Conference: Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss

Conference: Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss

Thursday, 13 July 2023
6.00 – 8.30pm
The Arts House, Screening Room
1 Old Parliament Lane, Singapore 179429

Friday, 14 July 2023
9.30am – 4.30pm
NTU School of Art, Design, and Media
81 Nanyang Dr, Singapore 637458

The conference Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss marks the midway point of the titular three-year research project led by Principal Investigator Professor Ute Meta Bauer (Founding Director, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Professor, School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technological University) and Co-Principal Investigator Associate Professor Yun Sang-Ho (joint appointment at Asian School of the Environment and School of Electric and Electronic Engineering, and Director, Remote Sensing Lab, Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University). Combining scientific with cultural and artistic inquiries, and forms of knowledge, the project is a transdisciplinary effort to move beyond the formats of climate science research. The aim is to engage difficult-to-quantify perspectives of cultural loss. How has the slow erosion of diverse, multicultural, and more-than-human ways of living over time have been impacted by climate change, and what are the longer-term consequences on habitats? Can we begin again with culture, to induce a necessary paradigm shift in the way we think about and respond to the climate crisis? The common task at hand is to understand this intrinsically and deeply interwoven relationship between climate and culture.

Starting with the acknowledgement of ancestral connections between the environment and its peoples, the conference opens with two public keynotes by the esteemed anthropologist Prof Cynthia Chou and erudite writer, curator, and policy analyst Marian Pastor Roces. On the second day, artists and filmmakers, community and cultural workers, environmental historians, radar scientists, and legal experts, come together in a full-day programme at NTU School of Art, Design, and Media, of presentations, panels, screenings, and conversations across themes of archipelagic autonomy, the socio-politics of extreme weather, environmental memory and cultural traces, in recognition of the climate crisis as a total field of research.

SPEAKERS

Prof Nabil Ahmed (Bangladesh/Norway), Prof Ute Meta Bauer (Germany/Singapore), Dr Guigone Camus (France), Dr Kristy H.A. Kang (United States), Dr Hervé Raimana Lallemant-Moe (French Polynesia), Armin Linke (Germany/Italy), Viviane Obed (Vanuatu), Lisa Rave (United Kingdom/Germany), Firdaus Sani (Singapore), Dr Fiona Williamson (United Kingdom/Singapore), Dr Yun Sang-Ho (United States/Singapore)

REGISTRATION

Click here for registration to attend public keynotes on Thursday, 13 July 2023. The conference programme on Friday, 14 July 2023, is closed-door/by invitation only. The full programme schedule can be accessed here.

Please contact us at ntuccaresearch@ntu.edu.sg for further enquiries.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This event is supported by the Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2 project “Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss” (2021–2024), led by Principal Investigator Prof Ute Meta Bauer and Co-Principal Investigator Dr Yun Sang-Ho.

13 - 14 July 2023

The conference Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss marks the midway point of the titular three-year research project led by curator and educator Prof Ute Meta Bauer. Combining scientific findings with cultural and artistic practices, the project is a transdisciplinary effort to move beyond the perception of the science of climate change as the only place from which to address the planet’s most pressing problem, attempting to dig deeper and surface longer-term, more imperceptible, and difficult-to-quantify perspectives of cultural loss.

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