Our COP26 events
Global Environmental History and Climate Change
Global Environmental History and Climate Change
The Dear Green Bothy | College of Arts | School of Humanities
Date: Wednesday 27 October 2021
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Venue: online
Category: Public lectures,
Website: deargreenbothy.gla.ac.uk/event/global-environmental-history-and-climate-change/
Awareness of climate change and planetary collapse has increased in the last decades, but the history of climate change is far longer. Global environmental history is central to our understanding of the both the deep causes and wide ranging consequences of climate change on our societies and ecologies.
Join us for two panel sessions which bring together leading experts in global environmental history to introduce their work and how historical research is important to the struggle against climate change.
Panel 1: Global Environmental History and Climate Change, 14.00 – 16.00
Panel members:
Zozan Pehlivan
Steven Serels
John Wing
Ophira Gamliel
Amanda Power
Chair:
Julia McClure
Break: 16.00 – 16.15
Panel 2: Rethinking Scotland’s environmental past, present and possible future, 16.15-18.00
Panel members:
Dr Aonghas MacCoinnich (University of Glasgow)
Prof. John M. MacKenzie (University of Aberdeen)
Calum Macleod (Community Land Scotland)
Magnus Davidson (University of Highlands and Islands)
Chair:
Andrew Mackillop
Please contact Julia.McClure@glasgow.ac.uk if you have any enquiries.