CfP: Communicating Climate Change - extended deadline

The deadline for the call for papers to der ECREA pre-conference
"Communicating Climate Change ­ Global goes Regional" has been extended to
25 March 2010.

All papers should be submissed trough the ECREA-2010-Hamburg-Webpage:
http://www.ecrea2010hamburg.eu/frontend/index.php?page_id=176&ses_id=3ae5651

The conference will be held in Hamburg, Germany, 11-12 October 2010 by
KlimaCampus Hamburg and Institut für Journalistik und
Kommunikationswissenschaft of Hamburg University

Organization:
Irene Neverla, Beate Ratter, Corinna Lüthje, Inga Schlichting

Topic:
The climate change has emerged as one of the most important global agendas.
On its way from a subject of scientific inquiry to the issue of general
public, debates on climate change have not only spread widely but also
undergone transformations.  Most importantly, the issue has expanded to the
regional level, both in the cases of scientific climate research and media
discourse. Accordingly, the conference on ŒCommunicating Climate Change II ­
Global Goes Regional¹ focuses on regional aspects of the global climate
change.

The events of natural disasters and extreme weather whether it is drought or
intense rainfall, floods, cyclones, earthquakes, tsunamis, storm surges,
wildfires, heatwaves, or volcanic eruptions are being increasingly linked by
the media with climate change. Media are making the abstract global
phenomenon regionally tangible by adding a transcultural and global
dimension to regional geohazards. By regional geohazards we mean threats by
extreme weather and extreme natural events of geophysical origin, which only
in their circular interaction between human and nature develop into a
hazard. Repetitions of these occurrences pose a permanent threat to
communities in respective regions. Prerequisite for a geohazard is the
awareness of the threat that results primarily from the memories of a
catastrophic and traumatic key event. Examples include storms and storm
surges of the North Atlantic coast in the Netherlands, Great Britain, and
Germany; hurricanes in the U.S. East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico; tropical
cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and Asia Pacific; volcanic eruptions in Italy;
earthquakes in Japan; avalanches in the Alps; floods and wildfires.

It is against this background that the pre-conference aims to explore the
following questions: How do the media represent global climate change and
regional geohazards? How do they construct the memory of extreme weather
events? What transcultural similarities and cultural specificities can be
identified? How does reporting on human-nature interaction develop? How do
recipients perceive climate change and regional geohazards and what cultural
commonalities and differences can be discerned? How political decisions are
taken on climate change issues both in local and regional levels and what
role the media play in the process? What immediate, medium or long-term
local or global strategies are discussed in media discourses? How mitigation
and adaptation related to catastrophe and risk of changing climate are being
reported in the media? Which actors and experts are dominating the media
coverage? What discourses can be identified?

Features:
The pre-conference will feature the presentations of peer-reviewed papers as
well as distinguished key-note speakers from an interdisciplinary field of
research who will examine important aspects of communicating global climate
change on a regional level.

Keynotes:
The keynotes of the pre-conference "Communicating Climate Change II ­ Global
Goes Regional" will be given by Hans von Storch (GKSS/University of
Hamburg), Dominique Brossard (University of Wisconsin/Madison) and Shelly
Ungar (University of Toronto).

Deadlines:
25 March 2010: Deadline for online submission of abstracts (3.500 characters
max) through www.ecrea2010hamburg.eu <http://www.ecrea2010hamburg.eu/>
23 May 2010: Notification of acceptance
15 September 2010: Deadline for submission of full papers (for preparation
of the conferences)

Location: Hamburg University Guest House
The University Guest House is located near the Main Building of the Hamburg
University and its campus.

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Inga Schlichting M.A.
KlimaCampus, Universität Hamburg
Institut für Journalistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft
Grindelberg 5, 20144 Hamburg
Tel: +40 (0)40 42838-2425
Fax: +49 (0)40 42838-4938
inga.schlichting AT uni-hamburg.de
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