Tilburg Schedule

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August 14: Joint Opening Ceremony

The Joint Opening Ceremony will be a hybrid event held both on Zoom and in person at the UBC Pre-Conference Institute at 18:00PM-19:00PM CEST on Wednesday, August 14.


August 15, 2024


Start Time
Room 1
Room 2
Room 3
8:00
Welcome and Registration
Entrance hall
8:00-8:45
8:45Opening ceremony
8:45-9:00
9:00Plenary: Noelle Aarts
9:00-10:00
10:00
Coffee break
10:00-10:15
Metaphor & Framing
Art in action
Activism
10:15
The HOUSE ON FIRE filmic metaphor: Where climate advocacy went wrong? (online)

Sami Chatti
Songs of resilience: communicating climate hope in a carbon landscape
Angela Connelly, Jo Collinson Scott & Joanne Tippett
Picturing the Future: A Visual Analysis of Fridays For Future's Climate Discourses
Elif Bozkurt, Anke Wonneberger and Christel van Eck
10:45International dialogue with the Most Affected People and Areas: Metaphors of resistance
Anais Auge
The Role of Folk Singing in Promoting Eco-Conscious Behaviour (online)
Sameeksha Shukla and Dr. Ishita U. Bharadwaj
Creating hope despite the defeat: Akbelen forest resistance against the expansion of a coal mine (online)
Ece Baykal Fide
11:15Framing Agency and Hope in the Struggle Against Corporate Power and Climate Change in Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020) and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024)
Gianluca Calio
The Songs of Lost Trees: Musical Approaches to Climate Communication and Environmental Storytelling in Iceland (online)
Konstantine Vlasis
Resilience Amidst Ecological Crisis: Voices of Environmental Activists (Online)
Ilksen Dincer Bas & Yasemin Sayıbas Akyüz
11:45Going beyond war metaphors: A metaphor menu for climate change by EFL learners (online)
Thomai Dalpanagioti
Do colourless green ideas - still - sleep furiously? A Plea for a Poetic Turn
Dorothea Franck
Unauthorized practices of communicating environmental change: the case of activist stickers
Laura Imhoff
12:15
Lunch (on site, all vegan)
12:15-13:15
13:15Climate Anxiety and the Planetary
Andrew Baldwin
Creative practice research through environmental documentary filmmaking by South African students: A pedagogical perspective on developing and communicating climate hope
Julia Cain
Degrowth: Is there hope?
Oxana Lopatina & Viviana Asara
13:45Metaphors as the earth’s parachute: the effectiveness of the MetaCom Green program in fostering climate hope in children (online)
Chiara Pompei, Veronica Mangiaterra, Federico Frau, Luca Bischetti, Serena Lecce and Valentina Bambini
Climate Communication in Practice: Innovation in Data and Arts (online)
Ariel Toh
(Re)Defining Ecofeminism in India: Paradigm Shifts From the Ancient Period to the 21st Century (online)
Aditi Basu
14:15
Coffee break
14:15-14:30
Workshops 14:30-17:45

All workshop descriptions can be viewed here
Please also make sure to register for 1-2 workshops using this link

14:30Workshop 1: Climate Changes Every *Thing* Manifesto Sprint
Organizers: Simone Ashby & Julian Hanna
Workshop 2: This is the Art of Self-Defence! A game about the bigger picture of climate activism
Organizers: Ray Whitcher, Patrick Prax & Mika Edström
16:00
Coffee break
16:00-16:15
16:15Workshop 1 (cont.): Climate Changes Every *Thing* Manifesto Sprint
Organizers: Simone Ashby & Julian Hanna
Workshop 3: What does hope look like?
Organizer: Ulrike Hahn
19:00
Conference Dinner: Gourmet Market
19:00-21:00

August 16, 2024


Start time
Room 1
Room 2
Room 3
8:00
Welcome & registration
8:00-9:30
9:30Plenary: Jenny Pickerill
9:30-10:30
10:30
Coffee break
10:30-10:45
Youth in climate discourse
Storytelling
Climate communication
10:45Bridging Voices in the Climate Crisis: The Role of hope in young people's participation (online)
Sadie Barnes, Sara-Jayne Williams, Rosamund Portus and Enda Hayes
Reconciliation with Nature: Fantastic Stories of Climate Hope
Aylin Walder
When I say climate change, what do you see? News Values and Psychological Distance in Climate Visuals of Dutch News Media
Christel van Eck, Linda van den Heijkant and Toni van der Meer
11:15Keeping your head above water; constructive hope in times of climate change
Riyan J.G. van den Born and Bernadette F. van Heel
Countering eco-anxiety through young adult climate fiction: Lauren James’s Green Rising
Chiara Xausa
Feeling the Heat: Exploring Media's Role in Eco-Anxiety Among Indonesian Youth (online)
Awa Fauzia Malchan and Siti Nur Laili Rahmawati
11:45Dealing with environmental loss: teaching about grief and hope
Helen Verploegen and Riyan van den Born
The ‘What matters to us’ project and participative ecosophical narratology (online)
William Kelleher
Redefinitions of objectivity amongst climate advocacy journalists: tensions, roles and practices
Floriane van Alphen, Anke Wonneberger, Hannes Cools, Christel van Eck and Christian Burgers
12:15
Lunch (on site) & Workshop Debrief
Workshop Debrief 12:30-14:00, Room 1
Activism
Motivating change
Climate communication
14:00Social listening approaches: new ways to identify drivers for environmental activism (online)
Federica Carbone
Belonging to What is Becoming
Anna-Zoë Herr
Scientific consensus is good, and societal consensus would be great. Recommended direction for communicating climate change based on climate scientists’ experience of dialogue with the public
Jagoda Mytych
14:30Imagine tomorrow, then change today: Climate communications for a New Social Contract
Eva-Maria McCormack
Phyto-Human Collaborative Drawings as Intimate Entry to Biosemiotic Field of Hope
Elizabeth Oriel
Countering misinformation about climate change among climate skeptics
Ruud Koolen and Gijs van Dijk
15:00The role of religious communities in environment protection - from interreligious dialogue to action
Vedran Obućina
“Too good to be you”: social comparison and social identity in moral elevation responses to pro-environmental moral models (online)
Marika Rullo and Giovanni Telesca
Visualizing Ecological Distress: Exploring Discursive Constructions of EcoAnxiety on Social Media
Christian Andres Palacios Haugestad
15:30
Coffee break
15:30-15:45
15:45Plenary: Reyer Gerlagh
15:45-16:45