Robert Manne & climate change denialism
20 Aug 2009
In the second lunchtime session of the ideas and society program, Robert Manne will be in conversation with Professor Clive Hamilton and Dr Andrew Glikson discussing ‘The politics and the science of climate change denialism’.
This session is open to everyone at La Trobe as well as members of the general public, so please arrive early to ensure a seat.
IDEAS & SOCIETY PROGRAM, LA TROBE UNIVERSITY
THE POLITICS AND THE
SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE DENIALISM
TIME: WEDNESDAY
SEPTEMBER 2, 12.30-2.00
VENUE: UNION HALL, BUNDOORA CAMPUS, KINGSBURY
DRIVE,
BUNDOORA.
SPEAKERS:
PROFESSOR CLIVE HAMILTON, Public
intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics CSU.
DR ANDREW GLIKSON, Climate Change Scientist, Visiting Fellow,
ANU.
CHAIR: PROFESSOR ROBERT
MANNE, Politics, La Trobe University.
PROFESSOR ROBERT
MANNE
La Trobe University’s
Professor Robert Manne is one of Australia's foremost public
intellectuals. Born in Melbourne and educated at
the universities of Melbourne and Oxford, he was the editor
of the periodical Quadrant 1989-1997, and has published many books, articles,
reviews and newspaper columns on public affairs, international relations,
history, and contemporary Australian political issues. He is a Fellow of the
Australian
Academy of Social Sciences,
and in 2001 was joint winner of the Alfred Deakin Prize for Contribution to
Public Debate. Professor Manne has an extensive bibliography, and is
editor of The Howard Years, a collection of essays critical of the Federal
Government. His university teaching focuses on twentieth-century European
politics (including the Holocaust), Communism, and Australian politics, and he
has undertaken research in areas such as censorship, anti-semitism, asylum
seekers and mandatory detention, Australia's involvement in the Iraq war, the
Stolen Generation, and the "history wars" of the 1990s. His many books include
Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia? Left, Right, Left: Political
Essays 1977-2005, Whitewash. On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of
Aboriginal History and The Australian Century: Political Struggle in the
Building of a Nation.
DR ANDREW
GLIKSON
Andrew Glikson
is an Earth and paleoclimate scientist
School of
Archaeology and
Anthropology, Research School of Earth Science, Planetary Science Institute.
Andrew has been communicating with Earth, climate and biology
scientists regarding the nature of early Earth climates, abrupt climate changes
and the origins of mass extinction of species, including current relationships
between humans and the atmosphere. He published numerous articles and gave
seminars and public lectures with the aim of communicating the evidence to other
scientists and the public, including convening of conferences and meetings with
government environment committees.
PROFESSOR
CLIVE HAMILTON
Clive Hamilton
is an Australian author and public intellectual. In June 2008 he was appointed
Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public
Ethics, a joint centre of the Australian National University, Charles Sturt
University and the University of Melbourne. In June 2009 he was made a
Member of the Order of Australia for his service to
public debate and policy development.
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