Programme


09.00 Introduction, welcome and information about the course, Ashley, Bente and Torkell

09.10 Professor Anna Nele Meckler, Department of Earth Sciences, UIB, Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, and Silje Lund Sørland, researcher at NORCE and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Extreme weather events: Causes, impacts, and future predictions.

09.40 Professor Kjersti Fløttum, Department of Foreign Languages, Leader of LINGCLIM project, The Role of Language in The Climate Change Issue.

10.10 Associate Professor Ida Vikøren Andersen, Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Foreign Languages, UIB, Youth, climate change and climate communication.

10.40 Presentation of the students' projects, 3 groups x 20 min.

Light lunch at Nedre Hall

12.30 Presentation of the students' projects, 2 groups x 20 min.

13.30 Professor Steven Skaggs, University of Louisville, Semiotician and Author, Digital presentation.

14.00 Professor Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto, Semiotics, Linguistics Anthropology, Digital presentation.

14.30 Official opening of the EXHIBITION in Nedre Hall. Kristin Guldbrandsen Frøysa, Senior Advisor, Energy Director, UiB