET\nIce is becomi
 ng recognized as a form of global cultural heritage\, celebrated and mourn
 ed in equal measure by diverse societies around the world. With journalist
 s and artists working often in collaboration with glaciologists reporting 
 on the melting cryosphere\, ice is integral to the visual and aesthetic la
 nguage of global imaginaries. Speakers will draw on the growing range of a
 pproaches across the environmental humanities to articulate the subtle way
 s in which alpine and Arctic societies depend on ice for their livelihoods
  and the very infrastructure or fabric of global environments. To that end
 \, it is both necessary to challenge previous ways of envisaging ice that 
 have been reductionist\, oversimplifying its forms\, properties\, and wide
 r significance. What are the humanities showing us about the relationship 
 of our frozen states to societies across their many diverse cultural\, phy
 sical\, and ecological settings? How might humanities scholars and glaciol
 ogists work together to share and inform their perspectives\, insight\, an
 d experience of the icy world?\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nProf. Mia Bennett\, Geograp
 hy\, University of Washington\nProf. Mark Carey\, History & Environmental 
 Studies\, University of Oregon\; Director\, Environmental Studies Program\
 nSiobhan Mcdonald\, Artist\nZachary Provant\, PhD student\, Environmental 
 Studies\, University of Oregon\n\n\nSESSION 2: Glaciology and Society | 2:
 00 – 3:00 pm ET\nHow might we define glaciology’s very special respons
 ibilities to society? The fate of icy regions is more precarious today tha
 n ever in living memory. The unprecedented acceleration of glacial retreat
  and melting means that the discipline of glaciology has acquired a specia
 l status as expert spokespeople for ice. And yet\, arguably\, the challeng
 e in discussing glaciologists’ social responsibility is that the signifi
 cance of their subject is unbounded — peoples on every continent with ec
 ologies defined by their proximity to present and past ice formations\, wh
 ether glaciers\, ice sheets\, permafrost\, or sea ice. To explore the obli
 gations and limits of professional responsibility is also to ask in what w
 ays should glaciologists be active in caring for glaciers: through measuri
 ng and assessing mass balance\; by widening access to glaciology across th
 e fault lines of gender\, class\, and ethnicity\; by participating in the 
 IPCC assessment process\; by focusing on comparative studies of the vulner
 ability of societies downstream of the runoff\; by developing techniques f
 or repairing fissures or breakages in glaciers\; and by collaborating with
  lawyers and diplomats to create new governance structures fit for active 
 climate interventions such as “refreezing the Arctic.” If like the ear
 th sciences as a whole\, glaciology has a long association with debates ab
 out moral responsibility\, the question we invite glaciologists to conside
 r is less one of where and how to begin\, but rather to share in reflectin
 g on which social needs and hazards to be allied with.\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nReb
 ecca Dell\, Postdoctoral Research Associate\, Scott Polar Research Institu
 te\, University of Cambridge\nProf. Sérgio H. Faria\, Ikerbasque Research
  Professor\, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)\nProf. Mark Jackson\, 
 Geographical Sciences\, University of Bristol\nSarah Tingey\, PhD student\
 , Geographical Sciences\, University of Bristol
LOCATION:Co-hosted with Pardee Center\, Boston University
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