Online seminar ‘Bruno Latour’s theoretical framework and human-climate interactions”
08 03 2023
Category: seminar
We cordially invite you to attend an online seminar ‘Bruno Latour’s theoretical framework and human-climate interactions” to be held on March 23, at 5 p.m. Our speakers will be two eminent researchers: Professor Tim Lenton- the Director of the Global Systems Institute and Chair in Climate Change and Earth System Science at the University of Exeter and Dr. Adam Izdebski- Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology. The seminar will be moderated by Professor Marek Konarzewski- President of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
The seminar will be to dedicated to discussion on Bruno Latour’s legacy as a bridge between natural and human sciences, with a special focus on the methodological implications of his Actor Network Theory for climate research. The influential work of Bruno Latour, who died in October 2022, offers several potentially important lessons about how to ferry scientific knowledge between researchers form distant scientific disciplines, such as atmospheric science, geology, sociology and history. We will ask our guest speakers whether putting Latour’s philosophy into methodological practice will be an effective way of creation new ways of interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.
The panel will last for 1.5 hours, with an hour of dialogue and a 0.5 h Q&A session.
Our seminar is the forth a series of events “UAM-UW-UJ_Promujemy badania transdziedzinowe” jointly organized by Adam Mickiewicz University, University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University to foster multidisciplinary research and education.
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