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Cinema & Climate Change Symposium
7 December 2009
A one-day symposium with screenings will be held by UCL Scandinavian Studies on 11 December 2009, to mark Denmark's role as host country for COP-15, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
How does cinema represent and disseminate ideas about ecological disaster and environmental change? Do art documentaries change more minds than the Hollywood end-of-the-world blockbuster? Is the film industry an environmental disaster in its own right?
The symposium will be opened by HE Birger Riis-J酶rgensen, the Danish Ambassador to London. The programme includes papers by leading specialists in film studies, geography and eco-criticism, including the authors of three recent books on the cinema of ecological disaster and environmental change. To minimise the carbon footprint of the event, some speakers will be presenting via video-link.
The evening reception features a talk by the Danish filmmaker Jakob Gottschau and screenings from his groundbreaking documentary series on environmental change, 'Late Lessons from Early Warnings'.
The symposium is generously supported by the Royal Danish Embassy in London and the , and presented in collaboration with the and the University of London .
There is a small fee of 拢10 for staff or 拢5 for students. To register, please email your contact details and status (academic staff or student) to Dr Claire Thomson by Wednesday 9 December 2009.
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