{"id":12471,"date":"2014-10-14T14:58:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T18:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/geography\/?p=12471"},"modified":"2025-07-10T10:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:20:50","slug":"dges-founders-seminar-presents-mike-hulme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/2014\/dges-founders-seminar-presents-mike-hulme\/","title":{"rendered":"DGES FASS Distinguished Lecture Presents Professor Mike Hulme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        DGES FASS Distinguished Lecture Presents Professor Mike Hulme\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Hulme\u000b, Professor of Climate and Culture from the Department of Geography, King\u2019s College London will be presenting a distinguished lecture titled:<em>&nbsp;\u000bWriting Climate Change: the Story So Far &#8230;<\/em>\u000b&nbsp;<b><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When: Thursday, November 13th, 2014<\/strong><br>\n<strong> Time: 5:30pm- 7:00pm<\/strong><br>\n<strong> Location: Azrieli Theatre 302<\/strong><br>\n<strong> ALL WELCOME<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Abstract:&nbsp;<\/b>The story of climate change has become too univocal.&nbsp; There is an orthodoxy &#8211; even a hegemony &#8211; which does not do justice to the complexities of what is happening to climates around the world, nor how such changes are understood.&nbsp; It is an orthodoxy which is not just inadequate, but also dangerous.&nbsp; A cultural analysis of climate and its changes is needed, to think through the different ways in which policies and other interventions to deal with climatic dangers might be designed and enacted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Biography:&nbsp;<\/b>Mike Hulme is Professor of Climate and Culture at King&#8217;s College, London. His work explores the idea of climate change using historical, cultural, and scientific analyses, seeking to illuminate the numerous ways in which climate change is deployed in public and private discourse. His book <em>Why We Disagree About Climate Change<\/em> (Cambridge, 2009) was chosen by <em>The Economist<\/em> as one of its books of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Hulme\u000b, Professor of Climate and Culture from the Department of Geography, King\u2019s College London will be presenting a distinguished lecture titled:&nbsp;\u000bWriting Climate Change: the Story So Far &#8230;\u000b&nbsp; When: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 Time: 5:30pm- 7:00pm Location: Azrieli Theatre 302 ALL WELCOME Abstract:&nbsp;The story of climate change has become too univocal.&nbsp; There is an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31909,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12471\/revisions\/31909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/geography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}